Character Previewing

It’s hardly a secret around the community that our Characters page is a little bit outdated in terms of content. I’ve let it linger in its limbo’d state for the past few episodes out of indecisiveness, but it’s time to do something about that.

In the beginning, Pokemon Reborn originated as a community game, and as a project oriented specifically towards our community there were lots of internal references and a wide array of information that was meant to be universally understood going in. To my surprise, the game’s popularity rapidly inflated far beyond our own borders, so something like the Character page was necessary to get incoming players up to speed. However, as the game grew even further, the project goal shifted from a community game to a more universal appeal. This meant that there should no longer have been a need for a character catalog- the game itself needs to be the one to introduce these characters; not a website.

“I might wish you ‘Good luck,’ however ‘luck’ is merely an illusory essentialization of statistics, and is not inherently good or bad in any way.”

I was originally going to dispose of the Character page entirely, but a few users tipped me off that it had still been valuable to them in encouraging to try the game out in the first place. Well, I thought, that’s certainly worth the trouble. Therefore, the Character’s page is going to have a new purpose: as a second teaser.

It’ll still need to be redone, of course, and that’s where your feedback comes in. We have some options, listed in the poll below, about exactly what is going to be included on the new character’s page. For consistency, a Minimum approach makes the most sense, but a Moderate approach might give a fuller view of what (rather, who) the early game holds. Finally, we have an option to reorganize the current page hosting all existing characters. While this is messy, other options might not include more popular personalities like Radomus or Terra.

So tell me, which of these three layouts would best encourage you as a potential player of the game to give it a try?

One thought on “Character Previewing

  1. I think that new players shouldn’t know of all the characters.It would be too confusing for them.
    However, I think there should be a password system in the characters page.The concept would be (for example) this:
    A player finishes a chapter, then he/she can get a password. On the characters page he/she types in the password and more characters can be seen.
    The problem is that on the forum everyone could get the passwords. It can’t be helped, but you could warn the players with a note that for example:”progressing and watching the new characters descriptions can ruin the game experience”.
    This is my idea.I hope it helped somewhat and forgive me for my bad grammar and vocabulary because I’m a hungarian player.

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