On 18 February 2011 16:00, Eino Keskitalo <eino.keskit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> To recap with the full list of aims/questions: >> >> * Is the amount of text digestable - does the player read everything >> painlessly? >> * Is the context of the information correct - does the player feel >> like the information is relevant? >> * Were the controls intuitive and easy enough to pick up?
Indeed, very important. >> * Were there problems in learning the commands? >> * Were there problems in remembering the commands? Good ones. Could be merged. >> * Are there scenarios within lessons where the information text is >> hard to understand? I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this. Probably simply, "Was the information text easy to understand?", but the scenarios confuse me a bit, which sure is ironic in the context. :) >> * Are there scenarios within lessons where it is uncertain what the >> player is supposed to achieve? Again, not sure what you mean. "Does the player understand the point of any command they are told?" or maybe "Is it clear what's the goal of any given lesson?" or possibly "Did you encounter any situation where you didn't know what to do next?" >> * Was the flow of information comfortable, or were there points where >> there was too much information? That seems rather close to the first two questions: was the amount easily digestible, and was the information relevant? >> * Was the pacing of the lessons good? Were they divided sensibly, and >> were the recaps useful? "Did you find the recaps useful?" certainly is an important question. Which reminds me: going back up the entry stairs also displays the recap, but that's not obvious at all. Problem? The others get a bit away from usefulness and into the direction of reviewing a movie. :D Asking about pacing and lesson division makes sense, though. It's probably just the wording that feels off, though the recaps should definitely be a question by itself. >> * Did you feel you had the opportunity to try out the skills you learned? Good one. Though it overlaps a bit with "remembering commands" (that's the goal of adding experimentation, after all), it's a useful question in itself. >> * If you wanted to replay a lesson, was it easy enough, or was there >> too much re-playing bits you already knew? If you're actually going to hand out a questionaire to testers, you might want to formulate this a bit more positively. :) If you ever had or wanted to replay part of a lesson, did it take you long to reach your previous point? >> * Were the levels visually pleasing and interesting? Very subjective, but it might be a good question to end the questionaire on a light note. >> * Did the testers/each individual tester prefer mouse or keyboard? That's an odd question within the context of usability because it's mostly a matter of previous gaming experience and preference. It's something that needs to be considered when evaluating tester feedback, but doesn't give us any information about usability in itself. > The timeframe is that on Monday, the Dungeon Olms will turn in their > testing plan for the course, and on Wednesday, they'll do the pilot > test. Cool. > They asked today, if it'd be ok to make 0.8.0-a0-5263-gffd1c9c > the version for the testing, or if there need to be any tweaks or > fixes before the testing. I'd like to include galehar's changes to mention scroll/potion names as they get identified. That's a straightforward usability thing (giving feedback to players' actions). Also, my bugfix in 1b656368 might be relevant as lesson 2 has chunks in it that end up rotten over the course of the lesson. Of course, neither of these is absolutely vital, so if it's easier for you you could go with ffd1c9c. *shrugs* > One thing that comes to my mind is the ammo quantity bug, where q:n > has no effect in the vault specification. I think hasn't been fixed. > It affects the ranged combat tutorial, the player runs out of ammo too > easily. It could be circumvented by placing several piles of the > stones. I think it only affects quantity in monsters' inventories. (Is that correct?) If so, that extra pile of stones I added way back should make this much less of an issue. I haven't yet gotten around to experiment with replacing Spammals with Animate Skeleton as a more hands-on and cooler spell, so I'll try that. (Thanks, Raphael! :)) Not a big deal if that doesn't make it into the testing, though. Can't wait! :D Johanna (and that's way too many smileys in a single email...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
