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Old 03-28-2011, 03:23 AM
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The set up is ugly and odd. Why isn't your hand at the bottom, where it should be? Why do you sacrifice so much screen area to show the opponent's hand rather than only showing the top/bottom halves of their cards (which would be at the top of the screen)? The player's hand in card games that take place on screen is always best situated at the bottom of the screen, this way it's easier to look at without taking your eyes off the rest of the gameplay. The opponent's hand on the other hand is fairly unimportant, so it should be low priority, only being visible enough to show how many cards they have and maybe enough of the card to identify it if you for some reason are able to flip it.

The transparency of "the board" could not only cause distractions (other player's trying to talk to you, I know I'm unable to ignore that sort of thing) but also shows a missed opportunity to create table images for display under the playing field.

It's cute that you try to incorporate the classic gui sprites, but number display for things like health in magic is just tacky. A bar (or even actual hearts for health) would not only be more cosmetically pleasing, but would make the game itself identify as Graal related much better than just "☯: 10/10".

tl;dr, you drew a card, but dropped the ball
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