27.09.2009, 22:53
Include everything needed for your campaign in the archived campaign file
It is best practice to also include all skins and other add-ins to your archived campaign file.
You want to do this because so many people don't maintain their download locations and websites.
It is not uncommon to go to a download site for the skins required in a campaign and find they are not longer available. The devs have good intentions, but they move onto other things frequently and don't make arrangements for their files to be available.
When users download files and extract them separately it is often very easy for them to make mistakes.
So, just wrap everything needed for your campaigns in one archived file and include a good directions readme.
It is such a pain having to download skins and stuff from other sites and often find they are not available.
Then you have to modify the campaign files, which is just that much more work.
I know it takes alot of time to put up a good campaign, but with just a bit more attention to detail you can make it so much easier for users to enjoy your campaign.
It is best practice to also include all skins and other add-ins to your archived campaign file.
You want to do this because so many people don't maintain their download locations and websites.
It is not uncommon to go to a download site for the skins required in a campaign and find they are not longer available. The devs have good intentions, but they move onto other things frequently and don't make arrangements for their files to be available.
When users download files and extract them separately it is often very easy for them to make mistakes.
So, just wrap everything needed for your campaigns in one archived file and include a good directions readme.
It is such a pain having to download skins and stuff from other sites and often find they are not available.
Then you have to modify the campaign files, which is just that much more work.
I know it takes alot of time to put up a good campaign, but with just a bit more attention to detail you can make it so much easier for users to enjoy your campaign.