Saturday, April 4, 2009

Something For Everyone

Variety is the spice of life. After deploying our recent changes to the game play that we thought were amazing eureka moments, we started receiving complaints from players who wanted to go back to the old style of play (i.e. without a timer and without people leaving and joining during the game). We were taken aback, because we thought that we had hit the nail on the head with our new changes. So the Jawaker team went back to the drawing board and decided to introduce choice to players when creating a new game. Players can now choose to play a game based on five parameters:

- With or without a timer, and how long the timer should be.

- With or without kicking out players when they fail to play a card for a specific number of turns.

- With or without the ability for players to manually leave during the course of the game.

- With or without the option for other players to join mid-game and continue games in progress.

- With or without the option for the computer to continue the game by playing in place of a player that has either left the game or has been kicked out.

To simplify things, we introduced two default styles of play, WITH all the options (which we call "non-stop") and WITHOUT all the options (which we call "humans only"). Our players also have the ability to customize their game and all this information is shown on the main games page for other players to decide whether they want to join or continue a specific game.

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