Playtesters needed!
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I'll try it, downloading...
EDIT: OK, it's downloaded.
EDIT: It crashes when I click on the woman...
EDIT: OK, it's downloaded.
EDIT: It crashes when I click on the woman...
Well like I said, the game show's a lot of potential, but it needs a bit of refining.cridia said:
Point 1. Not a virus.
Ok, a few things I'd like to say. Mainly I had no idea what I was doing or why.
The control idea could be good for immersion if used correctly, I think that's what you're going for. It reminded me vaguely of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in USA). However it there are a few things holding it back.
The mouse pointer colour is often too difficult to see is major, and I don't understand what's going on.
What I understood is that I would hold the mouse button with the cursor over an action that has a speech bubble next to it that corresponds to one of the bubbles on the right hand side, and I have to get one of them to the bottom of the screen. But why?
Basically telling people what things mean, I read your questionnaire but I don't like it as you seem to know and accept that people have no idea what they're doing, but that's not a good thing. I'm going on the assumption that you're aiming for immersion, and nothing is immersive when you come across the question 'what am I doing?'
People need to know their goal, who/what they are and what they're doing, as well as why. But not just told 'this is what you're doing' etc, they have to feel involved.
Also the program is unstable, it crashed after a few minutes every time I opened it.
I feel like there's something golden lurking inside your mind's eye, but we can't see it and need more of an explanation before we can actually supply any useful help.
EDIT: while I was writing this you added a few things, so not all of this post is relevant any more.
I don't like the fact that you have to press the option you're trying to make (microphone for example) several times. It felt a bit too sluggish.
If you perhaps made it you only press once or the option and the conversation goes faster, like an actual conversation.
This is my opinion though, take it as you wish or discard it.
Ok, a few things I'd like to say. Mainly I had no idea what I was doing or why.
The control idea could be good for immersion if used correctly, I think that's what you're going for. It reminded me vaguely of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in USA). However it there are a few things holding it back.
The mouse pointer colour is often too difficult to see is major, and I don't understand what's going on.
What I understood is that I would hold the mouse button with the cursor over an action that has a speech bubble next to it that corresponds to one of the bubbles on the right hand side, and I have to get one of them to the bottom of the screen. But why?
Basically telling people what things mean, I read your questionnaire but I don't like it as you seem to know and accept that people have no idea what they're doing, but that's not a good thing. I'm going on the assumption that you're aiming for immersion, and nothing is immersive when you come across the question 'what am I doing?'
People need to know their goal, who/what they are and what they're doing, as well as why. But not just told 'this is what you're doing' etc, they have to feel involved.
Also the program is unstable, it crashed after a few minutes every time I opened it.
I feel like there's something golden lurking inside your mind's eye, but we can't see it and need more of an explanation before we can actually supply any useful help.
EDIT: while I was writing this you added a few things, so not all of this post is relevant any more.
I don't like the fact that you have to press the option you're trying to make (microphone for example) several times. It felt a bit too sluggish.
If you perhaps made it you only press once or the option and the conversation goes faster, like an actual conversation.
This is my opinion though, take it as you wish or discard it.
It needs more work, sound and subtitles. Also I don't like not being able to control my own character (From the questionnaire I suppose that was the purpose.), otherwise I'm better off watching a movie.
I am sorry, I was indeed too late with writing down the controls and the goal for the game. Should have done that from the beginning.Banter said:
As for the questionnaire; it was to see whether our design decisions had the intended effects. With all of the questions we were checking to see whether their use was clear, without any tutorial.
I am going to test for you! Yay me...
Both of you it is no profit, and is for a project, how can it be advertising.DrunkWithPower said:
Perhaps asking for playtesters should be an acceptable form of advertising on a gaming-related site? It might make sense, but that's up to the mods really.Daveman said:
Still, I'm up for this, and I'll give it a shot.
What do you mean by the link is broken? I tested it and it still works. Maybe the school server went down for a couple of minutes; that tends to happen more than once.Revelo said:
The reason why I am putting out this version is to get it playtested, so we can get out mistakes early in the proces, as compared to a later state where we do not have the time for a lot of changes anymore. On top of that, we had some hickups during the project, which is why it took a long time to get this finished.
Okay, I'm back with my results.
I finally figured out that I was supposed to be communicating with the lady. I do that by clicking the little hand things arranged around my screen. Doing so, I move the little speech bubbles to the bottom of the screen. But when I get them to the bottom,they seem to go straight back to the top. What am I supposed to do? Is there an end, if I keep randomly clicking on the speech bubbles. I would have really appreciated some kind of instructions beyond "click the little speech bubbles to make your avatar gesture wildly".
Some kind of audio would be very nice, even if it is placeholder audio. I just need some kind of feedback. Because the bunch of floating icons on the right side of the screen that looks and acts a lot like one of those newton thermometers (I think that is what they are called) just doesn't tell me a lot. Or it might, but because of me not knowing what it means, I cannot tell.
Did your group make the models? they were quite good actually, considering. Although that woman did have a bad case of jaw-dropitis.
Also, why is the menu/button hierarchy the label on all the buttons, e.i. "Worldmenu/quit"
Also, the clickable area on the pause menu buttons are off. I have to click the bottom edge of the "quit" button or else it doesn't work.
It also crashed on me once when I was playing, although I cannot be sure of the exact cause.
It also crashed every time I went to quit. "This program has stopped responding"
But I am on Vista (32bit). But you should make games compatible with Vista.
I finally figured out that I was supposed to be communicating with the lady. I do that by clicking the little hand things arranged around my screen. Doing so, I move the little speech bubbles to the bottom of the screen. But when I get them to the bottom,they seem to go straight back to the top. What am I supposed to do? Is there an end, if I keep randomly clicking on the speech bubbles. I would have really appreciated some kind of instructions beyond "click the little speech bubbles to make your avatar gesture wildly".
Some kind of audio would be very nice, even if it is placeholder audio. I just need some kind of feedback. Because the bunch of floating icons on the right side of the screen that looks and acts a lot like one of those newton thermometers (I think that is what they are called) just doesn't tell me a lot. Or it might, but because of me not knowing what it means, I cannot tell.
Did your group make the models? they were quite good actually, considering. Although that woman did have a bad case of jaw-dropitis.
Also, why is the menu/button hierarchy the label on all the buttons, e.i. "Worldmenu/quit"
Also, the clickable area on the pause menu buttons are off. I have to click the bottom edge of the "quit" button or else it doesn't work.
It also crashed on me once when I was playing, although I cannot be sure of the exact cause.
It also crashed every time I went to quit. "This program has stopped responding"
But I am on Vista (32bit). But you should make games compatible with Vista.