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I need your opinion on this mod I am making
Racerboy:
--- Quote from: Blake1 on October 23, 2013, 06:08:47 PM ---"You have the puck" is helpful for non-experienced players. However, the ==== is easier to glance at.
I say Racer's idea.
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just to counter your first point, people will catch on quickly and be well aware of the feature before games.
It will also be clearly noted in the final release topic.
--- Quote from: Marcem on October 23, 2013, 06:11:33 PM ---why have the red bar? There are two possible states, and it's probably more obvious to just make an indicator appear or disappear.
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because red means no puck and green means shoot? why have it disappear and reappear, that's just more confusing.
Marcem:
--- Quote from: Racerboy on October 23, 2013, 06:12:57 PM ---because red means no puck and green means shoot? why have it disappear and reappear, that's just more confusing.
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I disagree, a bar would suggest that there are states in between, especially if it just starts out all red. It tells you nothing at first, unlike the "you have the puck" element. No game displays an item you don't have in red all of the time, that's a massive waste of space, especially if it's a giant bar. Most sports games solve this sort of issue by hi-lighting the player with the puck or the puck itself if no one has it, it doesn't just show a puck.
Racerboy:
--- Quote from: Marcem on October 23, 2013, 06:16:51 PM ---I disagree, a bar would suggest that there are states in between, especially if it just starts out all red. It tells you nothing at first, unlike the "you have the puck" element. No game displays an item you don't have in red all of the time, that's a massive waste of space, especially if it's a giant bar. Most sports games solve this sort of issue by hi-lighting the player with the puck or the puck itself if no one has it, it doesn't just show a puck.
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It's not about information being conveyed over time, it's about understanding it all in the end and having it function better than something that conveys information quicker, but inefficiently.
it's not huge, check it out in-game playing full-screen.
Aide33:
I just came up with the best idea ever
========================You have the puck=================================
========================You don't have the puck=============================
in respective green and red
Treynolds416:
More than "you have the puck" in a bottomprint colored green is superfluous