Double celebrity games

Rebecca wrote to me with an idea for a game where you can dress Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato togehter. I think it's a great idea to put two celebrities together like that!

Trends dress up games -> New category

In my continuous effort to avoid classifying most of the dress up games in the ever expanding girl dress up games, I've made a new category for trends and style dress up games. Basically, it's for games where most of the clothes fall into a particual style, trend or fashion statement, like demin, animal prints, pink etc. Will it work? We'll see :)

Game ideas from fans

Here are some ideas for games from our fans on Facebook:
1. More anime games, more characters, not just Naruto, Pokemon and Sailor Moon.
2. Shugo Chara dress up game. Looks like Shugo Chara is a good subject for a game!
3. Halloween couples game. I'm talking to someone about making a Halloween couples game but I'm not optimistic it will be ready by Halloween. Or ever....

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Will I reject a game if the site it is on doesn't have a nice design?

Thanks Tudi for asking a good question! :) There are a few things that fall under site design that will make me reject a game:

1. Advertising. It is a fine line but if the user has to read instructions in small letters to go from the ad to the content is currently where the line is for me right now. A game has to be pretty good for me to accept if there is a long ad followed with a "click here to contine" in tiny letters under the ad. This, to me, is trying too much to trick the user into clicking the ad instead of the content. (Also, my mail gets flooded with messages telling me that the link doesn't work ;)

2. Game embedded too small. It really bugs me if a game that is made for 800x600 is reduced to 400x600 too make room for other content, usually ads. What a shame. :(

3. Main content way below the folder. Yes, websites need navigational system and they need ads to survive, but having to scroll below the folder to find the actual content is just plain frustrating.

I don't remember anything else at the moment. I never reject a site for having an ugly layout or anything like that. I'm all about usability, a studen of the Jakob Nielsen school of web design. By the way, his article on fresh vs. familiar is a must read for web designer!

What type of games am I looking for?

I was recently asked by a webowner what I look for in games I choose to link to. It's a perfectly understandable question from someone who wanted his own games to get more coverage on Dressupgames.com. I told him I couldn't possibly answer that question on the spot but promised to blog about it later. After thinking about it for days here is my answer; I can't answer that!! :) For me there are so many things I look at and I've been doing it for so long I just can't possibly put it down in words. For me it's like writing down what I'm looking for in a song to put on my ipod! But I do want to help so feel free to ask me questions about particular games, maybe games I have rejected or ask for reviews!

Dress up game tutorial with snap-on coding explained

I've never programmed a dress-up game but this makes me want to! Check out the Advanced DressUp Game tutorial by BonnieMcBop!