I maintain Pagoda (http://www.pagodagamedatabase.com), a database of links for Adventure games. If you use this please see http://www.alofmethbin.com/Articles/Games/Pagoda/backlog.html, and if you have any comments or suggestions feel free to contact me.

Thanks kickaha for such a great website.

thanks kickaha, i've had pagoda in my bookmarks for years

margo

Hi Kickaha

Thank you for all the time and hard work you do for us on your fabulous web site and thank you for asking our opinion.

Item #1. Yes/Maybe/No, colors are fine with me as I can read everything easily and are used to them. But a change might be interesting, after all you could change back.

Item #2. No

Item #3. Not at all necessary for me.

Item #4. Yes, I don't play casuals and since new ones are being released hourly they get in the way of the lists and searching.

Thanks all, and particularly Greyfuss for taking the time to give me that useful feedback!

Your site is a very informative and useful site. Thanks for maintaining and upkeeping it.

Here are my thoughts.
Idea 1: I think the colors are fine.

Idea 2: Does not interest me all that much.

Idea 3: Sounds like a good idea to me

Idea 4: I agree.

Idea 5: Not sure I understand the idea but I would be interested In knowing whether it was a slideshow or a platform game.

Your very welcome Kickaha, its the least I could do for someone who devotes so much time for us.

I see that I completely missed replying to...

Idea #5. For me, it is not necessary to classify games as indie, slideshow or to give platforms etc. But that being said dividing them into PC/Mac. Casual or Handheld might help especially if you can filter out what you are not looking for. Hmmm, does that make sense?

Thanks Greyfuss - I'll think about additional filtering. The platform info I currently have isn't thorough enough. Adventure or casual I can do I think.

No. They are fine as is. I hate it when sites I go to suddenly look completely different. I've always thought PAGODA was exceptionally clear compared to most websites. I wouldn't object to the option of using an "alternate colors" button as long as the original color scheme was an option.


Maybe in a separate section. Mostly your site is for English-speakers though.


Not something I've ever looked for on your site. If you do it, I'd hope you'd only list the best ones, or those that have a particular feature that is useful and rare. List every possible site and you get the needle-in-the-haystack problem.


Very useful. Even for casual games that are casual adventures, they don't play the same as "old-fashioned" type adventures.


System requirements are useful. If you don't have a Nintendo, you aren't likely to want a list of the Phoenix Wright games made for Nintendo. If you have a Mac, maybe you'd want games for OS X listed separately from games for PC or games made for Mac OS 9 and earlier. I assume most people who use the filtering are going to use your site to see what games they haven't played yet that they might want to look for. So I'd say to provide what information you have unless you have reason to believe it's erroneous.

Thanks Jenny - that's good feedback! Platforms are a challenge - even indicating that a game is PC or Mac isn't enough to say it's playable on someone's system.

Another question if I may - should the default filtering be just Adventure games?

Thanks for all your effort and your concerns on how to improve and ask for input.
1. Colors are fine
2. Not necessary
4. Yes
5. Not necessary

and default.. yes
Thanks again Kickaha.

Thanks Winfrey

Kickaha, I've used Pagoda for years - I'd be lost without it. Thank you for all the time
and effort you put into maintaining it for us. Also, thanks for asking for our opinions.

Idea 1: The colors are fine as is - everything is easy to read and easy on the eyes.
I hate going to a site where the text color is so close to the background color or so
light or glaring, I have to highlight everything in order to read it.

Idea 2: Not unless they're separate, or easily filtered out.

Idea 3: If you mean the links under Reviews and Walkthroughs, I think you already
have a very good selection.

Idea 4: An excellent idea.

Idea 5: What Jenny100 said.

Additional Question: Yes to the default filter being Adventure Games.

Jema

Thanks Jema appreciate that!