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Current Goals (23:52, 17th May 09)

Well, the site is nearly into its second month and I feel this is a good time to start utilizing this development blog. Hopefully it well help both users and staff to see what a bit of what is going on at my end and what features are in production, as well as setting down some targets for myself.

I would like to say first of all that I am very grateful to my current staff. It is really down to them that this site is able to progress, and with my university year finished I promise to be more organised and work closely with the team to improve and expand.

• Short Term Goals: I will finish all of these by the end of May, if not sooner.
  
  
  
  • Ensure that all features of the site are fully functional and accessible to users. How will I achieve this?
    
    
    
    • Improve and reorganise some of the help areas
    
    
    • Check that all information is easy to find and understand (through my own checking and user research)
    
    
    • Create a full beginner's tour of the site that will actually take users, step-by-step, through all features
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Remove (and, in the longer term, replace) Flash games that contain glitches
  
  
  • Make sure that our artists and writers are fully coordinated so they can work together to develop new ideas for the site
  
  
  • Create better staff management tools to allow me to make updates to
    the site faster
  
  
  • Make sure that all the items which currently exist on the site are in circulation, by creating new shops and other methods
  
  
  • Respond to all feedback on the site and possibly conduct further user
    research
  
  
  
  


• Medium Term Goals: these will be my highest priority once the current short term goals are complete.
  
  
  
  • Work on methods of promoting the site, possibly hiring graphic artists and/or promoters
  
  
  • Work on raising funds for the site, through my personal Flash game commissions as well as optimizing/monetizing. This may involve some kind of carefully considered cash shop
  
  
  • Give staff members more opportunity to display their contributions and works-in-progress to both other staff members and the users
  
  
  • Increase the number of jobs that widgies can perform on land and in the workshop/kitchen
  
  
  • Begin to fill out the world with more map locations and develop characters & storylines
  
  
  
  


• Long Term Goals: these are features that I fully intend to develop, and may begin to work on behind the scenes.
  
  
  
  • To focus on the map locations and world. Also, to develop interesting storylines and characters that will run over a longish period and involve Guides and user interaction
  
  
  • To develop the Guides feature so that their skill levels become an integral part of certain gameplay elements
  
  
  • To create a tattoo application for Guides
  
  
  • Add more land types and creature types as the size of the world increases
  
  
  
  


• Possible Features: these are under consideration and may be developed once further user research is carried out.
  
  
  
  • Shop sales & vouchers
  
  
  • Communities and/or clubs
  
  
  • Science/discovery lab