Hello. I am writing this because I feel that there should be some guidelines as to what's complete, and what's not. Plus, I feel that some threads dont give enough info, so I decided to write this
Hope you all like it.
Is your game or program actually complete?
Does your software have everything you have planned for it to have? Can your software actually be called a game or program? Is all of your media for it completed?
If you answered no to any of these, your game or program is
NOT complete.
Larger Games And Applications
Do you have media to show?
Do you have screenshots, or a movie of your software? Regardless if you have a demo or not, people will want to see information before they download the software. Dont leave things up to another user to post screenshots, it is YOUR software. You might be able to upload images to the TGC gallery. Or perhaps a webhost, such as
Freewebs. You can even upload your images here on the forums, in your own post. But you should be respectfull TGC's storage space. Ive seen quite a few posts which have not shown any screenshots. Of course there are exceptions, for example, plugins do not require screenshots. Please read the section "Screenshot Information" for more info on what formats should be accepted, and how to get screenshots.
Please upload a demo, if you have the ability to do so
If you are selling your product, please upload a demo if you have the ability to do so. If you are not selling it, please upload the program. It's a little useless to announce youve made a decent RPG or FPS, or whatever, if your not going to let other play/use it.
Screenshot Information
You can take screenshots of your program using the "Print Scr" key on the keyboard, openning "MS-Paint", right-clicking, and pasting into the editing canvas. Reduce the size of your images to smaller resolutions. 640x480 is a decent resolution. You can also provide "thumbnail" images, which can act as links to even larger images. Next, use the .PNG or .JPG format. At times, .JPG will be smaller than a .PNG, and other times, .PNG will be smaller than a .JPG. .PNG images (Portable Network Graphics) are very high quality images, and .JPG images (Whatever it stands for) have a loss of quality. Look below at "Posting Tips" for more info on how to do some stuff like this.
Smaller Games And Applications
Screenshots Information
If your game, or program is a small program, which has little visual displayments, then it is un-necessary to provide screenshots, let-alone a video. For example, from what I understand, this equation:
Can be used to calculate, your maximum heart rate. And so, a program similiar/like this:
input "AGE: ", age$ : age=int(val(age$)) : heartRate#=220-age*0.85 : print "Your maximum hear rate is: "+str$(heartRate#) : print "Press any key to end.." : suspend for key : end
would be unnecessary to post screenshots for.
Demo Providing
For something so simple, you might as well just give away the source code, however, if you are sensitive about your source code, that is understandable, and so, a simple demo should be uploaded.
Posting Tips
Take all the spaces out of the examples given (only the text within a '[' and ']') when posting, and remember to actually customize it to make it your own.
Replacing a link with text
[ href=http://www.google.com ]Click Here[ /href ]
Making a thumbnail image
[ href=http://www.freewebs.com/tree3d/ExampleFull.PNG ][ img ]http://www.freewebs.com/tree3d/ExampleSmall.PNG[ /img ] [ /href ]
The two examples in effect
Click Here
I hope someone finds this usefull. And, if anyone is wondering, the WIP thing somewhat inspired me to do this.
-db
[EDIT]
There are tools such as Fraps which allow you to capture video of your program. You can use the Print Scrn Key on your keyboard to capture everything on the screen, except the mouse. I believe fraps is available
here...
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[EDIT2]
The smaller games section added...
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