Having spend some considerable time trying to buy an item on Global Trade, I thought I would help the developers of the game by offering a job description for a Global Trade designer. I would encourage them to issue this job description as soon as possible. Judging by the number of complaints about Global Trade, I am sure there will be a large candidate base from which to find the person with the abilities and skills laid out in the job description below.
- The designer will need to understand the requirements of the game players (whom after all are the reason game developers exist), not just the needs and aspirations of the developers and their sponsors.
- The successful applicant will be able to introduce a search facility so that a game player can find a particular product.
- Be able to design a filter system to refine more general searches so that the game player does not have to look through screen after screen of items to find a particular item.
- Design a constraint system so that items sold are no longer present on the Global Trade database.
- Help provide facilities to enable game players who have had items on the Global Trade database for some time, rise up the list, and so promote their unsold products.
- The candidate will demonstrate ways in which game players will not loose the unsold products to the ether.
I hope the developers of SimCity BuildIt, an otherwise great game, will find a designer to meet their needs, the needs of the sponsors, and of course the game players themselves.
Regards
