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Avanya: /* Test Ideas */

2011-10-12T20:26:07Z

Test Ideas

Avanya: /* Test Ideas */

2011-09-04T21:44:47Z

Test Ideas

Avanya at 21:42, 4 September 2011

2011-09-04T21:42:41Z

Avanya: /* Test Ideas */

2011-09-04T21:37:47Z

Test Ideas

Avanya: /* Test of Gemology */

2011-09-04T21:35:39Z

Test of Gemology

Avanya: /* Test of Gemology */

2011-09-04T21:33:46Z

Test of Gemology

Avanya: /* Test of Gemology */

2011-09-04T21:32:49Z

Test of Gemology

Avanya: /* Test of Gemology */

2011-09-04T21:17:02Z

Test of Gemology

Avanya at 21:07, 4 September 2011

2011-09-04T21:07:44Z

Avanya: /* Test Ideas */

2011-09-04T21:00:37Z

Test Ideas

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	[[Test of Sponsorship]]		[[Test of Sponsorship]]
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		+	[[Test of Magnificent Gardens]]

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 My most recent data is not on this page, because it got too long to put it all on there, lol. But if you are interested, please chat me, and I can get you copies of data from my notes.
 ==Test Ideas==
-[[Test_of_Gemology]]
+[[Test of Gemology]]
-[[Test_of_Sponsorship]]
+[[Test of Sponsorship]]

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 My most recent data is not on this page, because it got too long to put it all on there, lol. But if you are interested, please chat me, and I can get you copies of data from my notes.
 ==Test Ideas==
-===Test of Gemology===
+[[Test_of_Gemology]]
-*Summary:  This game has a designed layout of different colored/shaped gems laid out on an inclined board. The player of the puzzle makes moves by picking two adjacent jewels to swap positions. When a linear match of 3 or more of the same jewel type is formed, the matched set is removed from the board and the remaining pieces slide vertically down into the gaps. The object of the game is “sort through all the jewels” by making matches and clearing the board completely.
+[[Test_of_Sponsorship]]

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	*Note 2: This test is also meant to be quick to attempt for players. (There are already many puzzles that involve significant time commitment to solve. This is meant to balance that).		*Note 2: This test is also meant to be quick to attempt for players. (There are already many puzzles that involve significant time commitment to solve. This is meant to balance that).

−	~~===Test of Sponsorship===~~	+	http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale5/Test_of_Sponsorship
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−	:Summary: In this test, players nominate fellow Egyptians that they feel are good leaders, and try to convince others in small random groups to support their candidates. Each participant gets one vote per round. Players cannot nominate themselves, and cannot vote for whom they nominate. Each week the player with the highest total of votes (cumulative) will pass the test.
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−	:After signing up for this test, a player can designate a “nominee” at a University of Leadership. They cannot nominate themselves. The nominee must have a paid account, and also be on the Test. Their selection can be changed at any time unless a voting round is in progress.
−
−	:Each month, everyone that has nominated an eligible player gets put into random groups of 7 people (much like a demi-pharoah first round is done). The group shares a chat tab, and has 3 real days in which they can (and should) try to convince the other group members to vote for their nominee. Every person has ONLY one vote, and it is cast at a voting booth. Their choices of who to vote for at the booth are the nominees of the OTHER six group members (e.g. Playername sponsoring Bob). Players cannot vote for their own nominee. Votes can be changed at any point during the group discussion time. Votes are NOT announced to the group.
−
−	:After the discussion round ends, all nominees that received votes earn one point per vote. This total is cumulative, and does not diminish. Each week, the player that has the highest number of points will pass the test. Test passes will NOT announce runners up, but players can check their total points in their Self--> Tests menu.
−
−	:This test is aiming to recognize true leaders of Egypt. It is completely up to the players involved to determine what constitutes a good leader, and part of this test is to communicate that effectively to other participants. A common complaint about Leadership tests is that they are simply popularity contests. Here, the anonymity of voting is intended to allow players to vote their conscience freely. Because players cannot vote for their own nominee, and groups are random, there is less “vote trading” opportunity, and less ease of having mule characters pass. Also, it will likely be harder to “campaign” for passing the test because of the anonymous nature of voting.
−
−	:In order to encourage participation beyond the principle completion, only players that have valid nominations can themselves be nominated by others. Therefore, anyone hoping to be nominated and pass this test must themselves participate and support others. This also means that the players who receive points each month will not be absentee or quit people, but actual leaders in the current community.
−
−	:There is, of course, the chance that two people in the same group nominate the same person. In that situation, each can vote for the other person’s selection, which in effect, means voting for their own nominee. There is also the chance that a nominated player will end up in a round where they can vote for themselves! (if one of the other random group members had chosen them to nominate). These outcomes should only occur if the player has enough influence to be nominated a lot, and therefore these exceptions to the “spirit” of this test are allowed (and would not be considered “gaming” the test).

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 *Summary:  This game has a designed layout of different colored/shaped gems laid out on an inclined board. The player of the puzzle makes moves by picking two adjacent jewels to swap positions. When a linear match of 3 or more of the same jewel type is formed, the matched set is removed from the board and the remaining pieces slide vertically down into the gaps. The object of the game is “sort through all the jewels” by making matches and clearing the board completely.
 *Setup: The player building the puzzle needs to build a game board, called the “Sorting Table”. It would be built inside a CP, and have an angle to it, so the pieces can be understood to slide downwards. It should be fairly large, so the installed gemstones can be seen clearly on it. It will have an inherent grid on it that the player will set gems into. Suggested size of the grid is at least 8x8 slots.
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-*Note 1: This test is different than many other Thought tests because of how the player approaches designing the puzzle. Other tests, like Bijou, Constellation, Pathmaker, and Hexaglyphs, have a player first construct a solution. They don’t experience how the flow of the puzzle is for another player when they reverse engineer like this. Therefore, these tests can easily have solutions that are arbitrarily hard, because a player just hit a lot of random selections which are difficult to replicate.  Furthermore, with inherent knowledge of the solution, the designer can’t genuinely gauge the challenge level of their puzzle. These tests can be hard to tune to a desired level of difficulty for this reason.
+*Note 1: This test is different than many other Thought tests because of how the player approaches designing the puzzle. Other tests, like Bijou, Constellation, Pathmaker, and Hexaglyphs, have a player first construct a solution. They don’t experience how the flow of the puzzle is for another player when they reverse engineer like this. Therefore, these tests can easily have solutions that are arbitrarily hard, because a player just hit a lot of random selections which are difficult to replicate.  Furthermore, with inherent knowledge of the solution, the designer can’t genuinely gauge the challenge level of their puzzle. For these reasons, these tests can be hard to tune to a desired level of difficulty.
-:For this test, the designer must think like a player doing the puzzle. They can still choose to make it very hard or very simple, but by having to go through the same pathway as the player (thinking through it from start to finish), it will be easier to gauge the player experience of it, and therefore tune the level of difficult to what they want. At least, that is my hope.
+:For the Test of Gemology, the designer must think like a player doing the puzzle. They can still choose to make it very hard or very simple, but by having to go through the same pathway as the player (thinking through it from start to finish), it will be easier to gauge the player experience of it, and therefore tune the level of difficult to what they want. At least, that is my hope.
 *Note 2: This test is also meant to be quick to attempt for players. (There are already many puzzles that involve significant time commitment to solve. This is meant to balance that).

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−	*Note 1: This test is different than many other Thought tests because of how the player approaches designing the puzzle. Other tests, like Bijou, Constellation, Pathmaker, and Hexaglyphs, have a player first construct a solution. They don’t experience how the flow of the puzzle is for another player when they reverse engineer like this. Therefore, these tests ~~often~~ have solutions that are arbitrarily hard, because a player just hit a lot of random selections which are difficult to replicate. Furthermore, with inherent knowledge of the solution, the designer can’t genuinely gauge the challenge level of their puzzle. These tests can be hard to tune to a desired level of difficulty for this reason.	+	*Note 1: This test is different than many other Thought tests because of how the player approaches designing the puzzle. Other tests, like Bijou, Constellation, Pathmaker, and Hexaglyphs, have a player first construct a solution. They don’t experience how the flow of the puzzle is for another player when they reverse engineer like this. Therefore, these tests can easily have solutions that are arbitrarily hard, because a player just hit a lot of random selections which are difficult to replicate. Furthermore, with inherent knowledge of the solution, the designer can’t genuinely gauge the challenge level of their puzzle. These tests can be hard to tune to a desired level of difficulty for this reason.

	:For this test, the designer must think like a player doing the puzzle. They can still choose to make it very hard or very simple, but by having to go through the same pathway as the player (thinking through it from start to finish), it will be easier to gauge the player experience of it, and therefore tune the level of difficult to what they want. At least, that is my hope.		:For this test, the designer must think like a player doing the puzzle. They can still choose to make it very hard or very simple, but by having to go through the same pathway as the player (thinking through it from start to finish), it will be easier to gauge the player experience of it, and therefore tune the level of difficult to what they want. At least, that is my hope.

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 *Examples:
 :This is an example of a very simple board. Swapping the circled gems in a move will win the game.
-[[Image:gem_example_1.jpeg| frameless]]
+:[[Image:gem_example_1.jpg| frameless]]
 *Construction Suggestions:

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	*Examples:		*Examples:
		+	:This is an example of a very simple board. Swapping the circled gems in a move will win the game.
		+	[[Image:gem_example_1.jpeg\| frameless]]

	*Construction Suggestions:		*Construction Suggestions:

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	*Note 2: This test is also meant to be quick to attempt for players. (There are already many puzzles that involve significant time commitment to solve. This is meant to balance that).		*Note 2: This test is also meant to be quick to attempt for players. (There are already many puzzles that involve significant time commitment to solve. This is meant to balance that).

−	=Test of Sponsorship=	+	===Test of Sponsorship===
		+
		+	:Summary: In this test, players nominate fellow Egyptians that they feel are good leaders, and try to convince others in small random groups to support their candidates. Each participant gets one vote per round. Players cannot nominate themselves, and cannot vote for whom they nominate. Each week the player with the highest total of votes (cumulative) will pass the test.
		+
		+	:After signing up for this test, a player can designate a “nominee” at a University of Leadership. They cannot nominate themselves. The nominee must have a paid account, and also be on the Test. Their selection can be changed at any time unless a voting round is in progress.
		+
		+	:Each month, everyone that has nominated an eligible player gets put into random groups of 7 people (much like a demi-pharoah first round is done). The group shares a chat tab, and has 3 real days in which they can (and should) try to convince the other group members to vote for their nominee. Every person has ONLY one vote, and it is cast at a voting booth. Their choices of who to vote for at the booth are the nominees of the OTHER six group members (e.g. Playername sponsoring Bob). Players cannot vote for their own nominee. Votes can be changed at any point during the group discussion time. Votes are NOT announced to the group.
		+
		+	:After the discussion round ends, all nominees that received votes earn one point per vote. This total is cumulative, and does not diminish. Each week, the player that has the highest number of points will pass the test. Test passes will NOT announce runners up, but players can check their total points in their Self--> Tests menu.
		+
		+	:This test is aiming to recognize true leaders of Egypt. It is completely up to the players involved to determine what constitutes a good leader, and part of this test is to communicate that effectively to other participants. A common complaint about Leadership tests is that they are simply popularity contests. Here, the anonymity of voting is intended to allow players to vote their conscience freely. Because players cannot vote for their own nominee, and groups are random, there is less “vote trading” opportunity, and less ease of having mule characters pass. Also, it will likely be harder to “campaign” for passing the test because of the anonymous nature of voting.
		+
		+	:In order to encourage participation beyond the principle completion, only players that have valid nominations can themselves be nominated by others. Therefore, anyone hoping to be nominated and pass this test must themselves participate and support others. This also means that the players who receive points each month will not be absentee or quit people, but actual leaders in the current community.
		+
		+	:There is, of course, the chance that two people in the same group nominate the same person. In that situation, each can vote for the other person’s selection, which in effect, means voting for their own nominee. There is also the chance that a nominated player will end up in a round where they can vote for themselves! (if one of the other random group members had chosen them to nominate). These outcomes should only occur if the player has enough influence to be nominated a lot, and therefore these exceptions to the “spirit” of this test are allowed (and would not be considered “gaming” the test).

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	*Note 2: This test is also meant to be quick to attempt for players. (There are already many puzzles that involve significant time commitment to solve. This is meant to balance that).		*Note 2: This test is also meant to be quick to attempt for players. (There are already many puzzles that involve significant time commitment to solve. This is meant to balance that).
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	=Test of Sponsorship=		=Test of Sponsorship=