Ability to create a custom message that pops up when people launch a game
Craig Carpenter
Certain games just have those specific things that we like to tell our customers when they jump into a game. It would be nice if in the title's settings on SBVR Library that we could write this customer message and it would pop up in the HMD view for X amount of seconds after the game is launched.
Examples of things I would say:
- Zombie Training Simulator - "Your guns are directly behind you, turn around and walk towards them and grab with the trigger"
- SUPERHOT - "Use the grip button on the side of the controller with your middle finger or ring finger to grab objects"
- Google Earth - "Push the thumbpad on your dominant hand to start, or pull the trigger to get into the tutorial"
- Job Simulator - "If you're short, open the "Options" panel at the beginning and lift the LEFT switch up to adjust game's height"
These are all things that when we see people jumping in that we always run over to tell them and it would help to have an auto-message system telling them these things that the developers haven't included for our customers to catch on faster.
Kate Nolton
Or, please ask if you want a chair to sit on
Pratik Jain
Hey Craig, thank you for your request! We appreciate your feedback and will investigate this further. I will keep you posted if this idea receives any traction to move forward.
Deven North
Do you mean writing in a message when they select the game from the launcher and before they hit start?
Craig Carpenter
Deven North: No, a message that will pop up once the game is launched. So many games don't really make it easy for the player to know what to do to get started and so these messages could help them to know. Like the examples I provided, they would pop up once the game is launched and could read the message while the game is loading, and then they'd actually know what to do once they get to the main menu of the game itself. That's why I added that the time the message stays visible should also be customized. Not every game has the same time it takes to get into the menu. SUPERHOT loads pretty quick and mostly just needs the info about the grip button, but then some other games like Evasion have all those annoying splash screens for the game engine, the Intel i7 ad, and more.