[Etoys] Demon Castle Tutorials for eToys

[Karl]

Milan Zimmermann wrote:
> Takashi,
>
> I remember one thing I got stuck on (almost) completely, was when I started 
> resizing the "BIG KEY". When you try to make it big and small again in a few 
> directions without letting go (and it goes LARGE/Small/OK"), it becomes 
> almost impossible to hit the OK size. Maybe it should be more generous with 
> the range of OK (it seems to use a relative measure perhaps). I will have 
> more notes over the weekend,
>
> Milan
>
> On 2006 October 19 23:58, Andreas Raab wrote:
>   
>> Hi Takashi -
>>
>> Some comments on the tutorials (which you can completely ignore if you
>> don't like 'em ;-) All in all, this is very, very cool. Going through
>> the exercise it struck me that it would be wonderful if for each of the
>> challenges there would be some "help me" or "show me" button that a user
>> could use if they are stuck. Something to think about, perhaps for the
>>
>> next version. Here are some issues that I encountered with the tutorials:
>>     
>>> http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/tutorial/DemonCastle1.004.pr (handles)
>>>       
>> * On the first page where it says "Click THIS arrow" I'd move the text
>> closer to the arrow. I was kinda looking for "another" arrow because the
>> one you mean is quite far away from the text.
>>
>> * On the third page (with the first key) I would change the text from
>> "Go ahead you can move the key" to something like "Go ahead, drag the
>> key on the keyhole" (to emphasize that you mean click and drag)
>>
>> * On the "resize handle" page it was very hard to find quite the right
>> size for the key. It seems as if there is only a small range in which it
>> will fit and it was quite tricky to get that "just right". I wonder if
>> there is an easy way to increase that range?
>>
>>     
>>> http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/tutorial/DemonCastle2.004.pr (painter)
>>>       
>> * The event recorder didn't work at all for me. For one thing the
>> painting palette popped up in a flap (and from the recorded strokes it
>> looks like you were making this with the palette embedded in the
>> playfield). Some wrong preference? Second, I had moved the book slightly
>> because it didn't fit my screen so the event recorder was off. We should
>> lock the book so that one cannot move it to avoid this problem.
>>     
The event recorder only works when the Squeak window on playback is the
same size as when recorded. This will maybe not be a problem on the OLPC
as they share the same spec. It makes it all most useless in the world
of desktop computers, though.
Karl
>> * I notice that the brush sizes are smaller than we chose back in
>> Boston. Is this intentional or am I missing some update?
>>
>>     
>>> http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/tutorial/DemonCastle3.004.pr (scriptor)
>>>       
>> * On the second page the down-arrow points to the close button of the
>> scriptor instead of the fire button. This is confusing since it's not
>> clear if you've drawn the right button and point to the wrong button or
>> vice versa.
>>
>> * On the page with the three test tiles in a single script, wouldn't it
>> be easier to make three scripts instead? Or is there a point to this I'm
>> missing?
>>
>> Other than that these are *great* tutorials.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   - Andreas
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