@ Benjamin A: Thanks. The credit goes to a company in England who made the skin available. It was edited by a friend of mine who formatted it to the store.
@ KeithC: Yea, it is a bit off, but when I add on the other features it will be better. There are some more thinsg that I need to add. Glad you like it though. It is definitely a huge improvement form what it was.
Anonouncement regarding EGameStudio.Com:
Anyone who has followed this thread has seen the old version of the site. We have now imporved the display and are adding features to the new website of EGameStudio. As of right now everything is basic and there will be some additions within the near future.
First, we will hopefully have it so that the site can be viewed in more then one language. Also we are working on shipping rates so that we can distribute not only to the US, which is where we are located, but also to Canada and certain parts of Europe. We will be adding a feature that will allow people to look at different currencies wich includes the Euro Dollar as well as the British Pound. This will make it so that all US dollars cna be seen in different European currencies so that if acustomer does not use dollars, then they can see how much it will cost them in another currency. These two additions will hopefully make the store more convienient and user friendly.
Behind the scenes of the store, we have a auto search for related products. This will help give more exposure to other games and things that are related to products that a customer is looking at. There will also be a security feature so that people cannot use bots to register and it will also add more secutiry to the website itself. We have a all in one contact form to contact various departments without using different forms like we did before. We also have a smart store, which basically keeps track of our stock so that a customer will not order a product and it accidently be out of stock. We added this because that way the store cna eliminate orders and keep track of everythign better, so if there is a canceled order, etc.
There will be more features to come. We are going to add some more features such as a quick checkout process for previous buyers, to make a speedy checkout. A fetured items list. Plus a favorite products list that will display different products that we will be showcasing. Now this will be used ot showcase independent titles. Anyone who saw the store before saw that we are distributing certain new release Micorosoft Games and other major titles. We are going to be adding these other features so that the independent developers cna show case their products and not get lost. The featured products and the favorite products will showcase only independent game developers products as soon as we get enough indie products to showcase.
I would like to point out that despite selling major titles we are still focusing on the independent developer. We are distributing certain major titles, because the manufacturers of the titles are selling them to us at a very low cost so that we can sell the games much cheaper then a retail store does. Bu as I said, we will be adding features to the store that will allow indie developers to stand out form the major title releases. Also we have developed a game cheats site that will be related to the store. This will serve several purposes.
1.Be a gateway to refer people to the store.
2.We will do reviews mainly of independent titles form indie developers to give them more attention and awareness to their game.
3.Game developers can add their own strategies of how to beat levels, secrets to their games, hints, tips etc. This will also bring awareness of their game to light.
4.Since we own the website, we will be able to advertise independent games for people to buy on the website where customers are viewing codes for their current games. example: Someone is looking at a Need For Speed: Carbon cheat code. On that page in between the codes there will be ads for lets say, a game made with FPSC. They will see the ads for this indie game.
We feel this will attract a lot of people to games that are not seen regularly on commercials, which is the strategy of the codes website.
Also, we are putting together advertising campaigns and partnering up with a advertising company who will be helping us showcase the store website with their advertising network.
At first things will be slow like starting anything, however we have invested a lot of time, money and resources to make this work. We are also establishing an affiliate marketing program where we will pay out affiliates a small percentage based upon promotions and sales. This will help drive more sales to our store as well. So, we have a lot of work and things going on and with the new layout of the site, we feel we will be able to compete with other stores not only based upon price, but customer service and value.
If anyone has any suggestions, then please fel free to post them or email them to me. I am excited about the site and feel we will be very successful with it. I appreciate everyones help and support.
Edit: We do distribute games.
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