Latest Review: Dream of Mirror Online
6.0
Dream of Mirror Online (DOMO)
"Based on ancient Chinese mythology, the world of Dream of Mirror Online exists as an alternate reality inside the 'Kunlun Mirror,' a sacred artifact." [source]
The basic premise of this game is that the 'Kunlun Mirror' has stopped reflecting reality as it really is and is instead causing havok in the mirror world. Adventurers set forth in an attempt to restore balance to the mirror world and in turn save the real world. Curiously, in the mirror world, 'time' does not exist. Or at least according to the lore it doesn't. [more]
"Based on ancient Chinese mythology, the world of Dream of Mirror Online exists as an alternate reality inside the 'Kunlun Mirror,' a sacred artifact." [source]The basic premise of this game is that the 'Kunlun Mirror' has stopped reflecting reality as it really is and is instead causing havok in the mirror world. Adventurers set forth in an attempt to restore balance to the mirror world and in turn save the real world. Curiously, in the mirror world, 'time' does not exist. Or at least according to the lore it doesn't. [more]
Posted by tsudeki on June 21, 2009 at 01:06am
Update: Dream of Mirror Online Review Up + Changes
I also made a couple minor tweaks to the site as well:
* When logging into the site from the left navigation, instead of just sitting there after pressing submit a 'loading' image will now appear letting you know that it's doing something.
* Added two new banner images.
I think that's it. I'll update the fiesta review with more screen shots in the future. It doesn't have near as many as I think it should. Also, there are a few things I left out of the review that I'd like to go back and include.
Posted by tsudeki on June 21st, 2009 at 01:38am
Comments [0] Update: Lots of updates!
As for the noticeable aspects of the site:
* MMO Terms: Reviews now have their mmo-terms auto-linked when submitting them. This is good news for the people doing the reviews since they don't have to stick in links at certain points. The draw back is that it's not perfect. You have to be careful not to use an mmo-term nested inside of any HTML or the page might break. :) I'll fix this if it becomes a problem. The mmo-term link will also popup the description so you don't actually have to click it to go to the definition, but you can.
Also, the MMO Terms page is now available on the left nav. If there are any more terms that I didn't add that you think should be on there, please let me know.
* Images in Reviews: Images can now be viewed directly from the review page. They no longer require a new window to be seen. This has been tested and works in IE8, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome. I didn't test Safari cause Safari uses the same engine as Chrome (WebKit) and I just assume it works. It most likely doesn't work in IE7 too well, but anyone using IE7 or lower should upgrade to IE8 and not make my hobby hard for me.
If any reviewers need to know how to use the image popup thing just let me know.
* Random Videos: Gone. There really was no reason for that to be there.
* CSS Validation: Fixed. It's now validating beautifully under the CSS3 ruleset and I've fixed the file naming issue in the link.
* Header Images: I added three more of them to the rotation.
* Review Count: Fixed. I had misnamed the table I was checking for the review count in the query.
* Links in Reviews: There are now internal anchors on the reviews. For example, clicking on "Content" will jump you down to the content review portion of the review.
* Default Template for Reviews: For people doing reviews, there is now a default review template that you can use. The anchors for the internal links are already there as well. If you delete them, the section links will obviously not work so try not to do that. :D
* Overall Rating Bar: I went ahead and made this live although it is part of another group of sliders I will be implementing in the future for user reviews.
Hm..that might be it. I always feel a sense of accomplishment when I finally get something done on this site. Maybe I should actually work on it more often? I dunno, we'll see. ^_~ I think I'll work on a dynamic meta data system. That should boost my search engine placement.
Posted by tsudeki on June 13th, 2009 at 11:32pm
Comments [0] Update: Aeria Games
At any rate, I've decided to humour them. :D I'm going to try and review one of their games per week until I've reviewed the MMORPGs listed on their site. First up is DOMO.
Whether or not I achieve the goal of one per week remains to be seen, but if I pull it off then at least the site will have a bit more content in the coming weeks and I'll be compelled to finish a few features on it. :)
More visitors wouldn't hurt that either.
Posted by tsudeki on June 11th, 2009 at 10:00am
Comments [1] Update: Fiesta review up!
Also, I haven't added in the gallery code yet so for now the popups are just going to have to suffice. Sorry.
Posting this review was a lesson in humility and patience. Why? Because I had to redo it about 3 or 4 times due to: Accidentally pressing the back button in my browser. Trying to submit the article but having a MySQL error. Submitting the article but the date was wrong (this one I fixed via MySQL and fixed the code in the query, but still..annoying). Lessons learned.
Anyway, it's my first review! Feel free to comment here in the boards if you feel you have something more to add.
Hateful remarks should be sent to BinoX who isn't here to defend himself from them.
Posted by tsudeki on June 8th, 2009 at 11:43pm
Comments [0] Update: OMG Updates
I spiced up the site a little by giving it a background color and a couple or bg images. Note the images only work in Non-IE browsers becasue IE is stupid and I'm tired of trying to make things work for IE. This is a hobby site and I can't be bothered to putz around solving IE's PNG transparency issues which (despite what some people say) are still quite a problem.
*takes a breath* That said, I'll probably employ a hack to make it work at some point if it bugs me. ^_^;
Anyway...Kudos, you can now post reviews if you'd like and edit them. Theoretically you can only edit your own reviews. ^_~
I also modified the list of reviews so it's a little more intuitive; however, I still have a couple other things to do to it but those are minor things.
I also updated the about us page. I just put random thoughts in it really; don't expect much. ^_^;;
Oh yea! I forgot, I fixed the links in news posts (for the most part).
Emizzon: Surely you noticed my twitter presence (btw I have a twitter ( http://twitter.com/tsudeki )). I still need a logo. ^^; Help me with ideas!
Posted by tsudeki on May 23rd, 2009 at 02:33pm
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