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Cactus Notes

Brainstorming App to complement your notebook · By plexsoup

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A topic by plexsoup created Feb 17, 2019 Views: 191 Replies: 7
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Needs a payoff after the Raptor attack. Some sort of win screen when there's zero raptors left.

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Needs a way to connect two existing notes together.

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Should be able to drag a node (cactus) into another one, then they'd stick like velcro. If you drag them apart, they get a new edge (spring)

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Needs a human-readable export format and a way to import/export from other applications: GraphML or Freemind's "mm" format.

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The very first note should be "pinned", so it doesn't move around while users are trying to get accustomed to the interface.

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The notes start moving as soon as the mouse exits the text-area. That makes it harder to click on flowers. Maybe make the bounding box bigger, so the note stays in place while you're trying to click on flowers.

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Notes from Sage:

From https://www.twitch.tv/videos/382328923## around 1h10m into the video.

  • splash screen -> title screen was jarring
  • Icons too big
  • Cacti should never cover each other
  • should zoom to mouse cursor instead of to magnifying glass
  • url should link externally with OS.execute_shell("URL")
  • should have an option where mouse hover doesn't automatically activate the box. Maybe a read-only mode.
  • There's a bug where a textbox doesn't select_all() properly. The text was highlighted, but when he typed, it didn't remove the old text.
  • Time challenge should have whatever nomenclature the writing community uses for that sort of thing.
  • Time challenge timer shouldn't start until the dialog box is closed
  • Time challenge text was hard to read because of the alpha transparency
  • Idea for the timed challenge: Have a graph that grows automatically on a timer. Every ten seconds a new node is created and grabs focus.
  • The instructions on the first note weren't obvious / apparent for some reason. He wasn't aware it had any instructions on it.
    • Consider making a tree of instructions instead of a single note. 3 or 4 ought to do the trick.
  • Movement / Navigation Controls aren't good. Need to figure out how to make them feel better.
  • Wants WASD to navigate
  • Raptor attack was fun
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Rocknightstudios played on twitch. They ran into a problem where pterosaurs ate their only note, so they couldn't make any new notes.

Consider adding a single fixed note which can't be destroyed / removed.