The celestialts from kaigeffen

Polished 3 hours of new player experience

Ensure that the first 3 hours of gameplay is developed and engaging for new players.

Tutorials should be clear, concise, fun, give users choice.

Visual elements resize with window to support multiple layouts

The visual elements (Cards in the story, decks, cards in hand) should be relative to the size of the window, and display correctly on a variety of window sizes.

For example, hand might always be top/bottom on the left side, story in the middle on the left side, stacks on the right sides. Deck builder and other interfaces should also dynamically reorient to support multiple window sizes.

Chrome and FF sometimes pause tweens, then play them all at once on return to focus

This makes things like the recap look particularly weird, if user is tabbing out and back.
It also was reported to slow down the game on Chrome, although that has not recently been reported.

Consider either killing all of the tweens on return to focus, or pausing them when focus is lost, or maybe preventing displayed state from updating until the user returns focus.

Players can access a list of premade decks

Players should have the option of choosing from a list of basic premade decks, in addition to the user-defined decks.

They should not be able to remove or change these lists.

Include automatic reminders for keywords in card text

Compile a list of all keywords and their explanations.
All card text which uses any of these keywords should automatically list those full explanations, likely by using Regex.
Consider an option for users to disable those explanations, for those who know the game well.

Change menu from an object to a single scene

Remove the implementation of menus that listens for esc and is inconsistently formatted, and instead turn each outlined menu into its own file with consistent title/formatting/api.

Ensure that server is thread-safe

Ensure that matchmaking, access to game resources, and other issues of concurrency are handled in all realistic cases for the server.

Player can purchase packs with in game currency

From the welcome screen, users can select the shop, where they purchase packs for igc.
Packs should give cards from the expansion (40 cards, versus the 24 base cards) based off of their rarity.
Consider using the Gwent distribution and choice system:
4 cards are at least common, last card is guaranteed at least uncommon. Legendary is a rarity
The last card gives the user a choice of 3 cards from the same rarity (uncommon, rare, legendary).

Implementation-wise, the pack randomness is determined on the server.

New cards that users get for the first time (That they haven't had before) appear with a glow/outline in the deck builder.

Clean user data sent to database

Ensure that things like deck names don't include strings that sql would interpret such as braces or commands

Base set + Expansion = 64 balanced and interesting cards

The base set should be sufficiently understandable and interesting for new players.
The expansion should promote interesting aspects of the game, and offer a diversity of decks and playstyles.

Allow players to play against an AI opponent

Give players the option to play against an AI opponent from the deckbuilder screen.

Display previous round results

Give the option for player's to see the recap from all rounds since the start of the game.

Change mana cost filter to have 8+ instead of 8

Resize and store images locally instead of loading them from an external repo

Load all of the card images from server assets instead of loading them from the python repo.
Resize them so that they aren't shrunk by 1/4 each time.

Music doesn't loop if window is out of focus when it ends

If the game app is not focused when the music track completes, it will not start again from the beginning (Until the user mutes + unmutes).
When returning to focus, restart music if mute is off.

Server logs relevant game and network data

Determine which aspects of the use of the web-app are worth logging privately, such as:

How many players are currently online
What decks players are using
Which cards are being used
Game states for each match, for use in debugging or verifying fairness
The addresses of players
Other features like game length, winrates, etc

This information should be recorded and privately available for internal uses.

Additionally, notify players of any information gathering that they would not reasonably expect (Anything beyond what CloudFlare / DigitalOcean do by default)

Audio / alert player when a match is found

After user queues up and waits for a watch, somehow alert them when one is found.
Possibly this is a sound, or some built in function of browsers.

Players can win or lose when they have sufficient points

When a player has at least 5 points and leads by at least 2, they win the game.
They should be notified and prompted to play again, and their opponent should be notified that they lost and prompted to play again.

Possibly there should be an option to disable the win prompt for the purpose of testing.

Display a stack for each player of 'removed from the game' cards

In addition to deck and discard pile, each player should have a stack of their cards that have been removed from the game.
This stack should be consistent with when the cards were removed.

Make Version number visible in webpage

Make the version number visible somewhere on-screen.

Possibly in the options menu, more likely small at the bottom of the base page.

Player sees a Match-Results screen after exiting a match normally

Whenever a player wins or loses a match, they should have the option to either review the game-state, then exit to a results screen, or immediately exit to a results screen.
This screen should express how much in-game-currency the user has earned, their current igc total, and direct them to the following screens based on what they just won/lost:

Tutorial loss : Tutorial deck builder
Tutorial win : Welcome screen
Normal win/loss : Deck builder

If the user just won/lost from the normal deck builder, they also have the option of queuing up again (To the same pvp/pve/mm mode).

Allow users to see all cards in a stack even if it goes off the screen

For each stack (Deck, discard pile) which extends beyond the screen, users should be able to scroll to see all cards within it.

Display known contents of opponent's deck after they've shuffled

After a player has shuffled, their deck will be known.
Allow players to view the last known contents of their opponent's deck.
Note that as their opponent draws, several of the cards will be missing, find a good way to express that information.

Users have the option of making their own persistant accounts

Provide users with the option of creating their own Celestial account, which keeps track of their collection and progress.

Game should still be playable without an account, but just use local storage, and maybe have a cap or limited features to encourage users to make a permanent account.

Permanent accounts can be accessed from multiple devices/browsers.

Possibly, the system should ensure that a given user is only logged on in 1 place at a time.

Likely use some version of OAuth to do this.

Cards should be unlockable, and user have a currency

Consider doing the following:

Some of the cards (Ideally the more complicated ones) should not be unlocked from the beginning, and instead can be unlocked by the user by spending some currency on them.
This currency is accumulated by winning matches.

The purpose is not to keep users from using the full set, but instead to slowly introduce them to avoid overwhelm, and give them ownership over their collection/game.

Notify player if their opponent left

If a player leaves the match, notify their opponent and give the option to exit

Don't frontload the assets

Currently, all of the assets (sound, images) are loaded in the preload step of the Welcome Scene.
This causes a delay, especially on first visit (Without cache) before the user sees the first screen.
Ideally, these assets would begin loading in the background, and not delay progress until they are needed.

Mana cost for card-stats changes if different than normal

Whenever a card's cost is different than its base cost, the cost should be displayed in a different color (Green for reduction?) than normal in the card overlay.

Ensure that matchmaking is reliable

Some issues have been reported with pvp and matchmaking-code pvp.
Provide sufficient testing to ensure that the experience is seamless for reasonable loads.

All errors should also textually say what is going wrong

This includes:

When passing in game.
When adding cards to a full deck in the deck builder.

All cards have sufficient animations, specified below

Option to choose a deck for the ai to play from list of choices

From the main builder, user has the option of selecting a deck for the ai to use, from a list of choices.
Possibly include this below the 'matchmaking code' in 'mode menu'.
All chosen decks should be sufficiently challenging to beat.

User can log in from multiple windows

A given user account can have multiple windows open playing the same game.

This risks things like double spending, playing against yourself, and general sync issues.

Instead, we should prevent them from signing in if a sign in is active currently.

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