Help us test a strategy language - Page 2

On July 15 2011 02:41 Iwbhs wrote:
select piece, move with arrow keys. if the piece has no chance to fire. End turn. would make this game about 1000x better. Do you have source available on SVN?

On July 15 2011 02:58 Anthodeus wrote:
Is it just me or the range 0 unit doesn't attack at all? Won't really put out a valid result if the unit is useless.

On July 15 2011 03:34 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
I've taken a look at the game. The UI is a nightmare, and it's really hard to figure out which unit is which type. As near as I can tell, the popup tooltip for units doesn't actually say what number the unit is, so even if I remember that 1 beats 2 or whatever, I can't tell which face corresponds to which number.

I would change the menus to just show pictures of the units instead of their numbers. Also allowing the use of arrow keys would be vastly superior to the menu selection you're using now.

I understand that this is just for a study, but the UI is so infuriating that I gave up after just a few minutes. I think you're going to have a hard time getting enough people to play several rounds of this to get the data you need without a bit of improvement.

On July 15 2011 03:34 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
I've taken a look at the game. The UI is a nightmare, and it's really hard to figure out which unit is which type. As near as I can tell, the popup tooltip for units doesn't actually say what number the unit is, so even if I remember that 1 beats 2 or whatever, I can't tell which face corresponds to which number.

I would change the menus to just show pictures of the units instead of their numbers. Also allowing the use of arrow keys would be vastly superior to the menu selection you're using now.

I understand that this is just for a study, but the UI is so infuriating that I gave up after just a few minutes. I think you're going to have a hard time getting enough people to play several rounds of this to get the data you need without a bit of improvement.