On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:55 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > I found the game via the Mozilla "Game On" project. I found the premise > fairly interesting at first. Made me think of a modern > alternate-reality "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego".
Thanks for taking the time to reply Josh! Glad that you liked the game at first. > A few notable issues that jumped out at me: > - You can play exactly the same mission over again. When I saw the > mission description I assumed that meant I could play a variation of > that mission (such as with different information needed to track down > the agent). I found it disappointing when the mission played out > identically. I'd suggest changing it to an explicit "Replay Mission" > action for people who want to play the same thing over again. > Meanwhile, adding variations on a theme would improve replay value. Definitely - it's fairly unrealistic (and not interesting) to replay the exact same mission. The goal with this first preview version was to test the concept itself and validate the missions, so there hasn't been any energy spent on building variations of the missions. I'm adding it to the ideas, it's something important to keep in mind: http://feedback.farsides.com/forums/90257-humanity-project-missions-ideas/suggestions/1426315-create-variations-of-the-missions-to-improve-repla?ref=title > - The mission that required classifying webpages based on whether they > described a given topic set off a lot of alarm bells for me. It > struck me as "evil spammers trying to get me to classify pages for > them", and it felt like work. Perhaps you just want to do something > like Google's "Image Labeler" game, but the way you presented it just > didn't feel like a game to me at all, nor did it seem to fit the > "secret agent" theme. I see what you mean - this mission could definitely be improved on that point. The simultaneous multiplayer of Google Image's game is an interesting lead, I'll try to think about it to see if I can come out with something that fits here - if you have more ideas about this, don't hesitate! Entered here: http://feedback.farsides.com/forums/90257-humanity-project-missions-ideas/suggestions/1426337-make-the-earth-watch-mission-look-more-like-a-ga?ref=title > - Critical: your site at farsides.com rips off content from Ubuntu's > home page and stubs out the links. At the bottom of the page, you > have a green box with a collection of links that precisely match those > at the bottom of ubuntu.com, except all the links lead to "#". At > best I'd guess you or your designer copied Ubuntu's homepage as a > template; at worst this suggests some kind of evil SEO keyword > matching. Either way you need to fix this immediately, and track down > why it happened in the first place so you can prevent it from ever > happening again. Yup, this shouldn't have been there, sorry about that. The main website skin is being worked on, and this is something that stayed there from the mockups. I've removed the links until the final footer is decided. Thanks for pointing this out! I want to thank you for your very insightful comments - this is really helpful, exactly what the project needs right now. I would be interested in getting your comments again in the future, for example when we reach another milestone. Would it be ok if I contact you again then? 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/
