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Screenshots for Your Store Page

Your store page shows your screenshots in a carousel under its header, and search results show the first three under your game. Screenshots can be PNG images or MP4 videos, and Arcadible picks them up by name from .arcadible/gallery/: there's nothing to list or configure.

.arcadible/gallery/
├── screenshot_01.png
├── screenshot_02.mp4
├── screenshot_02_phone.mp4    # phones, in place of screenshot_02.mp4
├── screenshot_03.png
└── screenshot_04_phone.png    # phones only

Phones see screenshot_01.png, screenshot_02_phone.mp4, screenshot_03.png, and screenshot_04_phone.png. Everyone else sees screenshot_01.png, screenshot_02.mp4, and screenshot_03.png.

Number them in order​

  • Name each one screenshot_<number>, with a lowercase .png or .mp4, such as screenshot_01.png or screenshot_02.mp4. Only files named this way appear in the carousel, ordered by number.
  • Give each number one screenshot, padded or not: screenshot_2 comes before screenshot_10, and screenshot_1 and screenshot_01 are the same number, so use one or the other.
  • Put your best three first. Search results show the first three.
  • Start a video on a good frame. It's shown by its first frame until it's opened, so make that frame read well as a still.
  • Keep description media out of the carousel by giving it another name, such as boss_fight.png. A screenshot embedded in the description is shown in both places.

Specify a platform​

A screenshot's name can end in a platform, as in screenshot_02_phone.mp4. Without one, a screenshot is shown on every platform. The platforms are desktop, phone, and tv, matched against the viewer's device. A tablet is a phone when its browser says it's a mobile device, and a desktop when it doesn't, as an iPad's Safari doesn't.

  • Each number shows one screenshot: the one for the viewer's platform if there is one, and the plain one otherwise. On phones, screenshot_02_phone.mp4 takes screenshot_02.mp4's place.
  • A number with only a platform's screenshot, such as screenshot_04_phone.png, is shown on that platform alone, in its place by number.
  • A screenshot for another platform is never shown, so desktops and TVs never see the _phone ones.
  • Take phone screenshots on a phone, in the game's orientation, for the ones that look wrong there, and give anything only phones have, such as touch controls, a number of its own.

Next steps​

  • Check the names: arc validate warns about a file named almost like a screenshot, such as Screenshot_01.png, and refuses two screenshots with one number.
  • Publish them: screenshots change with a release version, like the rest of the store page; a prerelease doesn't change it. See Releases.
  • The rest of the page: art, text, and details are in Your Store Page.