What's new in Simply Chess 01/02/2017
Feb 7, 2017
- Russian translation by Steam user ⇜ǤȐƠƲƝƉHƠƓ⇝ and Steam user Novoleg
- GamePad fixes (especially relating to Online Play & associated menus) with huge kudos to Steam user Comp9 for helping us debug this, and to user Junkyard for reporting that we had issues. GamePad support is really important for both Steam OS and for people with alternative input devices (that usually communicate as game pads).
New in Simply Chess 11/12/2016 (Nov 15, 2016)
- Mac: fixed crashing that would happen in various versions of OS X on various machines. It was due to several versions of Mono crashing in different ways on different versions. We found an old version that works consistently.
- The "Online Multiplayer" lobby said "Local Multiplayer" at the top, previously.
- Old "Steam Notifications" have been deleted and any games that end will now get their notification deleted once both players have seen the end of the game.
- GamePad support for BlueLineCloudSignupDialog is no longer broken... can fill it out correctly, or skip it and play without an account just like with keyboard/mouse.
- Made resizing the window conform to the ratio instead of using leterboxing.
- The Online Game Menu Screen doesn't flicker when the list reloads now.
- Fixed the ugly layout of the Pawn Promotion dialog (the icons had shifted to be overlapping the "Ok" button).
- Made Alert dialogs center in the screen correctly (they were slightly off-center before).
- Added "Limitless" AI for Premium players (Limitless will also unlock for free if players can beat all 100 levels of AI!) This lets the AI play without mercy or concern for your pathetic human brain.
- Fixed the layout of the BLC Signup dialog to fit better.
- Fixed the "Chat" button to use the internationalized string and not display off-screen when the opponent is on the bottom (which is rare, but some people choose to put themselves on top).
- Made it so that asynchronously created games also have the opponent's name added to the serverName when the 2nd player joins.
New in Simply Chess 07/05/2016 (Jul 6, 2016)
- Bugfix: The buttons for the second-player in a Lobby had regressed to not be mouse-clickable anymore (hotkeys still worked). Thanks dani_as0 and bentley_maniac for the reports.
- Fixed regression that was causing log-spam of loading SDF fonts.
- Fixed it so the local player is always on bottom if there is only 1 local player (this was messed up in online games, previously... because we had assumed the local player was always Player 1).
- Pressing "F" in Pass-n-play mode now works. This allows (for example) to play against yourself and swap the board each move so you always play from the bottom perspective, etc..
- Fixed the occasional crash on Mac/Linux that occurred especially when entering the Online Game Menu screen very quickly after starting the program.
- Fixed a recently-developed crash when opening the Steam Overlay (eg: for Leaderboard or Achievements) in OSX.
- Fixed the case where you Leave a game during LoadingFromServer, then started another game (eg: local, or just a NEW online game) and the game thought it was still loading from server... forever.
- Fixed game-reconnections (if it says "Loading from game server..." at any point during a game, now it should succeed again. That was broken for a while... we just didn't notice because that only happens in weird cases anyway).
- Fixed the use-case where a host starts a game asynchronously with the opponent moving first, then a guest joins and makes a play, then the host would previously freeze in "Loading game from server...". Creating async games and having the opponent move should be fine now.
- Rewrote IAP to use DLC instead, which will eventually let people get card-drops, allows the game to show up in Steam Libraries, etc. This is a really complicated issue, but we think we're very close & we just need Valve to change one config setting for our app and we'll be all set.
- Added Condal Chess Set 2D skin to Premium version.
- Game warned "this game is rated" when forfeiting, even if it was not rated.
- Fixed a collection of crashes on OS X.
New in Simply Chess 10/27/2015 (Oct 27, 2015)
- New HUD! We noticed that the old HUD would occasionally cause people to think that they were the opposite color than what they really were. This was partially because the OPPONENT's captured pieces were on your own HUD. The new HUD makes that much less ambiguous and it also encapsulates the turn-timer which was previously just kind of thrown onto the screen.
- Elo Ratings changes can't be "re-played" by clicking on a Steam Notification from a finished game and re-loading the endgame anymore.
- Fixed the layout of the belated BLC-signup dialog.
- Cross-promotion tool that shows other BlueLine games can now detect Steam sales and show the discount percentage.
- Additional fixes for Intel HD Graphics cards.
- Smaller log-file
- Better displaying of names with apostrophes in them, in the Online Game Menu String.
- Fixed a rare potential crash from leaving the Online Game Menu Screen running.
- Added a visible menu button to the game. This improves mouse-only accessibility.