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When you are producing your own web game for internet players, the temptation is to fill it with features for your players to use and explore As it turned out, I quickly realized the need to develop administrator goodies for myself. Is this selfish or good sense?

On the selfish argument, it takes away from things the players will see and be able to use. I had stressed to my testers the functionality was the main thing we were testing, but as the functionality has held up well, the players have wanted to get on with the fun side of the test - which is playing the game. Yours will probably want to do the same, so it's important to see what they are doing, and what they are enjoying.

On the good sense side is the fact that without a sound administrator Content Management System, I have no idea what the players are doing, and by extension what they want to be doing. The development of an easy interface for the administrator to manage tasks like tracking players activity, checking log in times, monitoring messages reported for inappropriate content and the like will save quite a bit of time wading through the database to do those things.

In my case, it has also lead to features for players I hadn't anticipated releasing until much later. The one that springs to mind immediately is the inactivity indicator on the kingdom screens. Players now have the ability to see just how long since other players have logged in when they are inactive(That is, when they have not logged in for more than 36 hours their inactivity time is displayed to everyone). This was a side effect of me wanting to know how many of the players were actively participating. Another side feature developed from the same administrator-required code was the ability for players to see who was online at the same time as them. Anyone who had made any activity within the past 5 minutes is marked on the kingdom screen with a *(I'm thinking to change this to a small graphic shortly). The number of province to province messages has doubled since this feature was added - a direct result I believe of being able to contact other people who are online.

For other developers out there, I cannot stress this enough - take the time to create features for b>yourself as well as the players, because if you have no idea what the players are doing, then you will only be guessing at what it is they want to be doing.

Chaos Warrior is a free web based game currently needing playtesters to assist with it's development.

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