Just some minor startup improvements.
- Improved actual startup time by making some things run in parallel that were previously serial.
- Improved apparent startup time by transitioning from the splash screen to a loading screen sooner.
Monday, June 25, 2018
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The game renderer has been massively overhauled, directly leading to the following:
- New animations for playing pieces for Drop Four and Gomoku.
- New winline drawing animation.
- Scrubbing backwards through history now animated.
- New piece option: filled triangle.
- Saved games no longer use pre-generated images.
Friday, June 22, 2018
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The Easy AI and Hard AI now work with Drop Four. Apparently they were previously getting confused.
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
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- The game is now simulated on the game setup screen, to give an indicator of each player’s chance of winning.
- A new option in settings to control whether game simulation happens in the cloud or not.
- A new option in settings to control whether any cloud features are used.
- Settings layout cleaned up.
Monday, June 18, 2018
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- Added AI difficulty options.
- Improved how players’ default names are handled.
- Made lists of buttons wrap more nicely.
- Fixed a bug which prevented the AI from realising it was playing Chain.
Friday, June 1, 2018
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- A new game variation option I decided to call “chain”. Get an extra turn after completing a line.
- See what the AI is thinking (when not running in the cloud). This has existed in some form for debugging, but I cleaned it up enough for the public.
Thursday, May 24, 2018
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An apparently minor release with lots of changes under the hood, including:
- Fixed a bunch of layout issues on smaller devices.
- Fixed the very odd text of the analytics collection warning.
- Simplified the implementation of some of the layouts to improve performance
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
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Analytics are now disabled by default and a message briefly explaining why the app would like to collect analytics is now displayed at startup.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
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Fixed a minor issue that caused a crash introduced in 0.6.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
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0.6 brings a brand new game mode, Drop Four (also known as Connect Four, Captain’s Mistress, Four Up, Plot Four, Find Four, Four in a Row, Four in a Line and Gravitrips). I’ll add more information about this in a game design post. Other features include:
- Browsable release notes in app, that include links to the blog.
- Back and forward buttons in the game history.
- In game action buttons now use icons.
- Previous move highlight now fills the square.
Monday, April 30, 2018
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