Link 5

Devlog

• name change - Link 5
  February 16, 2021 by mecdos

  New name! let me know what you think connect-them-5 was a placeholder and the logo looked a bit ugly. This is more inline with the graphics in game and my initial art direction, the old one looked a b... Continue reading

  
• I Made A Big Mistake
  January 11, 2021 by mecdos#fix, #index.html

  The game when loaded, automatically started off in the Board Only mode with no way of starting an actual game, and no button to go back to a regular game. It has been like that for a long time and I d... Continue reading
• Quick Fix - and peek a boo
  June 20, 2020 by mecdos

  I made an error in the last update for quick mode. When 2 of the same cards were played, the third of the same card could no longer be played because I only accounted for 2 decks of cards. This has b... Continue reading

  
• Quick Gameplay Mode
  June 14, 2020 by mecdos

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  I've added a new Quick Gameplay mode (faster game not guaranteed). This mode adds a third deck of cards but removes cards 7-10. Which allows for 3 playable spots on the board to play each card, allowi... Continue reading

  
• 50% More Spanish
  June 10, 2020 by mecdos

  I've added full translations in Spanish It may not seem like a lot but there is a lot of text scattered all over the place and everything except for the Rules page is generated with JS. So I made a si... Continue reading
• Who Won? Now We Know!
  May 19, 2020 by mecdos#win screen, #sequence

  and how! (update: just found out today there was a major bug in detecting Wins with the corner piece diagonally - i'm working to fix it) We now have a Winner display… and a Connect 5 display. When a... Continue reading

  
• New Discord Server
  May 18, 2020 by mecdos

  Created a new discord server with Connect Them 5 channel to find players, report bugs etc. The invite to the server can be found on the Help Page by clicking on the "?" There were also other improveme... Continue reading
• Give Me A Minute - or 2.5 seconds
  April 13, 2020 by mecdos

  When playing with some friends some people became obsessed with making the previous player miss their chance at drawing a new card leaving them with very few cards and very very upset. So in this upda... Continue reading

  
• Chatup!
  April 07, 2020 by mecdos#chat

  Now there is in game chat! It is limited by design. Basically there can only be 1 line of chat at a time and it vanishes after a few seconds. So it's kinda like playing in person, if you missed the co... Continue reading

  
• It's a match - kinda
  April 04, 2020 by mecdos

  I've added a very experimental Match Making feature. It is uber bare bones and untested - I appreciate any feedback I can get on this. Basically after you enter a nickname you are now presented with 3... Continue reading

  
• Quicker is Better
  April 01, 2020 by mecdos

  Just a small update: I added a Quick Link button. This just copies a direct link to your clipboard for the game session you created. Share this link with other players so they can join your game faste... Continue reading
• Board Layout Reshuffled
  March 30, 2020 by mecdos#new layout, #shortnames

  I changed the configuration of the game board and here is why. When playing the game with family, I noticed that most of the chips were being placed on one half of the board. It became obvious why whe... Continue reading
• Now with 90% more Español
  March 25, 2020 by mecdos#spanish

  Hola, Acabo de agregar un Update con reglas en Español. Cuando abras el juego as click al "?" y después al button que dice "< Español >" Por favor avisar si me equivoque en algo. - I would also l... Continue reading
• Update - Local Play
  March 24, 2020 by mecdos

  I've updated the game to include just the Board and Chips for local play. You'll need 2 standard decks of cards for this mode minus the Jokers. Read the Setup instructions, deal the cards and use th... Continue reading
• New Game
  June 24, 2019 by mecdos#sequence, #launch

  This is my first game on Itch.io and also my first completed game ever. I made it for the purpose of learning realtime network multiplayer, in this game I used PubHub as the backend... Continue reading