The Nexuiz Brand

[ai]

EDIT: Oh and, what false 'strength' icons on ouns? Those are genuine (yet not official, but genuine).

Did you know the current logo for Nexuiz is actually the japanese Katakana character for 'Ka'?

Well, we established that he was wrong, it only resembles the 'Ka' character, but it isn't. So the ouns icons are correct.

I'm open to suggestions, but please don't tell me negative things about my work without having a positive solution. I'd appreciate it if you'd cite your sources, pictures of styles you like... links to websites you like... etc.

Well sure, I always try to give constructive critic but you don't always have a solution, sometimes you'd just need to redo some thing and see if people can give comments and solutions on that.
My "solution" so to speak, perhaps were a bit suddle, but taking away some shinyness would be a good start, maybe not everything but some here and there. I think it's the "blurryness" that throws some things of.

The meny at the top is good, a bit variety from the standard 'to-the-left' menu. But the bottom one is overkill. (People who are lazy enough to scroll up to the top should not be allowed to have Internet ) And besides, those kind o menu's are only needed with lots of text which I assume Nexuiz site won't have.

[torus]

As for the other comments. The menu font is 'weird' because it will not be a graphic, it is actual text as it's easier for search engines to read / follow and it permits for the easy addition of a category if need be (we'll make the font smaller smarty pants).

Just because it's not a graphic doesn't mean that it needs to be an ugly font.

I actually think the problem is not that it is an inherently ugly font (although I would personally tend towards something like Trebuchet MS, it's that it is too large.

The logo is still too large though.

[[-z-]]

Here's an update with a few subtle changes. Verdana is a nice wide font that's easy to read. You are the first to complain about it so it'll stay until the majority things otherwise.

I have lightened the menu background and changed the color of the download now button to sort of bring the whole page back in together.

[C.Brutail]

For the firts time I've seen this mockup, I've had two feelings:

First: Wow, awesome, it's much-much better-looking and informative than the curren website (at least it grips my eyes more).

Second: I dunno who wrote them, but all the buttons seem like an AD. You can see lot's of sites with free flash games, telling you it's free, come, download, but when you follow the links, you'll find yourself it's only a "free-to-try", only the demo is free, you'd need activation (and your credit card numer ready) if you'd like to play the game in it's full glory, or it just installs some crap that's not even equal to the screenshot's you've seen on the site (or it may even damage your PC).
I dunno why do I have this paranoia, but this mockup is too "agressive" for me. It may scare me for the first time, and I'd run away thinking "it's another desperate attemt to be very nice for the first time, but they only need my credit card's number, and if I subscribe, they might send me spam too".

Suggestions: The reason why I do really like this kick ass game is the community that has been built around it. I've never met so much nice ppl on the internet elsewhere I think we could entitle ouselfves with our full modesty, we're the most friendly community on the internet in the genre of FPS games. If somehow you could add more notability to this, that'd make some respect and trust in a newcommer's mind.

[SavageX]

"Nexuiz: People in Pieces."

[Psychcf]

It looks good, but it still looks like a jumbled mess like the old site. Many elements are distracting and there is no focal point to the page.

here's a page you should check out: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/de ... asy-to-fix

sorry for harping on you, but that's just my two cents

[[-z-]]

Updates, updates updates:

[shaggy]

z, where it says nexuiz is free open souce ......

I think the free should be white.

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

dunno what you think about this, but i would find it cool if the site and the game menu looked and functioned in a similar way.

the site could even function as a tutorial on how to use the menu, with notes and hints like "type here to search the server list".

[ai]

dunno what you think about this, but i would find it cool if the site and the game menu looked and functioned in a similar way.

the site could even function as a tutorial on how to use the menu, with notes and hints like "type here to search the server list".

Sounds incredibly hard and precise to do. Well, maybe not hard, but a lot of work.