Confusion and frustration with game mechanics and feature design

Signals over time

2 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 9 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “Wow, thanks for replying! Thought I was pissing into the wind with that one. I've never once touched the multiplayer mode. I don't recall seeing the option for it. I mean, I'm sure it's there, but I don't remember it, which means I've never clicked on it. So, yes, single player campaign only. A decent amount of the original, and then about half a level of Brood War when I skipped forward one time. Wow, that sounds like a hella lotta workers. I vaguely recall trying that in a mission or two where I had severe resource problems, but then I didn't have enough offensive units and ran out of minerals by mining them too fast. Hmm... I remember getting frustration-curiosity a couple times and checking YouTube videos of how people beat missions I was completely stuck on, and being very unsatisfied because what I saw worked when I tried it myself but I didn't understand it (I can tell I didn't understand it because I don't remember it). I didn't know there's a speed setting. That could make missions less of a long-ass slog, although, uh, controlling every unit at once? That sounds like a massive amount of busywork and I'm not ”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “I had too much physics in my life so my brain is screaming " Is energy and angular momentum conserved here??? ". I'm not sure if I'm a typical user :) What I dislike about influence areas is that sometimes small changes in the direction or speed makes big changes in the trajectory. You may enjoy looking at another recent game " Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields " https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/ (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946393 (364 points | 2 days ago | 90 comments)) About your game, three feature request: * I'm not sure if it's a good idea to start the first game with so many weapons. I understand it's more fun, but not knowing what they do and the cost is confusing. * In the weapon buying screen, it would be nice to have a visual representation of the explosion. (This looks like a very hard change. I'm not sure if you are going to add more features.) * In the weapon buying screen, I prefer that the list is not cyclic, i.e. if I click down it stops when the list ends instead of cycling to the more expensive weapons again.”

  Hacker News · request