Toontown Virtual World First Person Research

16. What are your favorite activities in Toontown?

My favorite activities in Toontown are the mini games that you play when you ride the trolley. They are more fun to me than the rest of the game, I think because you can actually complete and win them. In the rest of Toontown you really just walk around and defeat cogs, which really the computer does for you. I do not like that there is really no ultimate  goal for this game and that the longer you play, doesn't mean that you are getting better. It just means that you've had more time to defeat more cogs, which takes no skill.

11. The concept of “health” of each avatar is a key element in all online virtual worlds.  In Toontown, how is “health” managed and its status displayed? 

In Toontown your health is displayed as your laff points. You laff level is decreased every time a cog returns hit to you. You can then increase your laff points by doing a few different things, like hanging out in the toontown playground area, playing mini games in the toontown playground area, completing tasks giving to you by HQ or on your own, defeating cogs, and also by finding treasures in the playground area like ice cream cones. These are the only ways that I have figured out so far, but there may be more

9. Which features break the immersive feeling?

The immersive feeling for me is broken by the large amount of text that is constantly displayed on the screen. It is to give you information about where other players, shops, and cogs are, which is helpful, but  I think they could have given the player this information in a much more appealing way. Right now, it just clogs up the screen and distracts my eye.