Timeline for Should in-game events (raids) be announced?
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| Oct 26, 2021 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackGameDev/status/1452968257607118857 | ||
| Oct 13, 2021 at 19:59 | vote | accept | caleidon | ||
| Oct 13, 2021 at 13:16 | answer | added | Vhagar | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 13:05 | answer | added | Philipp | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 11:22 | comment | added | DMGregory♦ | It sounds to me like you already understand the potential benefits and risks in theory. The unknown is whether those benefits are worth the risks in practice, in the particular context of your specific game and the audience it attracts and your unique goals for the experience. So what I think you're likely to get from answers here is opinion. We just don't have a theory precise enough to predict the exact emotional responses of players, down to whether anticipation of the unknown or dread of the known-but-unseen is more enjoyable in this play context. That may well vary between similar games. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 5:15 | comment | added | caleidon | @DMGregory Thanks for the reminder, I'll definitely do it in the future, but right now I was more interested in theory since I don't have enough content to test it with people. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 5:14 | comment | added | caleidon | @SomethingSImple Yes. This was the main idea I had as a complete replacement for the event announcements. Could still do the trick but isn't as obvious. Thanks! | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 21:02 | comment | added | SomethingSImple | Have you considered non-textual signals instead of announcements? Say a sound effect(ie howling monsters) or mini-cinematic(ie BoTW Blood moon) or notable graphic change(ie shifting the bg/screen color dramatically). | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 20:08 | comment | added | DMGregory♦ | This sounds like a decision sensitive enough to the particulars of the experience that you'd want to playtest it. Design a set of questions that measure how much players are feeling what you want them to feel in your game, and test your game with and without these notifications. Check whether there's a statistically significant change in the reported scores between the two versions. | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 19:22 | history | asked | caleidon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |