7/28 Game Updates and Improvements

Hey Pogoians! 

Our team has been working hard on improving games for you, and we’ve got a big batch of updates and bug fixes for four Pogo favorites.

Thanks to everyone in the community who has helped out with bug reports and game feedback. We value all of your feedback, and do our best to investigate every issue reported.

As of July 28, we have updated Canasta HD, Claire Hart: Secret in the Shadows, Snowbird Solitaire and Spades HD with the following improvements:

CanastaHD

• Optimized overall game performance
• Improved audio
• Updated the loading bar to be themed correctly to the game.
• Locked the game to landscape view when playing on mobile devices
• Buttons and menus no longer delay when tapping on them.
• Scroll boxes do not require the player to tap and hold on the scroll bar.
• Improved scroll input in Find and Create Table menus.
• Added Joker Meld icon to wild cards.
• Added Report button to table chat to report abusive players.
• Improved colors for the names in Table Chat to make it easier to distinguish between players.
• Added a Fast Animation option that can be turned on and off from inside the Settings menu while playing a game.
• Slowed down the Melding Out animation.
• Improved color blindness/contrast on UI elements.
• Improved color of Meld boxes.
• Added an in-game option to turn off point values.
• Improved Skill Rating as it was not updated correctly for players during game play.
• Fixed an issue where “Create a Table” settings were being reflected in Play Robots mode.
• Fixed an issue where lengthy names are covering the Rating Section.
• Fixed an issue where Music and SFX were disabled by default for new users.
• Fixed an issue where bot names are not visible in "Play bots" mode.
• Fixed an issue where wild cards were covered up when the player got too many cards.

Claire Hart: Secret in the Shadows

• Optimized art and audio to address performance issues.
• Added the ability to pinch zoom and pan around scenes on mobile/touch devices.
• Improved controls to prevent miss-taps on touch devices.
• Locked the gameplay to landscape view on mobile devices.
• Game timer now pauses when the player changes to a different window or tab
• Improved the game text for mobile readability.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing the game from running in full screen when the button is activated.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing sparkles from being observed on the object names.
• Fixed an issue where players were getting stuck in Case 15.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the game to freeze when the player tapped/clicked "Skip" after multi-clicking the left mouse in full screen mode.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing dialogue from being skipped when clicking on the background behind characters that appear on screen.
• Fixed an issue where the game was freezing.
• Fixed an issue where the game’s intro music did not respond to the volume being lowered.
• Fixed an issue where text would overlap the “items found” count.
• Fixed an issue with blurry power-up icon art.
• Fixed an issue when the Hint power-up’s green circle was not properly covering the object.
• Fixed an issue in Case 26: Episode 1 where the player was unable to complete scene 1 after finding all objects.
• Fixed an issue where a blank screen was appearing when players were refreshing the page on the loading screen.
• Fixed an issue in Case 21: Episode 7 where the Hint power-up was not correctly working for the “Torch” object.
• Fixed an issue in Case 21: Episode 8 where only 49 of the 50 objects were visible.
• Fixed an issue where music from the previous scenes would play in the next scene if the user skipped ahead in dialogue.

Snowbird Solitaire

• Optimized art and audio to address performance issues.
• Improved controls to prevent miss-taps on touch devices.
• Updated the Settings menu
• Add the Pogo splash screen when the game launches.
• Fixed an issue where the volume slider did not return to full volume if manually slid to mute and then the box is ticked.
• Fixed an issue where the background music in the game page was not audible when the user plays for the first time.
• Fixed some text alignment issues.
• Fixed an issue where the level objective and Extra cards are overlapping while resizing the browser.
• Fixed an issue where the player was unable to place or move an item during the tutorial.

Spades HD

• Improved overall performance for the How To Play menu as it was causing slowdowns when being used.
• Improve Skill Rating as it was not updated correctly for players during game play.

Thanks again to everyone in the community! We’ve got more game updates and improvements on the way.

-Your Friends at Pogo