Enough of the updates with just added games! Let’s talk about some of the things we’re working on.
Play more than one game in a day?
We’ve updated the “Played It” feature so for every 2 Gamer levels you go up, you can say you played another game. So if you’re at Gamer level 5, you can say you played 3 games each day. This feature has the ability to be more detailed (saying who you played with, who won, etc.), but we’re keeping it simple for now.
The Hourglass
We’re testing a quest that gives Explorer xp or Reporter xp if you’ve been on a game or news page for a certain amount of time. So… if you see an hourglass pop up in the lower right part of your browser window, click on it, and you’ll be rewarded. Note: What’s being tested is the frequency that the hourglass shows up, how much of a time delay there is, and how much of a reward is given.
Color Avatars
Soon (mid October) you will be able to spend BG gold on color avatars! An added bonus is each one comes with 5 border colors to choose from; blue, red, orange, yellow and green. If you get tired of the border color, you can easily change it at any time.
Profile Themes
Want to spruce up your profile page by swapping out the background with something else? Not only will you see it, but anyone who visits your profile will also see it… It’s in the works.
Game themes, badges and avatars
Tasty Minstrel Games will be the first publisher to help us launch game specific themes, badges and avatars! Eminent Domain, JAB and Belfort will be the first games with these items available.
Added Games:
Lancaster
Queen Games
Paris Connection
Queen Games
New York
Queen Games
Mammut
Queen Games
Show Manager
Queen Games
A Touch of Evil
Flying Frog Productions
Invasion From Outer Space
Flying Frog Productions
Neuroshima Hex
Z-Man Games
Blue Moon City
Fantasy Flight Games
Glen More
Rio Grande Games
Le Havre
Lookout Games
Added Expansions:
Nightfall: Martial Law (Stand-alone expansion)
Alderac Entertainment Group
Innovation: Echoes of the Past
Asmadi Games
Added Upcoming Games:
Penny Arcade The Game – Gamers vs Evil
Cryptozoic Entertainment
Nightfall: Blood Country (expansion)
Alderac Entertainment Group
Flying Frog makes such beautifully crafted games!!
What, I can’t record more than one game played per day? That quickly gets problematic… I don’t mind metagame elements like all these prizes and levels and stuff, but it’s sad when they interfere with use of the site.
I wonder, are there plans to add certain non-commercial games, like Chess, Go, Hex, etc. ? It would be a shame not being able to log them.
Two games? Last night I would have needed seven. This was over a roughly five hour game session. Kingdom Builder, two plays of A Few Acres of Snow, 7 Wonders with Leaders and Mankin Pis and Dungeon Raiders. This is a typical game night. If you are concerned with devaluing your currency maybe change how loving game plays is rewarded.
Sweet… Grandma likes. 🙂
Oho! It’s here now. 🙂
Yes, a few fellows with colored avatars appeared. But these features seem to be still admin-assigned, no trace how to change them in one’s own profile. Let’s wait then…
The few colored avatars and special backgrounds that are floating around are looking sharp! I look forward to the full roll-out!
The hourglass is currently set up to appear between 90 and 180 seconds after the page loads … just enough time to have a good read of the page. This is of course only intended as a fun little extra thing.
I have seen the hour glass pop up while writing a couple of times, but then by the time I go down to click on it, it has dissappeared.
@Macabee & @MarvinK
It usually takes a few minutes for an hourglass to show up. It’ll pop up in the lower-right corner of the screen (it’s very noticeable).
Another thought: game specific avatars should also be unlockable based on plays/hearts etc. for the game in question.
Oh, and please add black as a border color!
Nice inprovements. Things are progressing nicely. I also haven’t seen any hourglasses pop up, but some have so that’s just probably my lack of either perception or opportunity.
I can’t wait to be in LIVING COLOR!
There’s one more welcome feature: changing the tip type. By mistake I’ve incorrectly labeled my latest tip to “Robo Rally” as Strategy while it should be Rule and I can’t change it. 🙁
I like the fact that I can acknowledge the fact I play more than 1 game per day, but have yet to see any hourglasses pop up. exactly when do they appear? i.e. is it random times, when I access a game page I’ve been on forever or what?
What are the odds of you adding Neuroshima Hex just after I aquired it? I’ve played it for a while now but only recently got it myself. Nice addition, now I may add it under owned 😀
Jim (and friends) are working fast! The green hourglasses I’ve been seeing are adding points to Reporter correctly.
It seems that some of the hourglasses (green ones) say that they add 1XP to Reporter while they add to Explorer like the blue ones.
We’re actually planning to open the site back up for registration in a couple weeks after we launch the new avatars, themes and identity badges. We want to make sure the new system has all of the kinks out. I’ll talk about identity badges in another article next week.