Colour, Images, and Art

[Saerain]

This is a beautiful aesthetic, here on these forums. I am fond of the colour scheme chosen. Dark, simple, and dignified.

The emoticons seem to have been made for light backgrounds, however. A different set would help.

Also, whatever images should be showing above them (spelling.gif and switchmode.gif) are broken. The URLs are showing as:

forums/images/hardwired/editor/spelling.gif (http://www.straybulletgames.com/forums/images/hardwired/editor/spelling.gif)
forums/images/hardwired/editor/switchmode.gif (http://www.straybulletgames.com/forums/images/hardwired/editor/switchmode.gif)

While they apparently should be:

forums/images/editor/spelling.gif (http://www.straybulletgames.com/forums/images/editor/spelling.gif)
forums/images/editor/switchmode.gif (http://www.straybulletgames.com/forums/images/editor/switchmode.gif)

Unless the images that should be in /hardwired/ are simply missing.

As for the website itself, the pieces of art are intriguing, though worrisome to me. I am not fond of the enormous ears, or the three-hundred-pound build of the blonde figure, but I also notice that most of these images are marked as placeholders within their filenames, so I try to take them with a proverbial grain of salt while wondering why such effort would be expended on mere placeholder art.

Anyway, bravo! I look forward to seeing the Stray Bullet strike.

Edit: The Skype icon in the profile editor is also broken.

[Murray]

Fixed some of the small issues, I will need to make a Skype image once I find the PSD file used to create the graphics. Same with the emoticons.

I am not sure what you mean by placeholders filenames exactly.

Thanks for the heads up though!

[Saerain]

Sorry. I mean these:

http://www.straybulletgames.com/images/placeholder01.jpg
http://www.straybulletgames.com/images/placeholder02.jpg
http://www.straybulletgames.com/images/placeholder03.jpg

By calling each a 'placeholder' I simply assume that they do not necessarily mean anything as to any projects that may be under development.

[Murray]

Well the one image for example is from the Contact Us page (http://www.straybulletgames.com/contactus.shtml). They are being used as art to make the site look more graphically appealing and complete. It would be odd if one or two pages were missing a image on the right side. I would regard them on the basis of fancy clip art for the moment. This is a fairly common practice in the world of web design. =)

[Saerain]

Right, that is what I was saying that I was assuming that I should think (http://www.straybulletgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40).

[Xanther]

What? You don't like how they tease around here? I doubt anyone really thinks that those images are actually from another game they are creating. I know I don't think it is. If it is, good stuff....but I highly doubt it.

[Zenjah]

I would regard them on the basis of fancy clip art for the moment. This is a fairly common practice in the world of web design.
Heh, the poster on the wall in this image (http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/07/bkd_stray_bullet.html) leads me to believe that the placeholder on this page (http://www.straybulletgames.com/inthenews/) is more than just "clip art"...

:D

Close examination reveals the two images are different, but remarkably similar. Googling Khotan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khotan) reveals it to be "An important station on the southern route of the historic Silk Road." If you want me to stop stalking now, lemme know. =p

[AshenTemper]

*whistles*

[Xanther]

*whistles*

Lol, you ever consider being an actor?