Issue #3 will come out on Friday! It features 26 games! I've compiled it this week-end so the updates from the rest of the week will be part of next week's.
Some people here and on twitter asked about how I select games for this. Here's a little run down of the selection process.
I look at the devlog threads every day to try and see what's up. When I have a big enough time slot to build the map, I go back to the threads, look for
screenshots. I sometimes look at trailers, but since I don't have time to take screenshots myself, I usually skip trailers and downloadables. I'm usually more tempted to showcase games that just got a big
update, a very
awesome screenshot or has just been released. I'll try to use games that have
not been featured in recent issues, unless, again, it's a big update or a very sexy screenshot. So if your game's not featured one week, keep working and posting screenshots, chances are you'll appear in the coming weeks.
I then collect the screenshots and copypaste them into my photoshop template. I move them around, see what looks good and how they should be layed out. At that point some screenshots will be removed just for space or composition reasons, sorry about that
Starting next week, I'll be aiming for about 16 screenshots (less than usual), because making the imagemap for 26 games is just too time consuming. I really hope to keep the process fun and simple, so that I don't get tired of it.
I really hope you guys will understand that I'm doing this out of love of your games and that this is not a competition - it's only a snapshot of what's happening in the devlog section. Also, I'm posting these on Venus Patrol so that you guys get more exposure, and I'll try to share the magazine on as many places as I can. Please share it on twitter and blogs and stuff so we can really get a ton of people visiting the threads.
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