edesignlabs/overpass

A visual argument builder - What if learners could practice developing argument skills at their own pace in a game-like environment?

overpass's Issues

Planks Detaching from Mouse

While students were testing our prototype in my class, I noticed that the planks would often detach from the their mouse and slide to the bottom or right of their screen.

Planks showing up in correct order.

Right now, planks are showing up in the correct order. As you can see in the screenshot below. I'm not sure if this is something that you guys fix, or something that I need to change when I upload the content. Planks for all the levels are showing up in the correct order.

Truck Animation

At the end of the truck animation, have it disappear regardless if done correctly or incorrectly. When truck disappears, user can press "GO" again and the truck will travel down the path again.

Global nav

The app needs a global nav and breadcrumb to allow users to navigate from home to kit to bridge and back again

Hint Feature

Comment from Hsing:

"Wanting some feedback when they couldn't figure it out. This is probably the hardest for quick fixes. Wondering if its feasible to tag the levels the teachers will be testing, so if they press a hint button they can see which are correct and which are wrong. Another idea, is pressing hint just pops up a definition of what each component is, e.g. def of a main arg, etc)."

Post Title in Planks

I noticed for each level, the Post Title is written at the end of each plank. This became obvious to me when I first went through each level after I uploaded my science content. I uploaded a screenshot. The issue is the same for each level.

Detached Plank Disappears

While students were working on the prototype, I noticed that when their plank would detach it would often disappear completely when they tried to bring it back to the main part of the screen. When they would try to go back to the screen, the plank would not follow the mouse, and the screen where the plank was after it detached was lost so the students couldn't go back and try to get it again. The photo below shows the screen when the students go back to the main part of the site, and the plank is missing. Also, the extra part below or to the right where the plank had gone after it had detached from the mouse is gone so students can't go back to retrieve.

Lane 1 & 2 Plank Organization

For the multi bridge levels planks designated for lane 1 and lane 2 can only be placed next to the posts of those lanes. The problem is if lane 1 planks are placed next to lane 2 posts in the correct order and vice versa, the truck falls into the water pit needlessly causing the driver and all the passengers to die a horrible death! As the screen shot shows below, even though I built the bridges correctly, the truck still fell into the water.

Go Button

Comment from Hsing:

"Not knowing to press the Go button. Might be quickly solved by changing button to 'Try it / Drive'"

Strengthen Visual Identify of Argument Structure (Board vs Planks)

Strengthen Visual Identify of Argument Structure (Board vs Planks)

Support Bulk Content Addition & Changes with Authoring Engine

Design & add an authoring engine to allow more flexible and bulk addition of new and custom content.

More than one bridge => more than one truck

Include as many trucks as there are bridges.

One bridge -> one truck
Two bridge -> two truck

Intro Screen

Comment from Hsing:

"Confusing about framing/ set up. Think that can quickly be solved with an intro screen before the levels screen - e.g. with copy like, "This is game where you're building a bridge to get a truck safely across the river. Pull the text onto the right planks of the bridge, to keep your truck from falling into the water." (could be more amusingly written)."

Incorrect Plank Identification

If the truck crashes into the water, the incorrectly placed planks need to identify themselves to the user.

Introduction for each level.

Do you think for where major changes occur should include an introduction? For example, the first time we add more planks than posts and add two bridges.

Feedback from test

Tutorial level
Pritika enjoyed it. Itwas good

Level 7 is really hard
Need to improve the content to better fit difficulty level

Truck blocks the final plank/post
Issue with 2A

Hint button
Need to be able to Click hint multiple times.

Content
Need better nuance from Main Argument vs Supporting Argument.

2 Bridges => 2 Trucks

Animated gifs
For some reason, the gif shows a static image (not the animation).