Opened 3 years ago
Last modified 16 months ago
#6148 new enhancement
Making the Game Lobby more accessible
Reported by: | Langbart | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | If Time Permits | Milestone: | Backlog |
Component: | UI – Miscellaneous | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Patch: |
Description (last modified by )
In the last 3 months there have been 22 users on IRC 0ad who simply wanted to know how to play online, it seems that the GUI layout is not clear enough on how to join the game lobby, listed below are links to the IRC logs where users have reported the problem:
Summarised the most common questions:
how to play 0ad with friends?
how can i create a multiplayer game?
how to setup multiplayer game?
- likshman (19/Jan/21)
- Nickdevries (19/Jan/21)
- Dynamofox (21/Jan/21)
- mjslick (22/Jan/21)
- astrozador (22/Jan/21)
- w00z1t (22/Jan/21)
- ringolero (25/Jan/21)
- GUY (30/Jan/21)
- Taiowa (5/Feb/21)
- Exorelico (13/Feb/21)
- tipo (16/Feb/21)
- asasa (3/Mar/21)
- efdfeff (8/Mar/21)
- bluewarrior (20/Mar/21)
- Tobi (20/Mar/21)
- alexroses47 (20/Mar/21)
- manuel_ (21/Mar/21)
- christianp (25/Mar/21)
- Nabil (5/Apr/21)
- Jaunixd (9/Apr/21)
- morimoto (15/Apr/21)
- pt93 (28/Apr/21)
On 15/Apr/21 a user nicknamed morimoto
suggested via IRC 0ad to create a patch for this problem.
A possible solution could be to move the Game Lobby
to the main page and all other things to Single Player
and Rest
(see image below for clarity).
PS: In this video (@23:24min) titled Spring & Steam, an Odyssey (1/Feb/20), the presenter highlights the fact that users want to press as few buttons as possible to start a game and suggests implementing a feature where you only have to press one button and immediately start a random game with another user.
Very important [... ...] you really need very few clicks to get into a game.
EDIT1:
Related forum thread:
shiny - an alternative main menu UI (28/Aug/21)
Attachments (3)
Change History (10)
by , 3 years ago
Attachment: | fosdem_ingame_lobby.jpg added |
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by , 3 years ago
Attachment: | frontpage.jpg added |
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comment:1 by , 3 years ago
Description: | modified (diff) |
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comment:2 by , 3 years ago
Similar case in #6192 user mistakenly tried to join the lobby via "Join game".
comment:5 by , 3 years ago
Description: | modified (diff) |
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Related forum thread for a new user interface has been added to the description.
added pt93 (28/Apr/21)