Hey guys, so it's been a while since the first couple of games were added here, and since then the number of represented titles has increased significantly. While the individual game pages seem to be ticking along fine (I haven't heard of any issues from anyone), I'd like to address the state of the series page as it is currently. There are 2 things I'd like to bring up and get feedback on people from.

The first is switching all game icons over from boxart/original logos (1,2,7,8,9,etc.) to the game's "Iconic FF Style" logo (12,13,4,4AY,etc.). I personally think that the latter type are much clearer to find a game you're looking for, easier to read and understand, and also removes the implication that a certain platform is the only version represented by the boxart (e.g. ff7/8 have a PS1 image and PC runs, FFX has a PS2 image but PS3/4 runs).

The second is somehow getting a theme for the series page. While at the moment there are no series moderators, and it's not really an issue, I think that we should get some suggestions for a theme from anyone who wants to make one, and we can decide as a community which one we like best, and then contact the site mods to get it in place.

I'd like to hear your feedback on both of these points, and also like to thank everyone who'd put time into making a leaderboard on this site for their game and bringing over the runs. I appreciate how tedious it can be to convert a leaderboard over.

I do like the idea of using the logo for the games. however you would have to make sure all are the same size pictures so it looks symetric on the page, otherwise it will just look a bit... distorted (for the lack of a better term).

As far as as a theme goes, i really dont like them on speedrun.com unless they are REALLY well made, it shouldnt jump me in the eye when i open the page like 90% of the themes here do so we would have to make sure it was really good. Not opposed but I really dont think that is a big necessity since people mostly come here for a title and not the series anyways.

Anyways, just hit me up when you need changes to be made to certain games im admin of.

Cheers

So the sizes of the logos aren't really too much of a problem, the box-art sizes vary between 180x128 and 100x180, so it's just a case of fitting the logo inside of a square and making it tidier. All of them work on a white background with the exception of LR (text is very light and hard to read on white), and Mystic Quest? (I couldn't find a non-black background version of the logo, and trying to edit it manually looks bad, still working on it).

As for theme I meant something more along the lines of a colour scheme than actually anything image based. I made a quick mock-up of how it could look if we went with logos for what we currently have, you can see it here (The black backgrounds really stand out here, but I'm still working on ideas at least):

I can supply the logo files if people want, but obviously I'd like it if at least most of us could agree on a direction for the series page before doing anything.

i kinda agree, consistent logos would look better, we also should use the same url format for the games, some are like ff3 some are ffviii and others are Final_Fantasy_V, i think number is better than roman numbers (especially if they are in lower case) regarding themes, if someone can/want to make a speedrun.com logo with the FF logo font then it'll be cool but other than that it's not needed

Yeah i am for sure down for that. Looks nice and all. I have no problems myself changing it like that

Agree with everything everyone has said. @Gaël I feel like FFX should still say FFX instead of FF10, otherwise I completely agree. It's an odd outlier for sure but it's rare to see someone use FF10 instead of FFX

OK, so for abbreviations, ff_1 is currently taken by a farm game (not really sure what I think here but ok: http://www.speedrun.com/ff_1 ), but any other variations on ff[whatever] seem to be clear so we can reassign urls as necessary. I guess we just use initials or number whichever is appropriate? (Like some are already: ff1, ffa, ffmq, ff2, ff3, ffx-2, ff13-2 etc?) The only issue then is Crystal Chronicles and Crisis Core, although I think here assigning Crystal Chronicles CC makes more sense since then the other games of the sub-series can follow as ffcc_[x] (e.g. ffcc_tcb), and then Crisis core could be 7CC?

Also shall we reach out to the guy running the Final Fantasy Tactics series and see if they want to merge in here? It seems kind of out of place to have it on its own when there isn't splitting off of anything by sub-series as far as I can tell. It's currently all run by one guy called noxlol (who doesn't have any submitted runs), so if anyone has contact with him we can ask him directly, else I might just post in the forums for those games.

Also if anyone wants to start using the logos, you can find them all here: http://1drv.ms/1NchcI3

Great idea, we can make this work, a consistant theme through the games will make this feel a bit more like a whole community.

Did some optical changes on the FFVIII leaderboard:

• changed url to speedrun.com/ff8
• added trophys (still in work)
• changed the speedrun.com banner to a general final fantasy theme (Elbods design). Feel free to use.
• changed the game cover to the matching artwork with white background
• changed favicon to something more popular