Re:Show HN: Gamamia: Find, share, and discuss indie games
by DeltaCoast on Thursday February 19, 2015 @01:13PM
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Hey guys my names Alberto, I'm a junior studying game development at RIT and I'm one of the co-founders of Gamamia. Already see some great feedback so I'll go ahead and respond to it, I'll be around all day so feel free to ask me anything and keep the feedback coming!
Re:Show HN: Gamamia: Find, share, and discuss indie games
by captn3m0 on Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:53PM
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I've been subscribed to their mailing list for a while, and its been nicely curated. All the development takes place on Assembly [1], which is really cool!
Re:Show HN: Gamamia: Find, share, and discuss indie games
by Kronopath on Thursday February 19, 2015 @01:06PM
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Not a bad start. A few nitpicks though:
When I middle-click on a game's title to try to open its page in a new tab, the page opens up in both the new tab and the current one, which is annoying.
It's also a little frustrating to click through to a game's page, and instead of seeing a bigger version of the banner image, or more screenshots of the game, the only thing you're presented with is a blurry version of the exact same image, with not much more information than the preview gave you.
In the end, though, a thing like this is as good as its community. I can see this doing well if you manage to make it a hub of activity.
Re:Show HN: Gamamia: Find, share, and discuss indie games
by DeltaCoast on Thursday February 19, 2015 @01:19PM
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Okay middle click, it's on firefox right? We've recently been getting a lot of reports on it.
I'll pass this along to philipp (resident back end wizard).
That's a pretty good point on the game page's blurry image we're starting to notice, it's fancy but not really all that function. In the first mock up we did we simply put a darkened overlay on the image to contrast with the white text
We are hoping to add screenshots, related links, blog articles and embedded vids: let's plays, twitch streams above the X amount of upvotes section.
We're working on the design, the game page in particular has been a challenge for us. If you have an idea of what you would love to see it as then jump in on assembly.com/gamamia you can directly affect the design.
And I totally agree about community, in the end that's the most important thing. So we're really trying to get devs involved and discussing their works with players.
Re:Show HN: Gamamia: Find, share, and discuss indie games
by Vaskivo on Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:59PM
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On firefox, middle mouse button click on the title of the game opens a the game page BOTH in a new tab and in the current tab. And middle mouse button click on the game's image opens tha game page in the current tab.
Re:Show HN: Gamamia: Find, share, and discuss indie games
by DeltaCoast on Thursday February 19, 2015 @01:23PM
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So Jason (co-founder and lead front end) just told us that the mouseclick issue is a result of us using React.js. We'll try and look into it further, thank you for this!
Re:Show HN: Gamamia: Find, share, and discuss indie games
by Zikes on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:29PM
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When I click that link it redirects me to the HN home page. If I paste it into the address bar and open it with no referer, it redirects to the Gamamia home page.
[1]: https://assembly.com/gamamia
When I middle-click on a game's title to try to open its page in a new tab, the page opens up in both the new tab and the current one, which is annoying.
It's also a little frustrating to click through to a game's page, and instead of seeing a bigger version of the banner image, or more screenshots of the game, the only thing you're presented with is a blurry version of the exact same image, with not much more information than the preview gave you.
In the end, though, a thing like this is as good as its community. I can see this doing well if you manage to make it a hub of activity.
That's a pretty good point on the game page's blurry image we're starting to notice, it's fancy but not really all that function. In the first mock up we did we simply put a darkened overlay on the image to contrast with the white text
We are hoping to add screenshots, related links, blog articles and embedded vids: let's plays, twitch streams above the X amount of upvotes section.
We're working on the design, the game page in particular has been a challenge for us. If you have an idea of what you would love to see it as then jump in on assembly.com/gamamia you can directly affect the design.
And I totally agree about community, in the end that's the most important thing. So we're really trying to get devs involved and discussing their works with players.
As for the middle-click issue, I'm getting it on Chrome v40 on Windows actually.
Please don't break the middle mouse button.
http://gamamia.com/games/89