[Tux4kids-discuss] [GSoC] Tux Racing UI feedback

[Brendan Luchen]

Hi Kento,

The stars thing confused me too; I couldn't figure out where they were 
coming from. Having fractions of stars isn't such a good thing to begin 
with, but keeping those fractions hidden by rounding makes things worse.

Alternatives:
- Every question is 1 star, longer lessons have more potential stars, 
making them more valuable
- Instead of "Stars = x", show "Points = 3x / y" where x is the number 
correctly answered and y is total number of questions
- Continuous "Star Bar" to illustrate the cumulative percentage. We can 
map the final score to 1-3 stars later. Can also use some kind of cute 
fuel metaphor.


Some minor UI things I noticed
- "Settings and Quit" doesn't need to be a submenu.
- Looks weird in landscape. Probably the CSS needs some massaging, or we 
can just force a portrait orientation, which isn't uncommon for games.
- No indication of the correct answer (Pere mentioned already)

Looks good on the whole.


Cheers,
Brendan

Kento Locatelli wrote:
> Thank you for trying it out!
>
> On 7/22/2012 2:46 AM, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:
>> El dv 20 de 07 de 2012 a les 00:00 -0700, en/na Kento Locatelli va
>> escriure:
>>> Hi everyone!
>>>
>>> The Tux Racing cross-platform/mobile game project is about 3/4 done, and
>>> I would like your assistance in testing what is complete so far.
>>>
>>> Thus far most of the work has been with the "infrastructure" part of the
>>> app so it's not particularly interesting yet, but the rest of the game
>>> is based on this so I need your help in verifying it works properly! So
>>> please mess around with it a little and let me know of anything that
>>> comes up, whether it's a bug or suggestions for improving the
>>> aesthetics. I am especially interested in problems with the problem
>>> generator or UI on desktop browsers/iOS/Android, although feedback on
>>> other problems/smartphone platforms is welcome as well. Relatively
>>> recent Firefox/Chrome/Chromium serve as a good reference.
>>>
>>> Android APK (Android 2.2+):
>>> https://github.com/klocatelli/TuxRacing/TuxRacing.apk/qr_code (May have
>>> to temporarily allow non-Marketplace apps)
>>> Web-based: http://www.klocatelli.name/TuxRacing/#/index (After loading
>>> once, should work offline in relatively modern browsers)
>>> iOS package will be released with the final version, but currently
>>> pending response from Apple regarding beta releases
>> Testing in a hurry
>> Only testing on iceweassel 10.0, don't have android:
>> language settings ca es en : error no modules for your locale, should
>> default to english?
>> language settings en ca es : runs
> Unfortunately the game only has access to the highest priority language
> setting, so it doesn't know you have English enabled at a lower
> priority. But I agree, it's a bit odd to have the game default to a
> different language (English) and then tell you there aren't any modules
> for your language... I changed it so everything defaults to English, and
> lessons that support your language show up at the top of the lesson list
> while lessons that don't show up lower down with a warning that they're
> in another language.
>
>> playing chemistry:
>> significant figures: Don't know what are significant figures so figure
>> kids...
>> density: haven't managed to get recognized right responses.
> Turns out the density problem was a bug in how answers were checked in
> the chemistry lesson, it should work as expected now.
> I agree that the questions don't fit the purpose of the game, but they
> are for demonstration purposes only :)
>
>> playing arithmetic: right responses are recognized, Perhaps one would
>> expect a map 1<->1 from right responses to stars. Putting the questions
>> in small blocks of 5 questions each is great.
> Isn't that what it's doing right now? Every question is worth 3 / total
> number of questions. Right now all exercises are 5 questions long, so
> every question is worth 0.6 stars. If an exercise was 15 questions long,
> every question would be worth 0.2 stars. The stars count is rounded
> though, so if you get 2 questions right you only see Stars = 1 (even
> though it's 1.2).
>
>> The ok dialog is a pain, it should autovanish and show the right
>> response in case of error, we are teaching after all.
>> The number of stars and the title of the exercise perhaps should show on
>> the top of the question
> I agree, the current exercise page is a pain... however it's just for
> demonstration :D My previous email should have had some attachments
> showing what the final exercise page will look like, though I will alter
> it to include your suggestion of the exercise title / stars.
>
>> No mute/unmute here
>>
>> HTH
>> Pere
> Thanks, that was another bug! Should be fixed now, though I tested with
> Iceweasel 11 instead of 10
>
> Cheers!
> - Kento
>
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