Playtest 2 Feedback - Githubissues

1) The controls felt a little unnatural, but in the way that a canoe is sometimes unintuitive to control, so in that regard it felt reasonably natural that it was a bit unnatural. 2) I'm not entirely sure I can answer this question because I don't know how the motion is implemented on the back-end. At first I thought it might just speed up the further along you are, but is this a physics-based acceleration? I didn't really notice until towards the end and my boat started to drift badly when I was too horizontal. If it is physics based, it wasn't immediately obvious. 3) The rocks seemed like they might have been randomly generated, though I don't know if that was your intent. They were reasonably easy to dodge with a little planning. 4) The feeling of paddling into a sunset was quite pleasant. It would have been nice to have banks along the river. 5) Music was good but it paused for a weirdly long time towards the end. I think this might have been in between loops of the track? 6) Hard to say with the environment being so bare-bones, but nothing particularly stood out as unusual. 7) Boots, cans, logs, leaves, fish, frogs that hop in when you get close, birds that fly off when you approach, water snakes. 8) It would be cool to have different levels based on different river biomes. Bayou, rainforest, St Lawrence seaway, desert gulch, etc. 9) I could see this being a narrative more of self-discovery for some narrator going on these trips, but I'd also be pretty happy with this just being a nice environmental experience rather than any concrete narrative. Could also use environmental storytelling to just hint at micro-stories (coming across beaver dams, or other half-sunken boats, or abandoned shacks by the side of the river) 10) Making the river twist and turn a bit (like the camera+boat maintain their angle relative to the cross-section of the river, but the angle of the cross-section changes as the river winds) would add some visual interest to the experience and landscape.

sharon-ku / cart315-prototype2

Playtest 2 Feedback #2