Littlecosm Twitter game alpha release

http://www.littlecosm.com/

by brokentone • 15 years ago

40 26 15 years ago

Been watching this idea for a little while, now yongfook just opened up some alpha space.

It looks interesting but it would be nice to understand what I can actually do? Do I attack the other sprites on the screen or just do quests? I'm sort of lost in the interface right now.

fookyong11• 15 years ago

that is kind of the idea right now.

alpha release. there will be early adopters who "get it". others won't. that sucks, but instructions / FAQs and whatnot will come later.

releasing is a feature :)

dchs• 15 years ago

I've just worked out that the sprites represent recent tweets! Click the sprite to see the tweet. Tweets containing ":)" become white sprites.

wulczer• 15 years ago

I would also appreciate if there was even a shortest FAQ somewhere, so I can at least know what to expect before I sign in.

fookyong11• 15 years ago

I'll be writing a FAQ on my blog tonight.

(I'm the creator)

ginolomelino• 15 years ago

Another good way to do a tutorial is with mouseovers. A little info about each thing in the game would go a long way.

Swizec2• 15 years ago

I feel generally dazed and confused. Have played many a MMORPG in my time but this one is ... it's a bit more confusing than even Ultima Online.

Which is to say, bravo, you've finally made a MMORPG for power players! Kudos for that.

Now, the thing that confuses me the most is that, I start a quest and by doing absolutely nothing, the percentage of its completeness goes up ...

Another thing that baffles me is that, ok I can tweet. But it doesn't seem to do anything more than act as a farming mechanism for my stats and a virality factor for you ... I dislike farming with a passion.

edit: and there are other players in the game who seem to be people I follow on twitter ... but I'm not sure they're actually in the game or just randomly on twitter. Therefore I can't tell if I should interact with them or not ... or what that would even entail from a game point of view.

fookyong11• 15 years ago

farming mechanism for your stats? please explain.

I'm just a dude who made a game - there's no evil corporation behind this...

Swizec2• 15 years ago

Well next to my stats it says "Tweet to make your stats go up"

So does this mean that if I just start spamming like crazy my stats will go up like crazy? That feels like the general farming motto behind MMORPG's.

As in, "kill 5000 wolves and gain a level! yay!"

(don't worry, I'm not calling you evil, just trying to figure it all out, I generally like the idea)

fookyong11• 15 years ago

So does this mean that if I just start spamming like crazy my stats will go up like crazy?

Well sure, but that's up to you. It's only spam if you make it spam.

FYI the game does not append any hashtags or anything like that. Your tweet is exactly what you type. There's no viral benefit received by the game just by tweeting normally from the game.

erinreina• 15 years ago

I'm really looking forward to where this will go. I can't wait for the FAQs just because I don't really know what to do with the items that I've collected so far. Is there a possible way to navigate through my followers' timeline other than what has been tweeted in that "5 minute update"? And are you going to add the @ reply feature where a drop menu will show?

dotpot• 15 years ago

Sorry the Littlecosm Alpha is now full.... :(

fookyong11• 15 years ago

just added a few more spaces for you :)

kitsune_3• 15 years ago

What's the point of the game? Spamming twitter with random messages??? That'd be a rather idiotic thing.

Does it apply some language processing related to the quests at hand?

kitsune_3• 15 years ago

Alpha full :(

By the way, the intro screen is awesome and beautiful, it reminds me of "Ico" AND "Another World" ("Out of this World" for you Americans).

fookyong11• 15 years ago

added more spaces now!

djb_hackernews• 15 years ago

I built a twitter game last year. It was a scrabble style word point game amongst friends. It got terrible reviews here and I abandoned it.

I still think there is a lot of opportunity to make twitter gaming a success.

aruban• 15 years ago

This is a very nice project! After one, I have a couple of feedback:

- First I think that a faster progression at the beginning could create more excitement:

> by moving to level 2-3 faster (most games gives you lv2 after the 1st fight)

> maybe some of the 1st quest should shorter (like 2-3 minutes) I didn't got directly that I have to wait to achieve quests.

> create and encourage interaction with a @littlecosm account to gain xp (good for shy ppl with nobody to "talk" with)

Progression and reward is the drug of gamers and if you don't feed a new user quickly, he might desappear..

- What's about an "invite" system (like the dropbox one) if a new user come thru an existing one, you can reward the ref with xp/coins/cash

About the global understanding of the gameplay:

- The @littlecosm account could send a dm or @reply when your quest is over, at least for the 1st ones, it's frustrating for a player when you fail the very first time you play a game.

- More explainantions could help, maybe a small tutorial to start can be nice (lots of "what should I do" on twitter feedback, desho?)

That's my 2cents :), good work anyway :) I love that lil' world you created here!

fookyong11• 15 years ago

that really is excellent feedback - thank you very much :)

pacing is super important and you're right, I need to make sure I reward those first few steps quite quickly.

fookyong11• 15 years ago

Littlecosm FAQ

http://yongfook.com/littlecosm-faq

Littlecosm Twitter game alpha release

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