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Look at how Magic does it if you want to see multiple folders inside the parent directory.

For starters "CardImageURLs1.txt" is not a valid URL for CardGeneralURLs: which expects an actual URL of where the images files are located at.

It does generate a debug log for some actions where there's known possible issues. For a blanket crash though, no.

The new version of LackeyCCG, 1.1.5 (September 12 2025), is now available for both Windows and Mac. The game server has already been enabled to allow connections from the new client. This is a forced update due to changes in the networking code, older versions will not be able to connect.

https://www.lackeyccg.com/downloads.html

Fixes and Changes
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Fixed it so that ` and | are no longer blocked from text input and still function as shortcuts when not in a text input state.

Fixed double ratio swap: Ratios were getting swapped when they shouldn't in the function that draws moving cards.

Name Change Fix: Players can now change their name while connected to the game server.

Save/Load Game fix: There were some race conditions with saving and loading game states that resulted in players losing zones or parts of zones. Fixed what I could find of those and added debugging info to help track down other instances.

Visibility for super zones: Adding more careful checking on visibility for super zones

Column Sort Logic: Sorting is now aware of the type of data in columns and does it first numerically and then alphabetically.

DLog Update: DLog() now includes a timestamp in what it writes to the debug log.

You're meant to replace /path/to/lackey.app with where it is on your computer.

In regards to the Mac version problems people are having here is what I've found. I'm not a mac person so this may be off base but what my research shows me is that the Mac adds a quarantine attribute to downloaded files (like the zip archive) to mark it as potentially unsafe. That quarantine attribute gets applied to everything in the archive and it goes through more strict checks. The validation checks are more aggressive. Because the code is unsigned, this is why MacOS is claiming that it's damaged (it isn't). If you manually unzip the archive to a location (open with -> archive utility) and remove the quarantine flags it should work.

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /path/to/lackey.app

The new version of LackeyCCG, 1.1.4 (August 23 2025), is now available for both Windows and Mac. The game server has already been enabled to allow connections from the new client.

https://www.lackeyccg.com/downloads.html

Fixes and Changes:
Spectators were still being considered in some visibility lists when they shouldn't have been.
Made it so the client version is visible in a player's info when clicked on in the game browser's player list.
You can now paste cards into their appropriate super zones if they're separated in the text that's copied to/from the clipboard.
Fixed decks saving and loading cards into the wrong zone.
Fixed library columns not being saved in plugins that didn't have card packs defined.
Fix for crash on MacOS for games going on for lengthy periods of time. Cards can't be both 90 degrees and 270 degrees at the same time.
Zone visibility was not persisting and was getting reset by plugins. Should be fixed now.

The new version of LackeyCCG, 1.1.3 (July 26 2025), is now available for both Windows and Mac. The game server has already been enabled to allow connections from the new client. Old clients will be disabled later tonight since some of the changes require clients to be handling seats the same way at the game table.

https://www.lackeyccg.com/downloads.html

Fixes and Changes:
  Column sizes persist per plugin now.
  Fix to prevent spectators from seeing play zones they shouldn't be able to see.
  LackeyCCG now uses a build version and date. This one is 1.1.3 (July 26 2025)
  Fix to prevent seating from getting messed up should positions change and the host start a new game.

The new verison of LackeyCCG (07-08-25) is now available for Windows and Mac both. The game server will be restarted shortly. Currently allowed clients are the 06-30 client and the 07-08 client.
https://www.lackeyccg.com/downloads.html

Fixes and Changes:

The hardcoded backslash key has been unbound and replaced with a user selectable keybinding to show the card text box when hovering of a card. This was primarily done to allow non-US keyboards the opportunity to bind a common function to whatever key they need on their keyboard. You can find this new bind under Preferences->Key Bindings->Main Menu Functions: Enable Text Box

The windows updater application has been disabled and pointers to it in Lackey have been removed.
Deck sorting by dates in the deck browser has been fixed.

Changes to the build process for MacOS now allows OS versions 10.13 and newer to run Lackey. If your OS is 10.13 or newer and you still can't run LackeyCCG then contact us for further trouble shooting.
Pack images correctly appear again in legacy pack definitions.

Fallback code has been added to pack handling. Plugin maintainers can now use pack images without having to individually define them by simply making the image name the same as the pack name.

In regards to the Mac version problems people are having here is what I've found. I'm not a mac person so this may be off base but what my research shows me is that the Mac adds a quarantine attribute to downloaded files (like the zip archive) to mark it as potentially unsafe. When the zip file is automatically opened (by the download process for example) that quarantine attribute gets applied to everything in the archive and it goes through more strict checks. The validation checks are more aggressive. Because the code is unsigned, this is why MacOS is claiming that it's damaged (it isn't). If you manually unzip the archive to a location (open with -> archive utility) and remove the quarantine flags it should work.

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /path/to/lackey.app

Off hand I don't know. I haven't looked into that bit of the code yet. If the problem can be repeated on multiple plugins then it may be easier to track down. If you're on the discord server with us drop info about the problem into the bug report channel there.

The new version of LackeyCCG (06-30-25) is available now for both Windows and Mac. The game server has been updated. The 2014 version of Lackey is no longer able to connect to the game server. Allowed versions are currently the 06-23 and 06-30 clients.

https://www.lackeyccg.com

Fixes:
Spectator blocking seat: With this there's a slight change in the behavior of being at the table. The max at and around the table is 10 entities. This includes spectators and seated players. I want to introduce a cap for spectators but that will require UI changes that I was unable to make in time for this release.
Add all to deck: This should now properly copy all available cards in the pool to the deck (though there may be some problems still with very large pools).
Column resizing: Column resizing should not be much more reliable and not suddenly jump between columns when dragging.
Column jumping: The selected column should no longer change randomly on restarts or plugin loads.

The new version of LackeyCCG (06-23-25) is available now for both Windows and Mac. The game server has been updated to allow connections from both the new version and for now the old version, to allow people time to update and for the word to spread.

Both downloads are now avialable on LackeyCCG's main website.

These rebuilds are largely just updated libraries. I did address a few bugs such as the file browser crashing, sorting not working right and some issues with plugins updating. This is the first step on the path to more bug fixes and updates down the road.

As far as I'm aware the ipad version no longer works and unfortunately it'll still be quite some time more before it might get an update. I don't know if anyone in the community has figured out a way to make it work otherwise.

I don't have a chromebook but I'm able to run Lackey reasonably well on my older Toshiba laptop. It's got some pretty dated hardware in it.

Those links have been dead a long time.