Game Now has Better Compression


Hello! Just want to be honest and quickly say that this update is purely made because it is now June 1st, meaning it is the start of Pride Month! And I need an excuse to make changes to this game. So happy pride from everyone in the Pokitaire team (still just me)! Make sure to love any and all of your queer friends, queer lovers, and most importantly, queer selves!

Anyway to the actual update, there's a few minor changes like the spacing of the settings menu has now been slightly tweaked and the description of a quirk from the complex set has been tweaked to work better with quirks from the experimental set (the experimental set is only for the full version fyi, sorry!).

For the more major changes, first, the cards are now slightly magnetic towards piles that currently has a valid card to place on. This change is definitely overdue and its not even an issue I see from any of my friends when playtesting, as they seem to internalize what's a valid move or not pretty quickly. But this change is a nice polish and perhaps will help someone that couldn't internalize the logic of a valid move.

Next major change is the compression logic. In case you weren't aware, to make sure the cards don't simply go offscreen a pile with a lot of cards will start compressing the cards to make sure everything is on screen.

The logic for it is pretty simple, the gap between cards shrinks in proportion to the amount of cards in the pile. And this works fine but gets very unwieldy when there is a lot of cards in one pile.

When playtesting, the only friend that attempted to do this was basically just trying to stress test my game instead of actual playing, so for the development of the demo I consider this as a non issue. But recently, one of the decks for the full version do cause situations where the player will constantly have a bunch of cards in one pile. So the logic has been turned to compress the cards in a more, quadratic manner. Again, unless you are purposely doing this, it is a non-issue in the demo version, but it won't hurt to bring this change to it.

Final major change that you can see from the screenshots are the very colorful cards. I don't know how any of that happened, the second that it became June 1st, the cards simply just did that. Can't really find a way to change it back and to be honest, I don't want do. So yeah, again, happy pride month everyone ! :3

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