I'm super excited to share some information on a major new release for Cardtable! This release has several small feature changes, a few big "under-the-cover" changes, and a new game type available!
New Game Support
Let's start with the big one - the new game! Cardtable now support War of the Ring: The Card Game by Ares games.
I absolutely adore the War of the Ring board game, and while I haven't played it as much, I already love the card game version!
In releasing another game on Cardtable, and a game that is structurally different from the other two LCGs, I had to make a lot of under-the-hood improvements, including things like:
- Supporting cards of different sizes
- Supporting free-standing-tokens that can be flipped
- Allowing for a counter with a specific icon
- Allowing for 4 different numeric counters on a card
- Having a more consistent way to create / load various game types
This took a good deal of effort, but ultimately should make it easier to add additional games in the future.
New Multiplayer backend
In addition to the new game type, I've completely revamped the behind-the-scenes workings of multiplayer. For those of you technically inclined out there, I basically swapped from WebRTC to WebSockets. This means I had to implement a small web service to manage the websocket connections, but it also made some things easier (Hello 3 and 4 player multiplayer support!)
New Features
There were also a lot of things that I fixed / updated across multiple games. Highlights include:
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Adding an acceleration token for Marvel Champions
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Changing how tokens are added / removed from a card. Now to add you use Cmd / Ctrl / Alt + 1, 2, 3, 4 to add values, and Shift + 1, 2, 3, 4 to remove values