Widelands

This release adds a new scripting engine that allows for complex scenarios, a new watch-me-do tutorial and a new scenario for the Atlanteans, win conditions for multiplayer games that add variety, OpenGL renderer, improvements to the user interface in many places, improvements to the user interface in many places, team support in multiplayer, shared kingdom for multiplayer, new maps, new sounds, and many new graphics and animations.

This release adds new gameplay features: second carriers (donkeys, oxen, and horses) are added on busy roads. Scouts can reveal a big area around their house. A new scenario part has been added. Random maps will now contain resources, immovables, and critters. The mini map can now be zoomed. The messaging system has been improved. Statistics will now show the reason why a building is not producing anything.

Game logic: this release adds an interface to set target quantities for ware types in an economy, as well as different configurable player initializations. It has better scenario creation features. The game setup UI: has a multiplayer lobby with chat, and menus scale to different resolutions. All trees have natural lifecycles (seeding, death). There are new sound effects, music, graphics, maps, and a tutorial scenario. The computer player has been improved. Many serious bugs and some usability issues have been fixed. Spectators may look at building and economy configuration. Game chat has been improved with timestamps and personal messages.

Demand checks for production were added, so a site
will not deplete the supply of a ware type to fill
warehouses with another ware type, which easily
caused deadlocks. Saved games can be loaded in
multiplayer games. The framerate was limited to
reduce CPU usage. A /me-command was added in
multiplayer chat. Graphics were added for all
Atlantean buildings. Maps, songs, and sound
effects were added. The syntax of some game data
formats and tribe economies was cleaned up. Many
bugs were fixed. Many parts of the UI were
improved.

This release added animal and worker animations, a new tribe (Atlantids), a map, and scenario event types (building, flag, immovable, reveal_campaign, reveal_scenario, road) and trigger types (military influence, ownership, vision). Scenarios were fixed and updated to take advantage of the new features. It is possible to run network games from maps (but not yet from saved games). Automatic flag placement on roads was implemented. A map can be loaded into the editor from the command line. UI elements were fixed and improved. Bugs where a worker was lost when buildings were destroyed and the objective display was not updated were fixed.