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Sugestion: Over the board: flip pieces instead of rotating? #1031

Open adsche opened 1 month ago

adsche commented 1 month ago

What is the problem?

Currently, the pieces for OTB are apparently rotated 180 degrees (for one player, when not flipping them after moves). For piece sets with shading, this creates a weird look where white pieces have the "light source" on one side and black pieces on the other side.

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Especially when next to each other or past each other, I find this looking quite weird. I'd suggest flipping the pieces horizontally instead so that the shade stays on the same side. Currently, there are several piece sets with left-right shading - but also one (spatial) that arguably maybe has top-bottom shading.

What do you think? (Old app does it the same as the new app currently, btw.)

Steps to reproduce the bug

  1. Play > OTB
  2. Have not selected "flip pieces".

App version

0.11.0

Device Info

Android

Additional information

No response

adsche commented 1 month ago

Sorry for the bug label, that was unintentional.