Mega update! New packs (including special British packs!), new design, and more..
🕑 Added 2021-02-17 06:14:09 +0000 UTCHi all!
It's been a while since we posted, but there have been lots of changes! WIthout further ado, here they all are:
New Packs
We have added a bunch of new packs and changed some around. Our plan for the future is to have theme packs be for Patrons and normal packs will be free. We also plan to eventually allow users to specify a rating for their game, which will auto-select the appropriate cards from each pack.
Here are the new packs:
- British - TV (free)
- Valentines (Backer)
- British - Sports (Backer)
- Work Sucks (Star Backer)
- British - Royalty (Star Backer)
- British - On the Piss (Super Backer)
- Simpsons (Super Backer)
- My Psycho Ex (Super Backer)
- The Premium Max Pack (Super Backer)
- Pirate Pack (Super Backer)
Additionally, we reorganized some of the free packs and removed some of the less popular cards. More packs on the way, as always! We plan to be better about updating everyone about new pack releases.
New Design and Logo
You can see in the images for this post that we have a new design! This includes new logos for each game, a more pleasant color scheme, a more readable and flexible font, and some UI improvements.
Additionally, there is a new flow for creating games, which should be more simple and understandable for most users.
Share Functionality
We recently added the ability to hit a button to share your favorite card combo images. We'll generate a custom image for you to share wherever you like, avoiding the need to take screenshots yourself. Hopefully this makes things simpler to send your funniest moments! The last image on this post shows an example of the generated image.
Public game improvements
Public games had been a bit of a nuisance for a long while - people would start a public game and kick everyone out. You could get kicked for inactivity even if you were actively playing. Games would stall for a long while randomly because one player wouldn't play.
We recently made some big improvements to this, including:
- Kicking players is no longer possible, unless they are idle. Game owners will be advised to make their game private if they want to do this.
- Idle detection is massively improved. If you leave your browser window for more than 3 minutes, you will be detected as idle and kicked from public games. Card Queens will be kicked after 1 minute.
- Public games are sorted by how recently they were updated, then by player count.
- Player lists are no longer shown, to discourage joining based on AI player count.
Much more to come!
We have a ton of stuff in the pipeline, including new features, more fun games, an installable app, improved mobile UI, and more :)
As always, thank you for your support! <3