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This is a slightly smaller update, which includes some much-needed additions and bugfixes.

Content

• ADD: A whole lotta new cards, as usual.

• CHANGE: Trophy requirements relaxed a bit.

Client

• ADD: Bots now have a special badge by their name, because some people seem to think they're actual humans.
• ADD: Some new styling options for deck ribbons
  • accent_text_decoration: Corresponds to CSS text-decoration property
  • accent_font_style: Corresponds to CSS font-style property
  • accent_font_weight: Corresponds to CSS font-weight property

Server

• ADD: More Granular timeouts

  • Players and judges now have separate timeout settings

• ADD: Game Ready-Up Feature

  • Allow players to collectively choose when to start the next game.

• ADD: Bots now have a special name badge in the player list so they can be more easily identified

• ADD: judge_per_card_timeout_bonus setting

• ADD: player_per_card_timeout_bonus setting

• FIX: If a czar disconnected or went idle, the new czar used to be able to select their own play. This is no longer possible.

  • If a czar tries to self-vote, another play will be randomly selected instead.

The third beta is here! As usual, changenotes below:

1.0.0b3

Webapp

• ADD: In-game chat

  • Supports basic Markdown (bold, italic, strikethrough)
  • Custom Mardown for animated text
    • @@TEXT@@ - Angry text!
    • ^Text^ - Bouncing text!
    • ^^Text^^ - Jiggling text?
    • //Text// - Tilting text!
    • Parsing is pretty naive, and doesn't always nest well. May improve later.
  • Enable with enable_chat setting.

• ADD: Option to enable/disable animated text

• ADD: Notifications

  • You can turn them off in the game options.

• ADD: Cookie notification

• ADD: 404 page

• ADD: Content Security Policy

• ADD: New logo

• CHANGE: Refresh server info on websocket connection/reconnection

• CHANGE: Moved display prefs to local storage instead of cookies

• FIX: Wonky layout issues on Firefox. Might still be mildly wonky.

• REMOVE: jQuery

• WONTFIX: Edge incompatibility. Edge still doesn't support for ... of loops and I'm not about to rewrite half my code to accommodate for that.

Server

• ADD: Bot taunts

  • Enable with enable_bot_taunts setting.
  • Fully moddable!

• ADD: exclude_packs setting to blacklist packs

• ADD: use_packs setting to whitelist packs

• ADD: max_blank_card_length setting

• ADD: bot_config setting

• ADD: Server password support

• ADD: Customizable HTTP and WS endpoints

• ADD: Configurable client-side WebSocket port

  • Configure with client_ws_port setting.

• ADD: Client idle kick

  • Enable with enable_idle_kick setting.

• ADD: Gameplay analytics.

  • Pretty basic right now, might add more stuff later.

• ADD: Player Preserves

  • Players who lose connection and reconnect within a set time limit will have their points/cards restored.

• FIX: Occasional deadlock when accessing player list with many clients

• FIX: Faulty duplicate prevention

• FIX: Disappearing czar bug (fingers crossed)

The second beta release for Cards Over LAN is here! See readme.txt for basic setup instructions.

Changelog

• ADD: Discards

• ADD: Black card skipping

• ADD: Card upgrades

• ADD: Player list (desktop)

• ADD: Join screen with server info

• ADD: Spectator mode

• ADD: bot_czars setting

  • Allows control over whether bots become Card Czars.

• ADD: use_packs setting

  • Controls which packs are used in the game.

• ADD: allow_skips setting

  • Enables black card skipping.

• ADD: max_spectators setting

  • Controls maximum spectator count.

• ADD: allow_duplicates setting

  • Prevents multiple clients connecting from the same IP address.

• ADD: discards setting

  • Configures discards per player per game.

• ADD: enable_upgrades setting

  • Allows admin to disable card upgrades.

• ADD: max_rounds setting

  • Controls maximum rounds per game.

• ADD: Version number now displayed in client

• ADD: More cards!

• ADD: Transcendence Pack

• FIX: Idle plays no longer show blank plays in judging stage

• FIX: A ton of other small bugs

This is the first official beta release of Cards Over LAN. See the included readme.txt for basic instructions on getting the server up and running.

What's New

• Play on any device: The game works on anything that can run a modern web browser. Desktop, laptop, phone, tablet, whatever.
• Localizable cards and UI: The UI is currently available in English and German. Most of the base deck also has German translations.
• Custom content: You can write your own cards and trophies and add them to the game.
• AFK timeout: If someone takes too long to play, the game will exclude them from rounds until they start playing again.
• Blank cards: Insert your own epic, multi-layered jokes into the game and confuse everyone.
• Trophies: Feel the euphoric rush of validation as your morbid, sick thoughts are acknowledged with a worthless virtual award.
• Custom app colors: Customize the webapp color with semantic coloring. Just type a color name (even a made-up one) and it will try to guess a suitable color.

See README.md on the repository root for further details on configuring the server.