With our Hint system implemented, we wanted to find out how players would respond to having hints in the experience and what they thought about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ako is constantly waiting for the players to talk so that he can help them. However, if he doesn’t understand what they say and it is not part of his database in Dialogflow, he responds with a fallback intent. When people play the real game, they often concentrate on finding the Set and don’t look around. Naturally, they miss it when Ako gives hints. We decided to give Ako sounds so that he could grab a player’s attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, players often talk to themselves or mumble. Ako often mistakes this as a player’s intention to speak to him. Thinking about everything players could mumble and classify these speech for dialogflow to understand could lead to an infinite set of possiblities.
So, we decided to just mimic a person’s natural flow of actions when talking to someone: they look at them!
Therefore, <\/strong>Ako only listens to the player when they are looking at them – when he is only in the Field of View of the player<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nLesson 2: People miss Ako’s hints when concentrating on the cards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n