Online Dominion

I am currently talking a break from developing Clash of Empires to make an online implementation of the card game Dominion.

Dominion_game

In March 2013, the unofficial implementation on Isotropic was forced to shut down because of the release of the official version on Goko.

The official version currently has several signficant issues.

  • There are major bugs such as games failing to start, or an inability to allow other players to join your game.
  • It is difficult to find a game to play because Goko splits up all the players into rooms with a capacity of 50.  There is no ability to filter out the list of games to only display open games, or use the matchmaking feature to find games in other rooms.
  • The game has significant issues with lag.
  • The user interface makes the game difficult to play,  and makes important information hard to find.
  • When selecting a group of 10 cards to play with, you must either select all 10 cards manually, or have all cards be randomly selected. There is no middle ground to allow players to exclude specific cards they don’t like or focus on certain cards with random kingdom generationAs a result, I am working on developing an unofficial version of Dominion with altered card art and text.

    A prototype of the game can be found here.

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