Topic

General feedback and ideas regarding the website

I've noticed a few things while browsing alpha.glitch.com that could be improved. Often this is just something minor - not worth a topic of its own.

HOME
When the game is open, your friends online are listed on the HOME page. And even though it looks nice to have all these avatars lined up, it bothers me that I have to scroll all the way down to get to the auction part.
Also, if someone is unaware auctions even exist it is unlikely they'll find them.
Possible solutions:
Display only e.g. 5 friends online and have a *view all* link.
Move the auction box to a more prominent spot.
Depending on how important auctions will be in the final game include a link in the game interface.

BADGES
The way achievements are displayed at the moment confuses me. I am guessing they are organized by date.
I would prefer for the badges to be displayed in groups, e.g. badges you've earned using an awesome pot. Different icons/graphics would be nice, too.
A Tree of Achievements (similar to the skill tree) would be very helpful.
The info boxes which appear when you move your mouse around are a little buggy at the moment. They don't close properly and you often end up with a screen full of yellowish boxes only a refresh can save you from.

Posted 2 years ago by Mina Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • "They don't close properly and you often end up with a screen full of yellowish boxes only a refresh can save you from."

    That's on my peeve list, too. If you take your cursor back to that achievement, it closes.
    Posted 2 years ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm fairly new (only an hour or two of gameplay), but have yet to discover the auction part on the home (profile?) page.
    So: yeah - unless it's unlocked later on with experience - it is less than obvious where to find them...
    Posted 2 years ago by dude Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Also; some sequences of badges are ranked from low to high, others high to low. Needless inconsistency.
    Posted 2 years ago by rothko Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We're just getting started on a new design for the home page, so keep sharing your ideas with us.
    Posted 2 years ago by jdawg Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Aww, I'm really fond of the current Home page design. I guess it could use a 'Garden' part to show how your crops in your garden are doing. :)
    Posted 2 years ago by Hburger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i wouldn't mind if the "time of day landscape" was somehow larger and more integrated into the page design.

    the webpage seems rather divorced from the game client/world - might remedy that.

    maybe the landscape could represent the level of the game you'd appear in once you "enter the world"
    Posted 2 years ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Will there ever be day/night lapses in the game itself? Otherwise, it's pretty pointless having the time of day time-lapse up there if it doesn't reflect on the game itself...?
    Posted 2 years ago by Hburger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What Hburger said, there are so many ways time gets measured in Glitch, but what seems to count the most for players is skills learning time, and xp collecting time (which I guess is impossible to avoid). It would be nice if Glitch's big time, it's day/night cycle and its calendar were incorporated in playtime more. Fireflies at night would be nice too, or an animal husbandry skill that could make butterflies glow.

    Maybe I just want to see Glitch at night.
    Posted 2 years ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • problem with having night-time is that it could increase the amount of artwork needed, unless the game had some kind of procedural method of "re-lighting" level objects in a way that doesn't look atrocious.

    i'd LOVE to see night in-game tho.
    Posted 2 years ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I figured as much, but gotta say, right?
    Posted 2 years ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • now that the old /forums page has been updated to automagically redirect to /forum/general, i would like to re-request a main landing page for the forums that at least has links showing what the most recently updated thread in each forum is.

    also, yeah, night is nifty, my favorite bit of art in the game is on the way up to flipside where the starry sky peeks through the cracks in the daytime sky. so pretty!
    Posted 2 years ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for Groddle fireflies in the dark that sway when you walk or jump around them. :)
    Posted 2 years ago by Hburger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for a landing page (forum)
    Posted 2 years ago by Mina Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wouldn't miss the landing page if the list on the left included the most recent topic to get a post, who posted it, and how long it has been since the post. (at least the 'how long' part)
    Posted 2 years ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't know...that would cut your anticipation rate by 75%.
    Posted 2 years ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have Anticipation III, so it's only cut by 45%.
    Posted 2 years ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Now I have Carly Simon singing in my head.
    Posted 2 years ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had "I'm picking out a thermos for youuuu" from The Jerk in my head all afternoon cuz the rock said "I'm learning Levitation for you"
    Posted 2 years ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink