Topic

make it easier to remember and notice friends

I have a couple suggestions to help make it easier to connect with friends:

1) Right now I have a bit of trouble remembering who is who on my friends list.  Sometimes I friend people I meet in-game, and some of my friends are old RL buddies from Facebook.  The problem with the second group is that I might not recognize their Glitch username, but would very much like to interact with them.  Would it be possible to pull in some Facebook info into profile pages of people who you are friended to on Facebook?  An email or real name?  It would make it much easier to track who all these "friends" actually are, which would in turn lead me to more in-game chat and collaboration.

2) It would be fantastic if there was something visual in the game UI that indicates that someone is your friend - maybe a halo or an aura or something.  I've run right past avatars I know several times because I'm rushing to do something and don't really notice them.  This is especially true when my friends like to change their clothes a lot; there's nothing to clue me in that it's someone I know.

Posted 18 months ago by mirth Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • 1) People have the option to put identifying info into their profile page already...if they don't put it there, then I'd rather not have a game do it for me for privacy issues.

    2) Love the idea of the halo/glow idea for friends while in game.

    I would like a way to tag friends, as has been mentioned in other idea threads. Maybe a way to display their tag in the online listing would be nice too (or group by tag).
    Posted 18 months ago by ~Pink Flamingo~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For #1, there's http://beta.glitch.com/friends/suggest/ which will show you any of your Facebook friends who are playing the game, along with their avatars. It's not exactly what you're looking for, but it might help if you didn't know it's there.

    I've been wishing for something like #2 for a while. Some sort of highlight in the global chat might be nice as well. Perhaps a reversed background for the chat and street presence notifications? So, if their name would normally be in red, show it in white in a red box. It wouldn't increase the space required to display, and would make it easy to notice friends' names. And then maybe when you actually see their avatar, it could have a little star or something next to the name floating above their head.
    Posted 18 months ago by duien Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Beach Bum: I totally didn't notice the option to put custom identifying info into your profile (mainly because very few of my friends have done it).  Thanks!
    Posted 18 months ago by mirth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • NP Mirth...yes, I've noticed a lot don't add that info, but many do...now to convince your friends to use it ;)
    Posted 18 months ago by ~Pink Flamingo~ Subscriber! | Permalink