Hi Everyone,
short background story:
Approximately half a year ago a came across Spectro on Kongregate and I was immediately hooked! Shortly after I discovered that there is also an iPhone app and I bought it without second thoughts. After playing on single player for a while, I also started playing multiplayer and by now, I've accumulated almost 1000 games ( :) is that too much?). I really think, this is one of the greatest card games I have ever seen and the deepness of strategies and mind games going on is very impressive. As I said, I only have the iPhone version, however I saw some videos of the PC version and was thinking that some things can be easily introduced to the iPhone version as well.
So, here are my suggestions of what I think will improve the mobile version a lot:
- Introduce a time panel where you can see how many seconds are remaining for you and your opponent. I only get a message: opponent's time is over, you have won or I get a message when I have less than 15 seconds remaining. It would be really nice to see it all the time.
- Concerning the time: I am not sure how this is computed but I think it should be something like this: you start with 2 minutes and for every turn you get like additional 10 seconds or so. I think at the moment time is always restarted to 2 minutes after you play a card which can lead to very prolonged games.
- A replay feature would be awesome. It would help in analyzing the games much better.
- Sometimes, it is really bothering me that you can't see the clock and the battery status on the iPhone, so maybe make this an optional choice for the players if they want to display it.
- I noticed that PC players have access to stats. I would love to know my stats too, so please add this feature.
- It would be cool if while in a game, one can leave shortly to check the channel room, or even to open another app and then return and the game continues in the background. I think this is possible now, however you get disconnected after 10 seconds or so. If you mange to return before your time is over, I see no issue with allowing such things.
- While in game, the only information available about your opponent is his name, class and level. In the PC version you also have access to more stats, which may be cool for the mobile version too.
- Is a tournament play even possible with a mobile device? Would be nice to add if not already done.
- Customizable card deck icons like the ones shared in the forum would also be nice for the mobile version.
- A short note whether people are playing on mobile device or PC would also be great.
- Last thing which would make the mobile game really cool is to allow observing games of other people. I want to get better and to be able to watch games of high-level players and learn but on the iPhone this is not possible.
The last two things are bugs, I experience from time to time:
- Sometimes I enter a game and all cards are grayed out, so obviously it is not my turn at the moment. However, after some time I get a message that I have only 15 seconds left but I can't play a card because they are all grayed out. I end up losing the game without even playing. It happens approximately 2-3times in 100 games, so not a big deal, however should be really fixed.
- When an opponent is searched, sometimes it takes very long although a lot of people are in the channel. If you then cancel the search and restart it immediately, two things might happen: either again you can wait for ages or an opponent is found quite fast. I am pretty sure that if I don't cancel the search, I could wait as long as i wish but this way it is faster. Seems weird to me.
That's it. Sorry for the long post and don't think I am criticizing the game or something. It's awesome and i trying to contribute to make it better. I hope you consider the suggestions seriously.
Thanks for reading!