v2.4.0

v2.4.0 - 2025-01-16

Added

• New music music by Stey
• Add 50 new playable maps
• Scroll one page at a time in the level select screen with page up and page down
• Draw island id and ARtB on the island previews when in map editor mode
• Show strength for each hexagon in map editor mode, and can be toggled in the settings
• Add debug option to show strength hint for all player territories
• Add program flag --ai-debug to print what the AI is thinking
• Add test islands to persist test maps in VCS
• Add shortcut ctrl + N to create a new island in the map editor
• Add button to create new islands directly from the level creation screen
• New islands validation rule: There must be at least two different teams with a capital
• Show the island id to make it easier to communicate about islands
• Show high score for each island in the level select screen

Changed

• Sort islands without ARtB by their id in ascending order
• Change color of boxes in the level select screen based on the ARtB
• Show more info about the current island and hovered hexagon when in map editor mode
• Show the number of rounds it took for AI to be done with a map on the island preview
• Do not render the ARtB and id on the preview
  • Instead, render it dynamically and show it when in debug or in map editor
• Always allow surrendering when there is AIs playing against each other
• Remain in the settings screen when resetting setting/progress
• Tune AI
  • Prioritize attacking hexagons that are a part of a territory
  • Change chances of AI to buy a castle based on the difficulty
  • Increase the chance of easy and normal AI to end their turn early
  • Fix AI holding a piece when it does not think it does
• Added remaining ARtB to existing islands
• Rename the UNKNOWN_ROUNDS_TO_BEAT constant to NEVER_PLAYED to make it clear what it means
• Add settings, which defaults to false, to toggle double tapping to zoom

Fixed

• Fix unnecessary loading all assets after pausing and resuming the game
• Toggle music button was disabled when island interaction was disabled
• Fix UI sometimes lagging when fading in windows
• Win text on the islands preview was worded differently to the other results
• Fix AI not calculating the strength of attackable territories correctly
• Fix click were going through windows in map editor
• Move windows in map editor a bit from the edge
• Fix island deletion crashing the game
• Fix do not leave the playing island when a single exception occurs
• Harden against exceptions within a start/end block

Removed

• All old music tracks have been removed

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.4.0

v2.3.0

v2.3.0 - 2024-09-27

Added

• Added music by Stey SoundCloud
  • New mute icon on the level select screen and in game
• Add global shortcuts
  • ctrl + m to toggle music
  • alt + enter to toggle fullscreen

Changed

• Rename volume setting to master volume
• Tweak island 62 to make it possible for leaf to win
• Display more info in the map editor
• Update the ARtB of the smaller islands (id 57-63)
• Tune AI
  • Disallow hard AI to buy castles on the first round
  • Double the number of rounds before normal AI can buy castles
  • AI will try to attack enemy living pieces in the order of baron, knight, spearman, peasant
  • AI will try to attack enemy trees
  • Add special case when there is only a single least defended hexagon, will try to place it adjacent to it if possible to protect the living piece
  • Only prioritize cutting down trees that will propagate into friendly territory
  • Improve castle placement to be allowed to place on movable living pieces
  • Improve castle placement to ignore the capital and living pieces
    • to more fairly distribute them regardless of how living pieces are placed
    • to place castles near capitals to defend them

Fixed

• Improve audio on android by using AsynchronousAndroidAudio
• Do not prompt for end turn when the player cannot afford merging two pieces
• Trees are only allowed grow once per round, but it does grow after each turn
• Fix UI wiggle when interacting with it
• Fix lag when scrolling through the level select screen

Removed

• Remove background texture as texture atlas is too large

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.3.0

v2.2.0

v2.2.0 - 2024-09-15

Added

• Add export and import of islands
  • Currently only to the clipboard
  • A screen will show the import progress
• Add nine new islands
• Play a "bad click" sound when doing an action that does nothing
• Add a highlight to actionable hexagons when trying to end turn
  • It can also be permanently enabled in the settings
• Add randomize every team editor
• home and end keys will now take you to the top and bottom of the level select screen respectively

Changed

• Only clear island progress when restarting island
• Do not clear trees when AI is surrendering
• Do not animate when rendering previews
• Never fail on any properties
• Allow AI to surrender when there is only a single real player left
  • Even when playing against other players, the AI will surrender if there is only one player left
• Update ArTB, all times by Willy
  • island 5 to 33 rounds
  • island 13 from 16 to 14 rounds
  • island 10 from 60 to 36 rounds
  • island 15 from 61 to 25 rounds
  • island 19 from 36 to 19 rounds
  • island 21 to 33 rounds
  • island 24 from 52 to 28 rounds
  • island 25 from 55 to 23 rounds
  • island 34 from 9 to 7 rounds
  • island 49 from 41 to 21 rounds
  • island 50 from 20 to 18 rounds
• Randomize teams on islands 1, 9, 16

Fixed

• Fix not displaying version in the settings screen and title on desktop
• Fix potential memory leak when updating previews
• Fix tutorial screen showing vertical scroll bar on high w:h ratio devices
• Fix possibility of the async thread not being disposed properly
• Fix game not starting when the first player is an AI
• Fix crash when exiting island when there are no hexagons visible
• Fix inputting ARtB would not update until the spinner lost focus
• Fix team percentages not updating when hexagons changes

Removed

• Remove useless ARtB menu entry

Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v2.2.0

v2.1.0

v2.1.0 - 2024-07-13

• New islands validation rule: No pieces on invisible hexagons
• Add confirmation dialog when restarting a completed island
  • Can be disabled with the 'disable restart confirmation' setting
• Write round number on the island previews

Changed

• Make it easier to read the upkeep cost in the tutorial screen by adding a white border to the numbers
• Tweak tutorial screen
• Pressing escape on desktop will take you back to the level select screen
• Allow islands to be manually placed last with ARtB
• Make ARtB editing more user friendly
  • Add a warning when resetting ARtB of an island
  • Display the previous ARtB when editing an island
• Always render the previews as 1024x1024
• Update ARtB of island 11 to be 11 rounds
• Draw a capital on the preview when the island has been conquered
• Suggest that there are actions to do when a piece can chop down a tree

Fixed

• Using regular font instead of bold font
• Fix infinite tower glitch
  • A player could swap a living piece and a just-bought castle to get the castle for free
  • Thanks Willy!
• Fix sorting islands without a rating before islands with ratings
• Fix screen messages not fading out smoothly/at all
• Fix previews being inconsistently rendered
• Remove the raw tutorial images from the app/jar
• Fix switching app after winning/loosing but before pressing OK would cause the island to be loaded in a non-playable state
• Fix game not ending properly when the player has no territories left

Full Changelog: v2.0.2...v2.1.0

v2.0.2

v2.0.2 - 2024-06-29

Fixed

• Fix critical crash when selecting territory after placing a piece
• Fix surrendering not working correctly
• Fix camera jumping when saving

v2.0.1

v2.0.1 - 2024-01-26

Added

• Add icons to the map editor screens selector
• Add three more islands

Changed

• Automatically change the editor type to 'set team/piece' when changing the team/piece in the map editor

Fixed

• Do not show save confirmation when exiting map editor without doing any changes

Removed

• Remove Editor Type Specific button as it is redundant and does not update the UI properly

v2.0.0

v2.0.0 - 2023-06-17

Major revision as there are some game play and technical breaking changes in this release.

Added

Game play

• New normal and easy AI
  • These are all the same underlying AI different kind of restrictions
  • Placing castles are disallowed until a few turns in for normal and never allowed for easy AI
  • The chance of different AIs to just end their turn without considering all their options are depending on the difficultly
• Islands are now sorted in the level select screen

Input

• Allow player to place castles on living pieces, the living piece will be in the players hand afterward
• Pressing escape/back in the island load screen changes the screen to the level select screen

Visual

• Show a castle on the main menu when the AI is done with a game
• A white line is drawn below whose turn it currently is on the strength bar
• Level select screen now remember where you last left it off
• Render a grid of disabled hexagons when in map editor mode
• Render relative strength bar in map editor mode
• Attackable hexagons blink periodically
• Attackable hexagons outline color is now based on the strength difference between the held piece and the hexagon to attack
• Add background to the android icon
• Show how many previews to load when in the splash screen
• Show island id and ARtB in debug hud

Technical

• Add --save-island-on-loading-it program argument flag
• On android, allow users to set the orientation

Changed

Gameplay

• BREAKING CHANGE Limit the maximum start capital to be 25
• Living pieces behave like capitals and will instantly become a grave when no longer a part of a territory
• Reorder teams from SUN, LEAF, FOREST, EARTH, STONE to LEAF, FOREST, STONE, EARTH, SUN
• Improve which piece will be replaced by a capital when there is no capital in a territory
  • The order of selection is as follows empty, trees/graves, baron, knight, spearman, peasant, castle
  • E.g., if there is a peasant and a castle to choose from the algorithm will choose the peasant
• Change calculation of best capital placement
  • Count invisible hexagons as slight more (i.e, 10%) valuable then friendly hexagons
  • Count the surrounding hexagons of a castle as twice as valuable
• Trees will grow at the beginning of each players turn but the newly grown tree will now be able to grow again

Input

• Double tapping while in-game will smoothly zoom the camera
• Improve enum sorting in the settings screen
• Pressing back on android when in the level select screen will exit the app
• Allow dragging while zooming

Visual

• Visual strength hint is enabled by default
• Adjust team color to make them easier to distinguish
• Reduce maximum zoom from 2.5 to 2
• Move the non-islands buttons in the level select screen closer to the center of the screen
• Draw box around island without a Author Rounds to Beat
• Remember last zoom position after resuming on an island

Technical

• BREAKING CHANGE Save metadata on disk as smile instead of json, old saves will not work
• Rendering now happens non-continuously, that is, only when needed
  • This drastically reduces the amount of power the game uses
• Minimum android SDK version have been reduced to 26
  • Turns out not everyone have the latest android version :surprised_pikachu:
• Rename turn to round
• You will not get the you lost message when only AIs are playing against each other
• Flip the setting disable audio to enable audio
• Only call ensureCapitalStartFunds when saving, this speeds up loading drastically
• On desktop, only move/ the camera when pressing the right mouse button
• Reset ARtB when doing an edit to a map
• Don't allow fps to be shown when playing normally
• Improve settings screen
  • Clicking the text will toggle boolean settings
  • Improved reset buttons instead of having to type in a string
  • Use drop down menu for enum selection
  • Increase size elements so its easier to click them on mobile

Fixed

Gameplay

• Fix estimated income not updating when buying pieces
• Fix starting capital was higher for the player who didn't start
• Fix living pieces getting killed at the end of round and not start of turn
• Fix merging two territories always keeps the capital of the selected territory
• Fix double processing of pieces in a bankrupt territory at the beginning of a players turn
• Fix false positive end turn warnings
• Fix game not ending when there is only a single team alive, while it has two territories
  • If you cannot attack hexagons by buying new units the warning will not be displayed (unless you can buy and place a castle)

Visual

• Fix capitals rendering "buy" flag when it is an AIs turn
• Fix pieces being animated when in map editor mode
• Black bars on android

Input

No input fixes

Technical

• Fix map editor not finding the island folder on a fresh clone
• Fix saving while holding piece threw a serialization exception
• Fix double recording of selecting territory event
• Fix players with no territories left still get to play
• Fix trees not remember if they have grown or not after deserialization
• Fix map editor screen not handling pausing/resuming the app
• Do not save invisible hexagons in the islandDTO
• Fix text sometimes being rendered upside down
• Fix rendering a few frames when resuming with disposed screen causing crashes sometimes
• Fix resizing stage screens did not scale properly
• Fix crash when there are no visible hexagons
• Fix exceptions being thrown if an island had no hexagons loaded
• Fix wrong AI team being announced as the winner when you loose
• Fix wrong tree type in island 24
• Fix crash on chrome os desktop
• Fix click sound on android
• Fix missing clicking sound on interaction

Removed

Gameplay

• Remove the old easy and un_losable AIs

Input

No input removed

Visual

• Remove the boxes around islands on the level select screen

Technical

• Remove the AI end turn delay
• Remove vsync, msaa, and audio settings on android due to the platform not supporting changing them or being badly supported
• Remove limit fps, target fps settings from all platforms, as they are now irrelevant
• Remove no-op editor

v1.2.0

[1.2.0] - 2023-02-06

Added

• Add a visual strength hint in the current selected territory
  • Disabled by default, can be turned on in the settings
• Add debug fps graph
• Add relative strength bar
• Add debug option to disallow AI from surrendering

Changed

• Java 17 is the minimum Java version
• Minimum android SDK version have been bumped to 33
• Minor improvement to the hard AI
  • c0c024d, Clear attack blacklist after merging pieces, as a higher level piece might be able
    attack something new
  • 7434fcf, Attack highest possible defended hexagon if all attackable hexagons are empty
  • 8e7488e, Place living pieces defensively different from castles
  • 7a5bbcf, Do not select pieces which cannot do anything
  • fdcbe26, When testing whether to merge/buy a piece or not, look at all hexagons in neighbouring
    terriories and not only the bordering hexagons
  • 351344b, When merging a piece, pick it up again straight away
  • 940e556, Only buy new units when they can be used for something
  • 1df3a6b, Disallow merging if the new piece cannot attack
• The time AI uses on its move is subtracted from the minimum AI delay
• Increase default outline width
• Cheating can be toggled when cheating via the --i-am-a-cheater flag; i.e., debug and trace logging is disabled
• Use lwjgl3 for desktop backend
• Improve overlay window for android

Fixed

• Fix exception when entering invalid enum in settings
• If the AI throw an exception, handle it
• An AI will not cause an end-of-turn delay if it has no territories
• Fix right control cannot be used to undo and redo moves
• Fix certain settings name being badly formatted
• Fix bankrupt territory not having their balance set to 0
• Remember whose turn it is when loading a saved island
• Fix crash when resizing the window to zero height
• Fix horrible zoom on android
• Fix UI elements not rendering after calling pause the resume
• Fix piece down sound not playing on android

Removed

• Remove the 11th piece down sound

v1.1.0

Major changes

• Added sounds!
  • Might be a bit buggy on android
• Fix a series of serialization bugs
  • Piece state was not serialized, if a piece had moved, treasury of a capital, etc was not persisted
• AI will now surrender if they most definitely have lost to a player
• Improve hard AI
  • It will now try to merge territories if it can

Minor changes

• Hide some settings behind launching in debug mode (i.e. specifying the debug or trace flag)
• Add scrolling to settings to allow mobile users a better experience with the settings
• Add mouse scrolling back to the level select screen
• Display version in the settings screen
• Display version in the desktop title
• Add hold to march option
• Reorder settings
• Add vsync option
• Fix help launch flag not displaying help, but crashing instead
• Update README with more information
• Fix last four (islands per row) islands in level select screen not working
• Improve load time of level select screen
• Fix AI using a very long time when they have large territories
• Island now remember what turn it is when re-entering island
• Do not render the hand when its an AIs turn
• Loose game when no players have any capitals left, but AI(s) do
• The AI will no longer cheat when the player does
• Pressing escape or space will replace the selected piece, if holding any
• Allow cheaters to buy even if the selected territory normally couldn't afford it
• Allow debug HUD to be disabled when in debug mode

v1.0

Use new kotlin IR backend for android