08/03/2020
Some screenshots and details about Arena. Currently, Arena has 24 questions per round (12 from the player and 12 from an opponent), the questions and answers are exactly the same for both. You don't have to wait for your opponent to finish the round (if he/she is slow) and you can start a new Arena game right away and check the result later. My vision of the Arena leaderboard is a combination of Arena Leagues and Rankings. Every player will have a badge of his League next to his name with a number of his position in the League on it. Every League will have separated rankings, so you can check your position in your League. Players on top positions of their League will be promoted to higher League and vice versa. This way you can be in the Ranking list in the top 500 in Math game and being in "Master" League and in the top 2500 in Animal Kingdom game and being in "Silver" League. There will be "seasons", most likely weekly and after the season ends, top players will have their name written in "History" and players will be either promoted, demoted or stay in their League (maybe it will be possible to be promoted/demoted during season). I expect "Wooden" and "Stone" Leagues being only for beginners - once you get to "Iron", you can't get any lower. And also I expect the "Legend" League will be only for a tiny percentage of players and after season the League will reset and all players from "Legend" will get back to "Grandmaster". It will keep top players motivated to get back to "Legend" every season. The system (matchmaking) will always try to find opponent as close as possible to you but I can imagine in case of low count of players searching for Arena (especially during night/morning times), the system will pair you with much higher/lower League players (beating higher League player will yield better position/rank and vice versa). After every season, your League will be written to your profile, so other players will be able to see your success in the Arena, for example, somebody can be "10xLegend", "15xGrandMaster", "25xMaster" and so on. There could be some kind of "Arena Hall of Fame" with all-time best Arena players. It will also be possible to play Arena separately against your friends (or maybe challenge any player who is willing to accept the challenge?) and also some kind of Tournaments (BO5) where players will have, for example, one duel a day and every player can play his 5 games anytime during the day - after both players finish their games, the result will be published. I am also thinking about the possibility for players to create their custom private (or public) Tournaments with custom prizes - for example, one would have to pay with Lives in order to enter the Tournament and Winner/Winners will get their share of Lives from the prize pool, what do you think? Should Lives be here as a currency or would it be better to make new item "coins", "Arena coins", "Gems", "Diamonds" with the possibility to exchange them into Lives/Treasures/Hints/Puzzles (to make them valuable)? It is my current vision of Arena, anything can change during development, maybe I will get (or you can help me to get) a better idea. Any suggestion/feedback is highly appreciated. Thank you for reading and supporting me by playing my games =).
TL;DR: The Arena will be awesome 😁
