User Testing
Upon iterating on a few designs, we finally came up with a first design of the Main Character. To determine how viable our design was we chose to user test it amongst students from our studio as it provides us with a fresh, unbiased opinion and nothing would be swayed by our teams’ internal opinions. This would help us gain perspective and a direction to move forward in, as well as help us improve the mistakes we made. We aim to reflect upon the results for the future sprints.
User testing was conducted through a survey/questionnaire and following are the question/responses and analysis.
From the results we can determine that a majority of the respondents reacted positively to the Main Character design which gives us perspective to be on right track. A good part of respondents somewhat liked it depicting how we could improve furthermore.
This question was created for a sole purpose to check whether or not the design is something that feels like apart of the game and not stand out. With clearly positive feedback from the majority the main character design, this concludes that the theme is correct.
The studio had decided to have certain design guidelines to follow. The majority of feedback turned out positive. This depicts the Main Character design has a followed the guidelines.
The game has an isometric perspective, we designed the sprites giving it somewhat an isometric perspective. From the responses the majority responded positively as well as if the design should be more angled and this is something we might improve upon in later sprints.
We received a lot of feedback regarding the colour/shading aspect with some common replies stating “shading” on which we intend to furthermore improve.
With a majority of the respondents stating that no major aspects should be changed, we will manly stick with the same features for the design whilst making some small changes from the feedback we received.
A Majority of the respondents would like to add more details to the design and we received a good amount of feedback and ideas to reflect upon.
The main feedback we received in this questionnaire was regarding changes to the weapon - in further Sprints, this weapon will be additionally refined to better fit the character as well as the Atlantis theme, which is yet to be explored. Moreover, this will allow us to design multiple weapons that can be equiped and/or swapped for different enemies. In conclusion, the user testing has helped give us direction for the future.