Project Appr 2

eaglewolf · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 55

LordHawk and myself are beginning plans to work on Appr2. As you may or may not know, Lordhawk had worked in the past on an Appr2 program, but we could not release it due to legal issues with some of the other contributors. Due to situations beyond our control, it is impossible to release now, because another person destroyed the code for it, and destroyed the backups.

So, we are going to start from scratch. We are going to try and keep the play as close to the original appr as possible, and add new features. We will try keep the speedy, intuitive interface, and fix all the old bugs.

Apart from being our announcement of this project, we would like to ask what NEW features you players would like to see added.

In addition, if you have experiance with the programming language C++, contact LordHawk or myself to see if you might be able to contribute to the project.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post and reply with your suggestions. Very Happy

Grimmjow · Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 132

multiplayer? Very Happy

eaglewolf · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 55

CMA-Flippi · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 8:58 am Post subject:

The dream of using wishes i obvious i think,

i'd like to see another sealed deck building possibility,
so you can maybe drag the cards in a field and arrange them there(for manacurve reasons etc)

CoolinDenial · Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 204

Vanguard would be cool

synch987 · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 256

its my impression that the main advantages of MWS over apprentice are the ability to access the sideboard in-game, and the fact that the shuffler cant handle BoW decks.

multiplayer would be awesome, but it is a big leap

the occasional bug, such as crashing and making it appear your opponent has dozens of cards in his hand, would be great if they could be removed

Very Happy

Skizzik · Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 46

Hmm, right of the top of my head: wishes, cards with cardboard-card proportions, multiplayer would be nice obv now that its sanctioned and PTQ format, it also could give the team thing a boost, Battle of Whits compatibility, morphs with right color (ie colorless) and right stats (ie 2/2), apprentice 2 should memorize the decks folder even after started newly, thats basically all i would need and it should run fast even on crappy computers.

TugaChampion · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 348

Please leave the card proportions as they are because it let's us have many cards on board. I can only think of 2 things: correct the bugs and make wishes usable. And try no to make it like mws. Actually stay as far away from it as possible. Don't add all those 9283472 useless functions.

Koen · Administrator Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 338

Cool!

I'd suggest adding nothing more than just fixing Apprentice bugs and to allow sideboarding. Then the next priority should be allowing play through a server, so firewalls and routers can be circumvented.

Adding pictures, better design, multiplayer etc, that's all not really necessary at first. I'd focus on the basics first.

Then a beta can also be released sooner. I've seen too many projects strand on over-perfectionizing while there are still too many bugs in the basic workings.

nitzelnator · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

multiplayer

Also, maybe the ability to point to targets, same thing you can do in MWS

gregdn22 · Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 9

Really looking forward to multiplayer, but i think that will be the biggest change that is wanted. Other than that and the wishes thing I would have to say that it would be nice to have the cards actually tap instead of just saying tapped on them. A better looking interface would also be nice. Oh and one more minor thing. If you make it so that you can attach equipment and enchant creature cards to creature, make sure that if counters are added to the equipment (meaning jitte) they are visible and not hidden by the creature that it is equiping. Good Luck guys!

Void06 · Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 179

stay as far away from MWS as possible- keep the interface simple and clean.

Some things you want to include:

-Battle of Wits-sized deck construction

-Wishes legal

-When making Tokens, include an option to make X amount of copies (IE when I want to make 7 Illusion tokens off meloku)

-Tapped creatures should actually turn sideways when attacking

-+1/+1/charge counters should be represented more elegantly than just a big grey box

Gerrardfo · Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 324

Eagle: a day late and a dollar short. The "go" programmer jb is working on apprentice 2 later on, so you should go speak with him.

AEonFlux · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 90

Undo last draw draw button

Show last card drawn button

Draw from bottom of deck button

Al these in mws save certain problems.

Insanity · Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 164

Well, besides fixing the bugs I don't really have any ideas, except I don't really like the idea of things turning sideways; I always found that annoying in other m:tg programs.

But what I can do is help with the programming aspect, as I'm quite well-versed in C++. You can e-mail me at insanityincorporated (at) yahoo.com