Project_Werewolf

[ShawnV]

Project_Werewolf

A site that is finally nearing completion and with only minor items left to tune and adjust, I think some general feedback of what I may have missed, a little detail I overlooked or a modification that would improve the current design would be helpful.

It is a themed MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) guild site that I have been working on for quite some time.

This site is flash enhanced, so Broadband is recommended; also the splash page has a link to update your flash plug in if needed. Clicking enter on the splash badge will take you to an intro movie and story that will set up the mythos and theme for the site, please remember that atmosphere, art and entertainment was paramount in its design, this is a functioning showpiece, it is not supposed to be another get as many users as possible standard board or community; it was designed to represent and meet the needs of an MMORPG guild only.

A 1680x 1050 resolution or higher is recommended, however it can be viewed in diminished value at 1024 x 762 if necessary.

Some Basics:

These flash systems detect the viewers time setting and then plays a primary movie based on the users computers clock time depending if its night or day. This means the site changes from day to night.

The smaller sized forum headers play 6 different movies plus special change over sunset and sunrise movies that can be seen between the hours of 5:30 and 6:00 AM & PM. To see any of the movies just open your computers time setting and change the AM/PM settings save and refresh the page. Note that the animated cross visible during daylight hours in the KOWW header logo changes to a set of werewolf teeth after sunset with the rest of the header changeovers.


I appreciate any and all feedback for improvement of this site, however please no I like or don’t like flash recitations.


Thank you in advance for your time,

Knights of the White Wolf


Work Friendly Site Details,

Sound On/Off

Splash Page – Options

Skip Intro


Cheers,

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[ExTincTi0N]

When you have to sign up i dont even know what half of it means so untill then im holding off on a review.

[ShawnV]

Originally Posted by ExTincTi0N

When you have to sign up i dont even know what half of it means so untill then im holding off on a review.

Hua?

If your talking about a test account, you can use this one,

user name: test

password: test

however you should be able to see 80% of the site as a UNREGISTRERED user.


cheers,

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[ExTincTi0N]

No i was talking about having to put the game server and that stuff in i dont know what any of that means lol.

[ShawnV]

ah, that does two things. First it makes it harder for bots and second it keeps non MMORPG gamers from registering since it is moderated registration and if the information doesn't match known MMORPG information the user is deleted.

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[ChU v2]

the flashwork is amazing, must have took a long time to get right.

[Boofo]

Nice flash but takes too long to load. And flash gets stale real quick.

[TonySkullz]

The art and theme is very nice, it would be good for a personal showcase type site.
But, it's not really a practical design for a production site.

[/2pennies]

[ShawnV]

Originally Posted by ChU v2

the flashwork is amazing, must have took a long time to get right.

Thanks, lets just say if I had a penny for every hour spent.



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[legionofangels]

It's YOU!

I'm gonna make a thread on my site about this. You have possibly the sickest forum I've seen in awhile...well except for a few things. It's as if reviews are only to tell you what you are doing wrong, I know.

But I've used your site as a reference before due to the level of sickness that it displays.

I really enjoyed the opening you added to it. I love your banner. I like your offline/online images, and the new posts icon is wicked.

Very gothic oriented which works well with what you wanted.

However I think there are some drawbacks to consider.

First of all, I'm guessing the Hand icon appears during the opening if I want to skip it. The negative is having to hit that every time. Unless I could go directly to the forum and skip the pizazz.

With limited registering, you're really restricting your member base and unfortunately cannot attract new members that are curious about the game before playing.

Design doesn't always mean members, we all know that.

I'm not liking how you went all transparent on me. I just don't enjoy the way it looks now indifferent to before. The borders are near useless even as white, I can't distinguish columns now which makes it hard visually.

If the blood is red on the top and the bottom, then it should have been red on the background, that makes no sense man.

Overall I love this forum, would I join? no, i don't play the game, lol. Have heard of it though but I try to stay away from MMORPG. I like some things you are trying to do here but I would have almost made the opening video an option, like watch our site intro video and put it in the navbar, that way if people want to see it they can. I'm sure you wanted to make a good impression, but if I have to deal with it every time, it gets annoying.

Love the sound, and I found the sound button pretty easily.

No one can deny the level of professionalism shown here, but I think there are some things that could be tweaked. Heck I'd even recommend a semi transparent set of tables, so you can kind of show the bg through the tables, like we did on my own site.

I want to know your coder, unless it's you, then I know who you are.

I don't have the same reaction as Boofo, load times were very fast for me. No problem at all actually.

I think most of all I'm impressed with not just the effort but really trying to do something new. Flash is mostly seen as a good additive and shouldn't be over done. But why couldn't the whole forum be flash is what i'm wondering. N' with computers getting better all the time, won't we be able to handle all the flash that is going on?

Regardless, I don't think you've went too far yet. BG is the worst or transparency being 100%, I don't like that.

Great work overall.

L E G I O N