Talk:From Dust/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: ProtoDrake (talk · contribs) 20:34, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

I'll be back in a few days with a review. --ProtoDrake (talk) 20:34, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Review

Grammar

• The project was created as a result of his fascination with volcanos, and his desire to combine the ambivalence and the violent characteristic of their nature in a new video game. - Some slightly clunsy phrasing here. I would suggest "...his desire to combine the ambivalence and violent characteristics of their nature in a new video game."
• works of Polish painter Zdzisław Beksinski, and Koyaanisqatsi - You should probably use "the works". And if you didn't click on the link, what is Koyaanisqatsi exactly?
• The Breath, then guides the tribe to different totems allowing them to perform rituals and to construct villages and settlements. - No comma needed here.
• Nature and cycle were the important key elements of the game. - There seems to be a word missing here.
• "it's just another universe, another place", something people create from dust" - Too many or too few quotation marks. Not made clear.
• Other influences for the game include Conway's Game of Life, a mathematical model of the 1970s, plant propagations, works of Polish painter Zdzisław Beksinski, and Koyaanisqatsi. - Beksinski and Koyaanisqatsi need to be appropriately linked.
• Late in the development cycle, journalists offered initial appraisals of the mechanics, presentation, and appeal of From Dust. Commentators praised the physics engine, god-like powers, and scripting of the computer-controlled tribes. - Completely uncited. Please add citation or remove.

Images

• File:FromDustTsunami.png - This seems well and good, and is an acceptable alternative to using multiple individual screenshots.
• File:Éric Chahi.jpg - From Commons, so free use okay.
• File:YasurExplosion.jpg - In public domain so free use, but tagged for copying to Commons. Keen an eye on it.
• File:FromDustSphere.png - Seems suitable.

References and links

• While all references need archiving to be on the safe side, many of them are dead or redirects that require immediate archiving.
  • Edge is now dead, when archiving don't use anything prior to 2014/15 as those have a habit of redirecting to GamesRadar+.
  • Joystiq became Engadget
  • Ref 2 needs its url updating.
  • Ref 16 is dead, needs archiving.
  • Ref 19 needs its url updating.
• The references themselves have inconsistent formatting between "work" and "publisher" sections.
• I should also check the external link to its website.

Those are the issues I found with this otherwise fairly good article. I'm putting the nomination on hold for a while to give you time for the issues above to be addressed. --ProtoDrake (talk) 09:40, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

@ProtoDrake: Thank you very much for the review! I have fixed the issues you have mentioned above. AdrianGamer (talk) 07:09, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

@AdrianGamer: I've had another look through, and I guess it's alright now. Any quibbles I might have are purely stylistic now and shouldn't hold up the article any longer. I'll give this a Pass. --ProtoDrake (talk) 08:47, 22 July 2016 (UTC)