Sky Assault itself.

The only permanent change which has occurred so far is the inclusion of the small button which will open up a transparent screen displaying radar.

I am now thinking of the options to what can be done about the ‘green zone’ or the safe zone. Possibly having the planes land automatically into their team’s hangers which would therefore disable the players control of their plane. Originally, I think the green zone was just a point in space. The problem is, ‘would players still be moving?’ and ‘how would they control their way out of the green zone if the controls were stuck on portrait?’

So now with a ‘forced landing’, control is completely gone removing that 2nd problem and since they are landing, the plane would not be moving, which is logical instead of floating in mid air…

The players would be able to refuel and resupply weapons as well as viewing radar and their stats. Pushing a button would set the plane to automatically launch and back out into the battle.

The idea I feel seems alright, but better check with a few people first.

Work on the flash website

I’ve re started work on the flash website by asking people about flash websites. What did they like? What they didn’t like? What annoyed them…

I pitched out my idea but there was already disagreements as a got through my first point.

1. They didn’t want to see a pop-up. They preferred it stayed in the same window as they found it was a nuisance to deal with more browsers opening.
2. The people would like to see an animation, but if it took too long to load, even if it had a pre-loader, they would not bother. They would prefer something less animated if it meant accessing the content quickly.

3. There was a big divide on the inclusion of sound. People thoughts from experience were that repetitive button sounds became annoying. Background music was also an issue. Music that wouldn’t normally suit the taste of the person would make their experience ‘crap’. But there was an on/off button for sound which was a good option.

4. A few users have experienced a moving navigation. They did not like it put simply. After having experienced a moving navigation they longed for simple static navigation boxes.

5. Too many animations was also a problem. They saw that too many animations was distracting and frustrating when trying to read text off the flash website.

6. Some flash websites had small text which the users thought was just ’stupid’ and requested that I have bigger text.

So from all these criticisms, I now have kind of a guideline to how I should be building the flash website.