Looking to kill IOTD as it currently exists.. Need testers

Michael Tanczos · 2013-01-22T15:21:05

Hey guys.. I've been talking with some of the other staff and came to the conclusion that our IOTD isn't really cutting it. The submission rate is ultra low.. and that may be for a number of reasons including us not promoting it more throughout the site. But I'm just blown away by the response that #screenshotsaturday gets and I'm not looking to reinvent the wheel on this one. I was thinking maybe it would be better to provide an interface for this twitter feed and have a little fun with it. Let me know what you guys think.. I was thinking about fleshing the game out more into something utterly ridiculous.. like you get points for votes, then you unlock cool armor and weapons that do absolutely nothing but show up in the sidebar looking all stylish. Perhaps randomly you can unlock "quests" as well.. non-serious quests of course that use the honor system. "The town bully has stolen my favorite sheep, go out and search the far off cavern at the base of mount worthlessjunk and fetch me a rock to make me feel better. Did you do it yet? Press yes or no" You get points for pressing yes! Who knows, just stuff to be fun. Here's the link so far: http://www.gamedev.net/page/showdown/index.html

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Started by Michael Tanczos January 12, 2013 06:32 AM

30 comments, last by Endurion 11 years, 9 months ago

Hodgman

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January 22, 2013 11:47 AM

An IOTD bug report, while we're here -- the prev/next arrows on the "filmstrip" part (for when there's more than 5 images) don't work. Chrome/Win7.

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Endurion

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January 22, 2013 03:21 PM

Oh, and add this:

If you posted an IOTD and later exchange the images (I wanted to exchange for higher resolution) the IOTD display is broken (red cross). You can't get the new images to show at all.

See my Soulless entry for this particular problem.

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