Welcoming players into your game is a serious investment it’s a commitment to slow, caring education and thoughtful immersion into your world. A white-knuckle prayer that players will stick around.Įducating players is a huge topic - too big for me to attempt - but I posit that the more care you take making your game welcoming, the more players will stick around and become invested. Loading screens with controller mappings, regular game-halting popups and ambiguous instructions all elicit a similar pain response. When devs speak the words “We just gotta add a tutorial…” it physically hurts me. I’m excited to share some of the practical things I did to make the game welcoming as well as outline a bunch of stuff that went wrong along the way.Īll too often, it feels like the onboarding portion of a game doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Welcoming players into DATA WING was uniquely challenging. 😅Īnd it worked DATA WING has had over 5 million downloads, has a user rating of 4.9 stars on the App Store and Google Play and has been volunteer-translated into 17 languages. Oh, and it was released completely free.Ī lot of what makes DATA WING special isn’t immediately apparent - it presents as just another mobile game - but that was a ploy to help it reach (and hopefully delight) as broad an audience as possible. It’s an unusual game the racing mechanic involves thrusting off walls to gain speed, it’s set inside a teenager’s smartphone and there’s a multi-layered narrative that slowly reveals itself over the game’s 90 minutes. We make valid personality tests available to everyone and publish open-source accurate personality data.DATA WING is a challenging, retro-styled racing game with a story (iOS, Android). The Personality Data Project is supported by universities and colleges worldwide. This can mean that “Advocates” find difficulty in acting decisively through internal conflict by moral dilemmas. It can be difficult for them if their personal principles conflict with their sense of empathy. However, unlike “Reformers”, a Two-Wing may struggle to follow through with their principles if it has the potential to inconvenience or upset another person. As a result, Type 1w2 are called “Advocates”. This can make Type 1w2 very powerful when advocating for meaningful social change. This means that a Type 1w2 will desire to bring about social change, but will have a certain interpersonal sensitivity to their actions.

A two-wing adds these qualities to a Type One personality. Type Twos are known as “Helpers” because they have an innate desire to help others and act with empathy.

Type Ones are known as “Reformers” because they are always looking for ways to improve the world, have influence, assert pressure and affect change. What is an Enneagram 1w2? What is a Type 1 wing 2 on the Enneagram?

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