UPDATE : April fool's! Of course it was a joke, except one thing: we care about YOU, who used to like this website despite its weakness and "not so good looking" stuff. But to make this service sustainable and even larger, we also need the audience that is NOT coming today on BGA because of these "details", so we have to care about eye candy things too. This is a challenge to satisfy all audiences, but we like this 🙂 Last summer, we changed entirely the visual universe of Board Game Arena with a new logo and new colors. However, for nostalgic reasons and other reasons explained below, we decided to move back and restore our previous logo & colors. The main reason is the following : Een and I, the main facilitators of this service, are both engineers, with an artistic sensibility close to zero. Making "good looking" stuff, "nice" colors, "visual harmony", all these things, well ... this is not really our cup of tea. When we started this website, we went straight to the important point : efficiency. Need an additional statistics ? Here we go : push this button a little bit to the left, push this other element a little bit to the right, and put the new stat in the middle. Need a new advanced option? No problem at all, we add it and add it two others by the way. So yes, at the end the results looks like the Space Shuttle cockpit, but after all, we are board games players and we like to give ourselves headaches ! So yes, they may have good reasons to make this website more "accessible", to have a "wider audience", but to be honest : we only care about YOU, who is already there and who is there and have been always there. You don't care about "raw" interfaces, you are not afraid about juggling with tons of options. And by the way, we are close to 800.000 registered users on BGA, this is good enough 🙂 ! In consequence, in the near future we will revert some changes from last years. What you can expect is to see everywhere more buttons, more options, more indicators ... and you won't need to click to make them appear. On mobile, to make things clear you'll just have to zoom a little (at 800% everything is pretty clear). So yes the website may be a little bit more complex than today, but we are now writing a very simple PDF with a dozen of pages to explain how all of this will work. Like a BGA game rules. Simple and efficient. Of course, the new-old logo symbolize this first step of this direction change. In the following weeks you'll see other changes, and we hope that this will allow you to go further with BGA, for the love of board games, only board games, without eye-candy stuff - after all, why not play in text mode? The team.
Travnja: BGA logotip: natrag na osnove
AŽURIRANJE: prvi Travanj!
Naravno da je šala, osim jedne stvari: mi smo sa vama, koji je poput ove web stranice unatoč svoje slabosti i "ne tako dobro izgleda" stvari.
Ali da bi ova usluga održive i još veće, treba publika koja ne dolazi danas na BGA zbog te "detalje", pa smo brigu o oku bombon stvari previše.
To je izazov da se zadovolje sve publike, ali ovako
Prošlog ljeta, promijenili smo u potpunosti vizualni svemir Arena igra na ploči s novim logotipom i novim bojama.
Međutim, zbog nostalgičan a drugome objasnili, odlučili smo pomaknuti natrag i vratiti naš prethodni logotip i boje.
Glavni razlog je sljedeći: Een i sam glavni voditelji ove usluge su oba inženjera, umjetnički senzibilitet blizak nuli.
Stvaranje "dobrog izgleda" stvari, "lijepo" boje, "vizualni sklad", sve te stvari, pa...
Ovo nije naš šalicu čaja.
Kad smo počeli ovu web stranicu, otišli smo ravno do važne točke: učinkovitost.
Trebate dodatne statistike?
Evo ga: ovo pritisnuti malo lijevo, gurnite ovaj drugi element malo udesno i staviti novi stat u sredini.
Treba mi nova napredna opcija?
Nema problema, možemo dodati i dodati ga dvojica usput.
Tako da, na kraju rezultat izgleda kao Space Shuttle kabini, ali nakon svega, we su igre na ploči igrača i volimo kako bismo imali glavobolje !
Tako da, možda imaju dobar razlog za ove web stranice više "dostupni", da "široj javnosti", ali da budem iskren: mi smo samo sa vama, koji je već tamo i tko je tu i bio uvijek tamo.
Briga o "sirovom" sučelja, te se ne boje o žongliranje sa tone od mogućnosti.
I usput, mi smo blizu 800.000 registriranih korisnika na BGA, dovoljno je
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Posljedica toga, u budućnosti ćemo vratiti neke promjene iz prošle godine.
Što možete očekivati je vidjeti posvuda više gumba, više mogućnosti, više pokazatelja...
i ne trebate kliknuti da bi se pojavile.
Na mobitel, da bi stvari jasno samo ćete imati zumiranje malo (na 800% sve je jasno).
Tako da web stranica može biti malo složeniji nego danas, ali sada pišemo vrlo jednostavan PDF s desetak stranica objašnjavati kako će sve ovo raditi.
Kao BGA pravila igre.
Jednostavno i učinkovito.
Naravno, novi-stari logo simbolizira ovaj prvi korak u ovom smjeru promjena.
U sljedećim tjednima vidjeli druge promjene, i nadamo se da će dopustiti da ideš dalje sa BGA, za ljubav odbora igre, samo igre na ploči, bez komada stvari - Uostalom, zašto ne igrati u tekstualnom modu?
Tim.
