Mostly Polish though. I wouldn't spit on your Chess, that's gross. You can actually watch several of these fixes in-progress in the past-broadcasts section of our Twitch channel or on our YouTube channel: Streaming playlist. Here's what's new in Windows since the last release:

• We now show the turn timer in the game. Thanks to every player and also their mothers, cousins, and some random people on the street for reporting this... twice.
• Geoff solved a ton of graphics card issues. If the game was not working for you at all before, and now it's working... that was probably his fault.
• We added a "Forfeit" option because winners never quit... but sometimes losers want to lose faster. ːsteammockingː I kid... this one was as overdue as the timer being shown on-screen.
• Fixed the contrast on the default 3D chess set. You should be able to see the pieces better now & they probably look more like actual wood.
• The levelUp.wav sound (like super-loud windchimes) has been decreased 15db so it doesn't freak people out anymore ;) thanks to user Toadofsky for pointing it out
• Some people were getting confused with why their game ended in a "Draw" so we've changed the game to understand what caused the game to end & we'll show "Stalemate", "Draw by Insufficient Material", etc.. That should at least give people a good idea what to look at in the Rules if they're confused.
• Found that the 50 Move Rule was implemented more like the 25 Move Rule. Most likely nobody hit this (because that's still 50 half-moves which is a lot) but we noticed it in the code & fixed it to match the official rules. We also corrected our Rules page to reflect the change.
• Fixed some issues where castling was allowed twice in the same game in certain situations. Thanks to user "Bears" for reporting this.
• When reconnecting to an online async game, if there had been a Check at any point in the game, it would say "Check" when it reloaded the game. Now it only says that if the last move is ACTUALLY putting someone in Check. Thanks to user n0v0leg for reporting this.
• Some games would crash when reloading from Steam Notifications... and we would crash a decent amount on our test-environment because it's different.... all related to a race-condition. Fixed this.
• The window was opening up off-center, especially too far to the left or the top which made it annoyingly hard to move the window. It was also in a weird spot when returning from fullscreen. It should be centered again.
• The TurnTimeout value is now "sticky" like several other options. That means if you set it to 1 Minute turns, the next time you try to create a game, that will be the default so that you don't have to constantly click around to get to your favorite mode.
• Fixed some memory leaks in our Animation engine and our Online Game Menu Screen (OGMS). This has been around for a while but never mattered until someone hung out in our Online Game Menu Screen (which is actually quite busy in Simply Chess) and their memory just ballooned until they crashed. This helped us find it, so now the game will not be just randomly wasting memory & shouldn't crash if you hang out in the OGMS. Thanks to user ProCommando for reporting this.
• Some accessibility stuff.. but we're not done with it, so I'm not going to announce it yet :P if you watched the stream, you probably know what I'm talking about. Almost done!

Man, I feel like dropping the mic after that list. ...but I should actually just get back to work :P Mac & Linux are up to date with the PREVIOUS announcement (since later that day), but this batch of fixes we've just pushed to Windows so far... we've been pushing updates after every couple of fixes (meaning: this didn't ALL just get pushed out tonight). We'll be releasing all of these things on Mac/Linux shortly (and we have a Linux-specific bug w/the AI on some computers, that we still have to try to solve). Oh, one more thing: if you gave a negative review to the game because of any of the things that we've now fixed, we'd appreciate it if you update the review to be current (even if you still think we suck). Thanks! Thanks to everyone who is playing Simply Chess!! Even though it hasn't made enough $ to pay for its own trailer yet (close though, lol), it's still by faaaaaaaaaaaar our most-played game with OVER 100,000 DOWNLOADS! We really appreciate your support! ːsteamhappyː

[ 2015-09-23 00:54:03 CET ] [ Original post ]