(Topic ID: 6108)

An idea for featured images

By pinballslave

12 years ago



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    • I think it's a brilliant idea and feel this site would improve tremendously with this excellent interactive quizzical feature. 1 vote
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    • I might like it, why not give it a try. 9 votes
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    • What a ridiculous idea, please don't do this! 3 votes
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    #1 12 years ago

    I'm not sure if this is easy to implement, or even if the consensus is that this is a good or bad idea, so I'll add a poll to this... but the idea is that when you get the featured images popping up on your screen (the random pinball shots that appear in the top right corner), they tell you the game name and year of the pinball in the image... the idea is that this info is invisible 'till you hover over the image, thus giving you, the honoured viewer of this snapshot of pinball history, the chance to guess what game and year the image is... it's a small interactive bit of fun that people might get a mini kick out of...

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    #2 12 years ago

    Things are hotting up folks. with 'why not give it a try' racing ahead

    #3 12 years ago

    Hmmm, I like the idea of having these kind of little quizzes, just don't think it would be appropriate to do this in the Polaroid picture above. It would be a bit weird to have such a thing on the home-screen, imho.

    But it could work to create some kind of quiz-section with these kind of games. We could even implement some kind of leader board system. After all, we all like to play games on this forum, don't we...

    Now just find the spare time to implement such a thing...

    #4 12 years ago

    The reason I suggested this, by the way, is that when I look at these Polaroids I sometimes wonder what the game is (and try to avoid looking at the title that's printed underneath). If the title was invisible 'till you over over the image it would be easier to have this little personal game... I think that as people add photo's that get put in the 'featured image' pool, this little game could get more 'interesting'... not a big deal, just thought it might be a bit of fun that would be easy to achieve...

    Personally I'd also like to see these random 'featured images' appearing on several other pages, like at the top of forum topics... they add a nice bit of colour...

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