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https://www.gamestory.me/

by darrendliang • 4 years ago

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please let me know if you have any questions about gamestory!

butz• 4 years ago

For a "game" this needs a better on-boarding solution, a "tutorial" if you will. Instead of forcing new users to watch a video on Youtube, integrate instructions right on the first page. Either add floating popups, or guide new user through first steps with example data. On first visit I actually missed that there is more content on main page below fold. And "import" function probably won't be that important to new user, moving to Settings might be appropriate.

darrendliang7• 4 years ago

Yessir, will be working on that

quickthrower2• 4 years ago

Is this a bucketlist, of sorts?

darrendliang7• 4 years ago

Yep, seems like it's pretty confusing, I'll have to improve the design

davidivadavid• 4 years ago

The promise sounds great but the product looks very confusing and it seems just like a badly designed to-do list with a lot of accidental complexity. Why the emphasis on colors? Why is the UX so complex to end with something so simple? It's not clear what this is building up to.

darrendliang7• 4 years ago

Yeah, gotta simplify the design more, it'd get clearer though

ArekDymalski• 4 years ago

After reading the title description I expected something like a gamiefied diary builder that allows others to explore your past experiences. What could be an interesting and/or weird product to be honest. In case of future experiences, accomplishments and dreams gamification seem to be kind of distracting solution imho.

darrendliang7• 4 years ago

Yessir, I'd have to think more about what the product really is

netsharc• 4 years ago

Geez, sorry to be harsh, but it's so not ready. I clicked "Explore" and it said "Coming soon". So much for "showing" us something.

darrendliang7• 4 years ago

All good, will be working on it

_tom_• 4 years ago

No idea what's supposed to be going on there.

Show your projects to a few people. See what happens, before you post it widely. Make sure it makes sense.

And don't give them hints. People won't have hints when following a link from hacker news.

darrendliang7• 4 years ago

Yeah I should have done that haha

HardwareLust• 4 years ago

A short story, and a boring game in my case. =)

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