vernal cradle
This was something that kinda went past me but occured yesterday.
I really like the Wire/Logic system however, it is explained poorly.
How they work feels like it is written by a programmer for a programmer and not for the average joe.
I'm looking at this from a perspective of a guy who doesn't do any programming and wants to mess with these systems but I'll run into some jargon like "execute the boolean string" and I have no idea what the hell that means. Imo, I feel like creativity can hit a grinding halt with these as the terms scare and confuse newcomers to these systems and language away like myself.
LittleBigPlanet 2 did an amazing job of explaining these in their tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBTuw3BOXsU
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I really hate to say it again but not everyone here is a programmer and just because you know what a boolean string is, doesn't mean I or others like me do.
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So me ideas I have are:
1: Proper documentation somewhere, like a help section or ingame guidebook for these terms/systems, maybe have links to sites that goes more into detail, you could teach programming in a roundabout way! (Someone will make a wiki but I feel it shouldnt need that)
2: A Tutorial or explanation on these, doesn't need to be anything crazy but a simple explanation of the terms and how they work but simplified for the average person (Remember, write for average players not programmers)
3: Rewording the ingame Brick selection to make it easier to understand. I do think if you want to appeal the programmer types you could have an option to enable/disable the more advanced wording too.
Ideally, you'd want this stuff to be all ingame, having to bring up a wiki or check a discord that just gets annoying imo.
So far that's all I have but I really think this was something that was overlooked by alot of people, especially for someone like me whos just getting into these things.
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