After 9 months of the launch of Trucacho on Facebook, we analyze the results, our successes, mistakes and the future.

For those unfamiliar with the game, tell them that Trucacho popular game is the trick to play on the net from Facebook . The game we developed and is one of the first Argentine games on Facebook. It is also one of the first social network that allows real-time play with others.

Criticism, hatred and claims.

The game was well received in the community, but of course we were also criticized for a lower percentage. Paradoxically, the book marketing and project management make it clear that these people are those who most need to hear . The main criticism is that we make "the game goes slow." We optimize the code as we could and saw changes. But the main disadvantage we have is that the game is installed on a shared server (ie it is not dedicated). Another of the complaints we have is that the game does not have the parakeet parakeets and make turns to eeee ¿? and that??? haha ... if you do not understand is that Argentina are talking about, as happened to us. I will explain: it turns out to launch the game we found that our Venezuelan brothers fans are also arduous trick. The truth was totally unaware of it!, Ie, we knew that was played in Uruguay in different ways and also played in Paraguay and Chile and until there is a Brazilian variation of the trick played with pocker cards. But we had no idea that was played in Venezuela. Well and it seems that while coming to play much, for them the rule of "Vira" is very important. Other things we ask is to play and play with 6 Flor.

Improvements

Since the launch we were making changes in the game to be better. As you say the books, listen to our audience that today has more than 23 000 members, and fix bugs, bugs in calculating the raise and improve access to speed, add chat for players to meet and to add sound!. The sound has 3 tracks: one for the background music, effects and voices. He improved somewhat artificial intelligence, though still missing-and added game mode to 4 (which was very welcome!). Timers were added to accelerate lazy players. And we also added the ability to play with guests, that means you do not need to be registered on Facebook to play, but also as a guest you can access from www.trucacho.com but your score will not build or participate in the rankings.

Future

We already have improvements in the ranking, which currently builds all "in the same bag" both playing against the compu as against other humans. We also want to add the logic to play with flower and 6 people but certainly nullify the "pica-pica" as it is going to become very complicated. We are adding Facebook dissemination methods to increase the viral spread of the game, including the publication in the Wall of users and notifications. For the speed issue we have a "trump card" which is a cache system for PHP that have not incorporated and that could substantially improve performance. And finally to our friends and enemies of Venezuela we will add a game mode with "Vira".

Known Bugs!

I wanted to comment on a bug that sometimes occurs and which desonocemos cause we do not know if you have to do with the Facebook API or what, but several were given an error similar to this: Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException'. The solution we suggest is to uninstall the Trucacho your profile and then reinstall it ( add application ). In all cases, the solution worked.

Finally ...

Of course we thank all our users around the world and all the support you give us when we write and send suggestions. That gives us and gives us great encouragement to keep batteries (do not forget that we do between two people who work, study, family !!!).

Greetings to all and invite you to continue playing and participating!

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