Protip: Watermark Screenshots With the Date

by Sanya Weathers

One great reason to not start your hype machine too early has to do with screenshots. Shots taken from early in development may not feature the final lighting system, shadows or other visual effects.

Your resident forum troll will fish out one of these early shots to prove that your game is not going to meet the latest standards and expectations.

It doesn’t even need to be a troll – it could be a perfectly well-meaning person who hasn’t ever heard of your product who stumbles across the screenshot in Google Image Search five years post-launch and judges your work as though the shot were printed yesterday.

So save yourself a future headache – stamp each shot with the date.