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carlfoxmarten) wrote2011-10-16 02:09 pm
carlfoxmarten) wrote2011-10-16 02:09 pm
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Another Dig Site update...
I know, I know, I should be posting this to my Tumblr blog, but I thought I'd post it here first, as the comment locks are rather restrictive over there.
This past Friday, I'd showed what I currently have off to my mentor, an instructor at my university's closest campus, and got rather positive feedback on it.
He pointed out several very helpful things that I hadn't thought about, like putting the highscores page right in the main menu, some alternative suggestions for handling scoring, several very interesting "bonus/penalty" concepts, and recommended that I write a very simple story to help answer some questions players might have about gameplay, such as "Why am I doing this?", "Am I doing this legally?", and the like.
The story doesn't have to be anything very large, it could even fit on half a page.
Something like "You are an archaeologist at a dig site in [insert area here], looking for relics and artifacts to take back to the museum that hired you." may suffice, though I'll have to think about this for a bit first.
This past Friday, I'd showed what I currently have off to my mentor, an instructor at my university's closest campus, and got rather positive feedback on it.
He pointed out several very helpful things that I hadn't thought about, like putting the highscores page right in the main menu, some alternative suggestions for handling scoring, several very interesting "bonus/penalty" concepts, and recommended that I write a very simple story to help answer some questions players might have about gameplay, such as "Why am I doing this?", "Am I doing this legally?", and the like.
The story doesn't have to be anything very large, it could even fit on half a page.
Something like "You are an archaeologist at a dig site in [insert area here], looking for relics and artifacts to take back to the museum that hired you." may suffice, though I'll have to think about this for a bit first.
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Unfortunately, I found out that Tumblr is rather restrictive when it comes to allowing comments on things.
You have to have a Tumblr account, and you have to have been watching someone for two weeks before you're allowed to make your first comment.
(though if they're watching you too, there's no delay)
My project-related updates can run fairly lengthy, so I can't use a social-networking service, because they generally have a length limit, plus you have to compete with everything else in your watchers' inbox.
So, no, I'm not being picky, it's the nature of the beast that causes the problems.
Though Google+ and Tumblr are great in that they make it easy to post video updates.
(I'm not putting that much stuff on Facebook...)