The Genie

by Armiris
A casual fortune-telling game where The Genie can answer any question you ask him.
ID:48010
 
The first thing a player is presented with when using The Genie is a mauve window with way too much whitespace.


Now, already I'm worried how annoying this could be. Instead of utilizing the input element that could easily be used to incite The Genie with a trigger phrase, there is a button which presents an input box for your question. This is just highly unprofessional, considering its' existence is superfluous just like the button that presents it.



As if that wasn't bad enough on its own, after you pose a query, another alert is given to you for no particular reason.



Unnecessary. After you decide to close this alert, you wait for three seconds for no reason at all, and you receive another alert with your randomly chosen answer.



Thanks a fuggin' lot, you lazy program. Now your query and its answer are displayed for the entire server.



At this point, "superfluous" seems to be the name of the game. It won't accept a question from the input box, but it will still display my answer in the output above it to taunt me. I've been using this thing for ten minutes and asked it one question, and I'm already annoyed with it.

In short, the entire interface needs less whitespace, and it needs to accept queries from the input control. It's not bad as a magic eightball clone, but its execution is highly annoying and unintuitive.
Hm, and I thought my Magic 8ball was lame.
But the input bar is for chat, not questions. It's preset command is say.