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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: GOG Box Art Getting Rejected?

« on: July 10, 2025, 01:17:18 pm »

Neither of the two images from your original post are actually present on GOG's store page. Instead, those Google results images are just links to it. In fact, GOG store pages only showcase screenshots and trailers which should be avoided to use as entry art, which is why I mentioned that correct images can instead be taken from GOG search results pages when using the official site.

For what it's worth, this image is the one used in GOG Galaxy, and I've seen other GOG records here using similar portrait-oriented GOG Galaxy art. Should we only submit the images from gogdb.org?

PS: thanks for the work you do try to help us with kidtdragon. I know you do (did? I ghosted lol) a lot on shmax also, sites like these can only exist with the work of volunteers.

Long time no see! Happy to help! I'm still crankin' away at shmax, just thought I'd fill in some blanks that I saw in my collection here.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: GOG Box Art Getting Rejected?

« on: July 10, 2025, 11:37:54 am »

First, the third-party website mentioned in the Admin Comments should be gogdb.org.

What's the difference between gogdb.org and gog.com?

Since you recently have been submitting high numbers of image edits, my intent when rejecting the recent batch of submissions was to point out which images are actually correct and should be used. Now, images for digital entry should not be taken hastily from search engine results like what you're doing. Instead, they should be taken directly from the website, or in the case of GOG entries, the aforementioned third-party website. This is because each digital storefront has unique image dimensions that separate their games from other storefronts.

I feel the need to point out that I was not "[taking images] hastily from search engine results". I made sure that the images I was downloading were directly from gog.com (see the first two results from this Google search for an example).

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Video Game Database Discussion / GOG Box Art Getting Rejected?

« on: July 10, 2025, 10:49:41 am »

I just submitted box art for some GOG games which were rejected for reasons I'm not clear about. For example, I submitted this box art for Goodbye Deponia which I got from GOG.com and received this rejection notice: "Art for digital entries should obtained from the digital storefront in question. So, in this case, GOG.com. The correct image is found from GOG search results or from third-party website gog.org. Notice the image dimension differences."



Thinking it was the landscape orientation that was the problem, I then submitted this portrait-oriented artwork, also from GOG.com, which got rejected as "Incorrect Box Art."



These images both came from GOG.com like the rejection notes say they should, so I don't understand why they're getting rejected.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Developer/Publisher Requests

« on: July 25, 2024, 05:13:50 pm »

Please add new developer: Astalo Games

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Developer/Publisher Requests

« on: July 15, 2024, 08:19:38 am »

Publisher
ETS
Glowfish Interactive
Skydome Entertainment
Stately Snail
9 Eyes Game Studio

Developer
ETS
Glowfish Interactive
Skydome Entertainment
Stately Snail
9 Eyes Game Studio

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Developer/Publisher Requests

« on: July 06, 2024, 01:42:05 pm »

Requesting to add:

Developers:
Exordium Games
Kong Orange
ManaVoid Entertainment
Mattis Folkestad
Mografi
Only By Midnight Ltd.
Sketchbook Games
Stormind Games

Publishers:
Mografi
Miyagi Games

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General / Re: Frustration Of Saving A Game At The Wrong Time

« on: August 30, 2020, 02:35:22 pm »

When I played the original Parasite Eve, I took the option that I was given to save the game right before the final battle. Unfortunately, I didn't have nearly enough ammo to beat Eve at the time I saved, and didn't realize what I had done until it was too late. Since I wasn't smart enough to keep a secondary save from earlier in the game, I would have had to start the game from the beginning to have any chance of finishing it. Maybe someday I'll give it another go.