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Poker fixes
🕑 Added 2020-03-05 09:20:09 +0000 UTCI've been spending the bulk of my time since the last release (0.3.9b) doing improvements on the poker game.
The most obvious one for a player is the addition of Visual and Sound Effects to the poker mechanic. Visual Effects is obviously a very deep hole; there's always more work that I could do there, but I'm hoping the new effects at least make things a little clearer to players (and make combat feel more exciting).
I also rewrote the card dragging mechanic; I'm suspicious it was the root of a lot of our small bugs (cards occasionally remaining behind after a discard, etc). We'll see if this was enough to finally clear out that bug-nest. I also redid the UI to be a little clearer, and make it explicit that the button in the top left summons your currently equipped gems. Finally I've been doing a lot of tuning to gems and stats.
There tends to be different types of Love of Magic players; some are mainly into the story, some are mixed, and some are really into the poker, and wanted to spend a lot more time in Elsewhere. I added a new cheat-function that allows you to skip backwards in time, so once you reach Day 53 you can jump back to say Day 20, and play forward again without any problems. It's not as clean as a formal 'game+', but it removes the problem of explaining why you go from the Glade at end of Act III to wake up in bed the next morning.
For hardened poker players I've also added documentation on things like event probability, gems used by enemies and general stats. This has proven useful both for spotting inconsistencies and in letting people plan and understand the system better. I then ended up adding in-game support for it, so you can access the wiki website from your computer. To trigger it, enter your room at night, after the 12th day (Evoker Lecture II). I also built some systems to keep it automatically generated, which should hopefully mean I remember to update it :)
Elsewhere's also gotten an update. I added another 3 enemies (Ice elemental grunt/knight/lord), as well as the ability to discard all cards (if the gods of RNG were unkind). I also moved the 'return home' button to an actual button, I don't think most people ralized the portal icon worked as an exit switch.
0.3.13 is up in Discord now, or you can get the builds here :
PC: https://mega.nz/#!OrZQQIyD!mtKc4mI12MPUo1upBF1CbplWc9pAHuZsNDkB7_z0-04
OSX:https://mega.nz/#!irIGEQ5Z!T_XCx9eFDhqMdeZv0pUmUEtuWuAAAk7Pf1sdJfc6TgI
Linux:https://mega.nz/#!SzIWGS6R!Gn1xP4s6fxDreesk2bpK9cODj1y0ccXQxSQL1NGOzpI
Android: https://mega.nz/#!CrZiSARD!md7pDJjUsUKLh9wynwjDe3lN4r6nUP0UkdqLzoEn3TE
