Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.

With four different areas of information and 14 stats showing at any given time, it was clear that we were overwhelming people:



When selecting a new map to play, players needed to consider...

• Their total points ever, forever
  
• Their total "experience" points
• Their total jumps attempted
• Their safe landings
  
• From those two stats, their failed landings
• Their total "kisses" received
• Their total "hugs" received
• The total number of plates they'd hit
• The total distance they'd fallen (in kilometers)
• The number of fans they'd outraged throughout their career
• The most points they'd received in a single jump
• The most kisses in same
• The most hugs in same
• The most plates hit in same
• The most fans outraged in same

...then, they needed to look at the lower-right corner of the screen to see which of those they needed to get where in order to unlock a map. What follows is a photographic re-imagining of what I imagine I was doing before I came up with that scheme:



That's my bathroom wallpaper, by the way. I did not select it; it was here when I bought the house. Anyway, the bottom line is that we kept all that data, but hid it. Here's what we show players now:



The game's still as complex, but the dozen or so pieces of data weren't fun to process when players selected a map, so we simplified.