October 15, 2008
pastelgames.com redesigned
Sooooooo. Here it is. Unification between pastelgames and pastelstories. In design at least. We decided to pull out of “having a games portal” business, since anyone can have a games portal of his own in about five minutes. We went in a slightly other direction. Each of our series will have it’s own website – dedicated only to this game series. In time we’d like to add more content to each site, like walkthroughs, possibly artwork, and other stuff related to that particular series. Like the opposite of games portal. Instead of catchy 1500+ games!!! from which you probably won’t play anyway, you’ll have separate site focused on the subject that interests you most. For example – in time – all submachine addicts will find ALL content concerning submachine on submachineworld.com and they won’t have to look no further. I think it’s a good idea.
Other games that are not serialized and self-sited will run on the motherboard pastelgames site. New pastelgames frontpage features all games that we’ve created – gently categorized – so you don’t have to click through several pages to find your beloved game – it’s all there on the frontpage. We’re just cool like that. Also we hope you don’t mind adsense, as it’s the least annoying website advertisement system available. No popups, popunders, flashing ads about being 1,000,000th visitor to this website. Just some quiet adsense. And mochiads. But it’s in-game, not website ad. ;)
Let me take this opportunity to clarify one more issue. Many of you asked me before howcome I don’t have the Fog Fall or Great Escape on my site (pastelstories) – that would be because those games aren’t mine. The distinction is simple. There are three characteristics taken into consideration here – story, art and programming. If the game has at least two of those that were done by me – then the game is mine. So, for the Fog Fall I was just doing programming, the same with Great Escapes or Escape Artist. On the other hand in Iron Works I was just making art. These games are not mine. Simple, right? If you’re still confused, you can always look here, on pastelstories top game menu – those are mine. The rest, featured on pastelgames.com is our company’s business in cooperation with different artists and programmers.
As for commenting on pastelgames. Something had to be done about that jungle of chain letters and comments that contain only one letter, for example “a” but repeated 3000 times. From now on – you can comment on pastelstories or our forum, which goes by the name of… you guessed it… pastelforum.com.
so, we’re still wondering if that move was a good idea. Any thoughts?
thanks for reading (if anyone made it till the end)
Filed by Mateusz Skutnik at 2:21 am under 10 Gnomes,:: Games ::,Covert Front,Movies,News
23 Comments
October 15th, 2008 at 3:20 am
Niezły pomysł, trzeba zmienić przyzwyczajenia i już
pozdrawiam
October 15th, 2008 at 4:32 am
Great work, Mateusz. I think you’re going in the right direction with this. =P Good luck!
October 15th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Mateusz, some games (as tribal jump and others) aren’t working… could you please fix it? Thanks!
October 15th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Interested to see where this is going..also kinda like the idea of DMT and Submachine having sites of their own. Good luck with that :)
October 15th, 2008 at 10:13 am
What I really like in your games (and I’ve played a lot of escape games last month) is that your ideas are simple, straight ahead, logical. Above all you don’t intend to be smarter than the player. All things make sense within your games – even the nonsense makes sense! This keeps the player playing, leads him/her to the end of the game, what makes him/her happy. And they certainly will come back. Congratulations, you’re the wiser game builder I’ve ever seen. Good luck!
October 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I’m excited to see what the sites for each game will look like. I get the impression that they will be designed around the same atmospheric theme as the games right? because that means awesome sites for submachine, DMT, and Covert Front.
its a great idea!
October 15th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
good idea!
makes life (web) life a bit ezer.
:)
October 15th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
That’s a great idea ! I can’t wait for additional content about day mare town or the submachine series :)
October 15th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
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lol Just kiddin’. I think it’s stupendous that the games are getting their own sites. Would be cool to see maybe a little of “Creation of….” thing on each one, how you got the ideas, inital design etc. I’ve said it before I’ll say it once more… I envy you your brain… lol
October 16th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Great idea. I really like it. It confused me when those games were not on the official homepage. I just hope that it looks good! ^^ Keep on rocking, Matthew!
October 16th, 2008 at 7:33 am
I agree with Mal!! Daymaretown and submachine series are the best!! Looking forward new ones!!
October 16th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Wow I think this is gonna be great. I would totally love to know when you are coming out with another submachine of covert front game. I am just dying to have a new one. Can’t wait to play, I’m sure that it will be great like the previous ones.
October 16th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I like the idea of having game-specific websites.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Genius. ;D
I liked the new idea. It’s really more pratical and fast. And organized. XD Nop, nevermind. I really like it.
And ’bout The Fog Fall, oh, I didn’t know it wasn’t yours. ._. But the programming reminds me Submachine. Indeed. I mean, the atmosphere and everything more. *—* And I really love it!
Ending, you’re a genius, and I’m a fan of your work – and Submachine. *-*
;*
October 20th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
hi this is fun
October 20th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Yeah! A new Mars Rider :)
October 21st, 2008 at 2:28 am
yes
in the spirit of bringing old games back to life ;)
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I’m actually having trouble getting Submachine: Future Loop Foundation to load on the new site. Everything else seems to work now though, and it’s a very nice clean design :)
November 12th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I really like the new design, but I’m having trouble finding the links (if they’re still there). It was interesting seeing games made by other people that you liked.
Hopefully I’m not blind and the link section is sitting right in front of me :p
November 14th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Ella, you are not blind. The links are really gone. Here is an archived version of Pastelstories that still has them (they are at the bottom of the page):
http://web.archive.org/web/20080213013153/http://www.pastelstories.com/
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 am
Ah, thank you Selena. I was looking for the game Treasure Box but I couldn’t remember the name of the creator. Again, thank you thank you thank you ^^
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
wait up :D
the links are here – at the bottom :P
December 24th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
oye el nivel 2 y 4 de machine estan un poco dificiles deberias de poner mas pistas o cosas mas obvias.
bueno o haslos mas faciles jajajaa.
bueno biie tc