Your game on Elixir Games
Your game's covers and gameplay clip
Your game's pictures are what players see first on elixir.games: a box with a front and a back, a wide cover, a round token icon and a short clip of real gameplay. This page shows where each one appears on the site.
They come with your game when it is published on Elixir Games: there is nothing to upload on the site.
Elixir Games is a test version on Solana devnet. The games are real, but their tokens and the ELIX they trade against are test money with no real value.
How it works
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The pieces of your game's box
The front is tall, like the front of a game case: your game's title as a logo over its main scene. It is the face of your game's box everywhere the site shows tall covers.
The back is the back of the case: a headline, a short paragraph about the game, three scenes from it, a few features and its genre. Its footer carries the Elixir Games mark and, on the right, “Created by” followed by the name your game's page credits you by. The site writes that name itself, so it always shows your current one. If you have not chosen a name, the line is left off.
The wide cover is the same scene as the front, in a wide frame. It fills the wide cards and rows on the home page.
Whale Cove's front, back and wide cover, as elixir.games serves them. -
On the home page, your box turns over
Game boxes on the home page show their front. When the pointer rests on a box, it grows a little and turns over to show its back, with the thickness of a game case between the two sides. It turns back when the pointer leaves.
A game box under the pointer: at rest, turning, and showing its back. -
Your clip plays behind your game's name
On your game's page, your clip of real gameplay plays behind the game's name, without sound. It is always your own game's clip, never another game's. Until it starts, your game's scene (the wide picture from your box, with no words on it) stands in its place, sized for the screen so it appears quickly. A game without a scene shows its wide cover instead, and a game without a clip shows that picture there, still.
On the home page, the big carousel and the game cards play your clip, without sound, when the pointer rests on them. A clip loads only when it is about to play, so a page full of games stays quick.
Diamond Guard's page, with a frame of its own clip behind its name. -
Your token icon
The token icon is the round picture beside your ticker. It shows in the trade panel on your game's page, in the “Your token” step when you launch, and in wallets that list your token. Keep the important part in the middle: it is almost always cut to a circle.
A game without a token icon shows its cover in that circle, and a game with neither shows the Elixir flask. It is never a screenshot of the game.
A token icon beside its ticker, in the “Sell” tab of a game's page.
What it does not do (yet)
- No uploads on the website. A cover, the clip or the token icon changes when a new build of your game is published. The site then shows the new files.
- Your trailer does not replace your clip by itself yet. The Elixir Games app is being taught to make a trailer for your game in the background and send it to the site, to take your clip's place on the cards and on your game's page with no new publish and no approval from you. It is not on yet. When it is, a trailer must be a video the site can play, at most 95 seconds and 12 MiB, or your clip stays. Until then your clip changes only with a new build.
- Your token's picture follows your game. The token points at your game, and that link can never be edited afterwards, so its picture is always your game's current icon rather than a file chosen once.
- A game without pictures shows the Elixir flask with its name, never a screenshot.