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WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE PROBLEM WITH MY GAME SUBMISSION?

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Hey, guys,

I wanted to submit my new game,
but the text I'm writing always comes out as running text
without different characters or paragraphs.
And this is the reason it always gets denied.
Because the discription looks awful of course.
What could cause this problem?

Thanks.
Norpoleon. {:
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
As a person who has overseen the game description thread for a number of years, I can at least say that if your post above represents how your game description was formatted, then, yeah, it's gonna get denied. The site has it's own built-in word-wrap. The hard returns at awkard places have no place in a description, unless the text is relaying a poem. Which, I get the impression, is not the thing that is happening.

Of course, it's also possible that you might have something in the description that's messing things up to cause what appears to be a run-on sentence. However, as I can't see a description on an unaccepted gamepage, I would like to see a copy-paste of what was written, and maybe I can figure out what, exactly, went wrong.
[color=orange]Thank you very much![/color] (: ---------------------------------- [color=purple][left] [b]Team JethKo - Knee Deep[/b] is a detective adventure with role-playing elements & turn-based combat. What started as a small project turned into a huge thing that took almost a year of work. [: In this game I put ideas into action that have accompanied me since my teenage years & have now become reality. Graphics (apart from facesets & backgrounds), music & story come from me again. In this concoction I celebrate the cartoons & the music of the 90s & Americana. I also wanted to promote the Artbreeder website with the backgrounds & facesets. [; The focus of this thing is on humor & very far-fetched mysteries. [: I hope you enjoy the game. Inspiration: Sam & Max, The Tick, Duckman, Hotline Miami 2. Grunge, Funk Metal, Nu Metal, Rave, Hip Hop, Jungle. [b]Story:[/b] Jethro is fed up. He doesn't want to interview more D-celebrities for this smear sheet, for which he is hired as a writer. He's after a big story again. Then he hears of mysterious murders of young women plaguing Chillcottin City. It's high time he reunited with his old pal Aoko to stir up the underworld of Chillcottins & the tech company that runs the place. [b]The world:[/b] Chillcottin City is located where New England & the majestic Sequoia forests meet the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains & the Bayous. The city is ruled almost dictatorially by a tech mogul, Robert E. Ternel, who even has ambitions to be crowned the new mayor. Robert E. Ternel's corporation dominates the entire urban economy with its cybernetic & genetic engineering products. The nebulous religious fanatic Mr. Person Man is also said to be in cahoots with him. [b]Characters:[/b] Jethro Adimari, 33, is a passionate journalist & a failure. His wife Michelle loves him, although he is self-pitying and generally not the brightest. His wife doesn't like the fact that he spends so much time with Aoko when he's feeling adventurous again. Aoko Kitamoto, 27, is an unemployed justice fighter waiting to use violence against the good-for-nothing again. She loves video games, pop culture, being out of work & violence. And many more quirky Chillcottin originals! The villains: No Clip Norman, Grimace, Moon Logic, Weird Rado Karadzic, Ant Ass Andy, and others. [b]Features:[/b] * Approximately 4 hours of hard-hitting puzzle action with challenging battles! * Limited save options! * Humor! * Things to find but also to miss! * High score will be shown to you at the end of the thing! * Hand drawn stuff! * Backgrounds were cobbled together using state-of-the-art AI technology! * Totally wacky characters! * A Lovestory?? [b]Sound track:[/b] Here is the link to the OST: [youtube]Videolink https://youtu.be/iJfPhcE51uI[/youtube] [b]Download:[/b] Here is the link to the itch.io page. [url=https://norpoleon.itch.io/team-jethko-knee-deep]DOWNLOAD AT ITCH.IO[/url] When downloading you can simply enter $0. [: [The game contains language & themes that some may find inappropriate. Nothing in this thing is meant to be malicious or hurt anyone.] Have fun puzzling. *: [i]"When you look into the nostalgia long enough, the nostalgia will look back at you!"[/i] [/left][/color] -------------------------------------- EDIT: look at this! not even the tools in this post are functioning correctly?
That is in fact very strange, especially when I press edit and notice that it all seems to be formatted properly.

maybe it's this?

[: let's see, nope not that unless if you do more of them italic

There does [; seem to be a lot of these kinds of [: smileys though. Since they also open code brackets maybe one of them does in fact break the formatting?

nope, what if I just repaste it all:

repasting it all did in fact break it... I have a feeling it's the use of "non-code" brackets that breaks it

no wait it might be this:
[youtube]Videolink [url]https://youtu.be/iJfPhcE51uI[/url][/youtube]
that faulty youtube link bracket thing is what breaks it. The youtube embed code is ancient and does not quite work properly all the time. It only works with non-shortened links and no additional text. (in this case the link is both shortened AND there's the word "videolink" before it

Though once that is fixed you might also want to change the
[The game contains language & themes that some may find inappropriate. Nothing in this
thing is meant to be malicious or hurt anyone.]
because I believe it will just disappear if you use square brackets
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
Yep. It was totally the youtube link that was breaking. Also, a bit of modification to result in...

[This game contains language and themes that some may find inappropriate. Saying that, nothing in this game is designed to be malicious or hurtful to anyone.]

Story:
Jethro is fed up. He doesn't want to interview more D-celebrities for this smear sheet, for which he is hired as a writer. He's after a big story again. Then he hears of mysterious murders of young women plaguing Chillcottin City. It's high time he reunited with his old pal, Aoko, to stir up the underworld of Chillcottins and the tech company that runs the place.

The world:
Chillcottin City is located where New England and the majestic Sequoia forests meet the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains and the Bayous. The city is ruled almost dictatorially by a tech mogul, Robert E. Ternel, who even has ambitions to be crowned the new mayor.
Robert E. Ternel's corporation dominates the entire urban economy with its cybernetic and genetic engineering products. The nebulous religious fanatic Mr. Person Man is also said to be in cahoots with him.

Characters:
Jethro Adimari, 33, is a passionate journalist and a failure. His wife Michelle loves him, although he is self-pitying and generally not the brightest. His wife doesn't like the fact that he spends so much time with Aoko when he's feeling adventurous again.

Aoko Kitamoto, 27, is an unemployed justice fighter waiting to use violence against the good-for-nothing again. She loves video games, pop culture, being out of work, and violence.

And many more quirky Chillcottin originals!

Features:
* Approximately 4 hours of hard-hitting puzzle action with challenging battles!
* Limited save options!
* Humor!
* Things to find but also to miss!
* High score will be shown to you at the end of the thing!
* Hand drawn stuff!
* Backgrounds were cobbled together using state-of-the-art AI technology!
* Totally wacky characters!
* A love story??

Sound track:


Other sites of interest:
Itch.io page

Personal asides:
"When you look into the nostalgia long enough, the nostalgia will look back at you!" Team JethKo - Knee Deep is a detective adventure with role-playing elements and turn-based combat.

What started as a small project turned into a huge thing that took almost a year of work. In this game I put ideas into action that have accompanied me since my teenage years and have now become reality.
Graphics (apart from facesets and backgrounds), music and story come from me again.
In this concoction, I celebrate the cartoons and the music of the 90s and Americana. I also wanted to promote the Artbreeder website with the backgrounds and facesets. The focus of this thing is on humor and very far-fetched mysteries. I hope you enjoy the game.

This game takes it's inspirations from Sam & Max, The Tick, Duckman, Hotline Miami 2, grunge, funk metal, nu metal, rave, hip hop, and jungle.

...this. Though, I kinda want to suggest moving the soundtrack and character sections into a new tab, but, that's a personal nit-pick.
WOW!
Thanks alot, man. I never could have figured this one out myself.
Your help was much appreciated.
Thank you (:
Norpoleon
Youtube links are almost always the case of that kind of thing happening. Good luck with your game page!
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