Testing summary - 17 January 2009

[Mohit Taneja]

>
> Food Force II
>
Tested on 4 XOs.
>
Bit slow and sometimes crashes, but not sure why.
>
Took us a while to work out that without books no one goes to school... how
> do we put XOs in the school? Without medicine the hospital does not work. A
> tutorial would be great - like etoys tutorial please.
>
The music on one XO is jittery. Clean reboot twice it still does jittery
> sound.
>
When we buy and sell resources but the numbers are meaningless to us.
>
Farm setup - It would be cool to have a drag pie graph that allows you to
> choose what percentage of rice, veges and beans you want to plant.
>
Houses - have to setup one house at a time, would like bulk build (could
> even add a cheaper to build in bulk component).
>
Facilities were shutting down due to lack of resources but running so slow
> we could not buy resources quick enough.


Hi,

Thanks for such an exhaustive testing.

I would like to address to certain issues

   - Regarding the tutorial, we are working on a storyboard which includes
   tutorials, I hope they would help one in understanding the intricacies of
   the game even better. I would send an update whenever we are done with
   finalising the storyboard.
   - Regarding buy/sell scenario, we would try and make the situation a bit
   tough for the user by giving him limited resources in terms of money
   available to him/her, I hope that would be helpful in making the game more
   interesting.
   - Regarding Farm Setup, I am already working on it, the entering of data
   in text boxes is tedious.

Regarding the game crashing ocasionally, it would be great if you could
share the logs with us when the game fails. I think that it could be of some
help.

Regards,
Mohit Taneja
Developer
FoodForce2 Activity


On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Tabitha Roder <tabitha.roder at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello community
>
> Who was there: Bob, Florencia, Uli, Gustav, Alastair, Edward, Tabitha,
> Brenda, Callum (and a couple of random people who asked us questions and got
> their 2yo kid to play with tamtam mini)
>
> Socialcalc-1:
> Simple Mesh connection. 3 XOs - appear in the frame but typing is not
> sharing. So far testing of functions works - formatting, basic formulas. We
> took photos if you need them.
> Formulas - tested max, min, average, sum, okay. Today function works.
> Help has a good start.
> Graph not working properly yet? Highlight range of cells but just get the
> last cell highlighted as a bar. Learned some more from lots of us playing
> and eventually got a bar graph. Yeah! So we found you have to NOT include
> the labels. Also found bar graph is not to scale. We were impressed that it
> could graph a row of data or a column of data, and would like to see it
> recognise two columns in the future, maybe even comparing data.  We are
> hoping next time we test this that we can get a pie graph - we like pie.
> Then maybe line graph after that? Eventually we worked out how to add
> labels, but it was a bit complicated.
> Sort was hard work - too many steps to the process. Need to make it clearer
> that there is a button to push, or hide other menu options. Major and minor
> sort both work. Would be good if you see only first part of sort question
> then only second part of sort question, not both at the same time especially
> as it remembers the last sort you did. Maybe even just changing the "sort"
> button to the end rather than in the middle, and maybe make it say "sort
> now" or something.
> Massive delay in entering text into the cell, move to the next cell and
> wait wait wait.
> We are happy to test this again when sharing is possible.
> Saves to journal and can get data back. Awesome.
> Gaming keys do stuff - cool. Square key takes you to A1, great.
> Rotate - 90 and 270 chops off half the tool bars and does not fit to frame.
> Rotate 180 is great for upside down work. :-)
> Black and white mode works. Sound not applicable.
>
> Gnubook
> GNU book reader has the following problems; Default zoom is too low, all
> images are loaded at once (problems for bandwidth, traffic costs). Needs an
> way to scroll to next half (or third) of a given page. A simple way to copy
> a book around would be nice.
> Something to indicate that images are not being loaded by default would be
> good. A way to interpolate text only pages would be good for
> speed/traffic/storage.
> Also, a bookmark, and index/contents that can skip to a given page would be
> good.
> Additional: The evince based PDF ebook reader (aka. Reader) is way too
> memory intensive for large books. Either a different technology (HTML?
> Mobipocket), or something where the pages are only rendered one at a time,
> rather than caching the render of everything in memory in advance.
> Also; the interface for downloading, and saving books to the local disk is
> horribly horribly confusing.
>
> Food Force II
> Tested on 4 XOs.
> Bit slow and sometimes crashes, but not sure why.
> Took us a while to work out that without books no one goes to school... how
> do we put XOs in the school? Without medicine the hospital does not work. A
> tutorial would be great - like etoys tutorial please.
> The music on one XO is jittery. Clean reboot twice it still does jittery
> sound.
> When we buy and sell resources but the numbers are meaningless to us.
> Farm setup - It would be cool to have a drag pie graph that allows you to
> choose what percentage of rice, veges and beans you want to plant.
> Houses - have to setup one house at a time, would like bulk build (could
> even add a cheaper to build in bulk component).
> Facilities were shutting down due to lack of resources but running so slow
> we could not buy resources quick enough.
>
> TamTamMini
> Smashing of multiple keys (as expected of 2 year old) results in speaker
> overload and distortion.
>
> Pulling apart XOs.
> We learned how to pull apart and put back together five XOs today. Great
> learning for us so we can refurbish and replace bits. Great for non hardware
> people in the group to fill in some gaps in our knowledge. We were all happy
> when we put them back together with no left over screws!
>
>
> Another successful day.
>
> Kind regards
> Tabitha Roder
>
> (64)21482229
>
> Support OLPC G1G1 - laptop.org/xo
>



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more so."
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