A long time ago feedback.

[Rager]

A long time ago, talk of expanding the type of games was going on. One of the devs really liked the idea of

virtual horse racing and Pachinko machines many of them having slot like elements with it that would be a great fit for this game.

I really do feel that this game needs more variety, When i try to spread the word about this game, that is the first thing that was said to me, is that the variety and slots are very basic, and don't offer enough games to want them to stick around.

I know that is harsh, but I want this game to grow...I told many of my friends to come back later once they add more stuff. The new slots is a very nice step forward, but we still don't have that high class vegas to me, that addiction comes from the games also being fun with wild and crazy bonus.

[DL_David]

Thanks for the nudge :)

We have lots on the go, as we always do, however horse racing and pachinko are not on the near term to-do list (although they do remain on the list).

Over the past year our focuses have been:
1) Stability / Improving the underlying core technology
2) Updated UI
3) Slot machines

Stability has been much improved (as hopefully you've noticed). The server back-end has had many fixes and it now very stable (any server crashes tend to be our fault for meddling rather than random crashes).The code behind avatar deghosting has been optimized. Bingo, poker and blackjack have been completely rewritten and we will continue rewriting the other games in the coming year. We plan to move up from Unity 5.1 to Unity 5.5 shortly which we believe will allow us to deghost more quickly among other improvements.

Menu UI is pretty much done. We're working on a revised New User Experience for newly arriving players which hopefully will guide them into the game more gently and keep them staying around longer.

We've planned out 10 new slot machines, the first of which is Treasure Trap. The next one should be released over the next week or two. We hope to be releasing a new one every quarter from now on. The next one -- "Slots in Space" -- has a much more elaborate bonus structure which should be lots of fun.

The good news if that we just brought on a new back-end programmer and we have another programmer whose efforts will be directed at Four Kings starting next month. We''re also about to hire another artist. The back-end programmer will lead to longer-term new features such as potentially furniture in apartments, clubs and seamless reconnect on internet drop-out (not that these are necessarily the next items on his to-do list) as well as more stability and internal tools to manage our infrastructure. The other programmer will likely help with other fun new things to do in the casino itself, and possibly your horse racing or pachinko in the medium term.

The three other programmers include myself (working on the new user experience and then rewriting the existing games), the slot machine programmer and the otimizing programmer (Unity 5.5, new platforms).

The most likely new non-slots game will probably a cash poker game (not real cash, just not tournament style). As we may have mentioned before we have a three year road-map of new features and games. We continue to juggle the priorities based on the resources we have and what we feel are the most important additions.

So we have not forgotten, just very busy making the casino better in other ways.

[Rager]

Thank you! I look forward to the changes, and most of the people who I get to try test slots first anyway, So the focus on slots is a very good thing. The wild and crazy bonus that slots give make them addicting I feel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wDZ_UOcP6U&t=3s

One of my fav gambler youtubers, and he shows many of the crazy bonus that slots have.He talks alot about progressive slots and other cool things. I look forward to watching you guys grow, and hope some of this feedback is helpful.

[Tatsuya Hiroki]

Originally posted by DL_David:

Thanks for the nudge :)

We have lots on the go, as we always do, however horse racing and pachinko are not on the near term to-do list (although they do remain on the list).

Over the past year our focuses have been:
1) Stability / Improving the underlying core technology
2) Updated UI
3) Slot machines

Stability has been much improved (as hopefully you've noticed). The server back-end has had many fixes and it now very stable (any server crashes tend to be our fault for meddling rather than random crashes).The code behind avatar deghosting has been optimized. Bingo, poker and blackjack have been completely rewritten and we will continue rewriting the other games in the coming year. We plan to move up from Unity 5.1 to Unity 5.5 shortly which we believe will allow us to deghost more quickly among other improvements.

Menu UI is pretty much done. We're working on a revised New User Experience for newly arriving players which hopefully will guide them into the game more gently and keep them staying around longer.

We've planned out 10 new slot machines, the first of which is Treasure Trap. The next one should be released over the next week or two. We hope to be releasing a new one every quarter from now on. The next one -- "Slots in Space" -- has a much more elaborate bonus structure which should be lots of fun.

The good news if that we just brought on a new back-end programmer and we have another programmer whose efforts will be directed at Four Kings starting next month. We''re also about to hire another artist. The back-end programmer will lead to longer-term new features such as potentially furniture in apartments, clubs and seamless reconnect on internet drop-out (not that these are necessarily the next items on his to-do list) as well as more stability and internal tools to manage our infrastructure. The other programmer will likely help with other fun new things to do in the casino itself, and possibly your horse racing or pachinko in the medium term.

The three other programmers include myself (working on the new user experience and then rewriting the existing games), the slot machine programmer and the otimizing programmer (Unity 5.5, new platforms).

The most likely new non-slots game will probably a cash poker game (not real cash, just not tournament style). As we may have mentioned before we have a three year road-map of new features and games. We continue to juggle the priorities based on the resources we have and what we feel are the most important additions.

So we have not forgotten, just very busy making the casino better in other ways.

quick question: would moving to a new version of unity would help with current performance issues?

[DL_Courtney]

Originally posted by Tatsuya Hiroki:

quick question: would moving to a new version of unity would help with current performance issues?

The Unity 5.5 notes list a range of improvements, including several that should help graphics performance. How much, though, we won't know for sure until we really get into it and do some heavier testing.