As part of our effort to stay focused on our core competency of providing the best gaming experience, we have decided to move our avatar management system to a third party provider, gravatar. Gravatar is a great web application that removes a lot of non-core clutter from the Jawaker application and we are glad to integrate them into our service.
Jawaker has been growing, and we couldn't be more excited about that. But with growth comes responsibility on our part, responsibility to build a site that can scale well and can display information that maximizes user experience. We made a small change on the main games page that we think will go a long way in organizing the site and game play. Instead of categorizing our games by their state (i.e. new games, games in progress, etc.) we are now organizing them by game type. This way, players can click on the type of game that they want to play and then join any of the new games or games in progress of that game type. Enjoy :)
We have upgraded our game table to make it more user friendly for our users and to adapt to the needs of our advertising clients. We are focused on providing a free site for our users to enjoy, but we are also focused on providing an effective advertising platform for our clients. The major changes on the game table are: - The bottom information bar was moved to the side at the expense of a shorter chat box. This means that users can now see more information in a more convenient way.
- In addition to our original ad serving model of branding the back of cards, we introduced a watermarked logo of the brand on the game table itself as well as a text ad on the right side of the table that pushes the message that the advertiser wants to relay to their audience. This text ad has a link to the advertisers target URL.
We feel that the new game table is an improvement on game play as well as a better non-obtrusive branding tool for advertisers.
We have recently launched Tarneeb, another popular card game in the region. Since day one, we knew that we didn't want to be a Trix-only website; that's not the idea behind Jawaker. The idea is to have a card game website for the Middle East that would include many of the most popular games.
This had a big effect on how we designed the core of Jawaker. The core is designed to allow us to add more games easily. We also found out that some parts of games are common among many games, such as partnering, bidding and doubling. These parts are made to be re-usable.
So in short, our system will allow us to add more games for you to enjoy! And the more games we add, the easier it is to add new games, since they will probably have common parts with previous games.
