The first version of the game tutorial
The first version of the game tutorial in Sim Betting Football was introduced in the 0.7.0 version. The core concept was quite simple: guiding users through all the important screens of the game and teaching them how do basic things like betting on a match.
In that version there were 2 main issues:
- The tutorial was taking about 7-8 minutes to complete.
- Sometimes it wasn’t clear what to do when some interaction was required.
Furtnermore, the sequence of screens/overlays was linear and the user had no choice on what to do during the tutorial.
The new version of the game tutorial
Now the game tutorial is divided in a core part which takes about 3 minutes to complete and it’s made of 34 overlays/steps and 4 sub-tutorials which take anything between 10 and 30 seconds and add 15 more overlays/steps on top of that.
Now the new tutorial takes in total less than 5 minutes to complete. That also includes 3 new overlays/steps to explain how to use the game store which was not implemented at the time I created the first version of the tutorial.
To address the second issue, making what to do clearer, now the game tutorial shows a small sign whit a blinking arrow every time some interaction is required.
The sign appears after a couple of seconds after entering a new screen, giving the user time to read and at the same time attracting their attention to a new element.
Try it out
If you want to try the new tutorial and play Sim Betting Football before the official release you can register as beta tester.
Obviously feedback and suggestions on how to improve things are more than welcome!
