Actual To Dos, None of This Tentative Bullshit

• On Wednesday: Release the game

Bugs

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• Email press contacts with the game
• Make a trailer
• Write the text of the press kit
• Take screenshots
• Write the about text for the about icon
• Check for sound effects coverage
• Adjust range for date picker and spinner
• Rework promotion system so that
  • Make getting promoted less easy (and gets more challenging)
  • Earn more work units as you get promoted (but need more for a promotion)
  • Make the game become more frenetic as you go (but starts less frenetic than it is now)
  • Make the promotion titles more serious (and perhaps have an actual observable hierarchy)
• Increase work time (and possibly break time), maybe more like 3 minutes and 1 minute, or even 5 minutes and 2 minutes… (the risk here is that people stop playing before they see the break…)
• ADDED THEM AS HEADINGS ALONG THE WAY TO HELP MAKE IT FEEL LIKE THE INSPIRATIONALS ARE ABOUT SOMETHING Throw some technology names into the inspirationals here and there at random?
• Fix the case issues with the technology corpus
• FOUND IT. LO-DASH RANDOM VERSUS MATH.RANDOM Still possible to get [undefined] as a button label on WorkDialog (happened on one with 3 buttons that I saw)
• ALSO DID MY BEST TO GENDER NEUTRALISE IT Edit the list of inspirational stuff and remove over-specific elements

• I’LL GO THROUGH AND DO AN EDIT TO REMOVE SOME OF THE INSPIRATIONALS THAT ARE TOO SPECIFIC Reconsider the texts in document and email - could that be more technology oriented somehow? There’s a pleasure in being able to read what you type, is one reason to maintain the current thing. What about writing the text of technical manuals?

• Add more desktop images (or maybe just the four, but nail the tone - the work one is amazing)
• Add an ‘about’ icon to the desktop that can have a text-file explaining the software and its use
• Close dialogs on break instead of destroy and reopen them afterwards so that you resume work rather than starting fresh each round
• I DON’T THINK THIS CAN BE HAPPENING Mary says she found a bug where you keep getting promoted even if totally inactive
• APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN FIXED DURING OTHER WORK ON BREAKOUT CONTROL FROM MAIN SCRIPT If breakout loads while the window doesn’t have focus it won’t start
• Build testable version and send to J+M
• Hold for audio load
• THINKING THIS IS ACTUALLY OVERKILL Add pep talk dialog when they get a dialog wrong - “are you sure you got that right?” and also like “You can do this!”, “Don’t stop now!” “Don’t give up!” if they click the close button on a work dialog?)
• Make the overlay look less like a piece of shit? (Ideally with a dialog above it…)
• Add more SFX for things that need it (promotion, …)
• Add a rule that sets a minimum width of 800px for the window and brings up an overlay if too small (so I don’t have to worry about responsive design on the menu bar especially) - fucking responsive design
• Improve the timing (more delays on startup, then possibly just better timing of workDialogs)
• Get breakout to behave itself in terms of stopping and starting before/after breaks
• Add promotion event dialogs (and promotions) based on work done (chars typed + dialogs dismissed)
• Possible to just close work dialogs with X without dealing with them
• Fix reactions to incorrect dialog presses
• Problem with textareas not scrolling down with typing
• Add actual work unit calculations and update the stat in the menubar
• Limit username to some set number of characters so it can’t fuck the menubar
• Add work units performed statistic (maybe even an indicator of next promotion?)
• Tweak CSS for menu bar so that it’s responsive to size, and works to a minimum of 800px width of the window * Make mini-dialogs come up not-too-frequently, but maybe in bunches sometimes, and only up to a limit for the screen (like three say)
• Fix some of the positioning bullshit and limit the draggable area to exclude the menu bar
• Make long term tasks come up appropriately (maximum two at a time)
• REPLACED WITH KEYPRESS ‘input’ doesn’t prevent default for some reason
• REFACTORING THIS Figure out when and how often you get promoted ~~/warned/demoted < should be related to characters typed in text areas + dialogs closed successfully~~
• THIS IS OVERKILL I THINK Consider set of inspiring phrases to come up on success (Great work!)
• Add set of hilarious position names (maybe around 20+?)
• Add break time trigger (clears all dialogs, brings up dialog about taking a break with a progress bar no buttons, can’t close, timer that restarts work at end of progress bar)
• Make breakout colours match dialog
• I DON’T THINK THIS WOULD HAPPEN Make system re-ask for password sometimes ha ha…? Why would this happen though?
• Implement breakout that can inject (and resize to) a div. Guess this is in Phaser?
• Slow it dooooown
• Fix the language used in dialogs (e.g. button labels, titles, menu items, etc - e.g. generateLanguage())
• Add in long term tasks options
  • Document
  • Email
  • NAH Data entry
• Remove ability to get a task wrong
• Markov chain for document/email contents to avoid typing meaningless nonsense? Lorem ipsum?
• ARRAY OF INSPIRATIONAL/MOTIVATIONAL PHRASES Lorem Ipsum versus Markov versus Arrays of BusinessWords?
• Make the modal background a bit darker
• Add actual cycle of work, inspiration dialogs endlessly (need a state machine)
• Add icons for music, desktop, breakout game (game only available during break)
• Create music selection and volume dialog
• Music (ideally written by an AI/procedure) plays (WolframTones? Something else?)
• Add position/rank ui + username
• Add dialog for setting desktop image
• NOT QUITE HAPPY WITH SUCCESS Add SFX for current things (success, fail, log in, new dialog)
• Add random positivity messages to inspirational popups
• Display slider current value on update (probably in text of label)
• FOR NOW THERE’S ONE PER DIALOG Avoid situations where dialog could be too big for the screen (avoid datepicker, or just always have single instructions? <– probably reasonable)
• WITH COMPROMISE OF overflow: hidden THIS IS OKAY Randomly position dialogs (and remember the nightmares of You Are Not Here.)
• Random dialogs with inspirational work images (stock) pop up
• Only show desktop on successful login
• Random typical desktop image (maybe let user select on login?)
• Login screen on start (username and password, use username in UI and occasionally ask them to reenter their password)
• Repair CSS for niggles
  • DOESN’T SEEM TO BE HAPPENING FOR NOW Refix the highlighting of focused elements
  • FOR NOW I’M AT PEACE WITH THE NON-JQUERY CHECKBOXES Colour of radio button (want black on white eventually, no fucking idea why it ought to be hard though)
  • DID IT Consider whether need more windows-y drop shadow on the buttons?
  • Remove focus outline of focused elements (too usable)
• Shake the dialog box when it’s incorrect
• Implement ‘check at the end’ version of validation for each type
• Add ability for dialog to specify and evaluate its task
• NOW SEEMS TO ME IT SHOULD BE LITERAL UI LANGUAGE Research possibilities for business-speak in dialog tasks
• NOT DOING THIS Add dropdown menu to top of the screen if that’s plausible (at least like File Edit Something)
• DECOMPLICATED THIS OUT Work out a language for generating and specifying and testing tasks
• BASICALLY WORKS Test multiple UI elements in a single dialog in list form
• Add other jQuery UI widgets into dialog boxes and display them
  • Radio buttons
  • Checkboxes
  • Date picker
  • NOT ACTUALLY NEEDED Multiple buttons
  • PART DONE Spinner
  • ALL DONE Spinner
  • Slider
  • Progress bar
  • Select menu
  • BUT NOTE NO MULTI-SELECT WHICH I THINK IS FINE Think through integrating icon selection and dragging
  • Integrate new Win95esque CSS

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