Trosnoth version 1.6.0 was released today. This version features a bunch of improvements including colour-coded grenades, an improved chat interface, and more balanced upgrade costs.

Some players have talked about getting a Trosnoth League up and running. This will involve regular games against other teams. For now, league games will be 4 players per team. Express your interest here: http://www.trosnoth.org/league-sign-up

This version is still compatible with other versions in the 1.5 series, but it fixes a few bugs and makes a few other minor changes.

• Added another class of bot to the lobby.
• Improved configuration options for Trosnoth authentication server.
• Fixed a bug which resulted in a default vote being counted for each AI player during the votes for map size and game duration.
• Fixed a bug which made the Technology Whiz achievement did not appear under player profiles on the server website.
• Fixed a bug which resulted in dramatic lag on the authentication server under certain very specific conditions.

Trosnoth version v1.5.1 has now been released.  Find it at the download page.

• New upgrades: machine gun, shoxwave, ninja. These replace the turret and phase shift upgrades.
• You can now tell what upgrades a player has by looking at them (e.g. players with machine gunner and shoxwave have a visibly different gun, player with minimap disruption wears a radar hat).
• New zone capture indicator on minimap: zones on minimap have coloured circle showing whether the zone can be captured or is in danger of capture.
• Players can now mark zones on the minimap to draw the attention of team-mates.
• Added practise mode (with bots) to menu.
• Authentication server lobby now adds bots players to the game up to a certain minimum number of total players.
• Authentication server now also runs a web server which displays player achievements.
• Initial work on "Trosnoth core", a web-based menu system for Trosnoth that integrates with the authentication server web site.
• When playing Trosnoth from the Trosnoth core, you now have the ability to add authentication servers other than the defaults.
• Console output is quieter: only errors are logged unless a debug flag is given.
• Some refactoring, including some efficiency gains.

Playing some Trosnoth this evening, we noticed that the achievement graphics weren't showing up correctly.  This is all fixed in the newly-released version 1.4.1.  See the download page to get your copy now.

Did I say "a few weeks time" in that last post?  Well better late than never.

After many weeks of hard work, we bring you Trosnoth version 1.4.  Those who came on UberTweak Spring 2010 will have seen a sneak preview of this version of Trosnoth, but for the rest of you, it's finally here for download.  Changes since version 1.3.2 include:

•  Updated graphics.
•  Zone tags are no longer permitted after the game is over.
•  Grenade explosions now kill everything in their blast, rather than firing shots in all directions.
•  Grenade can now be launched in any direction, and they bounce.
•  If a long time has passed since the last zone tag, stars start appearing which can be collected to increase your star count.
•  Updated physics: you can no longer fall through the floor at certain buggy map locations.
•  Updated physics: if you press and hold jump while in the air, you will jump the moment you touch ground.
•  Simplified mechanism for purchasing upgrades: you now select an upgrade with number keys, and press space bar to buy and use it.
•  When you first join the game, your ghost is now placed closer to where there is action.
•  Added a lobby mode between games, where players can vote on the settings for the next game.
•  When connecting to a server in lobby mode, you automatically join the game.
•  Players can change their nickname from the menu, but only during lobby mode.
•  Added Trosnoth authentication servers - users can create accounts so that their statistics and achievements can be recorded against the unique player.
•  Added achievements.
•  Added some sounds (disabled by default).
•  Changed default team names to Standardators and Defaulticons (from Blue Team and Red Team).
•  Removed internet game discovery protocol in favour of games registering themselves with a central server.
•  Disabled pirate theme (until such a time as bugs in the way themes work can be fixed)
•  Various miscellaneous bug fixes.

Trosnoth 1.3.2 has now been released, with a few minor bug-fixes from version 1.3.1.  We're working hard to bring you some exciting major improvements for version 1.4 in a few weeks time.

This latest release reintroduces statistics and replays into version 1.3, and fixes a few bugs.  Check it out on the download page.

Today we've released version 1.3.0 of Trosnoth.  We've made significant changes to the game, many of which are changes to the internal architecture.  As a result of these changes, there are still some issues that we're working to resolve, but we thought we'd release this version as "unstable" so that you can have a play with the latest features.  Check it out at the downloads page!

Today we've released Trosnoth version 1.2.2 which fixes the mouse drift which some users have been seeing.  See the download page to get this version.

Today we stumbled across a bug that can cause version 1.2.0 to hang for some players, therefore making the game unplayable.  The bug fix release 1.2.1, available from the Download page, should fix this issue.

Trosnoth 1.2 is available today from the download page.  It includes the following new features:

• Settings menu can now be accessed from in the game.
• Themes have been added, with a Pirate theme as well as the default.
• Alt+Tab in full-screen mode minimises game (except on OSX).
• Physics change: players can walk along concave surfaces without leaving the ground.
• Right-clicking in full-screen mode locks the crosshairs.
• Display options for centring on player and to disable smooth panning.
• Click to respawn.
• Some UI changes.
• Various bug fixes.
  

Statistics for this evening's Come and Play games are now available here.  Thanks to everyone who joined in and helped us test the next version of Trosnoth!

Please come and join us in this upcoming Internet Trosnoth game:

• Make sure you have downloaded and installed the Trosnoth 1.1.1 release candidate 1 (download: Windows installer or source distribution).
• The game will be played on Saturday 19 June 2010.
• At 7:00pm AEST (09:00 UTC), we will open a game called "Trosnoth CaP foyer"
• Please join this game to indicate that you wish to play in the Come and Play game.
• This game will act as a foyer only, and will not actually be started.
  
• At 7:10pm AEST (09:10 UTC), we will close the foyer game and open a game called "Trosnoth CaP".
• This will be the actual Trosnoth game.
• We will select the game size based on the number of people who enter the foyer game.
• The game will be time-limited to 45 mins, or possibly less if we don't get many players.
  
• At the end of the game we will ask who would be interested in playing another game.
• Some of us may keep playing well into the night.
  

If you would like to play but can't see the game, try doing an IP connect to 60.241.41.80 on port 6789.

For anyone who's interested in playing in open Internet games of Trosnoth, sign up to the new players group at http://groups.google.com/group/trosnoth-players.

Thank-you to everyone who participated in today's Trosnoth Come and Play matches!  They were a huge success, and demonstrated that Trosnoth over the Internet works well even when there are more than just 2 developers playing.  For game statistics, see Come and Play 2010-03-06.

To celebrate the release of Trosnoth v1.1, we will be holding an Internet Trosnoth game:

• Make sure you have downloaded and installed Trosnoth version 1.1.0.
• The game will be played on Saturday 6 March 2010.
  
• At 7:00pm AEST (09:00 UTC), we will open a game called "Trosnoth CaP foyer"
• Please join this game to indicate that you wish to play in the Come and Play game.
• This game will act as a foyer only, and will not actually be started.
  
• At 7:10pm AEST (09:10 UTC), we will close the foyer game and open a game called "Trosnoth CaP".
• This will be the actual Trosnoth game.
• We will select the game size based on the number of people who enter the foyer game.
• The game will be time-limited to 45 mins, or possibly less if we don't get many players.
  
• At the end of the game we may ask who would be interested in playing another game.

If you would like to play but can't see the game, try doing an IP connect to 60.241.41.80 on port 6789.

Version 1.1.0 is now out on the Internet, complete with the ability to see other people's Internet games.  To host an Internet game you'll need to set up port forwarding of TCP and UDP port 6789 to your computer.

You can download this release from the Download page.

Check out the new Screenshots page and info on How to Play.

And as our first bugfix release, we've updated Trosnoth so that it's easier (but still not dead easy) to play Internet games (you have to set your modem / gateway to forward UDP and TCP ports around 6788 to 6790).

And the Windows installer for Trosnoth v1.0.0 is now available!  Go to the Downloads page for details.

It is with great pleasure that we announce the first release of Trosnoth to the wider public!  Trosnoth is a team-based action strategy game.  You can download the source distribution from the Downloads page.  The Windows installer will be available shortly.

The Trosnoth.org website is now up and running!  Welcome along.