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by aarpmcgee 1211 days ago
Interesting enough idea, some suggestions:

* functional routing with persistent/shareable URLs

* working back button (see above)

* click-to-enlarge screenshots

* the logo (lightning bolt I guess) needs to navigate back to the home/root url

* the advertisement in the navigation menu makes it hard to notice the "Home" link which is sandwiched between the ad and the logo.

* more options for discovery (all games, most hyped, new submissions, just released (could feel like a celebration), browse-by-category, etc)

* this UI feels fully custom. it seems like it might be an uphill battle for ya'll to have pleasant UX without using some kind of design framework/component library

suggestions that i'm slightly less sure about:

* clicking any part of the game list item rows on the home page should navigate to the game (not just clicking on the title of the game itself)

things I like in particular:

* the direct link to the game's official site itself is really nice. I appreciate that it doesn't link to some in-house wiki listing for the game or whatever.

* game development-cycle status indicator is nice