Clucky Clicker, Family Tree and Wheel of Hue

Announcement #14 by circlejourney • 6 September 2024

Clucky Clicker, Family Tree and Wheel of Hue

Three requested features have been added!

  • Chicken family trees. Find the link under each chicken's Status menu. This might be useful for checking if two chickens can be bred, or just for fun. Happy to gather feedback about the layout and order of info (I am thinking of moving niblings and piblings (lmao) to the bottom).
  • Clucky Clicker. This is a game designed for grinding seed (which can be traded for eggs) when you really need them. The seed gain rate is slow on purpose so that people can't easily make massive fortunes off of it, but you can earn up to 5k seed (= 500 eggs) a day there...if you're really patient.
  • Wheel of Hue lottery! This can be seen on the front page. I spent a long time thinking about how to implement an interesting lottery system that wasn't simply generating random numbers, and settled on a sort of "spin the wheel" concept with colours + closest guesses winning. I might revise this in the future based on how it scales with more users. And of course, do report any bugs to me.

Other recent changes (lots of QOL and management stuff):

  • Added comments to announcements, as you can see below.
  • Added ability to hide/unhide comments on your profiles, and to edit your comments.
  • Under the hood, all pings are now attached to users' IDs instead of their names. When you change your name, all pings directed at you up to that point should update to your new name too. It shouldn't behave any different for you (and if it does, that's a bug - let me know).
  • You can now search names in the Search feature.
  • Added pages for viewing your created threads and subscribed threads.
  • Added splicer logs for individual chickens - from this point, they will track when any splicers are used on them. Find it on your chicken's status menu.
  • You can now view your username log. There is now also a 1-month cooldown on changing your username.
  • Added a Manage blocked users page.
  • You can now export Chick Peek previews to Chickrew (suggested by @Neotheatre, thank you!)
  • Added a mailing list form to our register page so that we can announce new slots to subscribers.

I think that's that. The base site is ready, minus any debugging for the newest features (particularly family trees and wheel of hue). See you on 15 September!

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