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The 7th Guest

	The 7th Guest
	Nominated on 16:33, 3 December 2009 (UTC) (1/0/2)
Support	Trevman 16:33, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Oppose
Undecided	Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 17:04, 3 December 2009 (UTC) Sigma 7 18:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC) najzereT 18:58, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Comments	The guide details everything to walk a player through installing to completion. Puzzles are documented with solutions shown on in-game screenshots where possible, otherwise the moves a player needs to make are documented. --Trevman 16:33, 3 December 2009 (UTC) Looks pretty damn good, but the first thing I'd do is reduce the sizes of the pictures, if possible. You may want to consider uploading them as PNGs too, as they're the best compression-to-quality types aside from SVGs (which can't be made using Paint). Aside from that though, it meets all criteria for a featured guide. Aside from the whole "at least two pictures per page" kind of thing but I understand that rule is sometimes broken, as is the case with my BSM weapons page. --Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 17:04, 3 December 2009 (UTC) I had mentioned the "1 picture per page" and "picture size" in the talk page http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Talk:The_7th_Guest - Trevman 17:10, 3 December 2009 (UTC) Please do not reupload as PNG. The images are in the optimal file format as they are. — najzereT 18:58, 3 December 2009 (UTC) I like the guide, but I do have comments: The 7th Guest/Telescope Puzzle will look better if the path was traced using a vector image editor, such as Inkscape. Alternatively, you could run a flood fill on the path after blocking off the ends with a color. The 7th Guest/Floor Puzzle doesn't seem to be described right. If I follow the image, it doesn't look like that I'm stepping on a purple tile every third step, even if it is the correct solution. In addition, I think I see a shorter route but can't be sure myself since I don't have the game. The 7th Guest/Microscope Puzzle is dependent on the Ataxx guide. There is a strategy for that game, but it doesn't seem to be written down in the same detail as Chess; but for that game, it's not likely that a complex guide is necessary; just general tricks that work against AI players. The 7th Guest/Painting Puzzle is a variation of the Lights out puzzle. Some of the tricky problems that may crop up are ones where there is a single bad cell; as such, it could use solutions involving changing one cell without disrupting others. I found three situations so far, which cover the most situations. In all the pages, the images seem to be a little too large; it seems too large even on a browser size of 1280x960. In particular, you could crop the sides of some of them to give a square shape rather than rectangular. You can't do much with some of them. \ (For reference, my current screen resolution is 2048x1152, and I prefer having two separate windows side-by-side.) In any case, it's almost there. --Sigma 7 18:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC) As mentioned by others, something needs to be done with the large images. Thumbnails are our standard, though they preclude an easy, "one look" for a solution, as they would need to be clicked for the full image. If hints were added, the smaller pictures would be anti-spoiler though, which would be nice. The whole format of the guide (one puzzle per page) may need to be changed once the images are figured out. Side note: if puzzles were combined on pages, you'd have your "two images per page" criterion met! :P — najzereT 18:58, 3 December 2009 (UTC) An alternate format which puts the images into thumbnails can be seen here. Although there are many sections on the page, it's still not all that long, so what do you guys think of using it as a single walkthrough page? — najzereT 23:01, 16 December 2009 (UTC) I like the single page walkthrough better, especially given how little text is needed for most of the puzzles. I'm not sure how people playing the game would feel about loading up one page that has all of the solutions on it, though. --~Vizeroth · (c)~-- 21:21, 17 December 2009 (UTC)