Hnefatafl
Philippe Schober Developer
Philippe Schober Publisher
2020-04-30 Release
Game News Posts:
53
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
Positive
(43 reviews)
Public Linux Depots:
- "Hnefatafl"-Linux [265.85 M]
Release 3.66
[ 2021-03-20 12:38:02 CET ] [ Original post ]
From this version on you can create quick matches that use a time contigent system. It works like this: You create a new match and select the Quick mode and a time contingent like 20m+10s. This means that both players will start with a time contingent of 20 minutes for the whole game. For every move they will get 10 additional seconds. If their timer reaches 0 they have lost. This shall encourage faster matches and those are intended to be finished in one sitting. The second big change is the introduction of Byes. If a tournament starts with less than 2^n players (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 etc.) the rest of the slots are filled with Byes, meaning that those players (randomly chosen) will automatically advance to the second round. Using this method we don't have to wait for a specific number of players to start a tournament. If we had 60 players in a tournament we had to either wait for 4 more or remove 28 players, which wasn't optimal. Now 4 players would automatically advance to the second round of the tournament. Full changelog:
- Added a new quick mode which uses time contingents that get refilled with each move. This encourages quicker matches that shall be finished in one sitting.
- Tournaments now support Byes which allows them to have any number of players. Those get distributed randomly and allow those players to directly advance to the second round.
- The online matches in the main menu can now be sorted by the time left or by their recency.
- Fixed custom rules where the King gets captured by four pieces. This was ignored if there was no throne and the King could be captured by just two pieces. The change will affect existing custom rules and ongoing matches using them.
- The planning mode in Berserk games now also allows to skip a berserk move.
- Improved the description of the Commander's abilities in the tutorial and rules summary of the Berserk variant.
- If during a tournament two players get disqualified because their matches timeout, their opponent in the next round will now receive a Bye.
- The timeout warning symbol won't be shown for completed matches anymore.
[ 2021-03-20 12:38:02 CET ] [ Original post ]
Hnefatafl is an ancient Scandinavian board game whose variants were played all over medieval Europe before chess was even invented. In those so called Tafl games two different sized armies fight each other. The invading black army tries to capture the white king, while the defending white army tries to protect their king and help him escape.
Often also called the Game of the Vikings Hnefatafl tells many stories, like the Moskowites invasion of Sweden or the Viking hordes pillaging Britain. But no matter what the story is one thing always stays the same: The hunt for the king.
Even though the rules aren't complicated the game offers fascinating strategies and rewards tactical play. Try to surround the enemy pieces, plan ahead, lay traps and force your opponent into surrender. Will you capture the king for gold and glory? Can the loyal guards hold back the invading forces and secure the flight of their king?
You can even create your own custom variants -- with over 200,000 different variants possible -- for online or offline play!
All variants can be played online or offline against bots or fellow humans. Even the custom variants.
Often also called the Game of the Vikings Hnefatafl tells many stories, like the Moskowites invasion of Sweden or the Viking hordes pillaging Britain. But no matter what the story is one thing always stays the same: The hunt for the king.
Even though the rules aren't complicated the game offers fascinating strategies and rewards tactical play. Try to surround the enemy pieces, plan ahead, lay traps and force your opponent into surrender. Will you capture the king for gold and glory? Can the loyal guards hold back the invading forces and secure the flight of their king?
You can even create your own custom variants -- with over 200,000 different variants possible -- for online or offline play!
This game includes the following variants:
- Hnefatafl
- Hnefatafl - Copenhagen Rules
- Hnefatafl - Historical Rules
- Hnefatafl - Berserk Rules
- Hnefatafl - Fetlar Rules
- Simple Tafl
- Sea Battle 11x11
- Sea Battle 13x13
- Linnaeus' Tablut
- Tablut
- Tablut - Historical Rules ("Saami")
- Foteviken Tablut
- Ard Ri
- Brandubh
- Magpie
- Tawlbwrdd
- Tyr 13x13
- Tyr 15x15
- Tyr 19x19
- Coppergate 15x15
- Alea Evengelii
- Custom variants for offline and online play
All variants can be played online or offline against bots or fellow humans. Even the custom variants.
Included features:
- Offline play for two humans
- Offline play against various computer opponents
- Offline play for two computer opponents
- Online play
- Ranked and unranked matches
- Cross Platform Play between Android, iOS and Windows clients
- Play Online on your PC and continue on your phone, all with just one account
- Ingame Chat for Online play
- Achievements
- ELO Leaderboard
- Match Browser
- Share games with other players so that they can spectate
- Match Annotations - review any shared match and discuss strategies
- Match History - review any of your completed matches
- Tutorial/Rules included
- Partial Controller support
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04
- Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+. Vulkan capable
- Storage: 200 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Gnome desktop environment running on top of X11 windowing system Other configuration and user environment as provided stock with the supported distribution (such as Kernel or Compositor) Nvidia and AMD GPUs using Nvidia official proprietary graphics driver or AMD Mesa graphics driver.
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04
- Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+. Vulkan capableNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 300 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Gnome desktop environment running on top of X11 windowing system Other configuration and user environment as provided stock with the supported distribution (such as Kernel or Compositor) Nvidia and AMD GPUs using Nvidia official proprietary graphics driver or AMD Mesa graphics driver.
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