Thanks for the link and suggestions. I already intend to make improvements to some of the things you've mentioned - notably the size of buildings. (I don't like them as small as in the other implementation you've linked to, and would rather they overlapped a little, but agree the current ones are a bit too big.)

The click to toggle which player board you can see is very nice, but I'm not sure how I can do anything like that while keeping the "look and feel" of a BGA game. I could certainly put on some links to make scrolling easier (eg "scroll to this player's board" in the player panel). Or perhaps even bring it up in a dialog. I would welcome suggestions, if you have any!

Finally, I disagree that "it fits all vital information in 1 screen without any need for scrolling". If you have a wide screen that's probably true, but on my smallish laptop I have to scroll horizontally, which for me (and I think for most) is much more inconvenient than scrolling vertically. And on mobile it's obviously going to get a lot worse. (Tried shrinking my browser window to see if BAJ does anything special, but it appears that you just have to scroll even further horizontally. Even if you think that's better than vertical scrolling, the way BGA implements sizing for mobile is going to make it very hard to implement.)

As far as I understand it - and I've played quite a few games on BGA - this format of the "shared board" at the top and individual player areas below is a "standard" on BGA and I wouldn't really want to change it. I don't think I've seen any game where there is a main "player area" (as opposed to the player panels) to one side of the map/board.

That's NOT to say that I'm not looking to improve things. I've had a few other comments about the amount of scrolling and am working on reducing the gap between the map and the player boards (which I have noticed is particularly far-too-big on the standard 2-player map). And the interface will already put player boards side by side if the screen is wide enough, which will mean you don't have to go quite so far down to see all the boards - I'll see if I can do anything to make that more likely to happen.

Thank you again for the suggestions. I will look to see what I can do and get back to you. But unfortunately I don't think I can make dramatic changes to the overall layout. Please let me know if you have any specific suggestions!

H @kansai,

Thanks for your comments.

As you note, the vertical gap that is there may look too big at the start of the game but it's there to accommodate having 5 cards stacked in a column - trust me that if it's made much smaller then a column of 5 overlaps things above it in unpleasant ways.

While I take your point about making the cards overlap more, I prefer not to do it this way for a few reasons. The main one is aesthetic - the temple column is offset below each of the others, and this is by an amount that corresponds to the size taken up by the card text as well as the iconography. I've just checked this with my physical copy of the game and can confirm that this is the case there too - if the cards overlapped so as to only leave the iconography showing, then either the bottom cards of each other column would overlap the player board, or that bottom temple card would be a lot further below the next card than the other gaps, which would look strange.

Finally, note that there is a user preference option (from the menu at the top-right) to place your hand below your tableau instead of above it. That might be more to your preference, since it means you can see your hand and the bottom cards in your tableau closer together? (The downside of course is that there's a bigger gap between your hand and the map - assuming your screen isn't large enough for them to appear side by side.)