Patch 2011-12-27:
- Update to the latest Torque 3D engine.
- The sun's shadows are now crisper and don't shimmer as much.
- Improved anti-aliasing which may be enabled for most video cards.
- The church bell's volume now respects the Options Window's Audio volume settings.
- Known Issue: When you turn away from a player holding a torch, the torch's light is clipped and no longer casts light for the viewer.
Patch 2011-11-29:
- You can now play checkers with a friend in the tavern. Sitting down at a table will open the Game Table window. Choose English Draughts (Checkers) from the Game drop down and press the Play button to start a game. Click on a man on the board and then click an empty square to move him. Check out the Rules tab for more information on how to play. Press Reset to restart a game and the Leave button to stand up from the table.
- Maximum chat length is now 140 characters.
- No more visible breathing motion while in 1st person.
- Fixed the game window not starting at the correct size under Firefox.
- New version 1.2 of the web plug-in. The changes allow for games with different code bases to be played on the site.
- Known Issue: When you turn away from a player holding a torch, the torch's light is clipped and no longer casts light for the viewer.
Patch 2010-12-19:
- Plublic alpha has begun!
- Update to latest Torque 3D engine.
- The '?' icon in the toolbar now opens the Game Window with a number of options. ESC may also be pressed to open this window.
- New Options Window may be opened from the Game Window. It allows you to set graphics quality and audio levels.
- New chairs and tables in the Tavern. Sit down and chat with friends.
- Can you find the new, hidden cave?
- Fixed the roads disappearing when viewed from certain angles.
- Fixed chat window sometimes being lost when the browser window is resized. The chat window now returns to its initial position.
- Known Issue: When you turn away from a player holding a torch, the torch's light is clipped and no longer casts light for the viewer.
Patch 2010-09-16:
- Entire user interface has been redesigned with a medieval theme.
- The toolbar at the bottom of the screen has been made larger with new icons.
- A new button has been added to the toolbar to play emote animations. Click on the wave silhouette button at the right to open a popup window listing all possible choices. Click on one of the wave emotes, or the close button. Wave animations may also be played with /wave and /bigwave.
- Players now hold recorder and frame drum instruments when the Music window is open. No more stand-in musical note. The Music icon in the toolbar also changes according to the current instrument.
- The Chat window has been relocated to the middle of the screen, and its window frame fades away when the mouse pointer is not over the window.
- The /time command now responds with a 12hr clock.
- New loading splash screen to fit with latest Torque 3D licensing requirements.
- Known Issue: When you turn away from a player holding a torch, the torch's light is clipped and no longer casts light for the viewer.
- Known issue: Roads disappear when viewed from certain angles.
- Known issue: Resizing the browser window doesn't keep the chat window in the middle of the screen. It should still be visible somewhere, however. Drag it back into place.
Patch 2010-07-01:
- You can now choose a girl avatar and one of 157 medieval-themed girl names.
- Expanded the boy name list to 179 medieval-themed names.
- Players no longer collide with each other. No more blocked doorways.
- Known Issue: When you turn away from a player holding a torch, the torch's light is clipped and no longer casts light for the viewer.
- Known issue: Roads disappear when viewed from certain angles.
Patch 2010-06-23:
- Fixed the issue with standing up from a chair and other players still seeing you as sitting.
- Fixed the web plug-in from crashing Firefox when refreshing the game page.
- The sound issues appear to have been fixed with the latest 4.x version of Safari. If you are still having issues, please let us know.
- Known Issue: When you turn away from a player holding a torch, the torch's light is clipped and no longer casts light for the viewer.
- Known issue: Roads disappear when viewed from certain angles.
Patch 2010-05-24:
- The Chat window now has a popup to choose the type of chat to send. The current choices are Say, Shout and Stage. If the user types a chat slash command, that takes precedence over the popup's setting.
- The Chat window now has a Send button. It works as if the user pressed Enter after typing their message.
- Modified the connection message sent to the player to better explain the chat options.
- Added a suffix to say, shout and admin chat to further clarify the type of chat sent. It provides more clues than just the text colour displayed in the Chat window.
- Switched the hudless screenshot command from ALT+P to CTRL+P as Google Chrome has trouble with using the ATL modifier -- it brings up a window menu.
- Increased the texture resolution of the Inn. Also added a stage.
- Known Issue: Reported sound issues in Safari 4.0.5.
- Known Issue: Refreshing the game's page in Firefox may cause the browser to crash. It seems Firefox is using the wrong plug-in destroy/create order.
- Known Issue: When you turn away from a player holding a torch, the torch's light is clipped and no longer casts light for the viewer.
- Known issue: There is still a problem when standing up from a chair. The player doesn't always move into a standing position.
- Known issue: Roads disappear when viewed from certain angles.
Patch 2010-05-21:
- Fixed a bug with sound not always initializing.
- Players now hold a stand-in musical instrument when the Music window is open. Real instruments to come!
- Players are reminded how to stand back up when they first sit down.
- New Known Issue: Reported sound issues in Safari 4.0.5.
- New Known Issue: Refreshing the game's page in Firefox may cause the browser to crash. It seems Firefox is using the wrong plug-in destroy/create order.
- New Known Issue: When you turn away from a player holding a torch, the torch's light is clipped and no longer casts light for the viewer.
- New Known Issue: The hudless screen shot (ALT+P) does not work under Chrome. It brings up the window's menu.
- Known issue: There is still a problem when standing up from a chair. The player doesn't always move into a standing position.
- Known issue: Roads disappear when viewed from certain angles.
Patch 2010-05-13:
- Players may now choose a name for their character from a list of 150 names. Sorry, still no girl models.
- Player names are now visible over the character's heads.
- Invisible bounds are now in place just outside of town to keep you from running off the map. None are yet in place in the water.
- New trees and fencing around the town.
- Continued detailing the docks area.
- Added a number of new slash commands.
- /say chat (the default type of chat) may now be heard from farther away.
- The player is notified when attempting to use /stage but they are not on a stage. Results in no text being sent.
- Chat window will attempt to always remain visible when the browser window is resized.
- Added keyboard shortcuts for opening the Music window and holding the torch.
- The ESC key now opens the Game window from which the game may be quit.
- Two new buttons have been added to the toolbar for toggling 1st/3rd person camera, and to open the help summary window.
- The web browser plug-in now batches the files for first time downloaders. File extraction is now done in a separate thread. This should greatly improve download and patch speeds.
- The web browser plug-in is now installed and uses the Windows user's local directory. No administration privileges should be required for installation or play.
- Known issue: There is still a problem when standing up from a chair. The player doesn't always move into a standing position.
- Known issue: Roads disappear when viewed from certain angles.
- Known issue: No musical instrument shapes for the players to hold yet.
Patch 2009-12-24:
- First live test using the Amazon virtual servers and two external clients.
- Recorder and drum instruments are working, but instrument shapes do not yet exist.
- Tavern streaming music is in place.
- Day/night cycle is in place and is set to 2hrs real time.
- /say and /shout commands are working for local and regional chat. /say is the default when no command is given before the chat text.
- Known issue: Chat window can disappear if browser window is made too small.
- Known issue: /stage chat is not working as intended as no stage to perform on exists yet.
- Known issue: There are no physical barriers in the world so it is possible to get to areas you cannot return from or fall off the edge of the world. Try to stay around the town.
- Known issue: Roads disappear when viewed from certain angles.