Mudlet:February 2021 Userstudy - Revision history

Vadi at 10:58, 11 March 2025

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Vadi at 10:02, 30 December 2021

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Vadi: /* Study notes */

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Study notes

Vadi at 13:45, 12 March 2021

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Vadi at 13:29, 12 March 2021

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== Subject ==
* 25-30 age bracket
* female
* Masters education

== Study notes ==
* welcome screen:
** understandable overall
** did not know what a server address or port is in the welcome message
*** -> this is targetted at advanced players, so mention that explicitly. “Already know what to do? …”
** game ‘Midnight Sun’ was chosen due to the name’s appeal
** upon clicking on the game label, subject thought they were in the game already and started filling in the character info into Mudlet’s login box
*** -> hide login info by default, this again is a convenience feature for advanced players
** then they hit ‘new profile’ following the logic that ‘profile’ meant their on personal profile… not the game one
** connected to the game in the end with the Connect button, experience was confusing but relatively OK and did not take too long
* game:
** actually started typing right away into the command line upon connection
** character creation was worked out as intended
** chose white background colour in the game when the game offered, not into dark themes in general
** text seems to appear all at once, didn’t realize it goes from bottom to top
*** because of this, you need to remember where you were, then read from there until latest, while text keeps coming
*** couldn’t stop text from coming
** sensitive mac scrolling (fixed since) was a real big issue - increased frustration
*** -> check with subject again that PTBs are fixed
** ‘map loaded successfully’, ‘searching for prompt’ messages went over the subject’s head
** started out in ‘vegetable’ and could not work out how to change it. This combined with fast scrolling started to induce annoyance
** subject thought given the generic mapper’s prompts, that mapping was something they needed to do
*** in reality the prompts came up as a response to the map being opened
*** but the map was auto-opened by the script in this game
*** eventually subject went back to the game story
** at some point the subject lost track of the input line, scrolling, and progress in the game. To try to get back on track, they spent a while looking everywhere in the Mudlet’s interface, mappers, and settings
** they eventually looked at https://midnightsun2.org/start.html, found the “look” command and were able to resume playing from there
** but were still lost as to what to do, since the game did not prompt for anything and they kept facing unknown emotes like “emotes”
** decided that they have to read the whole start.html page before being able to play or even understand anything. While the page is very helpful, it should not be mandatory
* mapper:
** scrolled out of the mapper view and had no way to bring it back
*** -> don’t allow to fully scroll map completely out of the view
* game content:
** periodic ‘reminders’ for players as implemented by some games are essential
** subject was frustrated in the end by the overall experience. Took about 45min all in all.

== Raw videos ==
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 * 25-30 age bracket
 * female

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 *** -&gt; check with subject again that PTBs are fixed
 ** ‘map loaded successfully’, ‘searching for prompt’ messages went over the subject’s head
-** started out in ‘vegetable’ and could not work out how to change it. This combined with fast scrolling started to induce annoyance
+** (game, not mudlet) started out in ‘vegetable’ and could not work out how to change it.
 ** subject thought given the generic mapper’s prompts, that mapping was something they needed to do
 *** in reality the prompts came up as a response to the map being opened

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 ** did not know what a server address or port is in the welcome message
 *** -&gt; this is targetted at advanced players, so mention that explicitly. “Already know what to do? …”
-** game ‘Midnight Sun’ was chosen due to the name’s appeal
+** game ‘Midnight Sun 2’ was chosen due to the name’s appeal
 ** upon clicking on the game label, subject thought they were in the game already and started filling in the character info into Mudlet’s login box
 *** -&gt; hide login info by default, this again is a convenience feature for advanced players

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 * female
 * Masters education
 == Study notes ==