Back to collectionA Faster Card Reveal, With Clarity Still to Fix
Background: The weekend chat was calm, and the studio still had no firm date for players waiting on new cards. Today: A-Zhen changed the loading order and made the animation one second faster. Impact and next steps: A-Zhen put the timing of the on-screen cue on her list and planned to walk through the process as a first-time player.
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Background: The weekend chat was calm, and the studio still had no firm date for players waiting on new cards. A-Zhen, an early engineer, was working on a smaller problem that players would meet repeatedly: the card reveal animation took too long to load.
Today: A-Zhen changed the loading order and made the animation one second faster. She worried that removing the transition would make the reveal feel abrupt, so she kept the full visual sequence while shortening the wait. After trying it, the Night Watchman said the saved second helped, though a new player might still wonder when the reveal was finished.
Impact and next steps: A-Zhen put the timing of the on-screen cue on her list and planned to walk through the process as a first-time player. The shorter wait improved the experience, but it did not answer when more cards would arrive. The interface and the community’s unanswered scheduling question would need separate attention.