Falling Meteorites

Background and Goals

According to the background of this game which is the character needs to avoid several obstacles and enemies to get back home on doomsday (alien invasion). In Sprint 2, we add a new obstacle 'Falling meteorites'. This test will test the users' satisfaction of the animation of falling meteorites and help us improve our model.

Process

To conduct our user testing we did the following:

• We invited users to have a look of the falling meteorites
• We let them play the game and record the observations of interacting with falling meteorites
• We designed 4 questions for interviewing the users
• Collect and reorganize the users' feedback and suggestion

Key questions

• What's your thoughts about the falling meteorites?
• What did you like/dislike about the falling meteorites?
• Do you have any questions about the animation and model of obstacles?
• Do you have any suggestions for us to improve the design?

Results

User 1:

• Thoughts:

  • The animation is good.

• Likes/Dislikes:

  • Liked：I like the effect of broken meteorite broken
  • Disliked: Colors are too monotonous

• General Comments/Suggestions:

  • It is best to add some color and exaggerate the design of the meteorites

User 2:

• Thoughts:

  • Cool design

• Likes/Dislikes:

  • Liked：Like the design style of meteorites which is visual
  • Disliked: Meteorites just drops in a straight line

• General Comments/Suggestions:

  • If possible, it would be more interesting to let the meteorites fall diagonally

User 3:

• Thoughts:

  • The combination of meteorites of different sizes works well

• Likes/Dislikes:

  • Liked：The meteorites do not fall one by one individually, but in clusters of meteorites of different sizes
  • Disliked: Just the size of the different is not enough, feel the same look seems very monotonous

• General Comments/Suggestions:

  • It would be better to design more kinds of meteorites

Summary

The content of this user test is not much since it only consider the design and animation of falling meteorites .Everyone can directly recognize the functions of falling meteorites which is an obstacle designed to reduce health. Most of them like the broken effect of meteorites, but users feel that the design is a bit monotonous, they hope to add different varieties of meteorites, enrich the color, change the angle of the fall of the meteorite.