Saturday, July 30, 2011

New release

A new release of The Five Orbs has just been published:

- Fixed bug that caused Modnar to sometimes fire an invalid move - thus crashing the game
- Fixed display of special characters (é, â, etc.)
- Leaderboard
- Basic chat in the fight screen
- Basic tooltip on fight moves
- Lobby notification when game ends
- Players in a fight still appear in the lobby, with a marker
- Modnar is explicitely referred to as a bot
Hopefully this will make the game a bit easier to play. I still need to add the rules of the game and a description of the interface to make the game playable even by first-timers. Later on this will be properly included in the interface itself, but I am more looking for a quick fix here.

I will now mainly work on the core mechanics and dynamics of the game. I've had a first test session this afternoon with my favorite playtesters, and some interesting things came out :)

I parallel, I will improve a few aspects of the web version:
- Better handling of fight challenges
- Add some help in the UI (even a crude "view rules" would work)
- Link to the blog and the forum
- Improve handling of users "presence" in the lobby
- Know when it's your turn to do something, or your opponent

Have fun!

1 comment:

  1. Tried to change how I redirect to google, and there is an error now. In the meantime, use http://test.latest.thefiveorbs4.appspot.com

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