Thank you so much for this program! Being able to see how pleased my phone gets when I do as I'm told makes me feel so happy! Feeling the way the friction of my hands heats up my phone as it only grows more and more pleased as I keep doing as I'm told. It made my head go fuzzy and it made me feel good. I'm sure it has been enjoying this just as much as I have :>
After reading your note, I personally think it plays fine on phone. It's very nice.
The speed of the target when you have to touch in circles ramps up WAY too fast for such a small region of a touch screen, and the circular path you have to trace is way too small. The particle trails the target circle leaves make it extremely difficult to locate, and you have to follow that fast moving, nearly invisible target underneath your finger with ridiculous precision to not start losing whatever seems to count as "progress" in the list of percentages at the top.
I have skinny fingers and my phone is not small, and the circle I'm expected to precisely trace in like half a second or less over and over again is basically covered by just the tip of my index finger. This is asking for a repetitive strain injury, my index finger was sore in seconds while failing to keep up with a target I couldn't see. Did you test this with a stylus on a tablet?
Trying to follow along with this one was genuinely stressful. I'm not gonna hurt myself just to see where this one goes; all your other stuff is much more usable, but I think this could be, too, if it were easier to actually do what it seems to be asking me to do.
Fair enough! Sorry it didn't land! The honest answer is that I mostly tested it with a mouse on a laptop and then did some testing on my phone and it seemed OK and I played through it a few times but it was also obviously flawed as a phone-first design (because the finger occludes the screen) so I didn't work hard to improve the phone experience.
Out of curiosity, I've since tried it with a stylus. Still probably too much of an active dexterity/reflex check for anything trying to be hypnotic, and the precise target is still very hard to see a lot of the time and is really easy to lose, but it does work and doesn't cause hand/finger pain.
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Thank you so much for this program! Being able to see how pleased my phone gets when I do as I'm told makes me feel so happy! Feeling the way the friction of my hands heats up my phone as it only grows more and more pleased as I keep doing as I'm told. It made my head go fuzzy and it made me feel good. I'm sure it has been enjoying this just as much as I have :>
After reading your note, I personally think it plays fine on phone. It's very nice.
The speed of the target when you have to touch in circles ramps up WAY too fast for such a small region of a touch screen, and the circular path you have to trace is way too small. The particle trails the target circle leaves make it extremely difficult to locate, and you have to follow that fast moving, nearly invisible target underneath your finger with ridiculous precision to not start losing whatever seems to count as "progress" in the list of percentages at the top.
I have skinny fingers and my phone is not small, and the circle I'm expected to precisely trace in like half a second or less over and over again is basically covered by just the tip of my index finger. This is asking for a repetitive strain injury, my index finger was sore in seconds while failing to keep up with a target I couldn't see. Did you test this with a stylus on a tablet?
Trying to follow along with this one was genuinely stressful. I'm not gonna hurt myself just to see where this one goes; all your other stuff is much more usable, but I think this could be, too, if it were easier to actually do what it seems to be asking me to do.
Fair enough! Sorry it didn't land! The honest answer is that I mostly tested it with a mouse on a laptop and then did some testing on my phone and it seemed OK and I played through it a few times but it was also obviously flawed as a phone-first design (because the finger occludes the screen) so I didn't work hard to improve the phone experience.
I'll make a note of that on the page/description.
Out of curiosity, I've since tried it with a stylus. Still probably too much of an active dexterity/reflex check for anything trying to be hypnotic, and the precise target is still very hard to see a lot of the time and is really easy to lose, but it does work and doesn't cause hand/finger pain.