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Hey there, Tatsu Fans! We at BlueLine Game Studios are happy to announce that we have just launched a Kickstarter for our newest game: Lost Cities! It uses the same great engine that we used for Tatsu and have been growing over the years for our other games. The game will be available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, as usual, and we hope to use the Kickstarter to fund a bunch of translations and a few other new bells and whistles. We hope you'll take a few minutes to check out the Kickstarter: http://bluelinegamestudios.com/kickstarter/lost-cities We also have already put out a demo for the game that you can check out on the Lost Cities Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/520680/Lost_Cities/ Thanks for your continued support of BlueLine Games! Enjoy!
Hey there, Tatsu Fans! We at BlueLine Game Studios are happy to announce that we have just launched a Kickstarter for our newest game: Lost Cities! It uses the same great engine that we used for Tatsu and have been growing over the years for our other games. The game will be available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, as usual, and we hope to use the Kickstarter to fund a bunch of translations and a few other new bells and whistles. We hope you'll take a few minutes to check out the Kickstarter: http://bluelinegamestudios.com/kickstarter/lost-cities We also have already put out a demo for the game that you can check out on the Lost Cities Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/520680/Lost_Cities/ Thanks for your continued support of BlueLine Games! Enjoy!
There is now a Russian version of Tatsu! In a pretty unprecedented move, our translator Groundhog actually updated the entire open-source EptKazoo font that Tatsu uses, to have Cyrillic characters! That's a ton of work HUGE THANKS TO Groundhog! Between Groundhog's font, his translations, and the translations from novoleg, everything seems to be good to go! Side-note: Regressions are what we call the bugs that come from updates, in places where things used to work. The release 2 days ago had a couple of those that we hadn't spotted, but fortunately, people reported them & we were able to get everything back to how it's supposed to be!
There is now a Russian version of Tatsu! In a pretty unprecedented move, our translator Groundhog actually updated the entire open-source EptKazoo font that Tatsu uses, to have Cyrillic characters! That's a ton of work HUGE THANKS TO Groundhog! Between Groundhog's font, his translations, and the translations from novoleg, everything seems to be good to go! Side-note: Regressions are what we call the bugs that come from updates, in places where things used to work. The release 2 days ago had a couple of those that we hadn't spotted, but fortunately, people reported them & we were able to get everything back to how it's supposed to be!
Just a small update, but it's been a while since we pushed, so this morning, I pushed the following (for Windows only so-far... will go to Mac/Linux on their next push):
Just a small update, but it's been a while since we pushed, so this morning, I pushed the following (for Windows only so-far... will go to Mac/Linux on their next push):
Tatsu has been getting the most attention lately (it's our most recently released game, after all) and we've made a bunch of improvements and stabilized a couple of really nasty Online bugs. Things are flying along nicely now. Some of these fixes had been rolled out as they were fixed (especially on Windows) but all of these fixes are out as of now, on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Tatsu has been getting the most attention lately (it's our most recently released game, after all) and we've made a bunch of improvements and stabilized a couple of really nasty Online bugs. Things are flying along nicely now. Some of these fixes had been rolled out as they were fixed (especially on Windows) but all of these fixes are out as of now, on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
HELLO LOYAL BLUELINERS! :D First off, thank you so much for being part of Early Access. The quality of the final game was only possible with all of the great feedback from the community. The game is much better now than it was when we started Early Access, thanks to you! In the previous update, we had made some big conceptual changes to the AI to let it "think with both dice" but there were still some weaknesses. John Yianni (the designer of the Tatsu board game) was a huge help and recorded videos of him playing several games against the AI and analyzing its weaknesses. Since people often like to peek behind-the-scenes, here are three videos which we streamed which use the analysis by John Yianni to make (and verify) a bunch of really solid improvements to the AI:
While we did a lot of work specifically on the AI, we also did a variety of unrelated tasks to get the final layer of polish on, for launch! :DHELLO LOYAL BLUELINERS! :D First off, thank you so much for being part of Early Access. The quality of the final game was only possible with all of the great feedback from the community. The game is much better now than it was when we started Early Access, thanks to you! In the previous update, we had made some big conceptual changes to the AI to let it "think with both dice" but there were still some weaknesses. John Yianni (the designer of the Tatsu board game) was a huge help and recorded videos of him playing several games against the AI and analyzing its weaknesses. Since people often like to peek behind-the-scenes, here are three videos which we streamed which use the analysis by John Yianni to make (and verify) a bunch of really solid improvements to the AI:
While we did a lot of work specifically on the AI, we also did a variety of unrelated tasks to get the final layer of polish on, for launch! :DThis release is on Win/Mac/Linux. This also means that Mac/Linux will pick up the changes from the previous release which hadn't been released on Mac/Linux yet. We re-wrote a significant bit of how our AI engine works. Now instead of the AI looking for an action, it looks at all of the possible combinations of actions that it could take on a turn, then scores which one puts it in the best position at the end of the turn. This makes a big difference, because without it, the AI didn't know (for example) that the best move would be to move a piece once, so that it could move it again with the second die, to get a guaranteed attack. I did a lot of the refactoring (then testing & rebalancing) on the LiveCoding.tv stream: https://www.livecoding.tv/seancolombo If you subscribe to the channel there, you'll get notifications when I'm streaming, so you could hop in and see some really neat behind-the-scenes stuff of how we make our games. For example: when I was tweaking the AI today, viewers got to see our Board Editor, the AI Tree Visualizer, and look in detail into how we score each possible board position. Anywho! Please get the latest update and let me know what you think of the AI (and your approximate win/loss ratios) if you have a chance :) that would be a huge help! Thanks for all of the support thus-far in Early Access.. we couldn't have done it without you!! :D
This release is on Win/Mac/Linux. This also means that Mac/Linux will pick up the changes from the previous release which hadn't been released on Mac/Linux yet. We re-wrote a significant bit of how our AI engine works. Now instead of the AI looking for an action, it looks at all of the possible combinations of actions that it could take on a turn, then scores which one puts it in the best position at the end of the turn. This makes a big difference, because without it, the AI didn't know (for example) that the best move would be to move a piece once, so that it could move it again with the second die, to get a guaranteed attack. I did a lot of the refactoring (then testing & rebalancing) on the LiveCoding.tv stream: https://www.livecoding.tv/seancolombo If you subscribe to the channel there, you'll get notifications when I'm streaming, so you could hop in and see some really neat behind-the-scenes stuff of how we make our games. For example: when I was tweaking the AI today, viewers got to see our Board Editor, the AI Tree Visualizer, and look in detail into how we score each possible board position. Anywho! Please get the latest update and let me know what you think of the AI (and your approximate win/loss ratios) if you have a chance :) that would be a huge help! Thanks for all of the support thus-far in Early Access.. we couldn't have done it without you!! :D
Only pushed this update to Windows for now, but it contains a bunch of stuff since the previous release on Thursday!
Only pushed this update to Windows for now, but it contains a bunch of stuff since the previous release on Thursday!
We batched this one up, probably for too long... but there are a ton of changes that just went out today. Windows, Mac, and Linux are all built to the same point. Early Access still has a good bit left (some online wonkiness & a lot of AI changes), but there is quite a bit of progress in this release. Here is what changed in this update:
We batched this one up, probably for too long... but there are a ton of changes that just went out today. Windows, Mac, and Linux are all built to the same point. Early Access still has a good bit left (some online wonkiness & a lot of AI changes), but there is quite a bit of progress in this release. Here is what changed in this update:
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