On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:40 AM, david blanchard <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > I looked at some feedback on the introduction mission, and it's not working > well unfortunately. > One of the big issues is that the moment when the organization website is > hacked is not well understood. The reason is that we did not have enough > time to add a wow effect when the site is hacked, so people don't even > notice it, and because of that they don't really understand what is > happening in the chat. What is the percentage of people who passed this step of seeing the hacked page? > Another problem is that players are a bit lost at the beginning, because we > try to give them the context and talk to them a lot while they only look for > a tutorial. At least that's how I understand it. They expect to do a simple > mission and be guided step by step; that's, as of now, how I see it. > Yeah, the "finding missing agent" mission suits that need well. > Third issue is that we apparently tried to include too much text in this > first mission, we need to have the user play almost immediately else he gets > bored, that's what I reckon for the feedback. > I think we try to say too much in the mission, like explaining what rot13 is for example, the text should be more to the point. > > So here is what I'm doing to partly solve these issues before tomorrow's > deadline : > - temporarily hiding the current introduction mission until we create the > wow effect for the hacking of the organization website. > A good "hack attack" effect will capture the attention an make it much more fun. > - replacing the content of the introduction with an easier mission (the one > called missing_agent, that players seem to be able to perform without too > much difficulty). More precisely, Alex I've taken the liberty to keep the > beginning and ending of your mission (context wise) and I've replaced the > middle (the hack part that doesn't work, and the following chocolate hills) > with the missing agent mission. > OKay, that's fine. > - make this introduction mission as easy and step by step as possible. - > And remove some text that is not absolutely necessary for the understanding. > > I think this is the best course of action for now, but please let me know > what you think. > I'll push this new version tonight so you can check it. I already attach > the php so that you can get an idea. > > Alex : > I'm sorry I can't use your mission for tomorrow's build. Regarding the wow > effect when the hack happens, there's not much that can be done until then. > And regarding the fact that text is too long, well we're all currently > learning what works or not for the players. Personnally a big lesson of the > week-end that I've learned for the future is that the less time the player > spends on the chat the better, because it's a blocker for many people > apparently. Yes, probably very true. I found the chat mode to mechanical and dry. Let me suggest this: let's make the chat portion a video chat. Bill would converse with the player on a webcam while the player would answer with words. A lot of the information then would be spoken, lively, we would see Bill's emotions when he is attacked. I would do it, just for fun, to see how that goes. > We have to push him to do things on the web as much as possible (for > instance expurgate the chat by showing him a picture or a video on the web > instead of telling him something on the chat). That's a good challenge for > the next steps I think. > > I would have preferred to have you adapt the introduction mission using the > missing agent one, because it's your mission; but because of the deadline > it's easier if I work directly on the php. But if you could proof read > either the attached php or tonight on the live when the mission is pushed, > and give me some feedback, that would be very useful. > Not sure what you mean, send me a more detailed message if you want, but today Sunday, I won't have much time until later tonight to do anything. > > Thx > D > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Best, Alex Vachon cartouchecreations.com Follow me on Twitter <http://twitter.com/cartouchefilms> Follow me on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602172865> Montreal Loves New York Loves Montreal<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_135269469856078&ap=1> New York - Montreal - Vancouver
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