3 March

Comic books are booklets

By Andraz

This new update took us much longer than expected. We had to do some pretty drastic changes in the structure of background Stripgenerator architecture in order to accommodate upcoming features. Not a lot is visible to you, users, but strip booklets most definitely are. Even though a bit hidden away for now.

Hit your profile and you should see a new tab called Booklets. Give it a spin. Should be straight forward, even though we admit some further polishing is needed. Anyhow, booklets are now your way to create your own comic books with just a few clicks and when finished, they are available for PDF export, just like a real comic book. Name your booklet, select the strips you want there (currently limited to 12 strips), play around with order and choose the cover. And off you go. From now on, your strip creation readers will also be able to browse around your booklets and enjoy the full story, not limited to one comic strip.

Before you question why limiting the number of comics per booklet, let me tell you a story. You know that thing called the achievement bar on your profile that leads to god statuses? Well, this bar was invented so we can award users over time. Currently our comic creation community only awards you with statuses and badges. Pretty cool to look at, but they do not really bring its users anything special. This will change. In next versions you will see certain functionality locked/unlocked based on your achievement status. And booklet sizes will be one of them.

So, what else is new for the the best comic community in the world? Negative rating is gone. I probably do not need to explain why, so just take is as it is. No more minus voting. If you don't like the comic strips, say that in a comment. If you like them, do the same and add a thumbs up. Simple.

Weekly reports. Yes, we have been discussing this a bit in the past weeks, but now its more or less official. Every week you will be getting a report of your past activities with some descriptive information on what was going on with your profile. Nothing really fancy, but it does bring some added value to the users.

Also red text bug in the engine has been fixed. So, no more red text for now.

Glimpse of future you say? Less new stuff around functionality (even though we are still working on 2 very drastic new functionality ) and more around ease of use. That's all that I can say before the rest of the team guns me down.

Enjoy!

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Flamingdeath Posted 6.5.2011
I like having the booklets.There're cool
techiesminoa Posted 24.4.2011
Booklets are awesome! Thanks! :)
Doll Posted 13.3.2011
The booklets are so great!!! What an inovative idea! Thanks you!
Ynnad Posted 6.3.2011
It was a nice surprise for me, I started making some right away. Thank's alot!
MadameCercle Posted 3.3.2011
Merci à tous pour ces progrès et votre excellent travail.
rukowski Posted 3.3.2011
These changes are really good I love the booklet idea
And even though I only joined SG in Dec 2010 after finding you guys by accident I can really see the positives in removing the negative.....
Keep up the great work guys

R.
bluesockmonkey Posted 3.3.2011
Booklets are going to be very fun--thank you for this innovation! i also like the changes to navigation within an artist's blog. And i for one do not mourn the eternal destruction of the minus ninja:))
Great work!!
Zoltar Posted 3.3.2011
FANTASTIC !!!!!!! I LOVE THE BOOKLETS !!!
Maoriman Posted 3.3.2011
Sounds like a brilliant update. Nice work people^^
35sheep Posted 3.3.2011
YAY!!!
calm Posted 3.3.2011
Andraz, you and your team are awesome! I'm very excited to see we can make booklets now. Many thanks for all you do to make SG a great community! :-)
NooniePuuBunny Posted 3.3.2011
:D Please don't get shot...

And thank you for booklets. This will help SSGG immensely, especially when points and status effects them.