webDiplomacy / News: Recent posts

1.00 fixes some bugs, leaving a cool-off period since the last releases which had several new features. webDiplomacy has had the feature-set originally aimed for for 1.0 for quite a while now, so rather than release something new and unstable for 1.00 this is intended as a stable release to start the 1.00+ releases off.

Congrats and thanks to everyone who helped make the first 5 years of webDiplomacy so great, hopefully the next 5 will be just as good!... read more

0.98 fixes some bugs, marks responded forum threads with an icon, adds customizable FAQ entries, adds moderator reporting, and adds title-bars with descriptions to most pages.

Official server: http://webdiplomacy.net/

Screenshot: http://webdiplomacy.net/doc/0.90-screenshot.png
FAQ: http://webdiplomacy.net/faq.php
Register a user account: http://webdiplomacy.net/register.php
Developer information: http://webdiplomacy.net/developers.php... read more

0.97 adds variant support, a long requested feature allowing non-standard maps to be played, and also makes some significant improvements to server-side order validation efficiency.

Official server: http://webdiplomacy.net/

Screenshot: http://webdiplomacy.net/doc/0.90-screenshot.png
FAQ: http://webdiplomacy.net/faq.php
Register a user account: http://webdiplomacy.net/register.php
Developer information: http://webdiplomacy.net/developers.php... read more

0.96 fixes bugs and makes optimizations regarding the new live-game feature; allowing instantaneous processing when ready. Bugs and inefficiencies in the new JavaScript order-generation code have been removed, and caching capability has been improved.
Several JavaScript tweaks have been made allowing small improvements, e.g. the forum now remembers which individual threads have been read, some CSS tweaks have been made, JavaScript error logging has been made silent, and more preperations for future variant support have been made.... read more

0.94 adds client-side order generation and updates some map code, to fix bugs, reduce server load, prepare for future variants and translations, and make things quicker for users.

Official server: http://webdiplomacy.net/

Screenshot: http://webdiplomacy.net/doc/0.90-screenshot.png
FAQ: http://webdiplomacy.net/faq.php
Register a user account: http://webdiplomacy.net/register.php
Developer information: http://webdiplomacy.net/developers.php... read more

In this release: some bug-fixes with live-game code; large-map territory names are now added on via an image overlay to look better and be better for future variant support; changes to help keep anonymous games anonymous; added ability to search for users; and CSS/user-interface tweaks for IE.

Play Diplomacy Online: http://webdiplomacy.net/
Play Diplomacy on Facebook: http://apps.new.facebook.com/phpdiplomacy/ ... read more

In 0.91 a couple of fun new game customization options and interface enhancements have been added by jayp:
- Anonymous games
- Alternative messaging rules (Public messaging only, no messaging)
- Some bug fixes in Admin CP and the Leave button
- Improved cache control
- In short(<=15 mins) games, Retreat and Unit-placing phases are processed right away when everyone finalizes their moves.
- The next-phase countdown timer counts down with JavaScript
- Game times can now range from 5 minutes to 10 days
- WTA enabled for everyone... read more

Diplomacy is a popular strategy game in which you battle to control Europe, but this isn't a game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, making and breaking alliances and bargains. webDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.

With a complete adjudicator established in 0.8x, 0.90 focuses on improving the user-interface of the site; either making aesthetic improvements, e.g. wide-ranging CSS tweaks, providing more useful information, e.g. the new game-panels and home page, or adding new interface elements, e.g. the new game list search menus. Lots of other smaller features are added, such as e-mail validation, and we have changed the name from phpDiplomacy to webDiplomacy, since the "php" prefix wasn't widely recognizable to players as intended.... read more

Diplomacy is a popular strategy game in which you battle to control Europe, but this isn't a game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, making and breaking alliances and bargains. phpDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.

This release is mostly oriented towards making it easier to handle large communities of players, and it also includes some bug fixes which finish off the remainder of the DATC compatibility issues.... read more

Diplomacy is a popular strategy game in which you battle to control Europe, but this isn't a game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, making and breaking alliances and bargains. phpDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.

The main enhancements in 0.81:
- Several bug fixes, work-around for MySQL 5.0.45 join bug
- Correct number of build orders bug resolved (wonderllama)
- Ability to roll back a turn from the archive
- Text based order history
- Facebook support (Chris Hughes)
- Game listings pagination (Chris Hughes)
- User-configurable hours per phase (Chris Hughes)... read more

Diplomacy is a popular strategy game in which you battle to control Europe, but this isn't a game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, making and breaking alliances and bargains. phpDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.

The main enhancements in 0.80:
- A fully DATC compliant adjudicator, full support for the official rules
- All moves are now displayed on the map
- PHP 4 code upgraded to PHP 5
- MySQL-specific database optimizations and performance enhancements
- In-depth documentation added throughout code
- New AGPL share-alike license to replace the BSD license... read more

phpDiplomacy 0.75 Released. Diplomacy is a popular strategy game in which you battle to control Europe, but it isn't a game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, forming and breaking alliances and bargains. phpDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.

The main enhancements in 0.75:
- Several bug fixes
- Internal stability, performance and code quality improvements
- UI improvements
- Game forum replaced with game chatbox
- Simple game status notification block... read more

phpDiplomacy 0.72 Released. Diplomacy is a popular board game in which you battle to control Europe, but this isn't a game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, forming and breaking alliances and bargains. phpDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.

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phpDiplomacy's development has slowed, being inactive for months now as opposed to the constant development last year, due to work and study.... read more

phpDiplomacy 0.7 Released. Diplomacy is a popular board game in which you battle to control Europe, but this isn't a game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, forming and breaking alliances and bargains. phpDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.

Official phpDiplomacy server:
[ http://phpdiplomacy.kuliukas.com/ ]

Screenshot:
[ http://phpdiplomacy.kuliukas.com/doc/0.7shot.png ] ... read more

phpDiplomacy 0.6 Released. Diplomacy is a popular board game in which you battle to control Europe, but this isn't a game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, forming and breaking alliances and bargains. phpDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.

Official phpDiplomacy server:
[ http://phpdiplomacy.kuliukas.com/ ]

Screenshot:
[ http://phpdiplomacy.kuliukas.com/doc/0.6shot.png ]... read more

Diplomacy is a popular board game in which you battle to control Europe, but this isn't a game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, forming and breaking alliances and bargains. phpDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.

phpDiplomacy 0.5-Stable has made massive amounts of progress all round, some of the most major improvements:
- phpDiplomacy is object based, making it easier to maintain and change.
- phpDiplomacy has been made much easier for newcomers.
- phpDiplomacy has been audited and debugged much more thoroughly than previous releases.... read more

Diplomacy is a popular board game in which you battle to control Europe, but this isn't a game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, forming and breaking alliances and bargains. phpDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.

phpDiplomacy Beta was all about getting the internals (gamemaster*) up and running; this release is focused on getting the user interface up to the same standard. Some of the key new features are:
- Messaging; in-game, public forum, and private messaging.
- User control panel.
- User profiles.
- Major user interface changes, much more useable all round.
Try the test account or register your own account to see how phpDiplomacy is coming along using the links below. If you have a comment you can leave it on the phpDiplomacy public forum,
Kestas J. K- project leader... read more

I've completed message threads, PMs, and announcements and have begun work on game-overs and a user control panel. 0.5-stable, the first stable version of phpDiplomacy, should be out early next week. You can check out the forum via the link below:
[ http://phpdiplomacy.sourceforge.net/05stable.html ]

Changed the way user accounts are tied to games to be simpler and more flexible, added support for in-game message sending and recieving, done some UI tweaking, and added register_globals support.

Diplomacy is a popular board game in which you battle to control Europe, but this is no game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, forming and breaking allegiances and bargains. phpDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.

phpDiplomacy-Beta is a vast improvement over Alpha, which was released two weeks ago; order manipulation has improved dramatically, much more care has been given to security measures; and the move resolving and unit updating script, gamemaster.php, is now much more able.... read more

Revised the way move orders are resolved, rewrote modeseven.php and modefive.php to use the new $orders, improved board.php support for retreats and unit creation/destruction, changed install.php to store the configuration in a more secure way, major debugging and UI tweaking all around.
phpDiplomacy is now useable and relatively stable, beta will be released next week.

Added support for messaging (message.php), wrote a function to send messages and added messaging to gamemaster.php and its various includes. Used the increased debugging info from gamemaster messaging to debug mode three.
Also revised the method by which modethree.php records and resolves stalemates.

Rewrote the method by which board.php orders are stored, retrieved and updated. It's basically a much better alternative to the previous hacked-together method. Happy new year.

Diplomacy is a popular board game in which you battle to control Europe, but this is no game of luck; to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, forming and breaking allegiances and bargains. phpDiplomacy takes the fight for Europe to the internet.
This is the first public release of phpDiplomacy intended for people interested in the project as opposed to end-users. The screenshot below gives a quick summary of the project's progress so far.
http://phpdiplomacy.sf.net/alphashot.jpg

gamemaster.php made alpha, fixed a few board database errors involving coasts, and entered the map co-ordinates of each territory into the board database. Added support for the rest of the game modes in board.php.
The map and some debugging are all that's left before phpDiplomacy-alpha is released.