{"id":1657,"date":"2025-03-24T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T09:49:49","slug":"lessons-1516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/2025\/03\/24\/lessons-1516\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons 15+16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monday 24th March<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday Vanissa went round the groups and checked how we were doing. Aside from this we didn’t have a lesson, we just spend time doing our own work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 27th March – Playtest 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the morning we prepared for the playtest, I finished some extra details on the camp and helped Anna with implementing them into Unity. I also prepared our bug report sheet and gave Anna some questions to ask on the survey about the games visual design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bug report sheet:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My survey questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After doing my survivor camp survey, I wanted to be sure people understood the camps purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All survey questions and results:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One person said that the resource camps weren’t easy to tell apart and identify, but the rest could identify them, so I don’t feel like this is something that needs to be changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes taken during playtest:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playtester<\/td>notes<\/td>Time taken<\/td><\/tr>
Playtester 1<\/td>\u2013 Did not understand the click to pick up click to drop mechanic
\u2013 Never opened the weekly tasks
\u2013 Needed instructions
\u2013 Confusing which camps produce what
\u2013 Failed day 5 twice (did not collect required resources)<\/td>		1min dialogue   7mins to stop playing<\/td><\/tr>
Playtester 2<\/td>\u2013 Day 5 starved
\u2013 Did really well
\u2013 I could tell mostly which camp made what Didn\u2019t take me long to figure out, with the tutorial it was just figuring it out myself
\u2013 Enjoyed it<\/td>		44s dialogue   3mins40s to stop  <\/td><\/tr>
maja<\/td>\u2013 I like the sound effects (mouse click)
\u2013 \u201cscratches my brain\u201d
\u2013 I think that this guy (arnold) produces arms I think
\u2013 I\u2019m gonna die soon (day 4)
\u2013 Starved day 5
\u2013 It would be nice to see which camp is what so have a way to check it mid game<\/td>		33s Dialogue
48s tutorial
3min58s to stop<\/td><\/tr>
Playtester 4<\/td>\u201cI think I might starve\u201d<\/td>37s dialogue
42s tutorial
00 to stop<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We received some useful feedback during this playtest, but faced the bigger issue of realising that our game was extremely boring. Anna and Joe did some brainstorming to fix the gameplay loop and make gameplay feel more entertaining. They devised this new gameplay loop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They decided to implement 3 new additions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Time control<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • NPC tasks as progression drive<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Introduce camps as the player builds them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    There was also a lot of feedback that players needed a reminder on which camp was which, but we decided this could be fixed with a UI pop up when clicking on the camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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