Advanced Duel Shell: Alpha Phase (ENG)

If you follow my Facebook page, you would have surely read the time when the Advanced Duel Shell will be shown to the world: the 1st of April the open alpha will be available, while the pre-alpha will be open for those who attend the Ludus Championship Series: Return of the Duelists torunament on the 5th of march, if pre-registered.

Finished Product

As you already know, the Shell is a manual simulator with lots of ambitious goals, but which of those will be ready when the open alpha will be available? Here you have a list, in which is written what will be in it, what could be in it and what won’t surely be in it (if you want something in particular, pay me a salary)

WHAT WILL BE PRESENT IN THE ALPHA

• Possibility to play a complete unranked Match or a Single Duel, with the possibility to choose
  
  between some different Lists of the Forbidden & Limited cards, OCG or TCG cards, and obviously your opponent 
• Create and edit your own deck, with the possibility of exporting it in Konami list format for a tournament and export and import on file to transfer it to another user. 
• Profile editing, Avatar and Sleeves choice between the available ones and for some users, customized ones.
• Graphic edit of your own client via CSS file 
• Use of custom cards artworks not hosted by me 
• BUGS. LOT OF BUGS. And I’m sure you will help me resolve them :^).

WHAT COULD POSSIBILY BE PRESENT IN THE ALPHA (If I have time and will)

• Ranked Duels and Matches powered by the League System
• Internal Private Messages system
• Public Chat implemented using Discord
• Teams (with their logo shown during Duels)
• Judge System like the DN’s one (Admin-based)
• Watcher mode
• Replay download at the end of the Matches/Duels
• Even more bugs!!!!!! Don’t bother me, I warned you already.

WHAT WILL NOT BE IN THE ALPHA, BUT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED.

• Organize and play a tournament without the needs of Challonge or the KTS  
• Feudal Competitive Championship
• Additional features through donation.
• Duel invitations
• Draft or Sealed Pack Tournaments
• Tag Dueling
• Others Duel Formats (Boss Duel, Twitch plays Yugioh, etc.etc.)
• Client open sourcing

WHAT WILL NEVER BE IN THE SHELL

• Adventure Mode. I don’t feel anymore the need to take care of it, since Konami made it well with Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links (if you haven’t tryed it out already, do it). Good job Konami.
• Automatic mode. The Shell is not a YGOPRO. I have no intention to use other people’s code. If you want something automatic, you have where to choose.
• Checkmate server: data structures of the YGOPROs are too much different from the ones of the Shell. I have no intention to adapt them.
• Images, artworks and/or CSS files hosting. I have no money to spend in web hosting or bandwidth, and I don’t want to be exposed more than this to a C&D from NAS/Konami/others. Sure someone will offer you the web-space you need ^_^
• Internal public chat

This should be all. Be ready for the 1st of April, since the number of simultaneous connected users during the alpha will be limited.

One last note: lots of people are contacting me via MP to know how to support economically the project. I don’t ask for money, I never will. Nothing of what I’m doing is done to earn money. But if you really want to offer me a coffee or a evening in a pub, you can use this link: http://www.paypal.me/francexi
Anyway, remember that whoever will donate something will only obtain my thanks.

Stay tuned for more updates

Francesco “Francexi” Petronella

Thanks to Mariantonietta "Desmonia" Direnzo for the translation