Onboarding / evidence boundary
Clear routes verified.
Human comprehension still unmeasured.
This page reports the deterministic task-routing proxy used for IARPG 2.0.11-wip and documents the still-open moderated study. It never presents automated checks as participant evidence.
Direct answer
Has IARPG been tested with real first-time visitors?
Not yet in this release. IARPG 2.0.11-wip includes a deterministic task-routing proxy that verifies visible answers, labels, direct first-click destinations, route availability, and the implementation of optional walkthroughs. No human participants were recruited, so the evidence does not establish comprehension, confidence, or real task success.
- Automated proxy
- 15 pass / 0 fail
- Human participants
- 0 · no identities or sensitive session data collected
- Moderated study
- Still required before a visitor-comprehension claim
- Current release
- 2.0.11-wip · work in progress
Deterministic proxy
What the local audit establishes.
The audit reads the rendered pages and follows declared routes. It can prove that a path exists and is labeled clearly; it cannot prove that a person notices, understands, trusts, or completes it.
| Check | Result | Evidence detail |
|---|---|---|
| ONBOARD-01 — What IARPG is can be answered from the first screen | PASS | Homepage states the expanded name, fictional game concept, open design system, and non-live-MMO boundary. |
| ONBOARD-02 — Available-now scope is explicit | PASS | Start Here names missions, local workbenches, standards, and international research as current publication features. |
| ONBOARD-03 — Not-yet-shipped scope is explicit | PASS | Start Here separates persistent multiplayer, native VR, production matchmaking, and live economy from current claims. |
| ONBOARD-04 — A first-time visitor has an explicit starting route | PASS | Homepage exposes /start with labels: ['Start Here', 'What is IARPG?', 'Start here: what it is and how to use it →', 'What the site is, what is live, and the first 10-minute tour']. |
| ONBOARD-05 — Primary navigation uses product-state-safe labels | PASS | Primary labels: ['Start Here', 'Game Concept', 'Missions', 'Create Missions', 'Standards', 'Research']. |
| ONBOARD-06 — A complete mission is one first click away | PASS | Direct complete-mission routes found: ['/mission/port-access-anomaly-investigation']. |
| ONBOARD-07 — Representative audience paths have direct first clicks | PASS | Audience routes: first-time visitor→/how-to-play, game or narrative designer→/build, reviewer→/package, researcher→/global, implementer→/developer. |
| ONBOARD-08 — First-click destinations resolve | PASS | HTTP results: /build=200, /developer=200, /global=200, /how-to-play=200, /mission/port-access-anomaly-investigation=200, /package=200. |
| ONBOARD-09 — Player loop and publication toolchain are distinguished | PASS | Start Here explicitly says the toolchain is not the player loop and lists the eight operation states. |
| ONBOARD-10 — Creation, simulation, verification, merge, and publication tools are mapped | PASS | Tool routes: create→/build, simulate→/simulate, assemble→/package, verify→/integrity, merge→/merge, publish→/publish. |
| ONBOARD-11 — Toolchain destinations resolve | PASS | HTTP results: /build=200, /simulate=200, /package=200, /integrity=200, /merge=200, /publish=200. |
| ONBOARD-12 — International methodology and research evidence are findable | PASS | Start Here links atlas=True, archive=True; /global-methodology=200; /docs/=200. |
| ONBOARD-13 — Optional guided walkthroughs are present on the three dense workbenches | PASS | /build:dialog=True,launcher=True,steps=5,local_script=True,auto_open=False; /package:dialog=True,launcher=True,steps=5,local_script=True,auto_open=False; /simulate:dialog=True,launcher=True,steps=5,local_script=True,auto_open=False. |
| ONBOARD-14 — Walkthrough accessibility and resilience safeguards are declared | PASS | Local persistence, Escape/cancel handling, focus return, reduced motion, reduced transparency, forced colors, zoom-safe sizing, and print suppression are implemented. |
| ONBOARD-15 — Walkthrough runtime makes no network calls | PASS | walkthrough.js contains no fetch, XMLHttpRequest, sendBeacon, or WebSocket call. |
Future moderated study
Questions a real participant must answer without coaching.
Future sessions should record anonymized task outcomes only. Names, emails, credentials, voice recordings, IP addresses, account IDs, and sensitive session data are outside the study record.
- 01
Explain what IARPG is in your own words.
Record task success, first click, completion route, hesitation category, and an optional confidence rating—without participant identity.
- 02
Name what is available on the site now.
Record task success, first click, completion route, hesitation category, and an optional confidence rating—without participant identity.
- 03
Name what is still a future game ambition.
Record task success, first click, completion route, hesitation category, and an optional confidence rating—without participant identity.
- 04
Show where a first-time visitor should begin.
Record task success, first click, completion route, hesitation category, and an optional confidence rating—without participant identity.
- 05
Explain how the player loop differs from the publication toolchain.
Record task success, first click, completion route, hesitation category, and an optional confidence rating—without participant identity.
- 06
Open one complete mission.
Record task success, first click, completion route, hesitation category, and an optional confidence rating—without participant identity.
- 07
Find the tools used to create, simulate, verify, merge, and publish a package.
Record task success, first click, completion route, hesitation category, and an optional confidence rating—without participant identity.
- 08
Find the international fairness methodology and the supporting research archive.
Record task success, first click, completion route, hesitation category, and an optional confidence rating—without participant identity.
Progressive enhancement
Walkthroughs help with dense tools.
They never gate expert access.
The Mission Workbench, Operation Package Workspace, and Operations Simulator now provide optional five-step tours. Each tour is manually launched, dismissible, restartable, keyboard operable, local-only, and inert with respect to the draft. Reduced motion, reduced transparency, forced colors, high zoom, blocked storage, print, and offline behavior are part of the validation contract.
Evidence files
Inspect the machine and human records.
The evidence files expose the same truth boundary as this page. Their presence does not convert the open human-study gate into a pass.
