There is a hard-coded shortcut in the civic resume page that is displaying 2015 by default for the year of education, if the year is not provided in the player's resume data. This is because the original mockup of the civic resume included a year for the player's education, but when we were planning resume questions and answers, we overlooked this portion. So we currently don't have a part of the game that is asking for the education year.
However, we were only asking for the player's major when the player talked to Hoots in Level 1: "What is your field of study at college?"
So, as such, there was never any opportunity for a graduation year to be entered into the civic resume. (As for the school, it was being entered at game start, so I was able to "borrow" that information from elsewhere in the user's data.) I hard-coded the year into the code purely as a way to make sure that the year display was working -- and then forgot to remove it or call attention to it, which I should have done. In any case, it does open the question of, at what point is it the most opportune time to ask for this information?
We could ask for it along with Hoot's question about your major.
We could ask for it some other time.
We could leave it blank and assume that people will fill it in when they see the final resume. (The edit interface for this is not completed.)
We could never ask for it.
I think number 3 (the edit interface for the final resume) does not preclude asking for the year some other time, either. The question is what do we think is the most appropriate thing(s) to do for the gameplay experience?
There is a hard-coded shortcut in the civic resume page that is displaying 2015 by default for the year of education, if the year is not provided in the player's resume data. This is because the original mockup of the civic resume included a year for the player's education, but when we were planning resume questions and answers, we overlooked this portion. So we currently don't have a part of the game that is asking for the education year.
This is the original mockup for comparison.
How it's supposed to look: http://civicseed.org/profiles/lou-huang (Major, School, Year)
However, we were only asking for the player's major when the player talked to Hoots in Level 1: "What is your field of study at college?"
So, as such, there was never any opportunity for a graduation year to be entered into the civic resume. (As for the school, it was being entered at game start, so I was able to "borrow" that information from elsewhere in the user's data.) I hard-coded the year into the code purely as a way to make sure that the year display was working -- and then forgot to remove it or call attention to it, which I should have done. In any case, it does open the question of, at what point is it the most opportune time to ask for this information?
I think number 3 (the edit interface for the final resume) does not preclude asking for the year some other time, either. The question is what do we think is the most appropriate thing(s) to do for the gameplay experience?