MArcomage

Preview works really fine since it can see enemy cards also if they're hidden.
so I can see how divine intervention or benediction will work.

Really tricky... I guess some cards need to be excluded from preview?

I wonder how it works with draft or overpower

Well, there is not much what can I do here, only disable preview in hidden games. Preview button runs the full simulation of playing that card. With random-based effects such as draft, you will get some effect, but when you play it for real you can get a different effect, so it doesn't really say much.

Lol, it's many cards... also each card with "for each .... in game"

Mojko wrote:
Well, there is not much what can I do here, only disable preview in hidden games.

And what about to disable it also in non-hidden and give back old system? ;)

Even I removed the preview functionality completely I would keep the new system. There will be more card actions in the future (for example the "Pass" action for 2v2 game). Old system can't support more than 2 card actions, so it's unusable.

I think it's no problem to add more functions and keep "one click" playing of cards...

3 action buttons per card is a mess.

well, I didn't talk about three or more buttons around each card... I think play button and menu with other actions and confirm button could be better... and you can add later so many actions as you wish...

Menu with list of actions was my initial design, however it's very vulnerable to misclicks. Global buttons are a better option, I think.

Given that javascript is enabled an option could be this:

left click on a card ---> play
right click on a card ---> discard
all other actions could be in a selectable combobox above each card, or somewhere else, for not card related actions.

I thought about that too. There many JavaScript events that can be binded to card actions (also middle click, double click), however right click is usually reserved by browser (opens a menu), middle click as well (scrolling). Double click can be inconvenient and some browsers use it for paragraph selection. I would like to prevent binding multiple events to one action.

Mojko wrote:
Menu with list of actions was my initial design, however it's very vulnerable to misclicks. Global buttons are a better option, I think.

I suggest keep PLAY button separately as it was, under card (you use it maybe in 95%) and above the cards could be menu with default choice DISCARD (maybe about 4%) and only if you will need to show preview (or another new function) you can change it in menu. (I think the rest 1%) so do you really think it's vulnerable to misclicks?
I can create a picture if my idea isn't clear... :)

dimitris wrote:
left click on a card ---> play
right click on a card ---> discard

it IS vulnerable to misclick ;)

I like vault's idea

Something like this.

vault wrote:

dimitris wrote:
left click on a card ---> play
right click on a card ---> discard

it IS vulnerable to misclick ;)

I don't agree. It's more usual to misclick a button or a select box, rather than a whole card. If it's clear to the players that left click plays and right click discards, and with some animation maybe, a hand cursor etc. there's no problem in my opinion.

Another option would be right clicking on a card to bring a context menu with all the additional actions apart from play (Discard, Preview etc) but I guess this requires some more coding.

And Mojko with JQuery (it's used in deck builder right?) it's not difficult to distinguish left click from right click cross-browser.


EDIT: of course the image that vault attached is also a good suggestion, and easy to implement I guess.

dimitris wrote:
And Mojko with JQuery (it's used in deck builder right?) it's not difficult to distinguish left click from right click cross-browser.

Of course it's not an implementation problem. I'm more concerned about how will it effect user-browser interaction. I think the problem is more on the design level.

I vote for vault's idea. I miss the "play" button very much.

Preview button is now disabled in the hidden cards mode (r1207).