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19 points| palguay | 14 years ago | reply

I have been working on a pet project of mine http://brainturk.com , These games are mostly taken from various research papers and I have implemented them in HTML5 .

What do you think we should focus on next , working on existing games to add features , better graphics or add more games or work on the progress section ?.

I have been thinking of adding a section for kids (under 15) where some of the games can be linked and maybe change some graphics and make the levels easier to start with

Please let me know if you think of any suggestions on how to improve the product and also any ideas are appreciated

8 comments

[+] eshvk|14 years ago|reply

I get the need for registering so that a person can keep track of scores. However, there should be a way for me to play the game without registering. I am not about to give my email address to a website without even knowing beforehand if that is a useful thing for me to do.

[+] hollerith|13 years ago|reply

Same here: I have some interest in what you have built, but not enough interest to go through a registration ritual. (I personally do not have any problem giving my email address; it is the hoop jumping.)

Most web apps and most web sites suck. You have to provide some evidence that yours does not suck (e.g. let me try one game for 10 minutes) before I am going to jump through hoops.

[+] palguay|14 years ago|reply

Thanks for you feedback, I added the email option for password retrieval which is not even implemented as of now. I will look at options to make this easier to register

[+] gw666|14 years ago|reply

It's a great idea--I hope you go far with it.

One thing that might encourage people to use it is to create some activity that measures fitness/capacity, then let them track it over time so they can see improvement.