Re:Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64
by Nition on Monday September 04, 2023 @06:45PM
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Weirdly even commercial software websites seem to do this a lot. Pages of text and some mostly-unrelated images with no screenshots at all. Sometimes you can learn more about a program from screenshots of it in Google Images than from the official website.
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Re:Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64
by nineteen999 on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:35PM
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Agree totally - I want to see whether the controls for what I want to use the software for are in prominent positions, buried deep in some menu, or completely non-existent. I also want to see what other UI fluff is crowding out those controls and becoming distracting for me and my users, and how bloated the application is around other tasks that I have no use for.
It's not the sole way to evaluate usefulness of software obviously, but it can help save a lot of time if it's clear from screenshots or videos if its not a good fit for my needs.
Re:Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64
by Nition on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:57PM
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Honestly half the time the site doesn't even describe what the software is for. They'll be like "CRE8TR TAKES CREATIVITY TO A NEW LEVEL", "Used by industry professionals worldwide!" If you've just come from a random link on Hacker News or something they can be incredibly vague.
Once again, a screenshot immediately shows me "oh, it's a UI wireframing tool."