The ancientbeast-website from freezingmoon

less crowded website footer

The website footer could be less crowded. Will need to cut down on elements, perhaps remove the donation related ones.

discord icon

The AB discord should be linked in the website's footer.

Alexia Raye plays Ancient Beast

She's quite popular and seems she streamed HearthStone for a while, which is related.

https://www.twitch.tv/alexiaraye

move plot to documentation

The game plot div could be moved in the game design's document info section http://ancientbeast.com/design/?view=info

Annchirisu plays Ancient Beast

Youtuber and twitch streamer that's into LoL / Pokemon https://www.youtube.com/user/oNYANNo

MaxTheInfinite plays Ancient Beast

Should get this romanian fellow youtuber to play a match against his girlfriend.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MaxTheInfinite

It might be helpful to eventually have the player MySQL / mongoDB / rethinkDB database be filled out with some sort of randomly generated player data. This should help development when it comes to some parts of the website, like user account / profiles, rankings and so on.

Paw Wars does this kind of stuff for noSQL database based on a seeding script
https://github.com/snollygolly/paw-wars#installation

Its developer (snollygolly) recommended looking into Ghost blogging platform for a good example.

unit table progress column

The Units page table module (/units/?view=table) has a column represented by a clock-like icon, which is filled with question marks. Each row should calculate the overall progress for the specific unit, by using the data from progress.json file from units folder.

MEIT Dev plays Ancient Beast

This guy provides feedback for indie game devs by making first impression youtube videos and even follow up videos. Also a bit of promotion as well, which is always nice, especially if it's for free <3

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC_5ZJO-ZxJr_ii8hLuvj0A

overall progress indicator

One of the biggest elements of this game are currently the creatures, which have their progress estimated.
Doing an average of their progress would roughly estimate the project's completion as well.
There should be a widget on the website having a progress bar indicating that.

hidden comments

Disqus commenting system could be hidden / not loaded by default, until a link or button keeping its place would be clicked. This would keep pages shorter scroll wise, loading faster and might increase Google Page Rank as well because of that. Hopefully this would be done without having to rely on jquery library.

account improvements

Right now there's not much to do at all with the user system and account page is broken.

gravatar
favorite unit
subscription status
coin amount
change email
change pass
newsletter subscription
social accounts
last time online
profile visibility

show info when looking at website source code

We should have something similar to this (pointing at this repo), I think it's a cool idea:
http://littlebigdetails.com/post/44371591091/soundcloud-when-looking-at-the-console-log

player profile page

User accounts should be viewable via a public page, showing all sorts of data.

account name
gravatar
search box
date registered
last time online
subscription status
custom skin
equipped items
favorite units
special unit
favorite mod
last matches
shopping history
friend list
badges
amount donated
contribution points
gifts sent
trophees
ranks
winning ratio
friend/ignore
send gift
message
comments

This will come in useful for nice profile links http://youtu.be/1pbAV6AU99I

updated Patreon logo

The footer (etc.?) Patreon logo needs to be updated to reflect their new one https://www.patreon.com/brand

replace header gargoyles

Should replace the gargoyles from the website with stone grey versions of Golden Wyrm creature, something along the lines of the gargoyle graphics combined with the artwork from the "how to contribute" buttons over here http://ancientbeast.com/images/squares/contribute.jpg

last column not highlighted

The table from units/?view=table won't highlight the last column (mental stat) on hover.

displayed unit progress

The progress widget in the unit viewer module should update to show the data of the selected unit.

vertical space reduction

The website should use less big colored buttons and actually embed text info inside the 1:1 square buttons, similar to how the unit names are handled in the left side artwork card. This allows for longer strings and uses way less vertical space, which will make more sense when having the game embedded in 3rd party websites and clicking on the title to reach the official website, as it's more likely the text will be revealed.

keep table in place

The table from units/?view=table shouldn't snap under the header when scrolling down and causing the header to float.

music player script changed location

New game version changes the path of the music player code as of this patch FreezingMoon/AncientBeast@c27119d
Should update the media/music page to include the script from the proper location when time comes.

artwork as play/pause button

The artwork from media/music page should act as a play/pause button.

Alissaraeross plays

She's a pokemon player. Talked to her about this, she's up for it, but probably won't stick with it, which is fine.

https://www.twitch.tv/alissaraeross

canonical pages

Some of the pages, maybe shop or units page, could be using canonical tag.
This could improve search engine indexing and hopefully improve rank and traffic.

rel="canonical"
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

link to specific unit in viewer

The unit viewer module should update the URL to the randomly unit picked, the newly selected ones and also also display the unit that's actually being linked to when accessing the module initially.

The whole idea is so that website visitors could link others to specific units, should come in very handy.

The media page does something similar (opens the artwork indicated in the link or updates the link to the clicked artwork), example here http://ancientbeast.com/media/?type=artwork#id=0

pointer in floating table header

When the table from units/?view=table is scrolled down having the header floating, hovering the mouse over icons from it that can rearrange the columns on click should show the cursor as a pointer.

domain typo redirect

Some people read "Ancient BeastS", should probably get the .com domain for that as well and have a redirect to the main website.

nicer account related buttons at the top

The website login/register buttons could look nicer (maybe some other ones as well) http://opengameart.org/content/ui-button

semi-random ads placement

There should be horizontal graphical banners displayed in various pages between the divs, based on chances and up to 3 (as Google Adsense implies).

unit viewer should update abilities

The unit viewer needs to update the abilities when changing to a new unit.
http://ancientbeast.com/units/?view=viewer#focus

This functionality is also implemented in the game itself, so code could be forked from there or it could even be turned into a module and reused between the two.

viewer save tweak

The sprite sheet animation viewer should not have the save button dimmed and when clicking on it, name from image URL should be used along with .json extension
https://ancientbeast.com/viewer/

prioritize stuff for visitors

Probably not many will rush into reading the game design documentation, so the first icon on the website could be showcasing the latest blog article perhaps, as we totally lack something like that. The GDD could be linked as a button in the "intro" section.

Kaitality plays Ancient Beast

He's a Pokemon fan, has a lot of charisma and also plays indie games. Wants to try out the game and help promote it.

https://www.twitch.tv/kaitality
has youtube channel as well
https://discord.gg/buQdPFS

Forc3_Sim streams/plays Ancient Beast

Youtuber and Twitch streamer that does indie games at times; could play vs him.

https://twitter.com/forc3_sim
https://www.youtube.com/user/fo4c3
https://www.twitch.tv/forc3_sim

display unit comments accordingly

The disqus widget from the unit viewer page should be updated in order to match the conversation of the selected unit, so that each unit has its own comments. Disqus widget is using the page title to generate new threads on the fly by default (unless the function is overwritten by passing a specific variable). In the case of the unit viewer page, the title is using the currently selected unit's name.

DISQUS.reset should probably be used instead of reloading embed.js
See https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/472107-using-disqus-on-ajax-sites

progress widget animation

The units page progress widget could have animations added so that each section will fill out gradually.
This could be achieved by fading the lower progress frames over time until finally reaching the last one.

Link to the old issue from the game repository FreezingMoon/AncientBeast#811

Open Discord button

The chat page should have another button similar to "Open Gitter" in order to open Discord.

https://discordapp.com/invite/x78rKen

autodefine project root

Should make the project set-up for the website easier by automatically determining the root.
http://php.net/manual/function.require-once.php#104265

responsive media loading

On smartphones, the media artwork and fanart pages could display smaller images in order to save bandwidth and speed up loading time.

An example over here http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/05/firefox-38-arrives-with-tab-based-preferences-ruby-character-support

move contribution cards

Perhaps the homepage contribution cards should be moved to the corresponding page.

bypass lack of database

Currently the website header tries to poke at the MySQL database. For local development set-ups, that stuff should be optional, so most of the website should work fine without it.

nicolesalera plays Ancient Beast

Talked to her already while she was streaming, she might be up for it, will wait for 1-2 versions. Even found someone from a gaming news website interested.

https://www.twitch.tv/nicolesalera

GamingConvinction review

ZoomerX : I am the owner of https://www.GamingConviction.com , and we do a lot of indie coverage. I also stream. Do me a favor and throw your deets in this form https://goo.gl/forms/uAOW77SJBB5cDDHH3 and shoot an email to [email protected] when you get it done so I can make sure my team prioritizes it.

Like I said, at least shoot me an email with some info so we can take a look and possibly set up an interview with you about the game and what you have in mind. My lead guy has a passion for Indie stuff and likes to cover that kind of stuff.

Digital Merchandise

coins
creature packs
subscription
training
List of 3rd party websites for physical merchandise:

http://www.storenvy.com
http://www.shapeways.com

Valera Tani plays Ancient Beast

Russian female twitch streamer, playing HoMM3 <3

https://www.twitch.tv/valera_tani

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