Advanced Duel Shell: F.A.Q. (English)

Because of the indefatigable spam that has been done recently, most of you have been come in knowledge of the Advanced Duel Shell, the web-application that I'm developing since a year.

What are we talking about

Although all the available information can be found sifting our Facebook page (you should seriously like that) and to this link, I decided to summarize the F.A.Q., so I can wash my hands and boorishly link this post anytime someone bothers me (You know I love you all <3). I will make a video with this questions english subbed for who lives in the glorious 'Murica (and in other Countries. But, actually, who gives a single fuck about them).

I make the questions here!

Q: What is the Advanced Duel Shell?

do not joke about this things

The Advanced Duel Shell (ADS) is a copycat of the defunct Dueling Network. I started working on it almost a year ago as a training for my university (I attend the Computer Engineering faculty at the Politecnico of Turin). In my intentions, it should have corrected lot of deficency of DN, like the chat without stressed characters (God damn how frustrating), Flash Player dependence, missing native compatibility with mobile devices and the perceived slowness of the Judge Calls queue. In addition to that, I wanted to add some really kool thing!!11!1!, about which I will talk in the following questions. Because of the death of DN, I started the work again, in order to give the community a new decent simulator. The abbreviation ADS is not a reference to the disease. Stop it. Seriously.

Q: Link?
No. I will say it only one time. The ADS fully in the developing phase and is not usable in any way.

Q: When will it be available?

beh, spero di non metterci effettivamente così tanto

I can't give you certain deadlines, since I'm doing this pro bono, with no intention of profit. Probably I will complete the core this winter. I want anyway to wait for Konami to release its simulator announced for the end of this year. It will have no sense to publish an alternative if it results valid. I would only risk to be shutted down by a copyright strike. You could give some glimpse in the future circuit's tournament and if some cons want me to place a table with two computer to make peopole try the game.
Anyway, the first game made with the simulator will be streamed on Twitch. Stay tuned to know when.

Q: Will it be automatic like YGOPRO/DEVPRO?
No. As I wrote before the ADS is a DN copycat. All the moves will have to be done by the players. However, it will be more difficult to play dirty.


Q: Why do you say it will be more difficult to play dirty?

a torment of the hell exists for these people

First of all, there will be more actions available. E.g. the buttons Activate e Declare Chain, useful to make clear which effects are activate and in which order, instead of the generic "eff", always prone to miscommunications. It will be possible to target multiple cards at once, even the owned ones, link an equip or a continuos (like Fiendish Chain) to another card, change the current value of ATK, DEF and Level/Rank and set counters, in order to keep track of all it has to be remembered (and the policies let to be written down).
There will be a temporary zone, where to put cards when, for example, revealing of Pot of Duality or choosing what to send to the Graveyard because of Kozmo Tincan.
There won't be anymore ''not easily'' playable card (e.g. Convulsion of Nature). All cards will have their way to be correctly played, without trickeries or strange procedures.

Don't be a dick, enter the contest

Q: Can I help you? Can I beta test?
First question: yes, but in the ways I'm going to explain below. Second question: no. No. And NO. Beta testing tickets has been given as prize in some circuit events. Probably I will give some others away as a prize, but I will make sure to NOT give them to someone that asks to beta test, without gaining that role. About the help, I prefer doing the developing alone. Nevertheless you can support me advertising the project, and, if you are a videomaker, making some funny video or trailer on Youtube or on you Facebook Page. You can also enter the avatar creation contest you can find on the Facebook Page La terza gamba di Exodia.

Behave like this and I will be the one to kick you in the ass

Q: Will be there a Judge system?
Yes. Probably similar to the one in DN. But, to make lesser the number of Admin Calls, along with the card text, there will be a tab with card rulings, included some commonly used, that could be added by the Senior Staff (since Konami stopped releasing official ruling in 2011). It should be not anymore needed to take a coffee to pass the time, each time you and your opponent disagree.


Q: How will the Ranked Queue be structured?
The argument is discussed in depth in the link at the start of the post (in italian).
In short, players will be divided in 4 leagues like the well known MOBA League of Legends. This will permit not to totally reset the ranking every banned, and at the start of the season it will be possible to reach again the higher tiers using the placement matches.

Q: In which language the ADS will be?
English. Although, if there will be time and money, I want to localize the ADS in Italian, French, Spanish and German, card text included.

R.I.P.

Q: How will you avoid ending like DN?
I don't know. Better saying, at the moment I'm not sure I won't. Surely I will avoid to include any copyrighted material and the donation system will be less like a "Premium ADS". Right now, I'm waiting for Konami to answer about granting a license. If their answer is positive, I will consider a sponsorship agreement of a crowdfunding in order to pay it. Anyway, to avoid problems, I won't provide the card images (you should use your own custom card images), neither the profile pics will refer to Yu-Gi-Oh!.

Q: How will the donation system work?
Everyone could leave a donation. I'm still meditating on the possibility to give reward to the donators. To know why, see the previous question.

Q: The graphic is awful.
Neither you are that awesome. But at least graphic can be changed. Every user will have the possibility to link their own stylesheet (a CSS file) in order to modify their graphics.

Q: What else is new?
A friend list more user-friendly (I'm very bad with puns), tournament organization, an adventure mode where not all the cards are immediately available (not sure about making this one), possibility to watch a replay and recover matches from which it has been disconnected because of the hated LOST CONNECTION, and possibility to add a vocal comment to the tournament matches for the watchers (that will be "three minutes in the past").

Your tournament will not be like this

Q: Can I organize a tournament with this web application?
Yes, natively. I will discuss it in the future, but at the moment I can say that will be possible to create and attend to tournaments from a lobby. The server will pair the players and register the results

Q: I heard that it will be availble Augmented Reality. It is true?
There is the intention, but the matter will be discussed in the future, after the main game release.

Q: I have other questions. Where can I contact you?
Send a PM to our Facebook page. I will answer as soon as possible ^_^


Very well, now that I wasted 5 minutes of your life, I can only thank you for the attention and greet you. Stay tuned for more updates!

Oh shit waddup!
Francesco Petronella
(translated by my AMAZING girlfriend Mariantonietta Direnzo Desmonia Cosplay )