Playtest response

Playtest At BabyCastles 10/14/19

Feedbacks:

• Terrain is too big
• There should be a way to guide the players to the creature/ locate the creature within such a big terrain
• Climbing a tree as mechanic
• The players can walk faster
• The mini map is good
• Creature can leave a trail
• Journalists move faster/ same speed as creature or have some advantage in order to take picture
• Creature have another objective beside surviving, e.g. collecting fruits...

• Creature can glow more when standing still for more than a few seconds to prevent the player from standing still

To do:

• Add collider for lake & pond
• Creature become translucent when hiding
• UI Timer
• Destroy pictures
• All players can see the number of pictures the other player have
• Grass & small bush
• Ask Teacher:
• Trees growing & lake rendering before trees
• UI show up on Camera
• How to connect the monitor

John’s Feedback:

• Have traps and camera renewable
• Tilt the camera to see the horizon
• Deer has to eat/ collect → deer should have a goal (if survive til sunset, why eat the food)
• Balance the 2 players abilities
• Player move faster
• More useful information on the map
• Make players encounter each other → attack & defend

10.21 In-Class Play Testing:

• LOTS OF FEEDBACK (audio & visual etc.)
• Improving mobility & playability
• Who is the creature
• Didn‘t know the creature have to avoid
• Can place traps on mountains
• Can move outside of map
• Creature has separate screen & controller
• Creature rotate speed is fine
• Creature can go underwater
• Steer and walk at the same time
• Invisible makes creature completely invisible on screen
• Traps bigger & longer cool down
• Tree collider --> capsule collider as big as the root system
• Youtuber faster
• Get traps back --> destroy after a while
• Have to be more navigable
• Put a collider around groups of tree
• Too easy to get stuck in trees
• Staying invisible longer (deer feel more powerful)
• Creature can rush and attack with visual feedback ( have them fly away etc)
• Have creatures be able to blind the other players for a while (screen turns white)
• No way for creature to escape after people catches up
• What kind of forest?
• Journalists have less visibility than creature
• Can go under lake
• Good: antagonistic to each other
• Range for stealing photo
• Can pick camera back up
• Deer gets feedback when picture is taken
• Be redundant w/ feedback
• Darker at night & Lighter in the morning
• Starts with sunset - middle is night - ends with sunrise
• Cues for time ( audio etc)
• Deer can mimic itself
• Turn off halo

10.24

• see each other on the map
• Fix lake collider
• Visual feed back when taking pictures
• End state
• Triangle on the screen hinting that some one is close
• UI improvement
• Trap people longer
• More mushrooms on the map
• Change tree billboarding/ a large mesh for trees at the corners

NYU

• Don't call youtuber cams cameras
• Camera flashlight & sound effects
• Don't have the triangle cause maybe it will be too easy to find the creature
• Rotate speed should be faster
• Put minimap on r1/r2
• Assign display according to playerNum
• Maybe the traps shouldn't be visible
• Maybe a common place for the players to go to to find resources and stuff
• Can see creature lighting on the minimap
• See each other on the minimap for journalists
• Maybe see mushrooms on minimap
• Have minimap at corner

Presentation day feedback:

Border of the forest should be clearer

More players trying to get the creature

Steep mountain at the edge

Make character colliders smaller