Suggestion: Add news to main lobby

[GrantBartlett]

• Client fetches against a configurable json endpoint for news. Something like:

[
    {
        "id": 1,
        "title": "Tournament title",
        "shortDescription": "Short description about the tournament",
        "url": "<url>",
        "category": "Tournament",
        "date": "<timestamp>",
        "thumbnailUrl": "<full_path_to_image_thumb>"
    },
    {
        "id": 2,
        "title": "Another news title",
        "shortDescription": "News short description",
        "url": "",
        "category": "Community",
        "date": "<timestamp>",
        "thumbnailUrl": "<full_path_to_image_thumb>"
    }
]

Rough mockup of how it might render/look

[Metadorius]

Immediate problem: players not playing multiplayer are exempt from viewing the news.

[GrantBartlett]

problem: players not playing multiplayer are exempt from viewing the news.

Perhaps its just one of many places news can appear. That main lobby space is a wasted space, would be good to utilise it.

[GrantBartlett]

Another idea, on client launch it fetches the news and shows it in a popup window, similar to Steam. Example attached