(Apr 16, 2012 09:22 AM)AndyKorth Wrote:  First thing I noticed was that it looks like a 4:3 game stretched to be wider. Just to be sure I popped it into photoshop to confirm the minimap wasn't square:

http://kortham.net/temp/upshot_r4ZRF6GB.png

I'll probably give it a try after work, if I get a chance

• The aspect ratio of everything looks wrong. The whole window is like at 1.2 something which makes no sense, and all of the buttons and text looks squished. Actually, when resizing, the window tries to maintain an aspect but it doens't do it well. I can get squishing both ways. Overly wide and overly narrow.
  
  Like this:
  http://sethwillits.com/temp/upshot/upshot_62EaNCfd.jpg
• When going full screen, it's not quite full screen and leaves an unrendered gap at the top where the menubar normally would be. The aspect is also weird.
  
  http://sethwillits.com/temp/upshot/upshot_4GwaDSxg.jpg
• The guy on the title screen looks like he's rendered with a lot less light than the scenery in the background.
• Is there a reason you can't enable FSAA by default?
• Font choices — I can understand why you picked a monospace font, but Monaco isn't the right font to use for a game.
• Can't read orange text at bottom of start screen
  
  http://sethwillits.com/temp/upshot/upshot_hOvVyfxF.jpg
• The club picker is not obvious which is picked and not picked. To me, DR, 2I, and 64 are the ones picked, not unpicked. That should be a lot clearer.
• I noticed "Balls: Generic, 1000" and wondered if I could change it. I click on it, it's a button (to my surprise, actually), but it's not changing. I guess in practice it's always generic, 1000. (This goes for several other things.)
• I also see "Mode: Full 18". Click on that, and it switches to "Practice". Uhh... I thought I already _was_ in practice?
• Profile is above that, I see "No-Name". Not sure what a profile is (maybe it's for career mode?), but I click on it, and it doesn't do anything either.
• Lastly, I click on the course name, which changes courses as I expect, but why is there no course preview image? Shouldn't I see the little map at least?
• When showing the course at the start of a round, it zooms from start to end, but the endpoints are slightly off? IOW, when it zooms to the hole, it actually zooms to the very far edge of the green rather than the center, or on the hole itself (which I expected).
• While it's zooming back and forth, I can press the arrow keys and immediately pops into what I'll call "player view." I actually want to cancel and go back to the main menu so I press Escape… which does nothing. I look around for a button… there isn't one. No menu item… So how do I go back? You can't?
• Quit and restart, practice again, this time instead of hitting an arrow, I see the View button. So I click on that. Ooo... another view. Click another, Click another, want to skip, so I hit space. Now I'm at player view again, but it already started the strength selector. That's not what I wanted.
• In game, pressed zxcvbn to switch views, but none of them are the player view. Clicked View and it continues cycling through those six views until it finally gets to the player view. Do I really have to keep *clicking* to get back to the player view? (A few tries later I realize clicking outside of the View button goes directly to the player-view. Helpful, but not obvious.)
• The HUD could be a lot prettier. There's a lot of information, and I understand that you're going for the pro-features capability, but does this really need to all be *words* everywhere? Can't you use symbols for many things? • Why is Save and Score so prominent? (Tab does not bring up Score like I immediately thought to try thanks to FPSes). • The color of the wind indicator disappears into that green grass easily sometimes. It has a pretty harsh black shadow at the bottom of it and the rest is washed out. • Does Unplayable Lie really need to be there? Can all of the stats at the top be hidden? The buttons to switch between clubs, fades, lofts, are kinda big. • These indicators — they totally look like the forward/backward buttons from a slideshow on a website made in 1998. Sorry. http://sethwillits.com/temp/upshot/upshot_WY0TVu3B.jpg
• Clicked on Save to see what that does and it took me back to the main menu. Weird. I thought it killed my game, and I didn't see anywhere to get back to it so I clicked on Practice etc and then tried it again. This time I saw the Resume button next to Career and thought maybe that's what that was for so I clicked on it - sure enough there it is. I've quit and relaunched this game so many times already I was used to that being there and thought it was for resuming Career mode. It wasn't clear to me that was for resuming my practice game. Speaking of which, why is Career Mode clear? Any why is Resume next to it and also clear?
• The grass in a couple places looks like a simple solid color, and in other places (the rough) it's much nicer looking.
• Nice. http://sethwillits.com/temp/upshot/upshot_7d2QlHfO.jpg
  
  

(Apr 16, 2012 09:29 AM)Jake Wrote:  Thanks, I'll square up that minimap right away. Looking forward to hearing more

• When you click on Controls/Settings, the screen slides left. When you click on Close it slides left again. Shouldn't it slide right?
• The Settings button has a word, while Controls does not, and Settings is bigger than Controls. Those should be balanced.
• The bottom right corner has some overlap. Everything is also really big, and it gets cramped around "Other Games" http://sethwillits.com/temp/upshot/upshot_3Et7gtgy.jpg
• "Other Games" should be somewhere else, not inside of Settings. It should also be a little clearer what "Other Games" means.
• "Challenge" opening Mail was a bit weird. I thought it was going to offer me challenges, not ask me to challenge someone else.
• In-game, sometimes it seems to get darker, or perhaps it's just inconsistent between holes. This is really dark: http://sethwillits.com/temp/upshot/upshot_QX5BcAKx.jpg but at other times it looks perfectly fine and bright. (Chris Dillman and I discovered my older Apple displays have a different natural response curve than newer ones so the low end of the "dark" spectrum tends to look much darker to me than it does on new displays, but that's not solely what I'm seeing — there's something dynamic going on. Perhaps it's just the sun being super directional and ambient light being pretty low?) More specifically, the shadow of the guy on the grown makes the grass darker, but visible, yet the face of the strength meter looks almost entirely black to me on screen. Also the front of the guy looks very very dark to. Compare it to this image: http://sethwillits.com/temp/upshot/upshot_sRsUAKQ7.jpg
• During the "Press The Z,X,C,V,B,N Keys for various views of the hole" -- odd capitalization there -- it's weird to see the button under the other button. Couldn't you just morph the existing one? Also, it forces me to press each of those keys instead of just one of them before it moves on. That's not clear.
  http://www.sethwillits.com/temp/NovaGolfViewButtonWeirdness.mov
• I'm still not sure what the gizmo in the bottom left corner of the window is supposed to be. http://sethwillits.com/temp/upshot/upshot_eIzb6zPE.jpg Is it a suggestion? It's not reporting what my settings are, because it doesn't change as I change them…
• I assume Unplayable Lie needs to exist in some circumstances, but couldn't you detect when it might and when it definitely wouldn't be? It's kinda icky having it there all of the time.
• The player apparates during transitions. http://www.sethwillits.com/temp/NovaGolfMagician.mov
• Hmm. http://sethwillits.com/temp/upshot/upshot_dgd9pVe8.jpg Simply clicking the button does the purchase? That seems very unfriendly. I thought there might be some display of what I was going to get. If you're trying to take my money here, this screen should be a lot sexier. (That applies to the whole game too.) The Layout of this screen is really suspect too. Also, what would "Restore Purchases" even do? I click it and it opens MAS, but I have no idea what for. Redownloads IAPs?
• Playing with the profile creator, adding, deleting, entering name, re-entering name, etc, I crashed it. http://www.sethwillits.com/temp/NovaGolfCrash.txt Not exactly sure the process I went through, but at some point the text field was not showing any of my typing, and when I clicked Enter, it crashed. Return nor Enter actually presses that Enter button, and Enter seems like a weird name. I'm done entering. It should just be OK or Done.