Upcoming features of PG - Need your input!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you enjoy the new features of this release. I thought I'd take the opportunity to get your thoughts and ideas for some new features that I'd like to put in play here at PurposeGames during the fall/winter season.

Below you'll find a short list of the things I've planned and I'd appreciate your thoughts on it and would be very happy to hear of any ideas you may have, big or small improvements, all suggestions are welcome.

• Play Lists - a way to group games together into playlists that can act as favorites, or study lists or as base for tournaments etc
• Possibility to follow more things than just members e.g. follow groups, forum threads, tournaments and so on. This way you can tailor the control you want to have over certain aspects of the site
• A PurposeGame app version of the site, making it possible to play games and challenges on a mobile device (iphone/ipad is the first that come to mind, android devices secondly)

Thanks much for your input.

David

@tickman: you can create as many playlists as you want. public or private. possible for others to like and comment if public.

I think what I mean by "public" above is what you mean by "sharing", am I correct?

First of all: I really like the recent update:-)
Here's a couple of suggestions:

I'm always looking for new games to play, but when you have played a lot of games, you lose track of which games you have played and not played. I would like to see which games I have played or not on the overview pages(where you can see a lot of games).

There are now 2887 pages with games. I hope it will be possible to search for one special page.

Sharing backgrounds would be a good thing, IMO. I'm not sure what you mean by sharing a game.

I agree with lakris.I would like to know which games I played and which I didn't.

Sounds great, PG its just getting better and better:)
Would be really nice with a Play Lists system, because I miss the old favorites. These playlist could be by own choice private or public, ex a private study lists or as base for tournaments, and public which you can share with others.

It could be nice to be able to organize things on the pulse/happenings ex what happens in the tournaments you're a member of, about the challenges and other things

And an application im really looking forward to!

Sounds really exiting all, thank you for the updates and the site in general!:)

Well, A minor one:

Your quick actions allow you to create a tournament from there, taking you to all the groups in which you are allowed to do that.

But there is no equivalent on the "Create" page--and there is room for it.

And for the app, I think it should have separate "mobile scores," instead of one scoreboard for the whole thing. For example, if you played a game on a laptop, the score would register on a "desktop scoreboard."

I for one would really like the playlist idea.

We need new criterion for determining what games are eligible for the player leaderboard; we don't have the 5 star system anymore.

@chafawa:

That's a good point. I think most responsible game makers do that when adding a significant number of dots. I'm not sure it would be necessary though, if you (for example) add one dot to a 29-dot game, making it a 30-dot game.

But I know you're talking about cases where 1-dot games became 3-6 dot games, which certainly seems to be unsportsmanlike. But of course, there are many other ways to accomplish the same kind of thing: making a game with the dot(s) close to the start button, and then moving the dot(s) is one way. Another is to make the 1-dot game with the dot very close to the start button and just playing the game first. That doesn't guarantee the ATH, but if you get the lowest possible time first, then nobody can take it from you if you do get it.

It might be well just to avoid playing such games, and certainly don't 'like' them. Until a game gets a certain number of plays and a minimum number of 'likes', it doesn't count in the leaderboard. If you play or 'like' those games, you are helping the makers of those games improve their positions in the leaderboards. If you boycott the games, they wind up just wasting their time.

The rating system was good for indicating games that really needed to be tossed. Not just the ones that had a few spelling errors or one thing that needed to be fixed. It was kind of like a head's up for a game that was bad. The rating system also allowed a 5 star gamed to go down in ratings by many other gamers giving a low rating (for whatever reason). Seeing a really great game go down in ratings because others didn't like it was kind of sad. I do miss the wall and the favorites.

@Alcyone:

I think the playlist feature will be like having multiple lists of favorites, so that should be a more than adequate replacement.

I'm not sure I miss the old rating system, though. I think there was too much abuse with it. I recognize that the 'like' system isn't perfect, either. I'm not sure what other kind of system there could be.

I do miss the message boards, but I understand why they were problematical for David, as well as for many users. There was some genuine abuse in the system. I'm not sure how it could be saved and not have those problems.

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And the COMMENTS ON PEOPLES PROFILES BACK!!!!!!