I was initially going to add a few more games and a lot more screenshots before writing about You Shot My Banjo on my blog, but now that my gaming PC has decided that it doesn’t want to play along anymore and wants to crash every hour or so, I’ll just fast track this post.
What exactly is You Shot My Banjo? It’s a project, a website, that was born out my need to offload all the game screenshots I take while playing. As it was they were just collecting dust on my HD. Not only that, but I wanted to create a proper project with CodeIgniter and Twitter Bootstrap (both of which are rather brilliant). There’s game info, pagination, lightbox and other things you’d expect from a site like this.
So far I have seven galleries up there, with three of them being “complete” (L.A. Noire, Mass Effect 3 and Saints Row: The Third). In future I’ll of course add more games and more screenshots as far as my free time allows.
One of my proudest moments so far with YSMB is that one (or more?) screenshots from the Mass Effect 3 gallery were used for a Kotaku article (specifically my custom Shepard). So feel free to use the screenshots, and if you can let me know where and how you used them.
And finally, a big thank you to Maria Miettinen for drawing the YSMB logo which is used around the site. Maybe one day I’ll figure out how to use it more prominently.
