Collected Feedback from User Testing Session

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User testing data insights

In total during the user testing session all participants were required to complete 9 tasks. This helped to derive a lot of valuable data which we used to summarize our findings and present them in a new Design Style and Cohesion Guidelines in a form of rules that exist to improve the game in terms of consistent design style and cohesion.

Task 1: Start the game and read the prologue
	Observations
**User 1	like stuff in front object positioning**
	Make main character more focus in comparison to pillars
	Don’t need black line on the end there, already pretty obvious
	Still readable with black in the background
	Crab placement is awkward in stone scene humiliated
	Differentiated enemies
User 2	font wise- g looks an i
	Reminds of mine craft in a good way
	Press n to next secktl
	Continue iffy wording
User 3	design could see pictures, following the story
User 4
Task 2: Explore the map using the keys
	Observations
User 1	like the water and the movement
	Palm trees pillars and clams are good
	Like character
	Didn’t realise you could go in water
	Subset for nighttime warnings, yellow orange lighting
User 2	NPC looks really small in comparison
	Shell looks too big
	Pillar good size
	Thought shells were resources
	Did not realise transition between day and night surprise
	Can’t see night
User 3	not into games
	It doesn’t look like an island exactly
	Still night space
	Suprised by night mode
	Unsure of what to do or objectives
User 4
Task 3: Access the guidebook and locate information on how to buy buildings in the shop and how to place it.
	Observations
User 1	thought guidebook was element in game not button
	Like graphics on inventory
	Asked where was placing buildings — under inventory
User 2	hard to find on night mode
	Clicked on inventory first
	Got guidebooknsend try
	Book icon
	Double the spacing
	Content feels visually too condensed
	Add page numbers
	Add hot links (even if flip pages for you)
	Cool
User 3	button was clear and helps
	A lot of writing on the pages, not sure if all necessary for user
	Wouldn’t really read if playing
	Table of contents good in beginning
User 4
Task 4: Explore the various equipment you can buy in the shop
	Observations
User 1	Put in placing buildings rather than inventory
	Looks like a book, flicks well
	Make content page clickable to skip to section
	If you could put a
User 2	clicks on carousel to pick item
	Arrow of going back too small crap
	Looking in shop to put the wall down
	Does not understand to go to inventory, needed prompting
User 3
User 4
Task 5: Buy a basic wall and place it on the map
	Observations
User 1	maybe if you could put a dollar sign for shop
	Inventory— first cut to click arrows buy the tools, did not notice section
	Layout makes sense
	Asked does area around it clear
User 2	nighttime is a bit dark
User 3	understood shop button right away
	Aesthetics is a bit dark
	Reminds of old and 90s sort of game
	Very nostalgic
	Style is not very Ancient Greek vibes
	Pop up screen thoughts - is relatively clear but confusing with buttons vs headings. A bit cluttered
User 4
Task 6: Turn the sound off.
	Observations
User 1
User 2	sound off quick
	Confused about UI scale function (make naming better)
	Sound off button not responsive not mute
User 3	clear to find sound
	Page improvements - matches perfectly
	Colours good
	Maybe make bigger
User 4
Task 7: Explore achievements.
	Observations
User 1	achievement buttons clear
	Like the design, make font a bit bigger
	Move the icons to the left and make the text bigger
	Fix the scale of the lock buttons so it doesn’t look like it’s stretch
User 2
User 3	achievements button clear
	Page pretty clear and not cluttered
	Aesthetics matches shop
User 4
Task 8: Attack enemies during the first night cycle
	Observations
User 1
User 2
User 3
User 4
Task 9: Save the game
	Observations
User 1	at the top, nice and clear— universal save button
User 2	saved good
User 3	easy and clear
	Overall game is all pretty clear, make it more Ancient Greek
User 4