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bryanhbell -> Usability Suggestions For Tutorials (8/24/2012 11:56:24 AM)
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I just purchased Distant Worlds with the expansions today. I'm new to the game, new to Matrix Games, and new to these forums. Please forgive me if I commit some newbie error with this post.
So the first thing I did was run the tutorials. They were quite helpful, but had three significant usability problems:
1. I couldn't gauge my progress through the tutorials. As I progressed through the tutorials, I couldn't tell if I had another 10 pages of tutorial dialogs to read or another 100. My suggestion for an easy way to fix this would be to add text such as "3 of 25" to each tutorial dialog page.
2. I couldn't return to a desired part of the tutorials. Whenever I returned to the tutorials after leaving, I had to rapidly click through all the dialog pages until I got to where I'd left off. My suggestion for an easy way to fix this would be to add a "table of contents" page at the beginning of the tutorial with links that take you directly to the selected page. In fact, a table of contents page might also solve problem 1 above.
3. You can't go back to the previous dialog pages. Adding a "back" button at the bottom of each dialog page would solve that.
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