Changelog

Added: Dismissable active session banner.

Added: Possibility to rotate tile in hand on mobile, without having to place tile first.

Improved: Prerendered for SEO pages.

Fixed: End-of-game subject counts jumping to the full count for all players prematurely.

Fixed: Pressing Space re-requesting an undo right after clicking the undo button.

Fixed: White-screen crash caused by a Route/auth module import cycle.

Fixed: Adding too many bots kicking you out of the lobby.

Fixed: Tournament admin who only spectates getting kicked from their own tournament.

Added: AFK detection as an optional game and tournament setting. If a player goes inactive, the game detects it and handles it gracefully, with a dialog warning the player.

Improved: You can now join or create games while still being in another session, the hard block was removed.

Fixed: The fallback AI option was not shown on mobile during games.

Improved: New logo with a reskinned crown and transparent background, including new favicons.

Improved: Button layout and styling on the landing page and lobby.

Improved: SEO across the main page and tile distribution page.

Fixed: Undo crashing out the AI protocol. Furthermore, illegal AI moves can now never crash the game server, which is what happened due to the protocol error.

Added: New Medium and Hard difficulty for AI opponents. This difficulties are significantly harder than the previous version (now Easy).

Improved: Yellow flag coloring.

Improved: Closing the fast queue dialog now also cancels the queue.

Improved: More consistent styling of all buttons.

Improved: Chat: Now auto-scrolls to latest message and mute button only appears on hovering.

Fixed: Chat now correctly shows symbols Ä, Ü, Ö, ... .

Fixed: System chat messages no longer appearing

Added: Extrapolated game end scores during replay.

Added: Add time in single-player and vs-AI games: top up your own clock instantly when no other humans are around, and grant extra time to AI players as well.

Improved: Add-time is now reachable from the mobile player overlay too, and the button appears for every player whenever the rule-set allows it.

Improved: Requesting more time: any player can request more time for themselves and for any other player.

Improved: SEO

Added: Share AI replays: an optional Dev-Tools toggle in Settings adds a button to copy the current AI replay state string to the clipboard, making it easy to share positions for debugging.

Added: Brand new Desert theme: a global restyle of the lobby, game UI, tournament views, news & changelog, and more.

Added: Request add time: during a game you can ask for extra time, and all players need to approve. Left click adds 15 seconds, right click lets you pick any amount.

Added: Request undo: after you've completed a move, you can now ask the other players to let you take it back. If everyone agrees, the board returns to the state before your move.

Improved: Undo now works even when there are no subjects to place. In that case, confirm your tile placement with the green checkbox once you're sure.

Added: Play against an AI while waiting in the fast queue. When a human match is found, you can either join it or keep playing your AI game.

Added: Active matches are now shown in the Lobby Hub, so you can see what's currently being played.

Added: Partial scores are shown during the game, so you can track how points are adding up in real time. This is of course configurable in the game options

Added: New 'Confirmation of subject placement' option in the settings. When enabled, you have to click twice to confirm a subject placement. This is great for trackpads and other imprecise input devices.

Added: Option for subject and flag scaling strength, so you can tune how big they appear when zooming out, the default is less scaling for subjects than before.

Added: On mobile, the current tile is outlined when it's your turn, so you have a harder time missing it.

Improved: Mobile in-game experience has been overhauled: all important information is always concisely visible, without needing to open overlays.

Improved: Desktop in-game information panel has been reworked for a clearer, more compact layout.

Fixed: Lobby and tournament chats are now permanent for the lifetime of the lobby or tournament, no more dead chats.

Improved: Tournament chat is always enabled, and mobile dynamically shows which chat is currently active.

Improved: In-game tournament view restyled to match the game details panel

Improved: Lobby and tournament overviews update automatically, no more pressing refresh.

Improved: Button layout has been improved throughout the game.

Added: Side panels on desktop are now draggable. Drag the handle to resize or collapse them, and double-click to reset to the default width. Panel sizes are remembered separately for normal games and tournaments.

Added: Chat to lobby & tournament.

Added: Banner for official tournament on landing page.

Added: Spectator view for tournaments on mobile devices.

Added: Tournament rules explanation.

Added: Registration button can now also be clicked for joining / registering tournaments.

Improved: Sound is now properly muted when the browser tab is inactive.

Improved: Layout of tournament view.

Improved: Updated tournament view layout.

Improved: Correctly handle all match results in tournaments.

Improved: WebSocket authentication.

Improved: Default value for desert subject when creating tournaments.

Fixed: Sometimes being redirected from tournament to homepage.

Fixed: Everything when the refresh token needed to be used.

Fixed: Balance mode not actually adding the promised tile.

Added: Tournaments: Create, play, and manage tournament games with up to 64 players, and up to 3 AI players. Full settings are configurable with swiss-style tournaments.

Added: Google authentication as a login option.

Added: Option to give email in feedback, so we can reply.

Fixed: 'E' key no longer triggers hotkeys while typing in chat.

Fixed: Better error messages and redirects for invalid or expired pages.

Fixed: Ghost lobbies should no longer appear.

Improved: Websocket Authentication

Improved: API documentation, error handling

Added: Balance mode: Option for lobby, that adds a 72nd tile to the tileset. The extra tile is a city cap.

Added: Tile mulitplier: Option for lobby, multiplies the number of tiles in the game. Ranges from 1 to 7.

Improved: AI performance: Should hold back a bit on subject placing early game, recognizes blocked features better

Added: Undo button: You can now revert your last tile placement until you have placed your subject.

Added: Can now rotate tiles by use of arrow keys and Q/E key.

Fixed: Can now directly join games again from the lobby.

Fixed: Not being able to log back in after expired login token.

Fixed: Auto renewal of website certificate. This is why we had an outage on production recently.

Fixed: HTML hydration error on lobby page.

Fixed: Joining a full lobby by link will now redirect.

Fixed: Discord link

Added: Tile distribution link in navbar

Improved: During the game, players are now shown in correct playing order

Fixed: Chat now works immediately after joining a game

Added: Remaining tiles icon during gameplay

Improved: Swap player clock with current tile

Fixed: Fix slow zoom for some touchpad devices

Improved: Chess mode user experience: upcoming tiles now constantly shown on the left

Improved: Subjects & Flags now scale bigger when zooming out. Thanks to Bumsakalaka for suggesting this.

Improved: Subject placement logic: Only show hints for non-equivalent moves (within a tile), hint & subject positions improved. Thanks to Bumsakalaka for suggesting this.

Improved: Remove AI move made message

Improved: Tile grid alpha is now called Tile grid opacity in the settings

Improved: Unfocus chat when clicking on the map

Improved: Bump up the time slider's maximum value to 3 hours for local lobbies

Improved: Subject placing logic & feel

Improved: Hints for where subjects can be placed are now visible

Improved: Page layout. This should also fix a bug where the stats & chat buttons were not visible on mobile devices. Thanks to u/Variandra for reporting this.

Improved: Upcoming maintenance banner is now also visible in-game

Added: Show subject names in tutorial

Improved: No AI fallback messages are sent to user once game has ended

Added: Name changes are now propagated to the lobby system, so if you change your name, it will be visible to all players directly

Fixed: Touch controls getting stuck in pinch mode on iOS. Thanks to u/neogener and u/CreeT6 for reporting this.

Improved: Zoom controls, zoom now also allows for dragging.

Improved: Touch presses for confirming tile/subject placement are now more forgiving

Added: Discord server for community interaction and feedback.

Improved: Extended message length limit from 150 to 200 characters.

Improved: Layout of news & changelog pages

Added: PopUp system for very important messages

Added: Starting from this update, any maintenance based server restarts will be announced by a big banner at the top.

Fixed: Actually disallow spectators if configured in lobby

Fixed: Graphics quality on phone devices

Improved: Phone QOL

Fixed: Various issues around the lobby system that caused ghost lobbies and players to be permastuck

Added: Mobile controls for touch devices

Improved: Responsive layout for all devices, phones, laptops and anything with a smaller screen should see improvements.

Added: Control dialog for game controls, visible in-game & in tutorial

Added: Sitemap, google indexing

Added: Changelog site :)

Fixed: Navigation when not connected to a game

Fixed: [Backend] AI server properly queues up ai requests

Improved: [Backend] Always accept latest incoming connection to a game, kills any old connection.

Improved: News site layout