It's only been a few days since our last announcement, but we've been gettin' down to bizniss. Linux & OSX were just updated to match Windows, so all three platforms should have everything mentioned in this list (and everything in earlier announcements):

• Accessibility: ran through the whole game and made sure Controller Support would work everywhere (we streamed a lot of this, then put it on youtube).
• Accessibility: ran through the whole game and made sure Keyboard-only Support would work everywhere (we streamed a lot of this, then put it on youtube).
• The Pawn Promotion dialog was hard to see in the 2D Monochrome skin if you were promoting a Black pawn. Now the pieces have an opposite-colored background behind them.
• Made the App Settings dialog less ugly (it had like 3 different background colors, and 2 font colors that were left over from other games).
• The Audio wasn't going through it's playlist properly before, so a song would just repeat until you pause/unpause. It's supposed to cycle through them all, and now it does.
• Audio was glitching out after a while. We think this is fixed, but it's hard to prove that something that occasionally happened isn't happening... so if you see it (hear it?) again after this update, please let us know!
• Bugfix: there were cases where the Turn Timer would show up in offline games if you had played an online game just before that (without closing the game).
• When people try to upgrade without Steam open, or with the Overlay disabled, it wouldn't work, but it also wouldn't give very helpful explanations. Now there are good explanation dialogs (you need Steam open and the Overlay enabled to use Steam's Microtransactions, btw).
• Fixed the HUDs so that when black is on the bottom, the gamer pictures (avatars) still line up properly.
• Bugfix: The text on the HUD that says whose turn it is would disappear when you clicked on a piece, and would often not be there on the first turn of the game. Fixxxed.
• Fixed some infinite-loop-support in Audio library.
• Made the turn-indicator text more descriptive (less confusing). So instead of just saying "It's your turn" on the correct player's HUD. It'll say something like "waiting for opponent..." for an online game, "waiting for computer..." against the AI, and if there are 2 people playing on the same computer it'll say "White's Turn" or "Black's Turn"... all of these messages still appear in the same spot on the active player's HUD.
• Added options for 3 Minute turn timeout and 5 minute turn timeout since we had a lot of people thinking that 1 minute or 10 minutes was way too big of a gap.

We've been pushing really hard to take care of a ton of issues and are finally getting to a really stable spot that we're proud of. We have a handful of fixes left (mainly around getting Elo ratings and stats to be more dependable) and then the updates will hopefully slow down a bit. Thanks to everyone for all of the suggestions & bug reports! Tell your friends to play Simply Chess! :D - Sean

[ 2015-09-25 18:39:58 CET ] [ Original post ]