• Added single player campaign mode.
• Renamed the previous game option to “Custom game”.
• Reworked the home screen “news” element to be more flexible - added campaign to it.

• Game selection now use the in-game renderer instead of static images.
• About and Settings have been moved to the toolbar on the home screen.
• In-game overlay now uses a help a icon.

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.

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.

The Easy AI and Hard AI now work with Drop Four. Apparently they were previously getting confused.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

Analytics are now disabled by default and a message briefly explaining why the app would like to collect analytics is now displayed at startup.