Checklist for website MVP

[bitspittle]

Required for Playtesters

Features necessary for us to feel comfortable bringing in users to playtest

• [x] Title screen
• [X] Add a version to the UI
• [X] Auto-saving / restoring game (locally) at the beginning of every turn
• [x] Cannot activate reason (don't disable card but show a popup?)
• [x] History (and text updates in a scroll area)
• [x] Summary screen
• [x] Allow toggling features when starting the game
• [x] Saving user data (locally) such as cards seen and buildings used
  • [x] Add an indicator for "never seen before" card
• [X] Menu:
  • [x] View all cards in the game (with searching)
  • [x] Card List
  • [x] Building list
  • [x] Userdata
  • [X] Clear user data
  • [X] Restart (different from Save & Quit!)
  • [x] Save & Quit (return to title, don't send data to server)
  • [x] Quit (return to title, send data to server)
• [x] Site auth!
• [x] Saving analytics (remotely. Firebase DB? Upload to Google drive?)
• [x] Favicon
• [x] Cloud sync
  • [x] Finished games
  • [x] Aborted games
  • [x] Crashes
• [x] Button for menu
• [x] Highlight reroll / expand
• [x] Basic Analytics
• [x] Settings live in the cloud

Want to have

• [x] Jump into menu with deep link
• [x] Keep scrollbar positions
• [ ] Unlocks
• [ ] Show emoji for shop / street tweaks
• [ ] Show price difference in label (see also Fashion Runway)
• [ ] Card vars
• [ ] Max 100 cards?
• [ ] Discord link somewhere
• [ ] Static instructions
• [x] Consistent seed behavior

Polish

Features that are important for the game to feel juicy

• [ ] Flavor
• [ ] Cards should have outlines. Piles should look like piles of cards.
• [ ] a11y: Make sure you can play a game with just the keyboard
• [ ] Animations (cards transition to their destination, score values pulse if changed)
• [ ] Portraits (AI generated for now?)
• [ ] Allow being played on smaller screens
• [ ] Choose screen shows cards directly?
• [ ] Admin Menu
  • [ ] Scripting console
• [ ] Ads
• [ ] Graph on summary screen
• [ ] Remove parens from all buttons; standardize 5.px gap to a single Composable / constant?
• [ ] Browse all should say when no match is found
• [ ] Buildings should have a message when the feature is disabled (especially telling new users how to unlock it)
• [ ] In game send feedback (with game snapshot)

Nice to have

• [ ] Mobile support
• [ ] Interactive instructions
• [ ] Daily Leaderboard
• [ ] Resume game on reload? But somehow avoid people cheating for cancellable choices. Can we restore to the choice?
• [ ] Send feedback should have an option to snapshot the game
• [ ] Cheat detection, avoid playing multiple copies of the same game at the same time.

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Critical

Minimal necessary for being able to play through a game

• [x] Piles
• [x] The shop
• [x] Visible console
• [x] Choices (probably hard)
• [x] Tooltips
• [x] Adjectives: Swift, etc.
• [x] Counters
• [x] Expendable missing
• [x] Buildings
• [x] View pile
• [x] Buildings missing activation costs
• [x] Visually distinguish blueprints from buildings
• [x] Choice: Say which pile a card is in

Required for design

• [x] Some way to enable / disable admin mode
• [X] Admin menu
  • [x] Create a card
  • [x] Build a building
  • [X] Move cards (press A to toggle all)
  • [x] Download a game snapshot / load a game snapshot from disk
  • [x] Link to API
  • [x] Upgrade a card
• [x] Add a special admin-only load button on the title screen