Sep 17th 2017, 0:46:26
Actually, part of the annoyance of this codebase is that the presentation layer isn't abstracted from the game logic and it's a bunch of spaghetti code :p
Part of that is us not being as strong of developers when we worked on it as we are today and part of it was trying to get things done, lots of design copy+pasta that wasn't using good patterns that make it easy to swap out the design.
Tossing a new skin and/or updating the styling to be more mobile-friendly doesn't help the underlying issues with the game UI or get us any closer to hitting the app/facebook market.
I posted this a few months ago, but I'll throw some of the really rough design stuff we were doing here: https://imgur.com/a/K1sKt
Some reworking of the UI using modern web technologies that can be used for desktop, mobile, app, facebook, whatever in with modular code that is scalable and easy to maintain. I've gotten a good chunk of the way through building things out but the entire backend needs to be updated to support a proper API. qz and I have chatted about this but he's been swamped with IRL stuff. I have been too :p
Also, the monetary element isn't really a huge driver for or against development. I'd like to give the UI a better treatment as that was one area I never really touched during the lifetime of the project.
Anyway, we'll see where it goes. :)
Part of that is us not being as strong of developers when we worked on it as we are today and part of it was trying to get things done, lots of design copy+pasta that wasn't using good patterns that make it easy to swap out the design.
Tossing a new skin and/or updating the styling to be more mobile-friendly doesn't help the underlying issues with the game UI or get us any closer to hitting the app/facebook market.
I posted this a few months ago, but I'll throw some of the really rough design stuff we were doing here: https://imgur.com/a/K1sKt
Some reworking of the UI using modern web technologies that can be used for desktop, mobile, app, facebook, whatever in with modular code that is scalable and easy to maintain. I've gotten a good chunk of the way through building things out but the entire backend needs to be updated to support a proper API. qz and I have chatted about this but he's been swamped with IRL stuff. I have been too :p
Also, the monetary element isn't really a huge driver for or against development. I'd like to give the UI a better treatment as that was one area I never really touched during the lifetime of the project.
Anyway, we'll see where it goes. :)
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