Prompt 2: I think one thing I wanted to do but couldn’t was make smaller triangles. I wanted to make a silly face with triangular shaped eyes and ended up using the regular brush tool and manually drawing a triangle out. The triangle tool itself starts rather large and is limited in its usefulness outside of large pattern art. The triangle tool with its large size and using different colors does lead to some visually pleasing patterns. The easy workaround is to draw triangles manually using the brush tool. I think it would be a slightly complicated fix to make the triangle tool responsive and feel natural. It would require storing the previous two mouse clicked positions and also would need a way to “cancel” the triangle after picking 1 or 2 points. The fix would act somewhat as a 2 click line tool except with an extra step of keeping track of whether the player has clicked zero, one , two or 3 times and cycling that count. Similar to meevans’ comment, I do not really think there is a reason to not have smaller triangles in this game. I think smaller triangles from the triangle tool would simplify the process and make it easier for the player. The tools given actually do not have limitations as the brush tool technically lets the player free hand anything they could think of drawing. I don’t think smaller triangles would be destructive to the game and on the contrary I think it would make having elliptical and triangular structures much better looking.
Prompt 2 - One thing that I wanted to do when playing this game was to be able to make the triangles made using the triangle button a lot smaller. I was able to change the size of the triangle by moving the mouse around, but the triangle stayed pretty big no matter how I tried to resize it. Being unable to make the triangle smaller made me feel like I had to be careful when using the triangle tool because each triangle I placed ended up taking up a decent portion of the canvas. Though the tool limited how much I could resize the triangle, it did not limit creativity or the number of possibilities of what could be made with the tool as it is now. Even without the ability to resize the triangle there are countless ways to use it and make interesting drawings.
I feel making the triangle tool more resizable might be an easy thing to add to the game because the game has an ellipse tool that allows the user to make an ellipse of whatever size and shape that they want. I think the process of making the triangle more resizable would be similar to the process that made the ellipse completely resizable. I cannot think of a reason why making the triangle tool more resizable would be destructive or mess with the organization of the game, especially because the player can resize the ellipse in whatever way they want and that seems to work perfectly fine.
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Prompt 2: I think one thing I wanted to do but couldn’t was make smaller triangles. I wanted to make a silly face with triangular shaped eyes and ended up using the regular brush tool and manually drawing a triangle out. The triangle tool itself starts rather large and is limited in its usefulness outside of large pattern art. The triangle tool with its large size and using different colors does lead to some visually pleasing patterns. The easy workaround is to draw triangles manually using the brush tool. I think it would be a slightly complicated fix to make the triangle tool responsive and feel natural. It would require storing the previous two mouse clicked positions and also would need a way to “cancel” the triangle after picking 1 or 2 points. The fix would act somewhat as a 2 click line tool except with an extra step of keeping track of whether the player has clicked zero, one , two or 3 times and cycling that count. Similar to meevans’ comment, I do not really think there is a reason to not have smaller triangles in this game. I think smaller triangles from the triangle tool would simplify the process and make it easier for the player. The tools given actually do not have limitations as the brush tool technically lets the player free hand anything they could think of drawing. I don’t think smaller triangles would be destructive to the game and on the contrary I think it would make having elliptical and triangular structures much better looking.
Prompt 2 - One thing that I wanted to do when playing this game was to be able to make the triangles made using the triangle button a lot smaller. I was able to change the size of the triangle by moving the mouse around, but the triangle stayed pretty big no matter how I tried to resize it. Being unable to make the triangle smaller made me feel like I had to be careful when using the triangle tool because each triangle I placed ended up taking up a decent portion of the canvas. Though the tool limited how much I could resize the triangle, it did not limit creativity or the number of possibilities of what could be made with the tool as it is now. Even without the ability to resize the triangle there are countless ways to use it and make interesting drawings.
I feel making the triangle tool more resizable might be an easy thing to add to the game because the game has an ellipse tool that allows the user to make an ellipse of whatever size and shape that they want. I think the process of making the triangle more resizable would be similar to the process that made the ellipse completely resizable. I cannot think of a reason why making the triangle tool more resizable would be destructive or mess with the organization of the game, especially because the player can resize the ellipse in whatever way they want and that seems to work perfectly fine.