How to play page

I wrote a page that explains how to play, assuming zero knowledge. I think that this’ll be helpful for onboarding, because this way they learn the rules at the same time as they learn how to use the UI, rather than reading the abstract and theoretical rules and then trial-and-erroring their way through the UI.

The actual writing part took a few hours, and most of it was revision and trying to find better ways to phrase things. It’s nearly 1000 words, meaning I could turn it in for an essay assignment and not fail the word count, which is funny.

But what also took a lot of time was making the visual aid. I had to record myself performing the same action in the UI many times to get a perfect take, and then I had to craft an ffmpeg command to crop and trim it because I refuse to use graphical video editors. Also my recording software kept stuffing H.264 video data in a webm container, which made ffmpeg freak out because that file is technically corrupted. I also had to figure out how to screen record on my phone to get a tap indicator, which I’d never done before.

You can read the page here: https://ethmarks.github.io/hadronize/how