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The Conversation Parlor / Re: Multiplayer playing card app
« on: October 12, 2016, 04:58:35 PM »
Oh definitely. We were thinking about allowing users to personalize their app by allowing them to choose from a selection of decks and backgrounds as an in app purchase. But that could be far into the future.

We allow most of those actions, except for the ability to make card piles, shuffling piles, and pulling random cards from another persons hand. Thanks for the suggestions, we should have some of these implemented within the next few releases (hopefully can do a release once every week or two).

As for the name CardTable, unfortunately its already taken. Its a similar app but only for iPhone/iPad, uses bluetooth and possibly wifi, but requires that you have an iPad (as the communal area). Thinking about it, it would probably have been better if we have a more unique name to make it easier to search, but I think we're a bit past that point now.


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The Conversation Parlor / Re: Multiplayer playing card app
« on: October 10, 2016, 07:45:24 AM »

Great points, I guess I just want to make it flexible enough for users to play as many different types of games as possible while also making it easy to set up each type of game. I absolutely agree with you about keeping the game unrestrictive. I was thinking more in terms of facilitating certain functionalities. For example, some games requires multiple decks, or an action button like "pass" etc. But I can see how this can complicate things and simplicity is the key.

Flagging will definitely be implemented. We've already partially done this for iOS, as this is a requirement when you have any sort of chat or sharing between users. But its still on our (long) list of to do items for android.

BTW, love the artwork on this site!


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The Conversation Parlor / Re: Multiplayer playing card app
« on: October 09, 2016, 08:11:25 AM »

I didn't know bluetooth had such terrible range. Thanks for that, I'm glad we avoided going that direction.

Very interesting. I was thinking of allowing strangers to play together as something that we might do far into the future, but you're bringing up some very good suggestions; particularly allowing the user to define rules somewhere. I like the idea of having common games and their rules, and allowing users to define variants, but I also don't want to be restricting users to just these games. But on the other hand I can imagine how unorganised it could get if we don't. Will need to put more thought into that.

Free play will definitely be an issue, particular whose turn it is, being able to do certain actions (eg. pass). So we would need to rethink how all these can be used along with these rules.. For example, along with rules, you have options that can define new buttons, or have more that one deck etc. Similar to what we have now when you create a game (using checkboxes), but to tie it to the game type as well.





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The Conversation Parlor / Re: Multiplayer playing card app
« on: October 08, 2016, 06:54:34 PM »

Don Boyer,
Firstly, thanks for your questions and feedback. We did initially think about using bluetooth for phones to communicate with each other, but we had to rule it out because iOS does not play well with other devices. We're trying to get this app to work on as many phones as possible, so using the internet is our only option.

It does have a chat feature, but it does need some work. A few people have mentioned how difficult it can be chatting and playing at the same time. We're working on how to make this as frictionless as possible. The chat however, only lasts for the duration for the session. We think this is fine for now, seeing that we assume you are playing with your friends and not strangers on the internet. Which brings us to the next point - playing with random people on the internet.  Presently, there is no functionality to join random rooms, with other players on the internet. We will consider doing this if there is a lot requests to do so.

With regards to lost connections, we cant do much other than to wait until their connection is back. As soon as the connection is made to the server the app will update to the current game state.

With using cellphones while driving, we don't think this is an issue at the moment. The app does not send notifications when someone creates a game. The other player must join a room, which means that the user must be actively on their phone to play. I don't think any drivers would be that careless to do that while driving (lets hope not!).






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The Conversation Parlor / Multiplayer playing card app
« on: October 07, 2016, 07:58:06 PM »
Hi,

We've just released a beta for our app that allows you to play any card game on your phone. Its meant to be a replacement for a physical deck of cards. So there are no set rules, or gameplay. Its meant to be played with your friends.

To play, you drag cards around the table, you can pass them to other players etc.

Theres still heaps to do, but it would be good to get your input. Also, let us know if you find any bugs, or other issues that make it hard to play certain games.

http://deckofcardsapp.com/

Thanks!



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