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.
愚人節︰ BGA 的 Logo︰ 返璞歸真
更新:愚人節快樂!
當然這是個玩笑,除了一件事,那就是我們在乎儘管功能和介面欠佳,卻依然熱愛我們網站的您。
但要使這項服務持續並且茁壯,我們也需要那些因為細節不夠細緻而還沒加入我們的玩家。所以我們同時必須重視視覺的美感。
要滿足所有玩家是一項挑戰,但我們依然樂此不疲。
去年夏天,我們用新的 Logo 和顏色改變了 BGA 的視覺效果。
然而,因為懷舊和其他在下方說明的原因,我們決定改回並恢復我們以前的 Logo 和顏色。
最主要的原因是: 這個服務的創辦者 Een 和我都是工程師,我們都幾乎沒有藝術感。
製作 "好看" 的東西、"漂亮" 的顏色、"和諧的視覺效果",所有的這些,
都不是我們所擅長的。
當我們開始創辦這個網站時,我們直接地著重關鍵的部分︰效率。
需要顯示額外的統計結果?
我們這樣做︰ 將這個按鈕往左移動一些,將這個元素稍微向右移動,並將新狀態放在中間。
需要一個新的進階選項?
沒問題,我們新增進階選項,並順便添加其他兩個選項。
所以,是的,結果看起來像太空梭駕駛艙,但畢竟 我們是桌遊玩家,我們喜歡給自己挑戰!
所以,是的,他們可能有很好的理由,讓這個網站更 "易於使用",有 "更多的使用者",但誠實地說︰ 我們只在乎你,已經在這裡的你,和一直以來都在這裡的你。
你不在乎 "原始" 的介面,你不害怕介面有很多的選項。
而且,順帶一提,我們已經有將近 800,000 的 BGA 註冊使用者,這已經夠好了。
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因此,在不久的將來,我們將撤銷這幾年來的部分更動。
你將看到更多的按鈕,更多的選項,更多的指示...
而且你不需要點擊,就能顯示它們。
在行動裝置上,你只需要放大一些就能看清楚介面 (在 800% 的放大尺度上,什麼東西都會非常清楚)。
所以,是的,這個網站可能比現在更複雜一些,但我們已經在編寫 PDF 文件,裡面會介紹以上所有的這些是如何運作的。
就像 BGA 的遊戲規則一樣,
簡單且有效率。
當然,新舊 Logo 的交替,代表這個改變所象徵的第一步。
在接下來的幾週,你會看到其他的變化,我們希望,這會讓你在 BGA 網站上,更熱愛桌遊,單純桌遊,沒有視覺花俏的東西 — — 畢竟,為什麼不在文字模式下玩桌遊呢?
團隊敬上。
