I would love some more stack styles. I have three suggestions in particular:
• I would love a parameter for making the pieces more elliptical (short in the stacking direction). I like that there is a parameter for stacking tighter, but I feel like I need to also make that top piece look more «sideways-on» to save some space.
Edit: I didn’t explain this fully. I don’t want single pieces (1-stacks) to look scewed. I want the top-piece to be scewed more as the stack grows. The parameter would set by how much it is scewed per added piece.
• I would like a MindSports-like representation where they show the top piece, and on that piece there is a field with a column of colored numbers. They represent how many pieces of that color are bunched together.
• I have never seen the following, but it might be my favorite representation: Segmented consentric cirlce areas. The outer ring is the top pieces, and all bunched-together same-colored pieces follow clockwize from 12 o’clock. When there is a new color there is a new ring. I have attached a mock-up of a stack of size 10 where the top 3 pieces are grey, then comes two white pieces, then five grey at the bottom. The numbers in the one image is not a suggestion for representation, but only to show you what I mean about the order of pieces. This style will have to override the piece-image chosen. So it’s a bit different.
The point of this is to have a way of representing the composition of stacks in games where this matters, and in a way that doesn’t take up too much space.
• I would love a parameter for making the pieces more elliptical (short in the stacking direction). I like that there is a parameter for stacking tighter, but I feel like I need to also make that top piece look more «sideways-on» to save some space.
Edit: I didn’t explain this fully. I don’t want single pieces (1-stacks) to look scewed. I want the top-piece to be scewed more as the stack grows. The parameter would set by how much it is scewed per added piece.
• I would like a MindSports-like representation where they show the top piece, and on that piece there is a field with a column of colored numbers. They represent how many pieces of that color are bunched together.
• I have never seen the following, but it might be my favorite representation: Segmented consentric cirlce areas. The outer ring is the top pieces, and all bunched-together same-colored pieces follow clockwize from 12 o’clock. When there is a new color there is a new ring. I have attached a mock-up of a stack of size 10 where the top 3 pieces are grey, then comes two white pieces, then five grey at the bottom. The numbers in the one image is not a suggestion for representation, but only to show you what I mean about the order of pieces. This style will have to override the piece-image chosen. So it’s a bit different.
The point of this is to have a way of representing the composition of stacks in games where this matters, and in a way that doesn’t take up too much space.