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    mathibus posted an update in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 2 months ago

    Hello guys,

    I uploaded 2 documents about different features we talked about recently. I’d like to explain my intentions with you when you’ve got time.
    Talk to you soon

    Math

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    mathibus uploaded the file: 1st iteration to Group logo of Game designGame design 2 months ago

    A global description for the features of the 1st iteration

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    mathibus uploaded the file: GD iterations to Group logo of Game designGame design 2 months ago

    A global structure of the game and iterations proposals

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    mathibus uploaded the file: CS_ideas_20022012.doc to Group logo of Game designGame design 2 months, 4 weeks ago

    A new rough document with ideas about players retention system and the CS universe

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      antoviaque replied 2 months, 4 weeks ago

      Lots of very good ideas here – kudos! Copy-pasting the things Iw think would be worth digging into, from IRC:

      09:40 To complete the document, here are a few points which would be good to have details on: 1) how the likes would relate to the metagoal, more precisely, 2) how do we mix players while they are in the tutorial phase? (to make sure the…[Read more]

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        blanchard replied 2 months, 3 weeks ago

        +1
        I really like the proposed background, i think that CS really fits in a universe such as ’le petit prince’, there is something cool to be done here.

        Also i’m on the same line as Xavier for the next steps / questions.

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        mathibus replied 2 months, 3 weeks ago

        1), 3) and 4) : have a look to the new docs, and if you have more question just ask me :)

        2) The tutorial phase won’t be different from a regular game. The only change would be on the screen of the newcomer.

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          mathibus replied 2 months, 3 weeks ago

          I couldn’t find the upload button -_-’, so the docs are posted on the CS tracker.

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            blanchard replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago

            Thx Mathibus !
            It seems to me that the CS community 2.0 doc answers the questions you raised @antoviaque , what do you think ?
            And what would be a first small step to test this community framework ?

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    mathibus uploaded the file: CardStories community framework to Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    A first document which propose a new framework for CS, based on community principles. I’m waiting for your comments, ideas, questions, opinions, etc.

    Math

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    mathibus posted an update in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hi all,

    I’ve the opportunity to do a playtest with 2 people i met in a coworking space this morning. Here are the comments i collected from the player 1:

    The “create game tab” is not visible enough. The player 1 suggested to add text on the side of the “+” icon.

    The player 1 didn’t like the chat and “join game” button in the same…[Read more]

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      mathibus replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago

      The player 2 didn’t shows up this afternoon, i couldn’t have his opinion :/

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    antoviaque replied to the forum topic Playtest tabs & tables in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    And priorities set for 2.2 (sprint until next Monday evening): http://tickets.farsides.com/projects/cardstories/issues?query_id=16

    It’s too much for one sprint, but we’ll take care of that when Adolfo will […]

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    antoviaque replied to the forum topic Playtest tabs & tables in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    FYI, I created tickets for each of the issues from this thread. Have a look and see if it summarizes discussions/comments correctly, and please comment directly on the relevant ticket if you have additional […]

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    antoviaque replied to the forum topic Playtest tabs & tables in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    Interesting the color codes, didn’t think about it. We would need to ensure there is one main consistent color for each step then, probably both on the interface and on the progress bar (on top, below the tabs) […]

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    antoviaque replied to the forum topic Playtest tabs & tables in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    +1 for seeing the online status

    +1 for the result screen too – it’s definitely messy right now. The good news is that tartaruga already worked on this, to integrate the “continue” workflow and the upcoming […]

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    mathibus replied to the forum topic Playtest tabs & tables in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    About the color coding fort the tabs, it can be interesting to use the color already displayed on the screen to help the player to understand what he need to do.

    For example, the tab can get the same orange […]

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    blanchard replied to the forum topic Playtest tabs & tables in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    nothing more to add, thx for that ! It’s already quite some work.

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    mathibus replied to the forum topic Playtest tabs & tables in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    I found pretty much the same problems during the game session. Here are other issues i had.

    - We can’t see if people you’re playing with are still connected or not during a game.

    - We can’t see if there […]

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    antoviaque replied to the forum topic Playtest tabs & tables in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    Good idea to show the action needed – it’s true that it can be hard to remember when there are several games going on. Need to think of how to do this without adding a lot of visual clutter though. Maybe an icon? […]

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    tartarugafeliz replied to the forum topic Playtest tabs & tables in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    Very cool remarks, there’s already a lot of things to improve huh?

    About this “* It can be difficult to understand the color coding of the “ready” tabs (ie the ones with a game that require an action from the […]

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    antoviaque started the forum topic Playtest tabs & tables in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    Cool to see those features starting to work : ) The first playtests this morning have shown a number of rough edges to address though, so I’m going to list what I observed so we can compile a list of the most […]

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    blanchard posted an update in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    @mathibus,

    I’ve read with a lot of interest your tickets about new features.

    I’ll be very interested to have your feedback after you play CS for a day, as you discussed with @antoviaque on the chat. That is to say, how this experience of interacting with players will help you prioritize your various ideas of features.

    Looking forward to…[Read more]

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      mathibus replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago

      Thank you for your comments :) . I agree with you about the game rooms, it is too early to think about that. Perhaps it could be usefull later, once the community would be more important.

      I’m going to play CS all day tomorrow, if you want to discuss it during the day or thursday (i won’t be available wednesday and friday), let me know. Beside, i…[Read more]

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        antoviaque replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago

        Agreed! I think there is a lot to your ideas, and it’s good to start thinking of variants for the base gameplay.

        We talked about priorities and the chicken&egg issue, but there is one feature which I think could fit in the current goals: the social leveling. We’d need to discuss it more, but there is a lot to it I think, it could match very…[Read more]

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          blanchard replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago

          +1, I agree there might be big potential here

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        antoviaque replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago

        Ah, and this doesn’t prevent us from trying out the new variants btw – if you can write down a good protocol to just use the chat & emails for example, we can organize a playtest session. It’s a good excuse to play together, and this way we’ll get an idea of what could work, even if we don’t get to implement it soon.

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    mathibus uploaded the file: Macro Design document (WIP) to Group logo of Game designGame design 3 months, 3 weeks ago

    This document propose severals ideas, in order to improve the game experience

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      blanchard replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago

      Thx Mathibus,
      I really like this idea !

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    antoviaque replied to the forum topic A note about the condorcet method for the survey in the group Group logo of Game designGame design 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    Yep, that’s how I usually do it – it’s a good approximation imho. : )

    If you want you can have a look at the spreadsheet I put in ”stats” on the repository, if you want to play with those numbers : )

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