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On the 2<sup>nd</sup> April 2014, we had a development meeting regarding recent changes to the Stendhal website and future plans. Please find a summary of the meeting below.
== New unified search ==
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* Mostly positive feedback
* Sometimes it is unclear, why certain results are included and other are not shown: When you search for a black sword, the result shows the black giant but not one of the other ones who drop it. Black giant, however, is not shown because it drops "black sword", but because it has both words in its description: "You see a tall black giant. His armor and sword will hit you hard. Be prepared!"
* It might be a good idea to return the creature which drop a searched item. At least if it is a rare item (e. g. not money).
* It may be a good idea, to convert the search boxes for players, items, npcs, etc. to use the unified search as well, with a filter. For example a row of checkboxes like [_] Creature [_] Item [X] Player.
* Multiple people did not notice the new search box. It's not close to the item/player sections so it does not work as a reminder. Upper right hand corner seems to be used on many website. But that
* Actually, position of the search box may be a good path to another topic.
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* At the moment, the start page has a lot of news, with quite a long history of old entries. New players are probably not interested in them.
* More information about the game, not just the events that happen here
* Games stats, like how many rooms, how many creatures, how many maps
* content
** gallery with images and videos of the gameplaying at a more central place, as slideshows
▲[20:17] <slady> buzzwords like "free to play" :)
▲[20:17] <Bluelads4> free is in the center :)
▲[20:18] <hendrik> Is there a nice way to make it clear, that it is really free. I have seen many games which claim "free to play", but than require you to buy items or tokens later on.
* dynamic
** featuring an item, creature or npc every day/week, like Wikipedia's "Did you know?".
▲[20:18] <sakuraa> Could show some items of our game, creatures, tutorial videos and other
▲[20:19] <sakuraa> Could also have some rules and basic information on how to understand the game
** use popups for videos, too
▲[20:19] <jorgemartin> You can put pictures of the most attractive animals such as pegasus
▲[20:19] <hendrik> And try to make it more obvious, that there is more than one screenshot/video.
** at the moment a click on the Movie-box throws you to a huge wiki page, we could think about using one of these videopages, except of youtube, for using direct links to an official account
** We should look into streaming Stendhal, perhaps for official tutorial, perhaps just for normal game play.
** Special front page for mobile devices might be a good idea, e. g. easy access to postman messages
▲[20:23] <sakuraa> Every week, choose one item to be shown on the site, and so on, it is also important to highlight the properties of it, such as strength and attack
▲[20:23] <hendrik> I think the new popup-image library can do slideshows, so that would be easy to implement.
▲[20:23] <hendrik> We may need to use images which are roughly the same size. If you look through the current selection of screenshots, the window grows and shrinks a lot.
▲[20:30] <borgomatic> "Your current game only goes to level 99? Turn it all the way up to 597! Come play on Stenhal! Free and always will be!"
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== Conclusion ==
* Thanks a lot for your feedback and ideas regarding the Stendhal website. While we cannot add everything right away, the
* Thank you for attending this meeting.
* Feel free to join us in the [https://stendhalgame.org/chat arianne chat channel] and contribute
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