Prompt 4: In this game there are three brushes with the first one being a pretty loaded tool. It has controls for the color, size, and an eraser function. I was uncertain at first at how the color change worked for the other brushes because the other brushes don't have a tooltip about any color. So I didn't think you could change the color for brush two and three initially, but I later discovered that they could change by going back to brush one and change the colors there. The second brush was a surprising use of the canvas because the width of the brush changes based on which side of the canvas your cursor is on. This is where I think the little tooltip at the top of the screen was helpful as a player in relieving some of the uncertainty. The third brush was probably the most random and uncertain out of the three. The tooltip that usually gives info to the player is vague when it says that it paints a pattern so I didn't really know what to expect based off that. Then the actual brush has a pattern of randomly changing colors that the player doesn't have any control over. The choice of the ellipse shape is also not given any explanation so I wasn't really expecting that shape because the previous brushes were lines/circles. In comparison with the other two brushes once more, the third brush is not based on the player clicking, but rather just paints where the mouse moves. I think if the creator wanted to add more uncertainty, they could remove the tooltips. If they wanted less, then fleshing out the tooltip description might help.
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Prompt 4: In this game there are three brushes with the first one being a pretty loaded tool. It has controls for the color, size, and an eraser function. I was uncertain at first at how the color change worked for the other brushes because the other brushes don't have a tooltip about any color. So I didn't think you could change the color for brush two and three initially, but I later discovered that they could change by going back to brush one and change the colors there. The second brush was a surprising use of the canvas because the width of the brush changes based on which side of the canvas your cursor is on. This is where I think the little tooltip at the top of the screen was helpful as a player in relieving some of the uncertainty. The third brush was probably the most random and uncertain out of the three. The tooltip that usually gives info to the player is vague when it says that it paints a pattern so I didn't really know what to expect based off that. Then the actual brush has a pattern of randomly changing colors that the player doesn't have any control over. The choice of the ellipse shape is also not given any explanation so I wasn't really expecting that shape because the previous brushes were lines/circles. In comparison with the other two brushes once more, the third brush is not based on the player clicking, but rather just paints where the mouse moves. I think if the creator wanted to add more uncertainty, they could remove the tooltips. If they wanted less, then fleshing out the tooltip description might help.