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Screenshot Saturday: Alllllmost Done!
🕑 Added 2018-10-13 14:46:34 +0000 UTC So, good news: all the writing and art for my next explorable is done. I mean, I'll have to do some edits post-playtest, but right now I can say we're in the final lap. This thing's still on track to being done at the end of the month, with a week or so of "buffer time" just in case.Here's some of the art + writing from the Preface & Chapter 3:
The Preface is short: I want to frame Spaced Repetition as not a "study hack", but as a skill you can use to develop a lifelong love of learning. The Preface also introduces you to the main "interaction" of the comic: using Spaced Repetition to learn about Spaced Repetition.
Chapter 3 is where you, the reader/player, get to make your own Spaced Repetition flashcards. And at the end of Chapter 3, you can download some stuff to help you get started today – such as: 1) a wallpaper to remind you to do your Spaced Repetition habit, and 2) all the flashcards in the comic, including your own.
Here's a GIF showing off an early prototype of the make-your-own-flashcards + download-all-flashcards feature:
Here's what the new, polished UI looks like for making your own cards:
(The last time I tried free-form text entry in an explorable, lots of people got stuck, in that blank-page syndrome. That's why the above UI has both free-form text and pre-made suggestions)
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Anyway, here's the progress report of everything:
- Project Setup [DONE]
- Outline // done
- Code a framework for an "interactive comic" // done
- Code for allowing multiple translations/languages // done - Chapter 1: The Science of SR [DONE]
- Forgetting Curve simulations // done
- Flashcard simulations // done
- Writing // done
- Art // done
- Playtesting // done, thanks to you! - Chapter 2: The Art of SR [DONE]
- Leitner Box simulations // done
- Leitner Box interactive calendar // done
- Writing // done
- Art // done
- Playtesting // done, with help of some friends - Chapter 3: Get Started Today [DONE]
- Code to make your own cards // done
- Downloadable flashcards // done
- Downloadable wallpaper // done
- Writing // done
- Art // done - Preface [DONE]
- Writing // done
- Art // done - Final Stuff, Pre-Playtest
- Fix Chapter 1, based on previous playtest feedback
- Fix Chapter 2, based on previous playtest feedback
- Fix Preface & Chapter 3 (some of the code's glitchy)
- Combine all chapters into one page
- A cute interactive header with title
- Sounds
- FINAL PLAYTESTS - Final Stuff, Post-Playtest
- Fix everything, based on playtest feedback
- Add Credits, Citations, Further Reading
- Create Polygon & Peep rewards
- Social Sharing: Thumbnails, Share Button
- Translation: set up a process for fan-made translations
- Cross-browser tests & fixes
- Make it mobile-frie... well, mobile-tolerant.
- RELEASE!!!! - Post-Release
- fix bugs & typos, coz I know there will be bugs & typos.
Still on track for the end of the month! Thank you all again so much for supporting me thus far – I sincerely hope this next explorable will be valuable, and help you learn better, independently, autonomously, lovingly.
<3,
~ Nicky Case
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TODAY'S QUESTION:
Recently, I've been interested in using games to share skills. (Like this one, on Spaced Repetition) So far, I've made explorables to help people understand systems – which is good, maybe – but that does not translate to people being able to actually change systems. That's a skill.
For example, I got a critique from a student who played (& liked) The Evolution of Trust: it showed them how trust works as a system, but does not actually help one build more trusting relationships, a skill. Same critique applies to most of my other stuff.
Understanding may be a necessary first step to doing, but it's only the first step.
I want to go one step beyond. So, a question for y'all:
What skills, in these troubled times, do you think more peeps need to learn?
Let me know in the Patreon comments! I genuinely want to know what y'all think :)
Comments
Will Harris-Braun
Very much looking forward to the release of this one! A skill (or maybe more accurately a practice) I find myself using constantly understanding a system as a whole and interacting with it according to that understandig instead of just following the instructions line-for-line. This helps me especially when using tools. When something goes wrong and the instructions no longer apply to my situation, this deeper understanding allows me to improvise and effectively diagnose and often solve the issue. Maybe that’s a bit too general for an explorable, but it’s been one of my main topics of metacognition for me.
Linda Carson
I'll be shocked if this answer is uncommon, let alone original, but we could all use some skills development in truth-testing what we hear and read. We can't let snopes. com and the Mythbusters do all the heavy lifting.
