Vacations, family, job, etc… but finally WebTiles are on 0.9 too now.
Sorry for the delay – and happy crawling!
Update: The service shut itself down during the night but is up again now.
Friday, August 19th, 2011 21:05
Monday, August 15th, 2011 01:41
Four months have already passed, and, with the tournament already begun, we’re pleased to announce the next release of Dungeon Crawl: 0.9, Victory Valedictory. As always, there have been a load of changes, but most significant of these is probably the following: we say Auf Wiedersehen to victory dancing.
Gone are the days of pointlessly casting spells at walls, or pounding on a macro to evoke a crystal ball — usually with undesired results. The experience pool has been removed, and it is now not actually possible to “victory dance”. Instead, experience is spent as it is gained. The exact mechanics of this depend on two separate modes: in auto mode, experience is spent on skills recently used, while in manual mode, finer control is available via the skill screen (m).
As a final reminder, the August tournament has already started! You can visit the Tourney Website for more details, but succinctly: you can play with the console version either on CAO or CDO (“Trunk” on CDO, and “0.9″ on CAO, currently). Webtiles does not currently count towards the tournament, as it needs to be updated to run 0.9. This will be done Soon!
So, pull on your crawling shoes (and knee-cap covers), and get ready for a solid two weeks of frantic adventuring!
Eronarn has provided an excellent summary of major changes in 0.9, so here they are!
More: Read the rest of this entry…
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 15:08
Edlothiol has been working on adding new features to WebTiles:
- Mini-Map is in!
- Permanent login via cookies!
- Browser sizes no longer matter!
- Browser versions don’t matter either anymore!
- Sprint and Tutorial available now, too!
The Mini-Map is shown and working now, alas it cannot be used yet to initiate a travel. During login you have the choice to stay logged in via cookies. Also, spectators no longer need to resize their browser when watching someone. The game always adjusts to the browser size of the player and spectator independently. Additionally, the websocket protocol was updated to support Firefox 4, 5 and 6.
And last but not least, the game-mode Sprint and the Tutorial are now playable via WebTiles, too!
I was told there are more features in the making – so stay tuned! Also, webtiles code has been merged into the official master branch.
Head over to its website and give it a try!
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 02:13
There’s an important change this year:
due to the second tourney we had in May, duration of the official tournament has been shortened.
It will last from Aug 13th to Aug 28th, sixteen days.
In other news, the tentative date for 0.9 release has been changed to the first week of August.
Also, Debian trunk builds have been automated, so you might see them updated regularly. This is not the case for Mac builds though, sorry for that.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 22:25
While 0.8 has been largely bug-free compared to 0.7, some bugs nevertheless crept in. Fixes include:
- official builds of 0.8.0 didn’t work on Windows 2000
- a number of crasher bugs
- stair colouring on the “X” map was sometimes wrong
- spores produced by Jiyva’s wrath could be converted by Fedhas
- running could fail to notice items being found
- Ashenzari worshippers could change armour under cursed cloaks
- certain values of LC_CTYPE could cause display corruption
- felids resting could take lots of CPU
- power failures or system crashes were likely to cause save corruption on MacOS X
- Kikubaaqudgha’s torment invocation didn’t grant you xp
Head over to the Downloads and enjoy!
As all point releases, 0.8.1 is save-compatible with 0.8.0.
Note: Please bear with us while the builds are being uploaded (MacOS X is late).
Monday, May 30th, 2011 22:46
It is a pleasure to recap what has been going during the last 16 days: some players have set up a tournament to celebrate the release of 0.8: Overview
USAGE AND WEBTILES:
Server usage jumped up (about 400 players/day), not least because tiles players were able to join in the fun – a feature that’s been long asked for: Webtiles, Usage
PLAYER HIGHLIGHTS:
Winner was mikee (4191 points), narrowly edging out elliptic (4107 points) by managing the last win in the tourney (which gives bonus points).
mikee started with a two streak (including the first 15-rune win of the tourney), followed by two duds and then a seven streak! (KeAr^A, TrCr^E, MiAr^O, SEIE^K, HuVM^V, HOHu^T, HECj^S)
theglow played just five games and won them all! (SEWz^V, HuSt^S, GhGl^M, CeTm^O, DEIE^A)
casmith789 had the most combo high scores (22).
Players could go for some additional goals (Pennants). Only two got them all: 78291 and mikee.
CLAN HIGHLIGHTS:
Winner was Zinja, who was also the only clan to win at least one game with each species.
Second place was narrowly won by catonkeyboard (the team with the most combo high scores) over killdudes (aptly enough, the team with the most uniques killed… only Tiamat escaped them).
INTERESTING STATISTICS:
(brackets are about last August’s tournament, which took a full month)
number of players: .......................... 1523 (1091)
number of players with at least one win: ..... 108 (109)
number of wins: .............................. 233 (321)
average number of wins per day: ............. 14.5 (10.3)
distinct winning combinations: ............... 149 (101)*
overall winrate, quits excluded: ........... 0.79% (0.72%)
* Rules have been changed to make niche combinations more attractive.
Thanks to everyone who helped with the infrastructure and cheers to participants!
Friday, May 13th, 2011 21:37
I’m happy to announce that we can now offer an online version of “Tiles”!
We call it WebTiles for now and it serves version 0.8 of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Right in time for the unofficial tournament!
Edlothiol announced his great idea with working code on the mailing-list a few weeks back, and even though it’s still beta-quality in the aspects of features (mini-map missing, inventory-tab, etc), it’s fully playable and there have even been the first 4 wins by players testing it!
There is a slight draw-back: It needs a fairly modern browser which supports a technology called WebSockets:
Thursday, May 12th, 2011 11:07
No, it’s not August! But to celebrate the release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.8, “Frantic Frenzied Felines”, various members of the Crawl community have banded together to run an unofficial tournament. Of course, August’s Tourney will run as scheduled.
From May 14th (midnight UTC) through May 30 (midnight UTC), 2011, any version 0.8 game played on CDO or CAO will count towards the tournament.
As with the official tournament, one can join a team, gain banners (or pennants) for various accomplishments, and, most importantly, accrue points for various activities.
All of the details for the tournament can be found here (http://crawl.develz.org/tournament).
Good luck, and good crawling!
Sunday, May 8th, 2011 09:23
Thanks to Kilobyte, we are now also offering packages for Debian-based operating systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc). For now there are three architectures supported: i386, amd64 and armel.
Add one of the lines from below to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
Stable release: deb http://crawl.develz.org/debian crawl 0.8
Development version: deb http://crawl.develz.org/debian crawl trunk
Additionally you should download and install our signing key to prevent warnings and to verify the packages:
wget http://crawl.develz.org/debian/pubkey -O - | apt-key add -
The available packages to apt-get are named: crawl, crawl-tiles
We’re working on getting the packages of the development version updated as regularly as the Windows binaries that we’ve been offering for a while already.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 12:08
It’s that time of year again! The Stone Soup development team are extremely pleased to announce the latest release of Dungeon Crawl: 0.8, “Frantic Frenzied Felines”. As usual, there have been some massive changes, which, if you’ve been playing any of the development builds hosted on CDO for download and online play or CAO for online play, you’re possibly already familiar with. A big thanks to all of our play-testers!
What’s changed? Here’s an excerpt of some major changes:
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 12:22
As some of you may have noticed, there were some down-times of CAO and CDO recently, and I’d like to keep everyone posted.
CAO, located in North America, now also allows to play the unstable development version of Stone Soup – with all the additional features like save-game backups for reporting, removing save-games, resetting config-files. With CDO being located in Europe, this should make playing the development version much smoother for Crawlers living in the Americas. While Greensnark was at it, he also installed a new branch called EroCrawl, maintained by Eronarn, presenting two new races called Lava Orcs & Octopodes and square LOS, which he would like to have included in the main branch of Stone Soup one day.
A week ago the server hosting CDO & its services has moved to a new Server Hosting Company (within Germany again). The website and all services were down for 3 days while I moved everything. It’s a much stronger & bigger machine now and should withstand future incidents much easier. Additionally crawl.develz.org is now fully reachable via IPv6.
Due to the upcoming release CDO and the Windows builds will now focus on providing the pre-release version of Stone Soup 0.8 for a while by updating daily. Please, help us iron out as many bugs as possible!
Thank you very much, Greensnark, for all the work you did to upgrade CAO!
Monday, February 21st, 2011 23:23
Saturday, February 19th, 2011 02:39
If you have been following the ##crawl-dev IRC channel, you may already be aware that we recently (this time last week) moved our code base from SourceForge.net to Gitorious.org. This move comes mainly from some minor frustrations with SourceForge, most of which relating to their recent reliability problems. SourceForge have been a excellent host, but as we’ve recently been butting up against its limitations, it seemed like a good opportunity to move.
You can find the main page for the Crawl code on Gitorious at: <http://gitorious.org/crawl>.
From there, you can see all of the contained repository, begin watching any of them, and see all of the changes represented as a stream; from the repositories, you can clone and begin tracking and pushing changes to these clones.
Therefore, if you’ve been following Crawl development via Git on SourceForge, you’ll need to make some changes in order to switch to tracking Gitorious instead.
Saturday, February 12th, 2011 22:55
With several months delay, here is the 0.7.2 bug fix release. You’ve probably all switched to trunk by now, but just in case you haven’t, 0.7.2 fixes a couple of nasty crash bugs.
As always, you can find source code and binaries on our Downloads page. Unfortunately, we cannot currently provide Mac binaries.
The changelog is a bit rough around the edges, so here’s a more detailed list:
- Fix crashes on entering new levels with restart_after_game = true.
- Fix crash with off-level map viewing.
- Fix a crash when Jiyva worshippers spawn jellies for non-monster-damage.
- Fix crash when trying to throw a quivered dancing weapon.
- Fix problems with Unicode locales other than en_US.UTF-8.
- Fix near-uselessness on ARM.
- Fix save corruption for too long player names.
- Don’t trap teleporting merfolk in a couple of temples.
- Disallow targeting passwall at self.
- Fix stat boosting armour not losing bonus when melding.
- Fix weapon acquirement not considering some rare weapons.
- Disable Trowel card in portal vaults, labyrinths, Pan and the Abyss.
- A variety of other bug fixes.
Hopefully, 0.8 won’t be long in coming now, either.
As always, have fun playing!
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 12:05
For all interested in keeping up to date with our development builds for Windows & Mac OS X or the current versions running on CDO, we now provide RSS feeds of each category:
Each feed entry will provide information about the 10 recent changes and a link to download and play the build.
Update: A summary of all RSS feeds can be found here.
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Friday, December 17th, 2010 16:03
As recently announced the desire for a forum dedicated to Stone Soup has grown stronger. Luckily djnrempel aka danr took matters into his hand and set up a forum at freeforums.org. Their services are nice and easy to use but unfortunately there have been a few complaints about speed, privacy, advertisement and the fact that exporting the database for backups is not so free.
Danr contacted me and, due to the heavy snow keeping me away from work, I just finished to set up a truly free forum on CDO. Danr will do all the administrative work and I will deal with code changes and updates.
Proud to present: The Tavern
The feature I’m especially fond of is the fact that the user database is taken from our Mantis Bug Tracking System.
Monday, November 29th, 2010 09:52
You guys have commented previously that you’d like a dedicated free Crawl forum. A few days ago, djnrempel was kind enough to set one up at http://dungeoncrawlstonesoup.freeforums.org.
This is really new, so there may be kinks to be ironed out. If you have any ideas for improvement, you can also speak up on the corresponding Mantis thread.
Have fun discussing all things Crawlific and more!
Update: Due various reasons the forum has moved.
Sunday, September 12th, 2010 18:06
Things have moved forwards, and the FR categories in Mantis have been disabled. Dive into the Code and Development Wiki, noble Feature Requester!
–Eino
Saturday, September 11th, 2010 21:46
edit: Feature Request categories have been disabled in Mantis now, please use the wiki to send in your ideas!
Contributors no longer need to ask for page-creation privileges to add new pages to the Code and Development Wiki. This should make contributing your ideas easier.
Note that when we moved our development resources to crawl.develz.org, the intention was to use the wiki for brainstorming and the tracker for ready proposals. We haven’t really enforced it so far, but would like to see this in action. FRs tend to turn into discussions and rot in the tracker, which limits the usefulness of tracker functionality. Discussion (and rotting) will happen in the wiki as well, but we think it is a better tool for that, as developers can summarize and reboot the pages more flexibly. We also hope that related issues get grouped better, so that contributors are more aware about related issues surrounding particular features.
Arguably, having categories called “Feature Request” in the tracker is pretty bad for the intended workflow. We are working on sorting this out. :-)
I’d like to add that the DCSS development mailing list is also a tool available for discussing ideas and issues with the development.
Below is the current tracker/wiki HOWTO for reference:
Thursday, September 9th, 2010 09:10