Terrible implimentation - send it back to beta or alpha testing

[Han Shot First]

How was this utterly rubbish implementation allowed out of beta testing. Full of display issues and bugs.

[ClaraPotato]

I'm here from the future to say that the game implementation is still really lacking. Very disappointing.
Actually, the fact that this is listed as a "Premium" game is silly.

[harpwn]

Just for clarity and anyone who sees this further in the future I will give you the low-down.

I am the current developer, operating entirely voluntarily.
Some games on BGA are developed internally to the company by employees (paid for by the publisher/studio to BGA), some are done voluntarily by devs, some are done freelance by external devs for profit (paid for by the publisher/studio).
The original 2 devs I believe were internal; przemek88 (last seen 1 year ago), fistachos (last seen 2 years ago). Clearly didn't stick around to maintain this implementation. Ive made some attempt at contact with the studio to no avail so far.

The BGA system doesnt really incentivize game maintaining long term, in my opinion. Ive argued this on the discord, got nothing substantive back. In my opinion a game which isnt maintained shouldn't be allowed to be premium at the very least. Especially as some people might get premium to engage with certain games they enjoy, finding out after that those games aren't working is very bad.

Games on this site generally dont go back to alpha/beta, its happened I think 1-2 times (love letter for example) but the system isnt particularly set up to handle that properly. Approvals as far as I can tell dont reset for example. Love letter has been stuck back in alpha a long time.

The bad is that there is a tonne of push back from BGA internal people to change pretty much anything (in my experience, as a volunteer dev). The good is that the framework itself is getting better and it may not be too long until better systems exist to help volunteers maintain games. The easier it is to get into volunteer dev on BGA, the better maintained the games will be.

Unfortunately I dont think making bug/forum post on unmaintained games is likely to get you far with affecting change in games, in my view you have 2 clear options.

1) Become a volunteer developer and help fix games you care about.
2) Contact the publisher directly and let them know how you feel about the BGA implementation.

I'm here from the future to say that the game implementation is still really lacking. Very disappointing.
Actually, the fact that this is listed as a "Premium" game is silly.

You annoyingly made this post maybe a day or 2 before I started actually fixing the game, it would be good to hear your opinion on the state of the game now.

[IjinNoMigite]

I played the tutorial. It took a few days to get around to finding a game to join. The tutorial did not stipulate that I MUST MEMORIZE all the cat icons.
I was randomly selecting cats cause the interface doesn't offer ANY HELP.

It's now the future... and this game should never have been published.

The mantra of "it's free so you can't complain" has always been a blatant lie.

[Arjuna92]

I played the tutorial. It took a few days to get around to finding a game to join. The tutorial did not stipulate that I MUST MEMORIZE all the cat icons.
I was randomly selecting cats cause the interface doesn't offer ANY HELP.

It's now the future... and this game should never have been published.

The mantra of "it's free so you can't complain" has always been a blatant lie.

The proper way to address this would be to ask the new developer who has recently stepped in in their free time for a new feature like so; "hey, harpwn, thanks for your efforts! Unfortunately the tooltips for the eight cats cannot be accessed on mobile (they can on the computer). Could you please add a way to see them on mobile? Thank you!" Might make people more motivated to help. Here's a link to the bug system, where you can post it as a suggestion.

[Ponury_zniwiarz]

It is really annoying that now after the update the whole board is not visible. Why? Before the update it was visible and better. It is harder to play it now, whos idea was it lol