I saw someone hiding the info box…
The… ‘more information’ section? I’ve read a post about someone wanting to hide it, but never seen it implemented myself. That is frustrating.
Just like with other powerful tools, there’s always great responsibility with it.
And what would developers do, when they realease the same game on Steam… If their design is in the css, they are out of luck.
I guess that’s just the quirks of different platforms. Different layout, different way to present your project.
I haven’t browse Steam in ages, but from what I remember, the designs there (in the project description) mostly relies on raster images (PNGs, GIFs) isn’t it? which is what people without CSS also relies on here.
Nothing beats the absolute consistency of raster images. But I still prefer CSS. CSS loads way faster than images (internet here sucks). And I can update its design whenever, just with text editor, without opening any design software, and then re-uploading the images.
What can they not achieve with the given tools that would not also be tinkering with the ui?
Many things. Though mostly tiny, cosmetic adjustments. You can make a static PNG image jump, without the hassle of making it a GIFs. And even things as simple as changing color of a portion of text.
I’ve seen some game pages, where there’s long, long update logs, from the beginning to the latest. Had to scroll my way way down to the download section and info box. I thought it would be nice to have these massive information condensed into collapsible, toggle-able sections.
(I guess this example is not very fitting, since the proper way should be using devlogs as the update logs.)
And also its just fun tinkering with things (reasonably) :)