Game Functionality Advice

Hi,

I'm working on my tutorial system for my game. It's a mobile word game and it has boosters that are activated when the player taps a button. I'm going to introduce these over time with an associated tutorial.

My question is:

Is it better to have the booster objects active by default and suppressed until the conditions are met to stop suppressing them? No further action is needed by the system after they go live.

OR

Is it better to have them turned off and hidden and when the conditions are right, just turn them on? The game would have to check to see if they have been introduced and should be active every time the game runs.

The differences are subtle but there are different implications to either approach and I was wondering which way you guys would go?

Cheers,
Ed

 

If the booster objects are only removed for the purposes of the tutorial, and are present at all other times, then I would explicitly hide them for the purposes of the tutorial only (the first option).

 

That's what I was thinking. It will take some time to introduce them all but if the check fails I'd rather have them on by default than to have them fail to show when they're supposed to be showing.

Thanks for the reply!