Html5 Client Preview

[beaver]

Alpha 3

New Features
- add in game chat
- show stacked dice on sidebar

Fixed Bugs
- fight results has correct background behind the players
- fix red text sometimes being black

[beaver]

Alpha 4

New features
- Uses same server as Vortex Wars 2.4. You can use the html5 client to play with people using the flash client.
- Supports 5 additional races: Dragons, Reptiles, Arachnids, Undead, werewolves, and Frankenstein
- Refresh button in lobby says "LOADING" while waiting for initial game list

Bug fixes
- Does not crash when trying to show level icon
- Player rating now displays correctly in game
- The map is now behind the fight results
- Fix bug when drawing buttons that caused some of them to be too far to the left
- Game list from lobby will no longer appear after leaving the lobby
- Hides rating for players that disconnect
- When a game is over, the surrender button now says "QUIT"
- The chat panel is now removed when leaving a game
- The game over screen now correctly appears for players that are 8th - 2nd.

[beaver]

Alpha 5

New Features
- Errors can now have titles
- Error messages are now wrapped

Fixed Bugs
- Chat message is now white
- Chat text is wrapped
- Fix outline now appearing around some text
- Draw button is now hidden when you can not draw
- zoom buttons are now in front of map
- Neighbor regions stop pulsing when the region is deselected
- Fix position of text in sidebar when player disconnects
- Draw flags are now shown

[beaver]

Alpha 6

New Features
- Refresh button in lobby now works. It also shows 'LOADING' when refreshing.
- More errors have a title and have their text wrapped.
- Created games now have xxl map.

Bug Features
- Now works when playing with registered players. It had crashed when drawing the player's rating.
- Greatly increased accuracy when calculating what region was clicked. It still has difficulty when the click is on the bottom of a region.
- Takes zoom level into account when calculating region clicked
- Zoom correctly centers the map when changing zoom level
- Map is now centered when the game starts

[beaver]

I have been working on completely removing flash from the html5 client. I think I have gotten past all of the main problems, and should have the next alpha release ready in a week.

[highlander]

Beaver the Html5 accounts can hijack games and be red.

Thats the second Html5 account thats joined a game and started it ,basically hijacking it from the host.

[beaver]

Alpha 7

- Flash has been completely removed from the client! All communication between the client and the servers is done with JavaScript.
- Guests are always ready.
- Ready button in game room disappears when player is ready.

This update also fixed a bug where the html5 client would in some situations automatically start the game. I'm sorry for all of the problems this caused.

[Fangfallen]

Awesome, Beaver!

[beaver]

Alpha 8

New Features
- add chat to lobby and game room
- finish loading indicator
- slight improvements to initial loading time
- add loading screen
- game is now centered in the page
- show game name, game type in game room
- if the map is random, the game room shows what size it is

Fixed Bugs
- fix some buttons being off center
- rating is hidden when side panel is narrow in game
- fix disconnecting from rooms when leaving

Known Bugs
- Chat in game room only lists players who have joined after you
- Player list in chat does not scroll yet

[beaver]

Alpha 9

New Features:
- The game room is almost finished. It now shows the game options, map preview, players in room and who is ready, and has all of the features available to guests.
- Long names use a smaller font size in lobby chat
- Add Forum, Clans, and Feedback links to web page

Bug Fixes
- fix crash when attempting to show placed defense boost
- Improved error messages shown in lobby
- chat text box is removed when leaving lobby or game room
- Shows correct icon for players over level 54
- Server will always use latest version of client (sometimes was one or two changes behind)