nebogeo/crab-game

A citizen science game commissioned by the Natural History Museum

crab-game's Issues

change results page text

Live results

Scientists will use these results to support their theories on the effectiveness of crab camouflage in different natural habitats

Buttons: Play again as a different predator Exit game

Pollock vs. Human evolution - text changes needed

Clarify that there are 3 habitat types - text changes needed

new watery sounds

check all text for full stops

Most sentences don't end with full stops but some do (well done page, live results page). For consistency these either all should have full stops, or none should.

Change title and description (care over 'citizen science' term use)

Move buttons up to centralise content

Age page
Use results page
Played before page
Thank you for playing page
Next crab (during game)
Continue (after played game)

setup redundant server (on beryllium)

Front page - make crabs smaller, entirely on screen, and rotate left crab anticlockwise slightly

database backup needed

Predator page - add bubbles to buttons for consistency

Game page - change text to 'xx crabs left to go!'

remove about page

fix human image button

timeout -> intro page

Change text after playing to emphasise the habitat type it was caught in, rather than the beach name.

From Martin:

One thing in the mean time - when playing the game, when a crab is found

is says where from (e.g. penryn river, Gylly etc). But most people wont
have a clue where these are. Best I think just to say you found a crab
from ‘rock pools’, ‘mud flats’, and ‘mussel beds’ or suchlike.

add placeholder dichromat images

replace seaweed with tweaked versions

sort out button height positioning

Instruction page - crab photo needed, needs horizontal centralising

change results page -> 3 tabs with graphs

Front page - results button double clicks

remove high scores?

Flow - from front page -> results

If go straight to results from front page, only option is to go back. Remove 'start' button.

Remove 'I give up' button

check all bubbles transitions

between pages...

Game page - remove option to quit

Quit option is still there if you run out of time
(if click quit, it says average time is 0 seconds - which is kinda wrong!)

Change results button on first page -> 'Find out more'

remove habitat selection

and add randomised assortment of crabs over shuffled 6/6/6 backgrounds.

remove bubbles

answer demographic questions before hit play

Game page - reduce tick/cross size

background exclusion maps for the crabs

Results page - best crabs per habitat - crab images too close to text

Change predator page text

Will you hunt as a predatory pollock or a hungry human?

They see the world differently....

Pollock
Dichromatic vision

Human
Trichromatic vision

Clarity that pollock are natural predators of crabs - text changes needed

record crab in database click

Predator screen text change

Put the vision type above the predator – when quizzed, visitors had figured out that the predators had different vision through playing, but no one had noticed the text when selecting a predator.

Change to:

Will you hunt as a predatory pollock or a curious human?

They see the world differently….

Dichromatic vision
Pollock

Trichromatic vision
Human

remove or change text on 'I give up'

Game page - timer goes to -1 if left to run out

Add 'Find out more' page

Permission page - change text layout to remove orphan

(small) about section needed

Change front page text and buttons

Citizen Science Experiment

Are shore crabs more visible to humans or their natural predators? TO BE REPLACED WITH GENERIC SENTENCE

Play this game to help scientists research the success of shore crab
camouflage

Play Results

add more bubble variations

show crab/bg statistics

Switch the placing of next and quit?

Would it be possible to place 'Next' on the right and 'Quit' on the left of the screen when players move on to the next crab? Most programs/ processes give you the option of continuing on the right ('OK', 'Continue' buttons etc.) and cancelling on the left, so it might make continuing to play the game a more intuitive process.

Results page - change text

Make clear that the crab at the top of the columns is the hardest to spot in that habitat

fix dichromat process script

Make 'more results' buttons more obvious - change colour, move a little more