A lot of players had reported that there is high chance for misclicks, because you don't know whether a button click has registered or not.

0d5f4e1c11Īll action buttons get locked or removed immediately when clicking an action button. The delay after a 'pass' was reduced to 300 ms, which makes the game much quicker and behave more like other card games on BGA. For example each 'no bet' event had such a delay without any benefit. What has changed? (a detailed developer oriented list can be found here: )ĭelays were removed or decreased: Virtually everything that happened came along with an artificial 1 second delay for not good reason. While preparing for that I would love to get some feedback on the changes I made and ideally find some volunteers for testing.

Apparently the original Tichu developers are not active anymore, so I am in the process of 'taking over' and already have an updated Tichu version that will hopefully be rolled out in 1-2 weeks. But I soon realized that playing Tichu on BGA has some quirks, and as a web developer I had an interest in fixing them. Don’t be fooled into thinking this “simple” card game was easy to design Tichu is an impressive feat, pushing the envelope of what experiences can be created from the framework of a traditional deck of cards.I have only recently joined the BGA community, mainly with the purpose of playing Tichu. In an age of modern board gaming where replayability in games is often characterized by endlessly additions of new cards to decks and providing new content to increase the permutations of elements that are used, it is refreshing to see the same depth accomplished by a game that doesn’t utilize any of that expansive approach. That is not an easy feat in design, for sure. It nails that sweet spot of “emergent strategy” where most of the interesting decisions aren’t situations that the designer specifically constructed, but rather they emerge out of the various combinations of the simple rules the designer put into motion. Tichu definitely has numerous little rules and mechanisms that keep it out of the highest tier of elegance, but I still greatly admire what the designer was able to accomplish with what is nearly a traditional deck of cards. This usually means that it achieves a great amount of strategic depth with a disproportionately small number of rules. Often times, people use the word “elegant” to describe a game design.

Tichu board game