[Menu and interface suggestions] Some simple and simplifying feedback

from Demigod Forums

Bought the game, been playing, been having a lot of fun.

some suggestions:

1.  Progress window design.  When you put an enormous button alone at the bottom of a window, I will click that button, even when it says cancel.  Please shrink the cancel button or make it red or something.  If you want to keep the giant button, you really need to add some kind of progress display.  Now, maybe that's just three pictures that light up like the useless, confusing display on the front of a cable modem, but give me something that shows you're working.  Cause this, it pops up like a warning I want to dismiss.

2.  Menu feedback.  When I launch the game, I'd like to be able to get into my favorite kind of match with one click.  Instead I have to:

a) find multiplayer in the list
b: pick internet
c) login
d) pick pantheon
e) pick fight
f) not click the giant cancel button while I wait

3.  When I connect, pop up that Connection window by default.  It makes me realize something's going on.  But you gotta spruce it up a little.  Show me a nice little graphic of them on one side and them on the other, with youknow, online stats overall and for that demigod or something.

4. Loading screens.  please, give me some sense I'm progressing towards some goal.

5.  This is a team game, so when someone dies, show me who that's good and bad news for.  Don't just say it, though I love the huge text, making it all white makes me have to read instead of glancing.

6.  I can't honestly remember what side I'm on half the time.

7.  Please let me click on the minimap.  Please.  I'll hold down a hotkey if I have to.

8.  Please let me see the goal count ("Fortess 4/4 4/4") into something graphical so I can get a quick sense.

9.  A clock would be nice.

10.  Stores I can buy from (cause I have the money or cause they belong to me, should pop a little more compared to building's I'm defending

11.  If I right click the teleport scroll, can I teleport home?

12.  If I'm off-screen, it'd be nice to have an arrow and a distance.  If my target is off screen, the same.

13.  It'd be awesome to be able to control how big the demigod indicator circles were.  Cause I have a hard time picking them out.

14.  How many minions do I have?  I can't tell.

15. Finally, show me the icons of each of the demigods in the game on the side, and have them sorted by level or team or both or something.  You don't have to show me their health, just there existence.  It could even be only the one's I've seen or something.

 

I love this game, but the menus and interface are getting in the way a little

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

I know this is just a long list of petty things, but the game gives you downtime while matchseeking and when dead.

 

16.  can we get bigger active spell icons?

17.  Why can't I look at my skills when I'm dead?

18.  If something's an objective can it be a little shinier?  A fortress just kinda sits there like a pawn.  It's like "oh yeah, I should remember to kill the pawn after I deal with the knight and rook and queen and demon king who's pooping great rains of poison fire on my head"

19.  The connection info window defaults to minimized and was just now hidden, and the screen was gray and the text box was blank with nothing but a giant cancel button right in the center of the screen screaming for me to click it.

20.  My first instinct is "something's broken" and I'm a trememdous nerd.  Think how lesser nerds will feels.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Yeah, they are all minor things but they definitely would help.  Agree with almost all of these.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Ye, these would go far towards making the game more intuitive to play. Even the thing about which side I'm on, happens for me too. I hear "Light side has grown stronger", at which point I check my base's color scheme.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

21st small request for a game I'm loving: when I'm done with a multiplayer game, I'm sent to the start screen.  I want to play again.

22.  It'd be great if we could highlight lines in the skill tree.  Like, check this box and this line is highlighted.  Cause I often have to figure out my build every time I level.

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

I want to add something about the chat option, how about a significant sound plays when i get a message? Or the chat window pops up when someone messages me. That little box on the right side doesnt stand out AT ALL. I'll usually end a game and be like 'oh, someone messaged me twenty minutes ago'. Also can you do something about the IM lag, its not instant at all. When I sent my friend a message I get this huge wall of text at the same time because they failed to send/show up in my message box.

I found myself going back to alt-tabbing to steam chat because it works better. Those are just my beefs.