#13: Duke
My robot got a name from now on; Duke The Robot.
So I got the feedback that I needed to give my Robot some character, else I had just made a "car" that moves around and does tricks. So I decided to make him lazy and cocky, making him lazy means putting some delay on every movement he makes. This was not some difficult code to apply but after testing this "feature" on other people then myself I quickly noticed that a delay came with frustrations in the users. When they pressed a button and did not see any movement they pressed again and again and again. Meaning that the robot should do these movements again, again, again... Resulting in the robot malfunctioning, getting too much signals, getting overloaded... The other character attribute I wanted to add was cockiness, this resulted in making a bow each time he does a movement. Sometimes even 2 bowments, this brought funny reactions from the users so I kept it. So now he is a sport jock, the sport he practices is soccer, I have added this functionality to Duke. To even make the character more realistic I made him an Instagram account; https://www.instagram.com/it_is_me_duke/. The next step is to give him some outward look of a soccer jock.
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