TIGSource Redesign!

By: Derek Yu

On: October 31st, 2010

Carnival of Destruction

Yes it can! Brought to you by Michael Heald of Fully Illustrated, Matthew Wegner, Kyle Pulver, Jeff Lindsay, Andy Hull, and myself. It’s time for a…

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kYn

It's… it's beautiful…
Randomasta

Pretty <3
Blackace

I love it. Let's keep this for many happy years, shall we?
AssFungus

Why doesn't the forum gets any love?
Roboprez

I love
Julmust

SEXY!
Demi

my favorite part is the social buttons cause they're interactive. I could play with them for hours.
Gnome

Kinky!
Nikica

That and the return of the search bar.
Dfgfssgssffgg

bigggiimmmages!yay
http://re.danielrehn.com/ Daniel Rehn

Perfection. Congrats Derek, Matthew, Kyle, Jeff, and Andy!
spz

#ffff00 is the color for sprite masks! Not for headings. The old DOS-games used a lot of it, too. Didn't like DOS-games. At least the ported ones to it.
spz

#ff00ff I'm talking about. Sorry.
http://danielrehn.com Daniel Rehn

Also, I'm all about that TIGbot. “MAKE THE GAMES—YOU WANT TO MAKE!” indeed.
http://ortoslon.makgam.com ortoslon

ew, CGA-like palette. jarring.

also, why dedicate a pretty button to a youtube channel with five videos, four of them being three years old?
http://roachpuppy.com chrisz

I like.
The Monster King

nice upgrade
http://twitter.com/st33d Aaron Steed

Joystick needs to be pixellated surely?
Toadsanime

Usually it takes me a while to get used to redesigns on sites, and I even usually dislike them at first until I get used to them, but I immediately love this.

Pretty brilliant redesign guys, loving it.
Parthon

I love it! :D

Mucho Improvo!
http://nuclearheart.com/ György Straub

Holy dawgs, this looks awesome. Minus the purples, which look awful.
Ed

It's cool, but everything in magenta and the chunky font is almost illegible for me
fdjsklfdsf

looks good
http://twitter.com/beemicksee Brandon McCartin

So we can start using it. :)
http://www.bywombats.com Ryan Szrama

Very nice, guys. Was just wondering about how old the design here was last week when I discovered it was designed for 800 x 600 screen resolution. : D
http://twitter.com/HeroOfTheFSA Joseph Gibson

I'm gay.
Smithy

Cave story ripoff.
Jay

I love the design but ffs get rid of all the pink. o.O
http://attractmo.de AdamRobezzoli

Alright! The site looks great!
josh g.

This looks so good I'm almost tempted to actually read stuff here instead of in Google Reader!
http://twitter.com/Imaginationac Dorian Patterson

I miss the overall blue of the previous design, but the redesign is still nice.
djp

Layout has improved, but all the pink makes me feel like a dirty hipster when I visit the site.
Dodger

All the pink is a test of our manliness, this is a social experiment conducted by TIGS in association with the US Government to weed out the rampant homosexuals who create, play, or even know of indie games. Or it's just a fancy way of finding out which of you people have caught “the gay” as Yahtzee likes to put it. ;)

Actually the design looks pretty sharp and yet retro. At first glance the colors and design might not make sense to everyone but personally it reminded me of a classic 80's arcade cabinet right away. That was my first impression, so that's gotta be a good thing.
http://laserbrainstudios.com Christian Knudsen

Very nice indeed!
Aaron Oman

Very nice. The colors are awesome. Reminds me of http://narwhaljs.org and Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, which had super sweet menus.
MatthewFBS

That's a good-looking 640×480 image!
Xhunterko

I was, quite shocked. And is quite pleased. Love it.
Guest

All…. the pinkness. I miss blue :c
Seth

I love the JoystickBot down here!
http://twitter.com/_Aquin Aquin

What? What? WHAT?

WHAT?? Jeebus! Man, you guys did a crazy awesome job!
mcc

New layout is a big improvement.

The “TIGFORUMS TIGDB TIGRADIO” links at the top are a little hard to read however, I think the font is such that purple-on-light-gray makes it hard to make out the letters.
Iamguest

Looks great, beautiful website. Go indie games!
Tzontlimixtli

Awesome! Fells more indie, what with all the Pixels. Can't afford bump maps, and Hell, we don't need them!
Also. Pink + Bright Blue = Indie.
alastair_jack

Pink?…
rinkuhero

ya but most of the videos we actually use are on ortoslon's channel or mine
rinkuhero

pretty good, i like the pink and the make games you want to make parts especially

though a few points

– could have warned me that you were going to change the screen width, ortoslon and i were preparing the next weekly/monthly report in 500 pixels width instead of 640. D:

– a couple of the links in the sidebar are outdated (cave story wii is released, for instance), but that's not an issue with the new look since it was there in the old look

– tigwiki link would be good but we are in the process of moving it anyway so maybe link to its new address after it's done
Frabble

I clicked on Tigsource and i was like “What website is this?”. Then i whoa'd.
Eobet

Holy shit, this is the best redesign I've seen in a very long time!

However, these comments took a very long time to load, and are all comments supposed to have black backgrounds? It makes them very difficult to see…

How about having every second comment with very dark grey background?
MatthewFBS

We haven't skinned the DISQUS comments yet–we'll give them a quick pass soon…
Gainsworth

Goddamn. Hot stuff, fellas. Hot stuff.