Works as you intended on my Evo here. I can see how some users might be confused, though.
The control scheme you've chosen sometimes results in the user tapping the left side of the screen and the car turning away from their finger, not always towards it. So if the user is expecting the car to sort of go where they are touching, they could get confused. It's not like there are any buttons on the screen, with say a circular arrow indicating what direction the car would turn, so someone who skipped the tutorial might just assume, given a blank map, that it is a "touch to move to location" sort of interface, which is more common. Similarly, sometimes the car is facing down. So a user might tap the left side of the screen and expect the car to turn towards the left side of the screen, but it won't. The user's left and car's left are different directions then. Ask a person, "look to your left," and they will make much fewer mistakes than if you ask them, "look to my left." I remember reading something from someone who worked as a cashier who duly noted a similar issue with customers often just mistaking their orientation for the cashier's when talked to. Lastly, analog clocks are less common nowadays and the Market has users who are not native speakers besides. Would a non-native speaker understand "to the car's left" better than anti-clockwise? Beats me. Bizarre stuff like this is what usability studies are for, I guess. On Jul 1, 2:12 am, Neil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone help me out and try a game I've released on an Evo? A user > has reported that the controls are the wrong way round on the device. > Like most arrogant developers :) I initially thought "dumb user > error", but I suppose it *might* draw with the Y axis reversed. > > The game is Pocket Racing Lite. Touching the left side of the screen > should turn the car anti-clockwise, and the right side - clockwise. > > Thanks, > > Neil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
