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Non si riescono piu' a draggare i blocchi decentemente:

• Le prime 3 volte che si dragga un blocco nel workspace, quando lo si rilascia si sposta
• Quando si prende un nuovo bloccoo dalla toolbox viene rilasciato automaticamente

Mi ricordo che successe schifo simile quando ci lavoravo anche io :D ma non ricordo why

I think the actual controls could be improved this way:

• The 'close' button is too small
• The 'next' and 'prev' buttons should be more visible
• Pressing the spacebar should advance the tutorial and close it only if in the last step

It could not be very clear the correspondence between the numbers in the riddle text and the blocks "numeroX".

We could differentiate the colors of each variable in order to create a correspondence between the letters and the blocks.

Anche se dopo poco si prende il traduttore, tradurre a mano gli indovinelli usando la leggenda è abbastanza tedioso.

Potremmo fare che passando il mouse/tappando sopra alle lettere dell'indovinello, si illumini la lettera corrispondente nella legenda.

I think there should be at least 5 room in order to explain every feature of the game:

1. The first room where the user lands at the beginning, with a locked chest and a door
2. The riddle leading here should be easy to solve, the room has 2 doors leading to 3. and 4.
3. (ghost) The riddle should be easy to solve (the sum one is ok), there is the ghost who will warn Jones about the evil mummy and gives Jones the key to open the chest in the first room, which contains his computer
4. (intermediate) From here onwards the riddles should be hard/annoying to solve by hand, in order the encourage the usage of the computer. A more advanced level design should include backtracking.
5. (evil mummy) The final boss of the game.

Changing language doesn't update the NAME field of any block inside the workspace

Currently the run code button is inside the Riddle component, but I think we should create a component which contains both the blockly editor and the button.

Also, we should make the button prettier.

Is the interactive map a good idea? I mean, while it's cool that a user can remotely hack a door, is he ever going to do that?

The only scenario I can think about is when a user wants to see how he solved a previous riddle without going all the way back to that door. But even in this scenario I don't see why he should change his solution.

The current riddles' configuration provides this interface:

export interface Riddle {
    id: string
    question: (variables: any[]) => string
    defaultCode: (variables: any[]) => string
    parameters: (variables: any[]) => string[]
    solution: (variables: any[]) => string
    solutionLength: number,
    solutionType: SolutionType,
    argsGenerator: () => any[]
}

We need to change:

• defaultCode, we need a default (and possibly unmovable, see this) XML configuration for the initial workspace
• parameters, we still need the parameters, but they have to be inserted inside defaultCode

Cliccando "open" lasciando il focus su un campo editabile di un blocco causa cio':

• The beige/orange colors are okay with theme of the game (and with doge's colors too!), but the current color selection is awful.
• Every button needs a pimp up.
• Furthermore, we should try to blend together the riddle screen's colors with the toolbox ones.

After an user test I conducted tonight, it turns out that the Rename variable and Delete variable buttons are very confusing, I think we should remove them.

It also would be nice if we have a block for each variable already created in the toolbar, e.g.: in the sum problem, I'd like to have in the toolbar a numero1 and numero2 blocks, instead of a single variable block, which I think users would find confusing at first.

It is not clear why an already code-solved door opens automatically.
We can make the ghost say that to mesopotamia jones when he gives the computer to him, but imo the game should be totally playable even without reading the dialogue lines.

To address this, we could insert a screen after the door interaction which says if the user's code worked or not.

I think the current usabilty of the screen is good, but we need to emphasize the functionality of the buttons, in particular the ones inside the header.

We have two options:

1. We find very meaningful icons which leave no doubts about what a button do
2. We add a compact textual description under the icon

In order to make Blockly easier I think we should:

• Translate every block to italian
• Possibly, add a nice tooltip to every block
• Lower the number of customization options that can be confusing:

Additionally:

• Use only customized blocks
• Associate a block color to a type

Playing the game I often find myself moving the hands too much, for example:

1. Arrow keys to move the player and 'F' to interact with doors/npc
2. L+R arrow keys to move in the tutorial and 'Esc' to close it
3. Mouse to focus a LockCode and then mouse or arrow keys to change its value
4. Mouse click on "Apri la porta"
5. Mouse for the blockly editor

Imo, it would be great to map every control on fewer keys:

• 'F' to close the tutorial

• 'F' to open the door on riddle solved

• L+R keys to change LockCode focus

• Another nice solution could be to use W,A,S,D keys to move and a key (space?) to interact/close, so that the user can keep the left hand in a fixed position on the keyboard and the right hand on the mouse.

Additionally, we can think about shortcuts to open the inventory/map and use arrow keys to move around the items/doors.
It could be:

• '1' to open the 'map' while in game
• '1' to go 'back' inside the riddle
• '2' to open the 'inventory' while in game
• '2' to open the 'help' inside riddle?

We have this folder full of .tmx tilemaps exported by Tiled but we only use these .json tilemaps.
Also, I can't see any difference between .tmx and .json opening them using Tiled.

Is there a reason to keep both files types?

1. E' piu in linguaggio naturale, poco scalabile (se servisse un array?) e un po' e' bruttino

2. Mettendoli non movable/deletable/editable come blocchi a parte nel workspace. Non so come funzioni la codegeneration

@illbexyz

The mobile version has some problems, we shoud investigate and fix them

Also, it would be nice to have a toggle to switch the mobile/desktop versions

We should create a button and a counter for the last riddle

There should be a screen which says what item you've found by opening a chest