app store screen shots orientation and load screen transition questions

design219design219 Member Posts: 2,273
edited November -1 in iPhone and Android Publishing
I'm close to publishing my first game and a couple questions.

I've noticed some have horizontal screen shots (danger cats!) and other are sideways in vertical form (zombies vs. nijas) and some that are mixture of both (red block remover lite). At what point in the submission process do you make that decision? Is there anything special you have to do to make sure your screen shots are not sideways?

I've got a pro membership and have a loading screen that I want to be the same as the first scene. I see there is the option of fading out the load screen (which obviously I don't want to do), but if I choose not to do that, will there be any kind of interruption between the load image and first scene... in other words, will there be some sort of short flash? (which I don't want)

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  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    Think you just upload the screenshot in whatever orientation and they should show that way in itunes. I thought horizontal ones will still show as portrait though if viewing on an iphone but if in itunes on your computer they will be in the correct orientation. As for the load screen, not sure as i dont have a pro membership, i think what will happen is you will see a little spinning circle show in the top right (if portrait) and then load your first scene. Thats what you see when changing scenes normally anyway.
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  • design219design219 Member Posts: 2,273
    The examples of screen shots I mentioned were on the computer iTunes app store. The one that are sideways surely were not submitted that way.
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    It's a very common and silly mistake. It's quite simple:

    If your game is in portrait mode, make sure your screenshots are too when you submit them!

    If it's in Landscape mode, make sure your screenshots are too when you submit them!

    It's down to you to choose the orientation of your pics when you upload them to Apple :)

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  • JamesZeppelinJamesZeppelin Member Posts: 1,927
    I do know if you mix sometimes you can't scroll through all of them while in the iPhone version of the app store. However you can change your screenshots as often as you want so play with it
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