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Show HN: Gamamia: Find, share, and discuss indie games

29 points by awwstn 12y ago

captn3m0 12y ago
I've been subscribed to their mailing list for a while, and its been nicely curated. All the development takes place on Assembly [1], which is really cool! [1]: https://assembly.com/gamamia https://assembly.com/gamamia
- DeltaCoast 12y ago
  Thank you so much for the kind words haha it's actually really nice to hear that people are enjoying what we're doing.
dave_chenell 12y ago
Loving the progression from a newsletter to a hacker news style site, great stuff, I hope a solid community forms around it.
Vaskivo 12y ago
On firefox, middle mouse button click on the title of the game opens a the game page BOTH in a new tab and in the current tab. And middle mouse button click on the game's image opens tha game page in the current tab. Please don't break the middle mouse button.
- DeltaCoast 12y ago
  So Jason (co-founder and lead front end) just told us that the mouseclick issue is a result of us using React.js. We'll try and look into it further, thank you for this!
DarrenMills 12y ago
This is a great idea. Discovery is becoming a much needed tool with the explosion of indie gaming.
Kronopath 12y ago
Not a bad start. A few nitpicks though: When I middle-click on a game's title to try to open its page in a new tab, the page opens up in both the new tab and the current one, which is annoying. It's also a little frustrating to click through to a game's page, and instead of seeing a bigger version of the banner image, or more screenshots of the game, the only thing you're presented with is a blurry version of the exact same image, with not much more information than the preview gave you. In the end, though, a thing like this is as good as its community. I can see this doing well if you manage to make it a hub of activity.
- DeltaCoast 12y ago
  Okay middle click, it's on firefox right? We've recently been getting a lot of reports on it. I'll pass this along to philipp (resident back end wizard). That's a pretty good point on the game page's blurry image we're starting to notice, it's fancy but not really all that function. In the first mock up we did we simply put a darkened overlay on the image to contrast with the white text We are hoping to add screenshots, related links, blog articles and embedded vids: let's plays, twitch streams above the X amount of upvotes section. We're working on the design, the game page in particular has been a challenge for us. If you have an idea of what you would love to see it as then jump in on assembly.com/gamamia you can directly affect the design. And I totally agree about community, in the end that's the most important thing. So we're really trying to get devs involved and discussing their works with players.
  - Kronopath 12y ago
    Thanks for the response, sounds like you've got a good plan for where you want this to go. As for the middle-click issue, I'm getting it on Chrome v40 on Windows actually.
DeltaCoast 12y ago
Hey guys my names Alberto, I'm a junior studying game development at RIT and I'm one of the co-founders of Gamamia. Already see some great feedback so I'll go ahead and respond to it, I'll be around all day so feel free to ask me anything and keep the feedback coming!
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drewmate 12y ago
Why do I need to be signed in to view some of the games? That's kind of annoying... http://gamamia.com/games/89 http://gamamia.com/games/89
- Zikes 12y ago
  When I click that link it redirects me to the HN home page. If I paste it into the address bar and open it with no referer, it redirects to the Gamamia home page.
je42 12y ago
Where can you sign up for the mailing list ? or is there an rss feed somewhere ?
- DeltaCoast 12y ago
  should be a section on the main page, not at the moment. We're using mailchimp so I think it would be simple on our end to add an RSS option

29 points by awwstn 12y ago

I've been subscribed to their mailing list for a while, and its been nicely curated. All the development takes place on Assembly [1], which is really cool! [1]: https://assembly.com/gamamia https://assembly.com/gamamia

DeltaCoast 12y ago
Thank you so much for the kind words haha it's actually really nice to hear that people are enjoying what we're doing.

dave_chenell 12y ago

Loving the progression from a newsletter to a hacker news style site, great stuff, I hope a solid community forms around it.

Vaskivo 12y ago

On firefox, middle mouse button click on the title of the game opens a the game page BOTH in a new tab and in the current tab. And middle mouse button click on the game's image opens tha game page in the current tab. Please don't break the middle mouse button.

DeltaCoast 12y ago
So Jason (co-founder and lead front end) just told us that the mouseclick issue is a result of us using React.js. We'll try and look into it further, thank you for this!

DarrenMills 12y ago

This is a great idea. Discovery is becoming a much needed tool with the explosion of indie gaming.

Kronopath 12y ago

Not a bad start. A few nitpicks though: When I middle-click on a game's title to try to open its page in a new tab, the page opens up in both the new tab and the current one, which is annoying. It's also a little frustrating to click through to a game's page, and instead of seeing a bigger version of the banner image, or more screenshots of the game, the only thing you're presented with is a blurry version of the exact same image, with not much more information than the preview gave you. In the end, though, a thing like this is as good as its community. I can see this doing well if you manage to make it a hub of activity.

DeltaCoast 12y ago
Okay middle click, it's on firefox right? We've recently been getting a lot of reports on it. I'll pass this along to philipp (resident back end wizard). That's a pretty good point on the game page's blurry image we're starting to notice, it's fancy but not really all that function. In the first mock up we did we simply put a darkened overlay on the image to contrast with the white text We are hoping to add screenshots, related links, blog articles and embedded vids: let's plays, twitch streams above the X amount of upvotes section. We're working on the design, the game page in particular has been a challenge for us. If you have an idea of what you would love to see it as then jump in on assembly.com/gamamia you can directly affect the design. And I totally agree about community, in the end that's the most important thing. So we're really trying to get devs involved and discussing their works with players.
- Kronopath 12y ago
  Thanks for the response, sounds like you've got a good plan for where you want this to go. As for the middle-click issue, I'm getting it on Chrome v40 on Windows actually.

DeltaCoast 12y ago

Hey guys my names Alberto, I'm a junior studying game development at RIT and I'm one of the co-founders of Gamamia. Already see some great feedback so I'll go ahead and respond to it, I'll be around all day so feel free to ask me anything and keep the feedback coming!

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drewmate 12y ago

Why do I need to be signed in to view some of the games? That's kind of annoying... http://gamamia.com/games/89 http://gamamia.com/games/89

Zikes 12y ago
When I click that link it redirects me to the HN home page. If I paste it into the address bar and open it with no referer, it redirects to the Gamamia home page.

je42 12y ago

Where can you sign up for the mailing list ? or is there an rss feed somewhere ?

DeltaCoast 12y ago
should be a section on the main page, not at the moment. We're using mailchimp so I think it would be simple on our end to add an RSS option