Review my web game, the Freeciv HTML5 version, again 5 years later

Re: Review my web game, the Freeciv HTML5 version, again 5 y... by nbm on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @07:25PM (#7849135)

Is there a reason to ask people for their names? To just try it out, I first just ignored it and pressed "Start". When that failed, I typed "a" as my name and tried again, which also failed.

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Re: Review my web game, the Freeciv HTML5 version, again 5 y... by roschdal on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @07:31PM (#7849154)

The player name is used several places in the game to distinguish between different players. This is particularly useful in multi-player games. You can enter any name, the game doesn't care which. Is asking for player name a too high barrier?

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Re: Review my web game, the Freeciv HTML5 version, again 5 y... by michaelvanham on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @08:47PM (#7849476)

Maybe there would be less objection if the question asked for a "player name" instead of "your name".

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