hey, can i test these tutorials, when rdy?
well, nice picture newton, by the way..

Feedback to Tutorial 3

Yeah, very well playable! I like it! Here what could be improved in my opinion:

Spawnpoints - The spears should rather just lie around or stick in piles in the ground, those checkpoints with the blinking lights around it will confuse the new player. Also this will be the more natural way in which spears will appear in the game - they just lie around. Also, I think the scenario should abstain from using these spawnpoints alltogether. They just confuse the player and it is all possible without them.

Spears - I don't see a problem with them just sticking around after they have been thrown. Also, in tutorial 2, the clonk learned to handle the backpack and have two inventory slots. I don't think it makes much sense here to once again reduce the standard inventory count. Also the player will face packs of 3 javelins in the real game (to which an appropiate graphic is missing btw - the arrows and bullets have that already. For the javelin, only one javelin is displayed all the time). So that a javelin comes in a pack of three should be explained in the tutorial and be used this way.
There is also a new annoying bug regarding the javelin: The clonk stops when starting to aim (because he turns around?). The Clonk also aims very slowly into the direction of the mouse cursor - thats irritating, he should aim at exactly the angle of the mouse cursor, without delay!

Target - looks and is animated pretty cool! However there are a few issues: The target always jumps up and down a few pixels instead of moving slowly/normally. Also, the balloon doesn't really fit, though: Firstly I think it would look much cooler if it were a model too because this makes some tilting possible to make this floating installation look more interesting. Secondly, the ropes beneath the balloon look odd - why this construction? Why are the ropes that are spanned around this ballon not running together in one knot directly above the target? The movement of the ballon+target could also be a sinus-movement instead of a linear up and down, would look slightly better. This "hay-explosion" also looks quite odd.

Messages - the messages are gone quite fast. I'd prefer if they stayed there while I did not finish the task or require user input to go away (e.g. like in the hazard tutorial). Also, I'd like some more tipps and explanation, also active comments that react to the players behaviour (E.g. repeat that you have to run to throw at a greater distance if he didnt do that or explain that a javelin comes in a pack of three and that one can see how many are left by looking at the count... yaddayadda.).

Bow - Here, you should be faced with the real bow too: No unlimited arrows, some pile of arrows somewhere else if the clonk doesn't have any arrows left + explanation that one arrow pack has 15 arrows(?) and that you need arrow-packs to shoot and that there are different arrow types.

Goals - Why are there two goals? The target goal should be enough.

Scenario - There is no scenario description.
Also, I think it would be better to design the "teacher" this way: Explain the player that the goal of this scenario is to destroy all the targets. Give him a challenge and a tool to master it: Only then introduce the first weapon. The player should "do it by himself" rather then obey instructions. It is not necessary to explain that he has to shoot a balloon to make a ladder appear so he can get on - if his goal is to destroy all the targets, he will do that anyway. What is important is to explain how to use the weapon and to show the player the strengths and the limits of the weapon (that not by explaining it but by making the player experience it by himself:).
If the bow should be used next, don't instruct the player to fetch the bow and only shoot with that. Let the player try to hit the target. When he fails, acknowledge that the target is too far away (or is too hard to hit because it is moving) and then offer him a bow to overcome this problem + explain how to use it.
In all, the target range could be a bit bigger because it says "target practice", not "spear+bow explanation". If he should practice, there should be more than 3 targets for the spear and 5(?) targets for the bow. It should be also more up to the player with which weapon he destroys the (later) targets.

Feedback to Tutorial 2 (so far)

• The scenario crashes sometimes when placing environment objects


• The message box is much too far at the top of the screen


• The messages go too fast, IMO. There should be a next-button or something. Something that makes the player feel secure that he won't miss anything important.


• Don't explain the whole situation at the start. Give the player some time to explore and find out by himself that he can't advance (he doesn't need to be trapped, you know. If the goal is to reach the other side, it's enough that he can't advance alone)


• I gather that this is the first scenario where the clonk actually has two inventory slots. You need to explain these first and let the player get familiar with that (one argument more to not let the clonk start trapped). Before he gets to any chest, before you explain that you can change the crew and all that.


• You shouldn't include the chests right at scenario start. These should come later, even after the backpack has been explained (which should, too, be explained after the player figured out that he somehow needs it. E.g. there is a barrier and he can't advance without getting his shovel out of his backpack.)