Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance
First off, very lovely theme! I just love it, the colors and the smilies coordinate very well and it just looks simply stunning and it sort of mirrors the idea of the forum. I just love the nav bar too. It is just perfect and is laid out very well. Very well done on the header.
I like the logo, like all you did with it, but it feels scrunched up to me. Try and space it out or put a line between the first and second line to help even things out. Right now it feels very close together.
The "Top 5 Statistics" doesn't have the same background header as "Our Board Statistics". Those two boxes go hand in hand so just upload the image file from one to the other and let HTML magic take its work.
Overall, on first glance this looks like a very professional and dedicated forum with sleek graphics and a great layout.
(Score: 18/20)
Site Layout
Your site is honestly very well done layout wise. All the page elements seem to be in the perfect place. However on the forums there could be some change. On the "Development room" category, I would move the Maker's Discussion below completed games. Just an order of priority thing. I'd also move the Scripts and Resources forums should be the last two on the category seeing as they are less discussion and more of a resource/utility forum.
Also, I'd move community hangout category to the last category, right under the main game discussion. Just so the main focus is on the game development. However they can go hand in hand so if you disagree it won't really hurt. It can go either way.
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I also love the affiliates placement. They are centered at the bottom - not in the way and not un-seeable?
(Scored 17/20)
Statistics and Activity
You have been open for a pretty long time now and only have almost 10,000 posts which - don't get me wrong is a very nice sum of posts but I mean now that games are getting more popular and lots of tools are becoming available to the public there is a larger community of game developers so try and drive them to your forum.
If you really want a boost, try paid advertising. It may not seem like a neccesity but for your forum and what category your forum is in it will really stand out - especially a really well written ad for adsense.
Your forum really does need a shot of activity though, you have only a handful of posts that were made in the past few days. I'd promote a contest to pull in game developers. Like a developer with x amount of posts in x amount of time gets a monetary boost to their game development project. That would REALLY boost some people to start posting and start getting more comfortable with your forum.
(Scored 16/20)
Staff Moderation
You have a good amount of staff for a forum of your size. They are also the top posters which is a good thing showing they are active and participating in the forum. As far as I can see there really is no spam and the forums rules are followed. You have a 'comfortable' community right now because everyone knows eachother. So they won't have too much of a hard time keeping the forum clean and free from bad members.
Overall, great work from all of your staff members
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(Scored 18/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism
You have some very well written forums. The only one I would look at is the fun forum that says:
"Make fools of yourself here. Or roleplay" could be better if it said:
"Make a fool of yourself or roleplay."
All of your other forums are very well done. Maybe freshen them up and re-write some of them to make it feel updated and just to give them a new look?
(Scored 20/20)
Total Score - 89/100
Final Remarks
Very nice forum and great graphics!
Strong Points
Strong forum descriptions and great staff.
Things to Improve
Activity!
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