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I'm curious to know what the Player's Edition looks like.
Does it look and navigate exactly like the GM's edition? Is it more like a wiki interface with a series of searchable articles all liked to one another using the containing topic/relationships? I'm hoping for more of the latter to be honest. (if not in the client, maybe the web version) There seems to be a pretty steep learning curve for the interface. While it is completely worth it for me as a GM so far, I'm not sure my players would want to have to go through that just to see the content. |
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Hi killraven,
I asked Liz to split off your post, because I wanted to get some feedback from you and potentially get others' feedback as well. I think this is better suited to a new post than buried at the bottom of another one. Quote:
Additionally, GMs can put GM Edition into "Player Mode" in order to see their realm from a player's perspective, with the appropriate information and functionality hidden. This would be much more difficult to do if GM and Player editions looked and navigated very differently. Quote:
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I'm curious about your statement "There seems to be a pretty steep learning curve for the interface." While I agree with this and we're working to improve it, I think the majority of the difficulty and learning curve of using Realm Works centers around content creation rather than reading and browsing. This is primarily because content creation, organizing, arranging, and interweaving are intrinsically complicated actions, regardless of the tools you're using. Players won't be doing any creating (initially), so a lot of that depth and complexity gets discarded. I want to know a little bit about specific pain points you foresee your players running into. So do me a favor: open a realm that you have a decent amount of content entered for. You will need to reveal some starting information beforehand (e.g. the starting region and town, famous NPCs, kingdoms, history, etc). Now put the realm into "Player Mode" and browse the content. Put your player hat on and just focus on reading and navigation. What parts are you (imagining) your players will trip up on? What will they try to find and be unable to? What dead-ends will they hit, and what ways will they get lost and not know how to get back on track? Are there some advanced features that might get in the way, or are they tucked away safely enough that most players won't be tripped up by them? Let me know what you think. Last edited by Joe; September 8th, 2014 at 02:18 PM. Reason: clarity |
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Just so you know, the Enter Player Mode button isn't there yet for those of us not in the Beta. (1.0.1017.175)
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ok, dumb question, but how can a player get the player edition to test out? I am on the beta team
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Page 32 of the Gamer's Guide says the button will appear on the end of the Home tab of the ribbon. (I'm not on the Beta team, so that's all I have to go on.)
Can't help you get an actual Player account, sorry. (We also can't delete posts on this forum, apparently. :( Last edited by Parody; September 8th, 2014 at 05:14 PM. |
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Please check the Beta team forum for details. Instructions are provided in a thread over there. It's the sticky thread at the very top entitled "Requesting Player Licenses for Beta Testing".
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Short explanation for @killraven:
Player Edition will look almost exactly like the GM Edition, except that only revealed information will be downloaded to the players and no editing options will be enabled. Other visual exceptions generally consist of cosmetic differences, such as the thumbnails for smart images always being a placeholder icon instead of an actual thumbnail (to ensure the thumbnail reveals no clues). Hope this helps! And sorry for the confusion Joe caused. It's easy for us to lose track of what's in the Beta and what's not since we're always focused on the latest Beta version. |
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So if I understand that right: The players will not have the possibility to take "notes" within Realm Works?
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They WILL be able to take notes. They won't be able to edit any of the content YOU'VE written and shared with them. Their notes are separate from the story content, just like yours. Sorry for not making that clear.
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Ok thanks for making this clear.
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