Cover art for release

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I have a piece of art for my story I want to enter in IFComp 26, but it doesn’t appear to show properly. The file is 960x960 pixels, named CoverArt.png, exactly like the docs say, but when it shows up in the browser, I get only the left-hand 2.5 inches showing, and enlarged to fill the entire page vertically.
Can anyone help with this?

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I had to go into style.css and add this:

.coverimage img {
    width: 120px;
    height: 120px;
}
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But the instructions say 960x960 pixels. Is it wrong?

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I don’t know how or where to do that. I see no .css file in the release folder.

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5

There should be 2 files: Cover Art (960x960), and Small Cover Art (120x120). I usually do ‘release along with cover art and an interpreter’.

My ‘materials’ folder looks like this:

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image416×154 33.4 KB

And after I release, my release folder looks like this:

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image713×239 10.1 KB

(that’s where my style.css is). This is for parchment. I just checked and my quixe game also has a style.css there

For the parchment one I wrote:
image
(I downloaded the parchment template from github)
and for the quixe one I wrote:
image

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Surely there is a better way. Every time I Release, I would have to go into the style file and change it. Can’t inform perform a Release without all this?

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Yeah, it seems like a big bug. I hope someone else has a solution, because I’ll use it!

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I’m not sure, but my recollection is that the style.css file might get overwritten when you release. Once you have the style.css file the way you want it, you could change the file name so it won’t be overwritten. Or move it to another folder. Then, when you actually want to release the game to distribute to other people, you can change the file name back (or move the file back into the right folder) after you release it.

Or you could postpone including “release along with an interpreter” (or along with website) until you are ready to distribute the game.

(I don’t release a game that often while I’m working on it. Usually I just run it in the IDE.)

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I believe the CSS template (as opposed to the released CSS) can be edited to avoid multiple interventions. I’ve done that for my projects. However, I use the ifsitegen.py script, so I can’t verify the usage in the IDE.

There are a few reports in Jira related to cover art.

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Thanks all. I think my best solution for this small game is to not include any cover art.