On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:08 +0200, david blanchard wrote:
> First draft of use cases here ->
> http://community.hackit.cx/wiki/Usecases_%26_mockups
Wow, very nice work! It's much better now : ) It's also bigger, so it
will require more development time this way, but it's not a bad thing
here I think - the smaller version without the management screen would
have be quicker to develop, but depending on how it would have been
coded, adding the management screen later on could have been harder.
So I like it this way : )
> Please let me know what's missing.
A few comments:
* Need to explicitly say that a player clicking on a link to join
or see a game through a wall post should go directly to the game
(not the main screen to create games)
* Anyone, not only invited players, should be able to join (so
there is no need to cancel invitations - see my mockup 5 to see
how this can be done with open invitations), or simply watch the
game without playing it. The general idea is to favor parties
with more people, rather than relying on the organizer's choice
(we don't want to turn down a new player trying to join a game),
and try to make it an activity on the wall, something that will
make people talk and interact directly on the wall, not just a
mere advertisement like most facebook games notifications.
* For the invitations, the two-step process may be confusing for
users - I'd rather use the full list directly
http://facebook-developer.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/invite-form-output.jpg
(except that we would post on the user's wall in addition to sending the
standard game invitation/request, which are very hidden on Facebook now).
Displaying only the list of players who already play the game is good for the
leaderboard, but to invite people it would be better to display the full list
of friends directly, to give more incentive to invite new players
* To force people to "publish" the results (and thus advertise the
game), the other players shouldn't be able to see the results
unless the GM published them on his wall, even if everyone has
voted and they go back to the game - it should say "waiting for
the organizer to publish the results", and it needs to be
explicitly mentioned in the specs imho
* Need to find a better name for organizer, a nice title that will
give value to that role - it's an important role, they are the
ones who will spread the application. What about "narrator", or
"author"?
* Need to add email notifications (new game, turn, automated
reminders when players don't play, publication of results...)
* Need to list the information we want to retrieve from the
players facebook account and store on our servers (email, name,
sex, age, location, favorites, etc.)
* There are too many cards to chose from for the player I think -
it makes sense to give a lot of them to the organizer (otherwise
he could just create games until he gets the card he wants), but
the choice of players should be more limited IMHO, otherwise it
will be too easy to match the card of the organizer, and we'll
burn the content more quickly.
* It would be good to add some tips and a general explanation of
the game on the screens, especially on the players screens. We
don't need a tutorial at this stage, but I think the players
need to be able to get the general idea if they want to - the
explanation should be brief, and the player shouldn't feel that
he has to read it, but it can be hard to play if you don't know
the goal.
* Would be good to have the button "Create another game" on both
the player and organizer screens, as an incentive to keep
playing once a game is finished
* Need to have a unique URL for each game, accessible publicly
(opens the possibility to add non-FB sharing features more
easily later on)
* Missing technical requirements (to take from Hackit, and add to
that that:the implentation should follow the Facebook guidelines
and advices found on http://developers.facebook.com/ , and use
the Graph API http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api ).
* We should add one-click action buttons to bookmark and Like the
application, in a preeminent place on every single page (and
make it disappear when players do the action)
Cool btw - looks like we should be able to post this on RaC this
week : ) Can't wait to see how it goes!
Xavier.
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