Starfish Animation User Testing 1
Owing to that the last user testing only provided users with the enemy itself without putting it in the game. This user testing will test the real user interface with starfish in the game. This user testing was designed on a google form and the users are from outside of the studio.
The main purpose of this user testing is to ensure that the starfish fits with the whole design of the game. We don't want users to feel this starfish as a weird component of the game. Although we followed the design guideline all the way while creating this character, we still believed that this testing would better validate our design and would prove that this design is fitted with the whole game.
The five questions we asked in this user testing are:
- Do you like how the starfish moves its body?
- Did you notice the change of its eyes colour?
- Would you change anything about this character?
- Does this starfish fit with other elements in the game?
- Any recommendation or questions.
Results show that all users like how the starfish move its body, they have noticed the change on starfish's eyes, and most importantly, they agree the starfish fits with other elements in the game. For the short answer questions, we have got some advice regarding the starfish's colour. One user mentioned that the colour of the starfish is similar to the background colour (the sea). Therefore, our team will focus on this and see what we can do to decide whether we change the main colour of starfish. Other advices are relating to technical problem which is not the main purpose of this user testing.
In summary, our team validate that the starfish is fitted in the game and the animation itself doesn't need to be changed in this user testing. We also received a valuable suggestion that we may change the colour of this starfish enemy as its colour is similar to the sea colour.