Preview of New Client

A first preview of the new game client has arrived. Its completly Flex/Flash-based (read: it has nicer animations :). Here you can take a first look at the client-preview: http://www.fantasy-cards.net/bin/kingdoms_clien…

It still has some bugs and graphical glitches, but you can get a first impression. Deck and Opponent are currently fixed – just for testing.

Have Fun,
Marco

I’m worried about one thing, the bandwidth it takes.

$%^& it has taken over a megabyte just to load! I hope that gets fixed.

very good loking, runs much smoother than old client. its easier to keep track of everything. overall much better, Well done.

@Humility: I don’t think the bandwidth is such a big problem. It’s size is actually 768 kByte and it loads in 0.9 seconds on my connection. The old client has 369 kByte and loads in 8.8 seconds – because it is split in many files. And don’t forget, it gets only loaded once – then its cached by the browser.

That said, there is still potential to save about 200-300 kByte, getting the client to under 500. But this kind of optimization isn’t on top of my priority list.

It saves to Cache? Thats good. I only get 200 MB a day, and I am required to keep it above fifty percent as consideration to others in my household.

It didn’t freeze on me. Though for some reason the panel that shows the cards on the board must be scrolled left and right. But not a big enough issue to waste time correcting. I shudder to think how much time was spent animating the card flip.

It doesn’t freeze for me
Though Discard doesn’t work , and if you win you can’t leave the game lol

Maybe next week it will be out.

I found a bunch of bugs in the new system. I posted them in the bugs section.