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15:33, 11th Jun 2010
ap0calypse: Rejected

 

[Lag_Reviews]

Fix description please!

Good to see you are willing to upload a map you have made to Hiveworkshop.

But first there are a few things in making the map stand out from the rest and making people say "Wow it sounds good" I better try it.

Although Do not lie about your map or people will get so angry no1 would download your map.

Okay how to make a good description of your map:

Adding a youtube video of some of the features in your game can make wanting to play or download a map even more worth it.

Adding in-game screenshots to your description can make people feel like they are actually playing the game and makes them want to download the map.

Screenshots of map

Just adding a description of the game can tell people what it is about, so they are not left worrying what the main objective is.

The aim of the game

The aim of the game is to get a hero and work your way up to the enemy base and destroy there citadel or tree depending if you are on scourge or sentinel team.

Here is another example of the description of the game:

Description

Dota Palostar is an AOS type map where 2 teams scourge and sentinel of 5-8 battle it out to destroy there enemies main building and stop creep production for ever.

Adding a How to Play description tells the person a brief overview how to play the map.

How to play

First you choose a team sentinel or scourge.
Then when the map has loaded you choose a hero.
Then you go an level up your hero by killing creeps/other heroes in an attempt to destroy the enemy citadel or tree.

Adding features to the description can help people understand why they should download it and what makes the map unique.

Features

This map has 200 custom heroes
400 custom items
500 custom spells and upgrades
30 custom unit
70 custom models
a new inventory interface
a unique attacking system

Including a change-log can help people understand why you updated the map and what updates are there.

Change-log 6.65

In this update we have added 10 new heroes and changed the death lightning spell so it would look better when casted and not poison you. Plus we have added a few new terrain features to make walking around the map even more exciting

Adding updates to come can see what you have installed for the next version and can make people want to keep downloading n playing your map.

Updates to come for version 6.66:

3 new models, 5 hero reworks, 6new heroes, 10new spells, 56new items, price rework and manor regen interface.

Always include the credits or people will think you made the whole map when you didn't and then some1 who contributed to the map will be real angry cuz you took all the credit.

Credits

Credits:
Dell.CC - for models
[H]ell.[M]aster - for spells
sls.Fail - for interfaces
Mls.Noobs - for terrain
Palostar - Main Creator

For now until you update the description, I will assume this map will not get many downloads.

To make me download the map change the description and I might download it and review it.

Hope this helped you understand how to make a good description for your map,
Lag_Reviews

PS: the above description is about another map and is only an example.

 

[Goosebearslug]

Ok thanks. Ill improve the description and say more stuff about the map. Since it is a meele map I found it hard to describe how to play when people already know how to play. For screens shots do you have to change the images to jpg or sumthing cause i dont know how to import images.

 

[Lag_Reviews]

How to upload pics into your description

Now you really want to know how to add an image to your post?

Then not to fear I will explain how:

First off you need to use something called HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language)

Secondly you need to know how the HTML code works but not to fear ill explain.

Thirdly copy and paste this code into your post where you want the image of your choice to show:

Html Code:

[IMG]"http://www.your-image-url-goes-here.jpg/gif/png"[/IMG]

Fourthly where it says your-image-url-goes-here you paste the url to your image there and where it says .jpg/gif/png they are just file types of your image and any one of them will be fine.

Example of an image using that code:

Still you have a great map,
Lag_reviews

PS: Hope this guide helped you understand how to add pictures to your post.

 

[Goosebearslug]

I tried uploading a tga file to a website but it didnt work :/ so im dling image converter plus

 

[VampireofBlood]

Please stop it

Now you really want to know how to add an image to your post?

Then not to fear I will explain how:

First off you need to use something called HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language)

Secondly you need to know how the HTML code works but not to fear ill explain.

Thirdly copy and paste this code into your post where you want the image of your choice to show:

Html Code:

[IMG]"http://www.your-image-url-goes-here.jpg/gif/png"[/IMG]

Fourthly where it says your-image-url-goes-here you paste the url to your image there and where it says .jpg/gif/png they are just file types of your image and any one of them will be fine.

Example of an image using that code:

Still you have a great map,
Lag_reviews

PS: Hope this guide helped you understand how to add pictures to your post.

What is this stuff?

 

[Lag_Reviews]

What is this stuff?

Sid_the_slug asked how to upload pictures into his thread description, thus I gave him a detailed explanation on how to do it.

If you do not like it, then please do not post telling me to stop it. Because I just wanted to help the map creator make his description better.

Please do not tell me what to do,
Lag_Reviews

PS: I hope this tells you what this stuff is.