This is a follow-up to our first batch of bugfixes.

Fixes

These fixes are still only Windows for now (we're panicing and fixing all of the urgent stuff, then we'll rebuild Linux & Mac... the rebuilding got blocked by a compiler error in Mono that's going to take some cleverness to work around... those updates should happen this week too, though). Fixes in this update:

• BLACK CAN BE ON THE BOTTOM NOW! Player 1 starts out on the bottom regardless of color now. If you're the only person on your computer... you're player1.
• If you don't like the default side (player1 on bottom) you can now press "F" to flip the board sides.
• Did you know that you can press "D" to switch between 2D/3D? I hadn't written that in the Advanced Controls section before, but it's been in the game ;)
• There was an error with threat-detection (knowing when a King is in Check) related to pawns needing to move 2 spaces to block a Check. Thanks to some screenshots from users, we were able to fix this up quickly :)
• The music-volume would go back to full when you restarted the game even if you'd turned it down before. Now it will correctly remember the setting across sessions.
• Mojoshader.dll was crashing on startup for some people. This was a dependency issue in the installer & we've fixed it.
• The board-spaces were backwards on the 3D Bauhaus board (eg: light square always goes under white's kingside rook)... now it's right.

Next up!

• The game is still crashing on startup for certain graphics cards. This is really 2 problems: 1) it should be selecting your better graphics card 2) it should work on Intel HD graphics even if you don't have a better card. Working on it!
• We gotta get Mac & Linux up to speed at some point.
• More random bugs
• Later this week we'll try to figure out a way to make the card to Steam Trading Card drops (apparently, this doesn't normally happen until you spend $9 on a game... we don't have a way for you to spend $9 yet, since the Premium version is only $4.99).
• Some PC Master Race people have been really upset about ads (cross promotions for our 3 other Steam games) in free games... they want hats or something. ...or paid Chess Sets (which we were hoping to do for free)... we're thinking about it. Bugs are more urgent than making money off of this though... so we're fixing bugs first, then we'll figure this out. The game has only been out 3 days and we're scrambling to fix issues that the 70,000 of you found... we will definitely think more about monetization stuff when things calm down. Thanks for your patience & understanding!

I'll try to respond to forums when I can... I've been spending way too many hours though... so hopefully I'll get faster. I get to most threads eventually! Thank you to everyone who plays!! :D

[ 2015-09-14 21:09:35 CET ] [ Original post ]