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June 09 2009

May 18 2009

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Apr 17 2009

  • Soundtracks page complete. Cover art for each soundtrack has been added and each soundtrack page has a full track list.
  • Features page started and is accessible from one of the links at the top of the front page. Pages which are not associated with a particular game, fiction, or other product should be linked to on the features page. Feature pages started or recently included in the Feature page include Families, Bosses, Konami Mascot Games, and Games by Platform
  • New cameo pages, including Parodius Series, Contra Series, Wai Wai Sokoban, Eternal Knights 2 (which features Richter, Maria, and Shanoa), and Castlevania in Rhythm Games
  • New pages for alternate versions of Castlevania games created, including Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight (Saturn Edition), Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (Mobile), and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (Mobile)
  • Original artwork from soundtracks of characters have been added to the characters' appearance galleries
  • Several stages levels have been created and updated to include bestiary information. A couple pages have been updated to include a "Stage Gallery" which have an image of the very beginning of a stage with a link to that stage page (Castlevania I and Vampire Killer so far). The idea is to update all game pages to include a stage gallery eventually. The stage pages for stages included in the stage gallery also include a YouTube video that shows a playthrough of that level.
  • Fan Fiction page has been reorganized a bit to provide links to "multimedia" types of fan fiction that may have accompanying artwork or videos associated with them. Some pages have been created or enhanced with Character Galleries such as the fan films Castlevania: Next Generation, Castlevania: Destiny of Time, and the parody cartoon Press Start Adventures.
  • Added a Google Spreadsheet to the page Konami Mascot Games to replace the wiki table that was there. Wiki tables can be very difficult to edit for large tables. Google Spreadsheets are easier to maintain, provided you know how to use them. If anyone wishes to use them, please contact User:Reinhart77.

New Projects

  • Guides: Starting to create pages for individual strategy guide books and magazine appearances. Focusing on guides which contain original artwork. This original artwork will appear as a separate entry in a character or enemy's Appearance Gallery. The main page for guides is at Guides, which is in the Merchandise section of the front page.
  • Recurring Boss Appearance Galleries: Starting to create more recurring boss appearance galleries. Appearance galleries consist of basically one art piece per game or fiction they appear in and prefer to use official artwork when available. Bosses which already have appearance galleries include Dracula, Death, Medusa, The Creature, Carmilla, and Succubus. Similar boss pages will be consolidated as part of this effort. Game specific details appear in sections after the character gallery. The game specific info box prefer to use sprites over official artwork. The bosses who appeared in the first castlevania game will be updated first, and then updates will be done in a rough game release order. New galleries are at Giant Bat and Mummy.

Mar 25 2009
Summary of major changes made in the last couple months:

  • Character Galleries: All game and fiction pages found on the front page now have character galleries, which contain images of all the characters appearing in that game with links to that character's page. It should be possible to go to almost any character's page now by going to any game or fiction they made an appearance to and selecting the hyperlink in their gallery.
  • Front page reorganized and expanded.: The front page has been reorganized. Console games section now only contain games released for console systems, not computer games. Handheld games section now also includes pages for tiger LCD games. The "related games" section has been replaced with an "other platform" section, which lists games released for computers, watches, cell phones, arcade machines, and gambling machines. Kid Dracula has been divided into two pages, one for the famicom and the other for the game boy, which are now in the Console and Handheld sections. Added many new fiction to the fiction section. Added a new section called Cameo Games which lists most of the games which have Castlevania character or location cameos in them, but which are themselves only part-Castlevania games. A Cameo Fiction section has also been created and Captain N has moved there. A merchandise section has been added for sound tracks, action figures, and other non-game and non-fiction products.
  • Sound Tracks: Chernabogue‎ has made good progress on creating detailed pages for each Castlevania sound track that has been released. These can be accessed by going to the Soundtracks link in the Merchandise section of the front page.
  • Related Products: Each game and fiction page now has a "Related Products" section which lists any related games, fiction, sound track, or other merchandise for that page. Navigation between related products should be easier now.
  • More Artwork: More character art has been added to the site. More of the official art from Mr. P.'s Castlevania Realm has been uploaded. Many character and enemy artwork has been clipped and uploaded from manual scans found on Mr. P.'s site and appear in the gallery for that particular game (which can be accessed via link in that game's page's character gallery). Some sprite art has been added from Spriters Resource. Level background images from Spriters Resource are starting to be placed in location pages (see Castlevania_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal#Help Wanted: Stages ). Image clippings from various youtube videos have been taken when other sources for the subject matter were not available. Many more character now have profile images, galleries, and their artwork categories expanded.
  • Character Fandom Pages: Fandom pages created for many characters (links appear in italics at the top of the character's normal page). Fandom pages include information about Fan Games, Fan Art, Fan Fiction, Fan Profiles, Cosplay, Character Shrine Websites etc for those characters. Links to a Deviant Art gallery for that character have been added to many of these pages. For a list of characters with fan pages so far, please see Characters in Fandom
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