My area of interests are Combinatorial Optimization, Metaheuristics, Cutting and Packing, Bin Packing, ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server. Please, look at my product "Bin Packing Online Tool" on the link http://www.fedulov.ge and advise how to improve it.
Thank you for sharing your work.
How to improve it:
Organization
It took me many many minutes to find the registration page and then much later the game. And it was accidental. I still cannot find the game if I go back.
Get help if necessary, so this is organized in modern game format. Play immediately with optional and context-driven help.
General
Do not claim that you are teaching familiarity with English words.
These are tokens only, and many of them are highly irregular English words so I think this is poor way to learn English.
It might be a good way to learn about 1 dimensional packing theory. Focus on that.
Instructions:
There are too many pages of instruction. it is impossible to find the important parts
The instruction is placed very very far from its point of need, Deadly.
The instructions do not address the Player - they address the theoretician, the student, the player all at once. Prepare distinct documentation for separate audiences
Game
I played word-style.
\Words are not removed from the list when they are used. How do I know what I have completed.
Similarly, words do not appear in the bin. Am I supposed to remember where each one has been put?
What does "H" mean?
I cannot easily understand the constraints that distinguish one bin from the others.
Observation:
Used up most of my time budget and frustration budget with excessive documentations and too many pages with too little insight - before stumbling into actual game,
Gave up game in frustration when I could not understand it -- except in theory.
Advice
Get designer on your project: Web designer, information designer, GUI dessigner; UX desiogner GAME DESIGNER
Good luck
Dear Dov Jacobson,
I want to thank you for your very valuable comment. Now I'm joined to the Linkedin groups "David Perry's Game Industry Map Group", "Game Developers Conference", "GigsinGames.com - jobs direct from studios, no recruiters!" to get any good experience. There are still five Linkedin Game groups with message "Your membership is pending approval". My Bin Packing Online Tool is a Transitional (Not Commercial) Development as an intermediate link between a Research Tool and a Commercial Tool. The terms "Transitional Development" and "Transitional Developer" was discussed in the ResearchGate community on the link
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_dont_developers_use_the_best_research_on_software_development
I was never a designer. Therefore I want to apologize for your frustration . But I will develop a new version taking into account all your advices and suggestions. Please, give me any links of best Serious Games (in ASP.NET in particular) to view design templates in order to use in my tool.
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