archive.md

Archive of README to-do list

• anything else in gathered list of to-dos from code not covered by these/general tidying

Logic

• assign trump suits to players (and dealer also?)
• implement trick-play rules
  • implement trick-winner
  • enforce suit-following (maybe make as switch for devving)
• collecting calypsos (sort-of, maybe?? need to display in-progress to check better)
• display in-progress calypsos (and completed? (separate bullet) won discards?)
• track dealer etc make sure dealer is updated properly at end of hand
• scoring
• number of rounds/games set via gameoptions
• team settings via gameoptions
• stats
• Fix js bug at end of a hand that needs refresh
• stop games ending in ties

Translations

• Make sure I deal with the translation stuff properly, stop string concatenation etc.
  • make sure parameters use i18n etc
• Start off saying who has which trump suit, and who is partnered with whom

Dev

• hook new round/new hand stuff to setup new game so we aren't doubling up/confusing logic
  • partly done but needs checking/careful eye
• check that the all the cards exist at all times, and get dealt out over the course of a round
  • mostly okay, but needs checking
• rename those damn variables to keep a shred of self-consistency check below, do as we go
  • a bunch of stuff could be cleared up on 'type', e.g. are they id's, or descriptors, or what?
  • leaving this to general refactoring
• JS placeCardInCalypso has redundant card_id paramter
• have at least a proper go-through of code to tidy at least a little
• Add a separate code licence
• Use game-level constants in place of magic numbers where possible
  • in todo/part of general refactoring. on my radar
• global trick can now be killed in favour of use which is much nicer
  • this is in todo list now - only one instance of it but want to check once it's done

Display

• game art - broken this out to its own section now mate
• Animate completed calypso & removing it w/o refresh
• Little piles for won cards to be sink for any misc won cards, instead of player panels
  • Maybe cards should move to player, and then to wherever (to make it clear who won the trick?)
• Nicer game area, like in e.g. GrossTarock? (have a crude version, can iterate on that in general improvements)
• Fix up calypso displays. Maybe smaller?
• Show who is dealer, who dealt first in round etc. Let's not do this
  • animate this changing?
• Display game state info somewhere (round x of y, hand w of z)
  • done but needs a bit of zhuzhing up
• Say the game name somewhere? Or something distinctive. Covered under the above zhuzhing
• improve scoring table?
• access old scoring tables
• player boxes should show number of completed calypsos
• clear display on new round - not sure if there should be a manual 'click' or something to confirm
• see last trick?
  • maybe optional, as this is not possible exactly in real life, but might be useful for e.g. turn-based
  • not for alpha. revisit if desired at a later stage.
• notifications including suit icon
• ~~ When someone wins trick, do I want to say why? (e.g. player lead their trump suit etc.)?? FFT~~
  • will be tracking this for stats, so should be easy to add in. Probably as a log option? overkill - add if requested
• animations - let calypso cards & trick pile appear after animation is finished rather than early
• get rid of ... a very long username thingy
• Set different default colours
• Check that there's nowt that's colourblind-unfriendly
  • e.g. black + brewer #1b9e77, #d95f02, #7570b3, or something sim. for default colours
  • want to think about how to nicely signify teams - see e.g. Phat for nice approach

Images

• Game box concept okay, just refining
• Need something else for icon
  • Maybe icon is fine actually
• Banner needs completing (fining edges, proper colours exported)
• card back(s) finalise
• dealer icon final version needed
• suit icons better
• placeholder calypso cards better
• another display image?

Things to fix

• Fix tooltips?? (renounce and dealer button)
• Tooltips don't work when we dynamically switch class - they only attach to elements that have that class at the time of calling
• Lose renounce indicators on refresh :/
• Wipe accumulated calypsos on new round w/o refresh
• clear display on new round - not sure if there should be a manual 'click' or something to confirm
• multi-calypso trick means leaves copies of leftover cards in all calypsos (e.g. 2x cal + 2sp -> 2sp, 2ht in calypso. fine on refresh, so js issue, but comes through wrong in notif)
• Fix dealer button animation
• New cards in calypso get eaten by calypso animation - need to handle this!
  • maybe calypso animation should head to player boxes to help signify scoring being there
• '"X" deals a new hand of cards' is not translating, and not sure why...??
  • some others maybe also now - e.g. "... must lead a card to the first trick", and "X plays Y"
  • doesn't like strings with "." at the end - can break new hand/new round logs with those
• final scores not updating in player boxes (round 2+)(okay on refresh)
• tooltips don't get removed once added
• Hand display buggered on mobile (think overlap is culprit)
• hack for inter-round score table access fails for final round - i.e. can't access final round scoring on refresh

Other UI

• throw an exception if non-active player clicks on card, rather than silently failing?

Things to test

• new round (genuine)/things all work nicely in multi-round games
• multiple players complete calypsos in one trick
• a little browser compatibility just take this as it comes now, after fixing mobile
• check tooltips get removed after new round - didn't work but will fix
• spectator
• in-game replay
• check score table game end refresh

Meta

• anything to adjust in gameinfos - particularly revise description & and tags, and durations

Misc

• Game progression
• Zombie turn
• Pre-alpha checklist - all covered
• Check timings - don't get extra on trick lead :/

Variants

Possibly.

• See https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/514183/game-got-lost-shuffle for a variant trick-winning rule: last trump-in wins
• From question in that thread also: variant where you must beat leader when trumping in?

Not in first pass at any rate - not sure if there's much value to this, and Culbertson at least in fact agrees with usual rule.

Branch stuff (incomplete)

PR 10

• animations - let calypso cards & trick pile appear after animation is finished rather than early
  • and sim for trickpile
  • and for calypsopile - needs checking
  • cards in calypso let's try and slip under existing cards in animation - but not worth it now if it's a huge pain (it is. park it.)
• Fix dealer button animation - not really fixed but removed. Fine for now
• New cards in calypso get eaten by calypso animation - need to handle this!
  • details to fiddle with - maybe make calypso a teeny bit quicker to go off??
  • ditch transformation on calypso cards before they go off? (so they go in the right direction?)
  • calypsos to trickpile (or possibly their own new space??)
  • maybe calypso animation should head to player boxes to help signify scoring being there - parking this idea
• tooltips for calypsopile (only when full)
• Ditch calypso completed summaries at end of hands
• something a little jazzier for updating score in player board? maybe - have a look at some other games
• z-index crap? (current) played cards go under trickpile (even empty), and calypso (even empty). Has that always been so?
  • certainly not new, current dev branch (9af4f0c) already has this problem, just not noticed previously
  • animated element belongs to destination - that's where the z-index needs to be set!
  • tidy up z-index attributes we peppered everywhere but no longer need
  • cardontable, myhand, hand-card, cardontable. think those are it - check that animations still run smoothly when removely
• wrong suits showing in player boxes!!
• animate round end clearing?
  • trickpiles not cleared
• total scores in round-by-round
• potentially 'secret' info in trickpile size??
• Score tables suit icons
• score buttons not updated on refresh while waiting for new round

PR 11

• optional log detail (c.f. Hungarian Tarock)
• Start off saying who has which trump suit, and who is partnered with whom
  • teams through some light colours, and put in player boxes upstairs (with trump suits)
  • put all playerbox stuff in single div
  • style that div my man
• delete needless notifications
• Make sure I deal with the translation stuff properly, stop string concatenation etc.
  • make sure parameters use i18n etc
• '"X" deals a new hand of cards' is not translating, and not sure why...??
  • some others maybe also now - e.g. "... must lead a card to the first trick", and "X plays Y"
  • doesn't like strings with "." at the end - can break new hand/new round logs with those
  • think one error in translation text was meaning others not going through pipeline? all cushty now tho
  • completes calypso text not right, think it's similar - check back!
• ~~score table translations - use materials ~~ Actually don't just do in js
• is starting -> starts
• Round ${round_number} score need to sub value properly
• check translation stuff in score-box after round now that we've fiddled

PR 12

• tooltips don't get removed once added
• Hand display buggered on mobile (think overlap is culprit)
  • believe this is an artifact of hand height being too small - happens also on window shrink
• hack for inter-round score table access fails for final round - i.e. can't access final round scoring on refresh
  • need to check, but can wait til i'm doing a job-lot
• trim down (./misc/todo_list) a decent amount
  • started with 54 - get down to at most 30
• Set different default colours
• Check that there's nowt that's colourblind-unfriendly
  • e.g. black + brewer #1b9e77, #d95f02, #7570b3, or something sim. for default colours
  • doesn't matter for player names so just keep them as-is. Checked okay (I think) for where it matters more.

PR 13

• Zombie turn
• suit icons better
• placeholder calypso cards better
• todos under 20
• fix tooltip removal properly

PR 14

• Better responsive design/mobile friendly

PR 15

• everything remaining in this file - mostly code tidying