Board actions

[johnsillings]

As a player, I should be able understand the available actions available to me based on my cards.

Steps

• [ ] Look at other turn-based multiplayer strategy games and collect examples in both video & screenshot forms
• [ ] Brainstorm and list multiple designs that meet the acceptance criteria of the task to a satisfactory level. At this stage more exotic designs can be considered as it’s important to widen our view of the solution landscape before focusing too much on details.
• [ ] For each design rate values below from 0 to 5
  • Clarity: How clear is it: https://www.liamcharlton.com/post/signs-feedback-and-the-ux
  • Ease of use: Number of needed interactions with the UI, complexity of interactions, number of hands needed to complete the actions, thumb zone etc.
  • Acceptance criteria met:
• [ ] Implement changes to update the rating values of the above designs
• [ ] Identify any new player issues that may arise from each of your rough designs and the potential for them to be mitigated.
• [ ] Decide on 1-2 designs that have the greatest potential to work by analyzing the results from previous steps.
• [ ] Share all your results from the previous steps with the team in a table containing concise information; It’s important to also show your thought process for the design decisions you have made.
• [ ] Get the greenlight from project owners to start work on a detailed Figma prototype for one of the high potential rough designs.

Acceptance criteria:

• [ ] Players should have a clear understanding of what actions they can take
  • build (road, settlement, city, city wall, ship, metropolis, destroy their city, knight
  • trade
  • buy dev card
  • play dev card
  • Moving a knight, pirate
  • Using a knight to move a robber
  • Activating a knight
  • Buying city improvements
  • Reposition ships
• [ ] Players should have clear understanding of what each of the actions cost
• [ ] The design of this feature should be sensitive to the limited screen space on mobile devices. Refer to: https://github.com/colonistio/design/issues/17
• [ ] Players should be able to take actions with a single hand (mind the "thumb zone).
• [ ] SF and C&K actions should be considered

[AlfredTimmer]

Design documentation work for this task is still ongoing but here is the current progress: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GX_6zr_wbwa6Nsn6ScmDIjK9otVCN1Sw8gCkuY1Gy3U/edit?usp=sharing

Same situation for the rough Figma sketches: https://www.figma.com/file/SkflgpJdHl3crvc5Lg488a/Mobile-App---Board-Game-Actions?node-id=201%3A28398&t=aHg3oLcPC0yYzEn9-1