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As usually it is morning 04:56(AM), October 4th 2025.

I have missed the news about bot implementation and integration into the "Manually created" games. Although I have notified about it on discord server there was no news published about it.

Bots are implemented. For now only for manually created games. Now when you visit create new game page - you may see that now it has "Add bot" button and counter that reflects quantity of added bots. Every time you click/tap on it it adds one bot to the game. No worries if you add to many bots - there is always going to be a place for you. :)

If you encounter situation when bot is frozen and does not make any actions let me know and please include the UUID in the url or the full URL of the game where it has happened.

And again I just realised that there is no way to see that URL for players who use PWA so I will have to think about how to deal with it. :) But hopefully I tested bots enough to fix all the bugs. These bots are far from being smart, and yet they provide you and your friends with interaction which adds more fun to the game. :)

As usually it is morning 04:29(AM), October 4th 2025.

And for last 2 hours I have worked on implementation of button that would allow to join the game with link when player uses Progressive Web Application while his friend sent him link to manually created game to join to...

Before today - there was no option to join such game from PWA because the only way to join manually created game is to copy the link to the browser's URL field and PWA just does not have such thing. So now there is a button "Join game with link (link should be in your clipboard)" at game-starter page and before you click/tap that button you need to copy the link to the created game to the clipboard. When you click/tap on the button you may have to press "Paste" button that will appear on the screen - it is because browsers have protection mechanism so just ANY web page does not have access to your clipboard at any time. So from my phone it looks like this:

Right now is 01:01 (am) of august 18th 2025, and 5 days ago I have introduced players information to the "Match Finder" page and now this page looks like this.

The part of text which tells you the quantity of players currently watching the "Match finder" page and part which shows you number of players in waiting rooms (zeros in parentheses on the right side of text on buttons) represent real time information that is being updated every five seconds.

Ideally I have to figure out how to attract more people to this game. So if you gave any ideas - let me know. :) Also I would appreciate if you would share and invite your friends to this game so there are actuall people who play it. :)

As a next step I am thinking of adding some error handling logic to account for edge cases when websockets connection to the server breaks. And other little fixes that I was thinking of.

If you are willing to contribute to this project in any way (write code or create art for cards/actions to make this game more appealing) let me know and we will find ways to make it possible. :)

Thank you very much for participation in this project!

It is 00:34 (AM), 11 August 2025. About 1 hour ago I have completed instruction on how to install Progressive Web Application to play iCoup. And it is currently available at this page. PWA allows you to have better experience when you play iCoup from your mobile device. It runs interface in full screen mode on you phone without any browser's control elements. It allows better screen space utilisation on devices with little screens. Enjoy and invite your friends!

It is 05:45 (AM), 7 August 2025, and I have just deployed the last changes that I have worked on for the last 8 days. The matchmaking mechanism is introduced. And now, when you want to play - you may just use the "Match Finder" option, which will match you with other people who would like to play the game. When you go with "Match Finder" - you have to pick how many opponents you would like to play with and click the respective button to join the waiting room for that number of players. You will receive notifications about any other players joining the same waiting room as you are in, and when the waiting room is full (i.e., the required number of players has joined) - every player will have to press the "READY" button, and after every player confirms their readiness - the game will begin, and all players from that waiting room will be automatically redirected to the same game room, which makes the process of entering the game much more comfortable.

Currently, you cannot see how many players are in the waiting rooms at the moment, which would be really helpful in my personal opinion - I will add this capability soon (in the next 2 weeks, I think).

As a next step, I will introduce the "Progressive Web Application" interface, which would allow better use of your phone screen and, as a result, will make the gaming process on your phone more fluent and comfortable, and will level up your gaming experience!

For Match Finder to be actually helpful - we need more players to play on our server, so if you could spread the word about this game and this server - it would be of great help on your side, and also will help you find opponents much easier. :) So please share the word about this game with your friends whom you would like to play this game with.