Reminds me of installing a file installer on Windows 98. love it!
Reviews for "Bando's Comic Wizard"
KittyhawkMontrose responds:
Yeah, that's the feel we were going for! Glad you like it!
Quite the nice little application you've got here! Certainly nice to have something to help people display their comics in a simple and intuitive page flip format, and I had no problem following the instructions from cute widdle Bando to do a sample upload (though some of the instructions could stand to be spaced out a bit more so it's not just a big wall of text, such as putting the instruction to unzip the file for personal webpage uploads in a separate paragraph so users don't get confused as they should keep it as a zip for newgrounds uploads).
If I were to have some feedback, I'd say that the viewer is a bit too minimalist for its own good and while it'd be nice to have the option to view just the image with no clutter as it does now, I'd love if there were some additions such as:
It'd be nice if, when you hover over the right side of the page, a right arrow would pop-up to indicate that you'll flip to the next page if you click, and vice versa for the left side: it would make it less confusing as to what action is about to happen.
I feel like you should allow someone to press anywhere on the side of the screen to flip the page, instead of being constrained to only clicking directly on the sides of the image itself.
Would love if there were more utilities for viewing the page, such as being able to click on a magnifying glass to zoom in/out, or being able to choose whether to view pages through a fit width, fit height, original size, and so on.
Would love if there were more options for viewing pages, like maybe a gallery view where you can see all the pages as thumbnails to click on, or a dropdown where you can select a number page to go to, and so on.
I could go on with other additions that'd be great for different formats such as when you want the option for double-spreads or vertical comics, but I'll cut it off there since I could go on and on. Essentially the viewer is nice, but it is incredibly barebones and while that's nice for a minimalist impression and perfectly fine, it does make it a bit lackluster. It's still a nice gizmo though that I hope helps some people publish their comics in nice ways!
As a side note, I just wanted to say that I found the credits on the bottom page very amusing: reminded me of those hacked in rom credits you can see around, haha!
KittyhawkMontrose responds:
Thanks for the detailed feedback FuturecopLGF! It's super awesome to know that you found using the app as simple as we had hoped (formatting issues aside, which we will fix).
This first version we were concentrating on getting an "end to end" experience that worked well with NG (ie, streams images etc), but your suggestions for features are right on. The plan is to collect feedback like yours, see how we can best complement the new art portal when it comes out, and iterate towards something more in line with existing stand alone readers.
Also, super happy you picked up the "keygen vibes" we were putting down. :)
Wow, this is very cool. This makes comics for the games Portal so much easier. I never thought you can upload comics in the games portal. Well, I kind of did, but not like it would be successful. It would be so cool to see comics in the game portal. I love the dragon and the music. It gives this Gadget so much personality. I remember Shadman doing something like this with this sketchbook, and I want to do the same. My first game on Newgrounds will be a gallery of my sketchbook and it’s thanks to you. Thank you. Also, is there a way to add music to the comic? If not, can you update that so it can do that? If not, then I’ll learn how to edit the code for music.
KittyhawkMontrose responds:
Hey! I’m so glad you like the utility! I can’t wait to see what you make. We saw that there were similar Game Portal things in the past, and I’m happy we can bring it back. About the music, I’m gonna bug @alsoknownas1 to add that to the utility since we’ve had a few requests. :D
I refuse to touch Bando's sack.
KittyhawkMontrose responds:
But he's got comics!
Wow :0
KittyhawkMontrose responds:
Thank you! 💖