Feedback Request: Vorax Games website

[Vorax]

I am hoping for some feedback and some information. I am preparing my site for my first game and I would like your thoughts on the color scheme and general layout. This will be a casual game, so I am looking for something friendly and simple. It's not complete, but before I go any further I thought I better ask for some input :o

Site: Vorax Games (http://www.voraxgames.com)

I would also like to start becoming and affiliate for other games. What do I need to do?

Thanks,

- Vorax

[jankoM]

I aint no artist but here are my personal critical thougths - don't take them to seriously. ;)

* You have too many colors and styles IMO (fonts - text decorations... logo, menu and "latest news" are all different .
* Kumari Kandum text looks very nice to me and qualitative but it fights others too.. I would use that texts style as basis and make all other from that - only logo is I think in harmony with it so I wouldn't change it (only "games" in logo maybe)
* I like the "VORAX" from logo, the picture from the game and the "Kumari Kandum"

[Ricardo Vladimiro]

I'm always late. :)

Yellow and red and blue tones and all that jazz, it's too much. Try to pick a colour scheme that fits and leave the game art and logos do the rest.

If your logo is going to be green, take advantage of yellows, or pick another colour scheme, like black+yellow, blue+red, black+red.

Good choice to have a white background though, it's easier to read.

[soniCron]

Good choice to have a white background though, it's easier to read. Sure. If you like staring at bright lights. ;)

The computer monitor is an "additive" display, as opposed to the "subtractive" display of print material (books, magazines, etc.). A computer screen adds, or emits, light to create color, whereas a printed sheet subtracts ambient light to create color. The contrast of text and page in a novel is far lower than that of a white background and black text on a computer screen.

Ideally, a soft, off-white (usually warm) color should be used for the background and a dark grey should be used for text. In practice, this is difficult to pull off on the web because you risk serious color clashes. It is best to keep any long passages of text at a low contrast with a non-white, low saturation background -- the less light it emits, the easier it is on your eyes.

In addition to this, it is helpful to increase the line spacing. Because web pages tend to display text in far wider columns than printed media, the eye has trouble keeping track of which line it's reading, and even more difficulty backtracking to the next line. Compare the number of words on a single line of a typical website with the number of words on a line in a newspaper or novel -- the newspaper or novel will usually have far fewer words.

To make it easier on the eye to read long lines of text, you can increase the line spacing with the "line-height" CSS attribute. Webpages default to 1 (or is it 1.2?). It is best to use a line height between 1.4 and 1.6, depending on the length of the lines -- the shorter the line, the lower the line height. If your text is constrained by fixed widths (tables or CSS), and that width isn't very wide, then it's probably not necessary to worry about it.

Now that I've said all this, the textual content of your website is likely to be very low, since you're selling games, so I'm really making a mountain out of a molehill! :)

[Vorax]

Thanks for the feedback -

I'l see what I can do about brining the link text in line with the red and yellow. I'll als. I'll also see about toning down the white into a soft grey tone.

As for using the Kumari Kandum text, I can't really do that because that's actually a shrunken logo of the game - glad you like it though :) The Kumari banner on the top is a little snap shot of the game - I'll be making that into a flash version later as I am prepared to show more to the public.

[chanon]

The yellow and the bright red and the blue gradient is too much. There's too much color contrast there and it hurts the eyes.

Try using a color scheme generator like http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html and choose some colors that are easier on the eyes.

[Vorax]

Thanks for the link, that's pretty handy.

[Anlino]

The "coming soon" text in the upper image is spelled incorrectly, it says "comming soon".

[Escapee]

Hi Vorax,
One of the website development "rules" that i adhere strictly is never put the words "under construction" on the any page. That's just my little input

Thanks