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Reusable game components for PhET simulations.
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displaying score and best time #51

Open pixelzoom opened 8 years ago

pixelzoom commented 8 years ago

@ariel-phet requested that this be relocated from https://github.com/phetsims/balancing-act/issues/63.

Things to discuss:

(1) Do all games need to behave the same wrt score and best time? (2) Should 'best score' or 'last score' be shown on the level selection screen? (3) When should best time be shown on the level selection screen? (4) Should we show best time in the scoreboard, next to the current time?

pixelzoom commented 8 years ago

4/7/16 dev meeting decisions:

(1) Do all games need to behave the same wrt score and best time?

Yes.

(2) Should 'best score' or 'last score' be shown on the level selection screen?

Last score.

(3) When should best time be shown on the level selection screen?

When timer is on and you have a perfect score, show the best time for any perfect score.

(4) Should we show best time in the scoreboard, next to the current time?

No.

pixelzoom commented 5 years ago

Reopening.

I'm responsible for 3 sims where this is an open (non-blocking) issue:

While https://github.com/phetsims/vegas/issues/51#issuecomment-207081290 was the dev team consensus, there are other thoughts from @kathy-phet in https://github.com/phetsims/graphing-lines/issues/61#issuecomment-291296234. And according to https://github.com/phetsims/graphing-lines/issues/61#issuecomment-436070994, this is on @amanda-phet's list as a design issue.

amanda-phet commented 9 months ago

Discussed briefly 12/7/23 (and we will have a more definitive discussion next week) but @arouinfar @marlitas @ariel-phet and I think best score and best time are the most logical decisions for what to display.

amanda-phet commented 9 months ago

Discussed 12/15/23 with @ariel-phet @arouinfar @amanda-phet @marlitas @pixelzoom @kathy-phet

We would like to prioritize consistency between sims, as much as possible.

Showing best score is the most logical, and moving forward we'd like to only show best score.

Regarding time, we think it's ok to keep a clock option to time yourself playing a level (optional for sims and games), and you can see your time upon completing of a level, but we agree we should not show any times on the level selection screen.