This rainy weekend I started a small project to get some new feelings of success with GS.
So I started with this mahjongg-clone:
(click the image for the final & free version[5MB,zip])


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Solid as rock, but quite lagging on my system.

"but quite lagging on my system" - puhhh - that's the GS-shadow.
At the end there necessarily will be an option to switch it off (or I try just to activate shadows for the right & lower & topmost entites - maybe it performes)...

[edit] - now shadow-optimized

You could use the faster shadow of the Pro Version, additionally.

This unfortunately produces artefacts and speed is not improved in the end.


The "border-shadow" method will do it I think... (could you check the current version? - link in first post)

Uh, mean effect!
I'll try the new version.

Much better performance now.
But some shadows are noticeably missing:

Quite nice mahjong clone, in fact too much for me as I didn't pass it

The first version lagged as mentioned quite much ( avg 22 fps on my computer) wheras the newer version had avg of 60 fps. Does this really need shadows anyway? When this' a simple board game shadows are secondary thing in my opinion, but it's your call. One thing too I missed was right-click for de-select. It's nothing major but would help me (atleast) playing when I tend to click here and there all the time I play.

Think that's all, scored 100400 or so.

I'm glad about smooth running now.
I'll check the shadow-workarround for missing shadows.
The deSelect-rightclick will definitly implemented - good idea.

Next steps are also: some predefined tilesets and some new tile layouts.

It's very stable and smooth, but the FPS drops sometimes.