On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 12:15 +0100, david blanchard wrote: > A very important complementary need is to help the player if he types > a wrong answer or goes to the wrong page. > Do you see a solution ? The best for me would be to add two elements > from uervoice > (http://feedback.farsides.com/forums/90259-hackit-missions-api-requests-code-) > > - apart from opening new possibilities from missions, they would > solveu this issue (we would know when the player is browsing and when > he's > answering a question or giving a proof).
Yup, it would be useful - I don't know if/when I'm going to have a look at it, but I'd like to see it in the game too. > I think it can partly b solved by re-writing the mission, which I plan > to do. Some other elements could be helpful too, not really on the > unfolding of the mission itself (this should be solved through the > content of the mission) but on how to use the interface : > * being able to have some text in the chat in bold or italic Yup, that one is a bug/limitation due to the fact that we display the characters progressively. It's a though one to solve well, I'm not sure yet how to proceed. > * Add some contextual help through rollover, or some other way. I say > this because I think the more we keep the text in the chat as > 'ingame' (no tutorial), the better it is for the immersion. > Other suggestions ? I can already add these to uservoice. You mean in the chat? Or more generally on the interface? I think we also miss a way to give visual hints on the content too - maybe something like in Lost Horizon, where you can click on a "hint" button that shows you all the areas of the screen you can interact with. It solves a common issue in those games, where you spend a lot of time moving your mouse over the screen to see when the cursor of the mouse changes, and which can be compared to going to different websites in your mission, hoping that you can interact with it. Xavier. _______________________________________________ Farsides mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://farsides.com/ List: http://farsides.com/ml/ Forum: http://farsides.com/forum/ Ideas: http://farsides.com/ideas/ Chat: http://farsides.com/chat/
