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May-19-2015 12:59

Now that the Detective's Notes have been passed by the community survey, it's time to finish touching them up and add any features that were missing from the first implementation. I've done enough work on it now that I can show everyone where it's currently at, and you can all chime in and let me know what you think.

The biggest addition will be a witness evidence version of the notebook, shown in the following screen shot. It only displays suspects that have not been ruled out, so you can focus on going after your important targets. In the screen shot example if we were to ask Rashad Morcos about Wagdy Mikhail, then Rashad would then be crossed off Wagdy's list. I ultimately intend to include townie hints in this notebook.

http://s1.postimg.org/o7d7va373/witness_notebook.png

The second picture I have shows the evidence list being listed on the suspect description page. The aim behind this is to allow players to read the suspect's description to see if they have the potential to match any of the evidence - therefore saving diligent Sleuths an alibi question on particular cases.

http://s1.postimg.org/yvgyu4d67/physical_evidence_listed_on_suspect.png

In the same vein of question saving, I'm currently thinking about including the option to rule out individual pieces of evidence. This might be handy for example if one deduces a piece of evidence must match an innocent suspect. Rather than using a question to check the evidence against the innocent suspect you'll instead be able to strike it out of the notes yourself to allow for easier reading.

Please do let me know what you think, and like before I'll post more screen shots as the development and consultation process continues.

Jun-7-2015 05:38

You know what the definition of a terrible mistake it? Turns out, according to Merriam-Webster, it's Yeti putting the Notes on the evidence page to the bottom, instead of keeping it at the side. I tried playing a case properly with them there, and it was awful. The information in that case definitely all needs to be on a single screen, and not constant scrolling. So I've popped it back to the side again, seen here:

http://s24.postimg.org/r8bxhysgl/back_to_the_side.png

Jun-7-2015 05:54

In what can be described as yet another final tweak, I've removed the ruled out suspects from the notes when comparing evidence, as seen here:

http://s18.postimg.org/8446w97tl/another_final_tweak.png

As I think I mentioned earlier, since evidence itself can now be ruled out, if you rule out a suspect they won't appear in the list for an evidence check. In this example, assuming we knew one of those four had to have committed the crime, we could safely click on the straight hair in the Notes to rule it out.

Jun-7-2015 07:15

Yes, back to the side! The final tweak is good too, and I think it marks the end of all note-tweaking? I'm looking forward to actually playing with these changes, it'll be fun :)

Jun-7-2015 07:41

I reckon there's always room for more tweaks - but yes hopefully this update will make it into the game soon.

Jun-10-2015 15:55

No further news on when the update will make it to the game I'm afraid, but I did receive a suggestion from DevilishWings asking me to include a suspect counter. Here's a picture of what that could look like:

http://s28.postimg.org/o9oou993x/total_suspects.png

Jun-11-2015 11:26

I love the counter! I have an irrational fear of counting names or boxes in the D notes wrong and misjudging if I have all my suspects yet.

Jun-11-2015 12:23

I also love the counter

Jul-1-2015 03:12

Any news about the update?

Jul-1-2015 12:55

I'm sorry to say that whilst the work has been largely completed, it won't be ready for release for at least a fortnight - probably a little longer than that truth be told.

Jul-2-2015 02:24

Well, any date is better than no date at all. :) I'm looking forward to the completion of the changes.