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GAMESPOT : Feed Review & Product Definition

GAMESPOT : Feed Review & Product Definition. Requirements. MoMac will produce on behalf of CNet an ad-funded editorial site for their brand “Gamespot” This document is intended to dissect the Gamespot feed and provide some idea as to how it will be transformed within MoMac’s framework

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GAMESPOT : Feed Review & Product Definition

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  1. GAMESPOT : Feed Review & Product Definition

  2. Requirements • MoMac will produce on behalf of CNet an ad-funded editorial site for their brand “Gamespot” • This document is intended to dissect the Gamespot feed and provide some idea as to how it will be transformed within MoMac’s framework • It is also intended to give interested parties an idea of final product definition and design. • For GameSpot we’ll be using: news (text, no image), reviews (summary, score, text, images, cheats), previews (text and images) – this requirement was set in discussions between CNet and MoMac

  3. Feed details • Example feed URL: • http://feeds.gamespot.com/feeds/halo3.xml • Given the feed you gave me - http://feeds.gamespot.com/feeds/halo3.xml - news articles seem to be console specific rather than game specific (as dicatated by the <topic> tag. Am I correct in this assumption? • All the news articles in that sample feed are indeed associated with the game Halo 3. • The width of screenshot of the game is extremely small – 100 pixels wide. We recommend that article images are 640 pixels wide. Is this the widest image you can supply us? Not that this is a great issue, but most handsets have screens wider than 100 pixels, so this means that the screenshot will look extremely small • We can provide larger screenshots. Not a problem. OVERALL FEED QUESTIONS • How often is the feed updated? • We can be flexible on how often the feed is updated. We can update the feed at any frequency desired that's makes sense for the content. • How may times a day / week / month should we grab the feed? • I think instead of saying how frequently we can update the feed it  might be helpful to know how the information is intended to be used.  Then we can adjust the feed(s) accordingly. For example, cheats/hints might be appropriate to update once a day or once a week. However, if you're planning on using news then we may want to do that as a separate feed that's updated every fifteen minutes. Knowing how things will be used on the front-end can help us plan here. We can be flexible. • Are articles every updated? • Yes. Definitely. Any article we publish can be updated after it has gone live. It's actually quite important to us for partners to reflect  updates of our content. The recent Kane and Lynch debacle highlighted  the importance of this.

  4. SITE MAP Latest Reviews Choose platform: Ds ….. Xbox 360 Choose game: Halo 3 ….. The Simpsons All Reviews Read Review Latest Previews Choose game: Halo 3 ….. The Simpsons Choose platform: Ds ….. Xbox 360 Read Preview All Previews Latest News Choose news title: First Item 1 … Last item Choose platform: Ds ….. Xbox 360 Read News All News Latest Unlockables Choose platform: Ds ….. Xbox 360 Choose game: Halo 3 ….. The Simpsons All Unlockables Read unlockable cheat Latest Codes Choose platform: Ds ….. Xbox 360 Choose game: Halo 3 ….. The Simpsons All Codes Read code cheat Latest Secrets Choose platform: Ds ….. Xbox 360 Choose game: Halo 3 ….. The Simpsons Read secret cheat All Secrets

  5. Proposed Design & Navigation

  6. Proposed Design & Navigation

  7. Search widget – with results

  8. Search widget – no results

  9. Please select your category of interest: Latest News >> CES '08: Gates' swan song reveals 10M XBL members >> MS: 17.7 million 360s sold >> More News Latest Previews >> Halo 3 Heroic DLC Hands-On  >> Halo 3 Exclusive Q&A - The Construct Multiplayer Level >> More Previews Latest Reveiws >> Halo 3 Review  >> The Simpsons Review >> More Reviews Latest Cheats Unlockables >> Halo 3 >> The Simpsons >> More Unlockables Codes >> Halo 3 >> The Simpsons >> More codes Secrets >> Halo 3 >> The Simpsons >> More secrets Please select your platform of interest: >> CES '08: Gates' swan song reveals 10M XBL members >> MS: 17.7 million 360s sold >> More PC news >> CES '08: Gates' swan song reveals 10M XBL members >> MS: 17.7 million 360s sold >> More xbox 360 news >> Wii related headlines >> Wii related headlines >> More wii new >> ps3 related headlines >> ps3 related headlines >> More ps3 news >> ps2 related headlines >> ps2 related headlines >> More ps2 news >> psp related headlines >> psp related headlines >> More psp news >> ds related headlines >> ds related headlines >> More ds news Wireframe – homepage & sub-level navigation • When a user selects “More News”, “More Previews”, “More Reviews”, “More Unlockables”, “More Codes”, “More Secrets”, the next thing they will be asked to do is to select their platform of choice through a summary screen of that category of interest. • Once they select their console of choice, they will be redirected to: • NEWS – slide 8 • REVIEWS – slide 9 • PREVIEWS – slide 10 • UNLOCKABLES, CODES, SECRET – slide 11, 12, 13

  10. Wireframe – news index & article page CES '08: Gates' swan song reveals 10M XBL members LAS VEGAS--As has been the case for years, the Consumer Electronics Show kicked off Sunday with a keynote address from Bill Gates. For over two decades, he has loomed large over the consumer electronics industry, thanks to the dominance of his company's PC operating software--and, by default, PC games. >> More << Previous >> Next article << Previous article Get the latest news on the xbox 360! >> CES '08: Gates' swan song reveals 10M XBL members >> MS: 17.7 million 360s sold >> NPD: Canada passes C$1B in game sales >> Spot On: System Wars 2008   >> NPD: November cooks up $2.63 billion in game sales >> More news << Previous news • Value of title in index widget is value of <headline> tag under <story> tag • Value of title widget is value of <headline> tag under <story> tag • Value of body widget is value of <body> tag under <story> tag • Article should simply be title and text – no images – to fulfill requirement set between Cnet and MoMac • Article <META> data is set by values of <topic> tags under <story> tag – this value should be used to populate the correct console category • NEWS articles are identified by the tag <content_type>

  11. Halo 3 : Microsoft Game Studios : Bungie Software Wireframe – reviews index & article page Get the xbox 360 game you would like to read a review on: >> Halo 3 >> FIFA 08 >> Call Of Duty 4 >> Guitar Hero 3 >> Assassins Creed >> More reviews << Previous rreviews • Value of title widget is value of <title> tag + “ : “ + value of <publisher> tag + “ : “ + value of <developer> tag • Value of image widget is value of <boxshot_path> tag • Value of [WEB] body is value of • [b]OVERALL[/b]+[br]+ • Value of <deck> tag +[br][br]+ • [b]GAMESPOT SCORE[/b]+[br]+ • Value of <score> tag +[br][br]+ • [b]REVIEW[/b]+[br]+ • Value of <body> tag OVERALL Halo 3 builds upon the concepts of Halo 2 in ways that you'd expect, but there are also new modes and options that send the series in exciting new directions. GAMESPOT SCORE 9.5 REVIEW Regardless of how you felt about its cliffhanger ending, there's no denying that Halo 2 was a gigantic success that raised the bar for what we, as a game-playing society, expect out of a good console-based first-person shooter. In the years that followed, >> MORE << PREVIOUS >> Next review << Previous review • Value of title in index widget is value of <title> tag under <product> tag • REVIEW articles are defined by value of <content_type> • Article <META> data is set by values of <platform> tag – this value should be used to populate the correct console category

  12. Halo 3 Heroic DLC Hands-On  Wireframe – previews index & article page Want a preview of an up and coming game? Please select a article of a title of interest to you from the articles below >> Halo 3 Heroic DLC Hands-On >> Game example 2 >> Game exaple 3 >> Game example 4  >> More previews << Previous prevews • Value of title widget is value of <headline> tag under <story> tag • Value of image widget is 1st value of <screenshot_path> tag • Value of [WEB] body is value of <body> tag when <content_type> is equal to PREVIEWS • NOTE – because we cannot dynamically create categories, we need to have a console specific preview section – e.g. xbox 360 previews, and then attach preview articles to this category – as there could be a lot of preview articles associated to each game, we will simply display the most recent preview article associated to a games If you thought that with the release of Halo 3 Microsoft and Bungie were done separating you from your money this year, you're in for a bit of a surprise on December 11. That's when both companies will release the Heroic downloadable content pack for Halo 3, a collection of three new maps that will cost 800 Microsoft points on Xbox Live Marketplace, or about $10. These new maps aim to flesh out Halo 3's highly popular multiplayer gameplay even further, offering an intense new large-scale battlefield, a deeply modifiable small-scale arena, and a beautiful new outdoor map reminiscent of the popular level Blood Gulch. All three levels are a blast, too, as we had a chance recently to travel up to Bungie's offices and try them out ourselves. >> MORE << PREVIOUS >> Next preview << Previous preview • Value of title in index widget is value of <headline> tag under <story> tag • PREVIEW articles are defined by value of <content_type> • Article <META> data is set by values of <platform> tag – this value should be used to populate the correct console category

  13. Halo 3 : Cheat Codes  Wireframe – code cheats index & article page • Value of title widget is value of <title> tag + “ : Cheat Codes“ • Value of <body> widget is values of • <deck> tag when type=Code in <code> tag + [br/] • [hr][br/] • “CHEAT :” + [br/] • Value of <cheat_text> +[br/] • “EFFECT :” + [br/] • Value of <effect_text> + [br/] • + [hr]+ [br/] Select the xbox 360 game you would like to read a cheat code on: >> Halo 3 >> FIFA 08 >> Call Of Duty 4 >> Guitar Hero 3 >> Assassins Creed >> More articles << Previous articles The following cheats can be performed during a local match or replay only. You must simultaneously PRESS & HOLD the following buttons for 3 SECONDS to toggle the effect on / off. KEYS: LB = Left Bumper RB = Right Bumper LS = Click in on Left Analog Stick RS = Click in on Right Alalog Stick CHEAT : LB + RB + LS + A + DOWN [D-PAD] EFFECT : Toggle Hide Weapon CHEAT : LB + RB + LS + A + UP [D-PAD] EFFECT : Toggle Show Coordinates / Camera Mode >> MORE << PREVIOUS • Value of title in index widget is value of <title> tag under <product> tag • CODE articles are defined by value of TYPE attribute in <code> tag • Article <META> data is set by values of <platform> tag – this value should be used to populate the correct console category

  14. Halo 3 : Unlockables  Wireframe – unlockable cheats index & article page • Value of title widget is value of <title> tag + “ : Unlockables“ • Value of <body> widget is values of • <one_line> tag when type=Unlockable in <code> tag + [br/] • <deck> + • ACTION :” + [br/] • Value of <cheat_text> +[br/] • “EFFECT :” + [br/] • Value of <effect_text> + [br/] • + [hr]+ [br/] • Until all <cheat_texts> and <effect_text> have been displayed within the <code> tag. • This needs to be repeated until all <code type=Unlockables> have been transformed Select the xbox 360 game you would like to read an unlockable cheat on: >> Halo 3 >> FIFA 08 >> Call Of Duty 4 >> Guitar Hero 3 >> Assassins Creed >> More articles << Previous articles Achievements Complete each achievement to get the allotted gamerscore. ACTION Board the same vehicle within 10 seconds after being boarded in any free for all playlist (Online). EFFECT Maybe Next Time Buddy (5) ACTION Earn the MVP in any ranked playlist (Online). EFFECT MVP (5)  Armor Permutations Unlockables Body Pieces: Spartan marked with (S) and Elite marked with (E). ACTION Collect 13 hidden skulls EFFECT (S) Hayabusa Helmet >> MORE << PREVIOUS • Value of title in index widget is value of <title> tag under <product> tag • CODE articles are defined by value of TYPE attribute in <code> tag • Article <META> data is set by values of <platform> tag – this value should be used to populate the correct console category

  15. Halo 3 : Secrets  Wireframe – secret cheats index & article page • Value of title widget is value of <title> tag + “ : Secrets“ • Value of <body> widget is values of • <one_line> tag when type=Secret in <code> tag + [br/] • <deck> • + [hr]+ [br/] • This needs to be repeated until all <code type=Secret> have been transformed Select the xbox 360 game you would like to read a secret cheat on: >> Halo 3 >> FIFA 08 >> Call Of Duty 4 >> Guitar Hero 3 >> Assassins Creed >> More articles << Previous articles Catch Skull Effect: all enemies have 2 grenades, throw more grenades Level: The Storm Location: From the start, go through until you go outside again. When you go outside look straight across there is a small round building straight out there, the skull is on top. In order to get up there you can either use a warthog as a platform or grenade-jump. DO NOT destroy the wraith near the door or the skull will disappear. Grunt Birthday Party skull Effect: Headshots on grunts cause heads to explode with confetti. Where to find: Crow's Nest How to find: Right after the first objective, while en route to the barracks, you will fall down onto a pipe. At the end of this pipe, look over the edge to see a small space a few feet below you. You must simply drop over and as quicly as you can, pull back to land under the floor you were just on. After that, the skull will be at the end. >> MORE << PREVIOUS • Value of title in index widget is value of <title> tag under <product> tag • CODE articles are defined by value of TYPE attribute in <code> tag • Article <META> data is set by values of <platform> tag – this value should be used to populate the correct console category

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