Confetti Everywhere, On Purpose

Nearly every page across the club has a small handful of confetti pieces drifting somewhere quietly in the background, and that was always a deliberate choice rather than some default setting I simply forgot to switch off before launch. The whole point of building this place was that it should feel like an actual party happening somewhere nearby, not a spreadsheet with a handful of games loosely attached to the side of it.

The genuinely hard part of all this was restraint. An early version of the site had confetti falling constantly across the entire screen at all times, and within about thirty seconds of watching it, the effect stopped looking festive and started looking like a screen that badly needed fixing by somebody. Too much of even a genuinely good decoration very quickly turns into nothing more than distracting noise.

So now the confetti is deliberately limited to a small handful of pieces, mostly kept close to the edges of the screen, and it slows right down or stops moving entirely if your browser tells the site that you prefer reduced motion in general. Nobody visiting this club should ever feel remotely seasick just trying to sit down and play a quiet hand of cards.

I also made absolutely sure the confetti never once drifts over any button or any piece of important text, because decoration that gets in the way of people actually playing the games on offer has failed at the one job it was ever given. Looking pretty is only genuinely useful if it knows to stay out of everybody's way while they are trying to play.

If you happen to have motion sensitivity settings switched on and the confetti still shows up regardless for you, please do let me know about it, because that behavior is meant to be handled completely automatically behind the scenes, and I would much rather fix it properly than have anyone quietly grit their teeth through a visual effect that was only ever meant to be a nice small touch.