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A one-man operation with friends making the Free Browser-Based Collectible Card Game: Divi!

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Devblog 106 – We are getting there We had 31 different users logging in this month, and 27 this week. They all played over 1600 battles this month! Wow… Over half of the users use a desktop, the rest plays on mobile and tablet. The Greek faction is just 1% more popular than …

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Devblog 105 – Remove with callback We want to make our avatars more lore-friendly. They are the main characters in our story, so they must “feel” right when you play as them. One of the Avatars has the ability to gain Devotion when a unit “dies”. This actually also means whe…

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Devblog 104 – Welcome new users! Finding new art is going slow but steady. Additionally there are a lot more active people now on Divi. Why? Well, because of promotion! These new users all have great feedback and need a lot of communicating which slows down development a bit…

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Devblog 103 – Hello again! While I did not update this blog a lot, a lot has happened for Divi. We have a steady user base of players and a lot of people are helping out. Right now the biggest thing is card-art, but I am already looking beyond that. There are exciting things…

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Devblog 102 – An image can tell so much… We. Need. More. Artists. Please help! Mail: [email protected] Done A couple of cards have alre…

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Devblog 101 – Drag ‘n drop Help! We are looking for artists who are willing to donate their artwork to Divi. Do you know anyone? Let me kno…

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Devblog 100 – Quite some finetuning The 100st devblog, things are going well! I’ve done a lot of fine tuning after receiving the much wante…

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Devblog 99 – Chat in the lobby! Do you want to trash talk your foe after you have won? Of course you do! So I have made a start with the re…

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Devblog 98 – Buy all the cards! It is now possible to buy single cards in the Market! It is a bit expensive to buy them all, but now the Ma…

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Devblog 97 – One little update A few changes today which are primarily focused on a better way of dealing with issues. For example: I do no…

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Devblog 96 – Progress in many places It’s fun how some little extra functionality can take you down a road of major rework. All I wanted wa…

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Devblog 95 – What a weekend! First of all, we are desperately looking for artist willing to help us making card-art! We currently use royal…

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Devblog 94 – A good gameplay.. The term “gameplay” is quite hard to define. “Good gameplay” even harder. User want the game to feel “smooth…

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Devblog 93 – Leaderboards! Do you want to know who’s the best on Divi? Me too! So I created the leader-boards including lists like “most tr…

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Devblog 92 – The perks of a meetup We had a meet-up of a couple of Divi-players and had a lot of fun discussing Divi, play-testing en devel…

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Devblog 91 – Deckbuilding improved While a lot of little changes can make a big difference, a simple layout change actually made a huge dif…

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Devblog 90 – More mobile support For a while Divi could not be played on mobiles in vertical (normal) mode. But one-handed play is convenie…

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Devblog 89 – Our story continues.. We had some problems with errors on totally random occasions where battles were stopped out of nothing. …

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Devblog 88 – Welcome new users! Our promoter Peer was quite successful on the Dutch gaming festival Campzone. We have new beta-testers with…