Big Game Project Week 8
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This week I has mostly been working on fixing small bugs and small changes that has been put to the side for a long time. We had beta testing together whit our teachers and other groups at Wednesday. We got a lot of good feedback from the testers and from watching the testers play
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Two of the main things that the players did not get was the games goal and that respawns is a good thing.
Goal of the gameOur goal in the game is just getting to the end of the level whit as much points as possible, but the players had a hard time just understanding where to go. We have discussed how to make this better and decided to create a message at the beginning of every level. The message tells the player where to go and also shows that the goal is shown on the compass at the top of the screen. We have not yet been able to test this on anyone but we think it will help a lot. We also discussed to make the goal (the ending of the level) more interesting so that players will appreciate it more and want to go there. The Respawn FeatureIn our game you are able to respawn at the latest checkpoint at any time. If the player has a bad run and fail on a jump for example. We want the player to be able to quickly respawn and try again to get it perfect and have a nice experience. But at the testing the players did not use this feature, they did not get that it is there for helping the players. They felt more like it was a punishment and instead of using the respawn feature They struggled to gain speed again and had a really boring run. To fix this problem I came up whit that we could rename our respawn feature to something that felt less as a punishment, like “do a comeback”. In most games you automatically respawns if you die and I think that is why the players feels like it is a punishment to respawn and by changing the name they may feel more intrigued to use it. We also plan to make more feedback when using it so it feel more friendly and nice to use it. By respawning you also reset you time so there is no penalty to use the respawn feature. The players did not seem do understand that, so we are going to make a better feedback for it. And hopefully the players will understand that it is there for making their experience better.
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