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• 2018-03-21

• Podball was successfully built on Linux (Ubuntu 17.10 Desktop) for the first time! See [PodballBuild] for instructions.

• 2018-03-15

More cool stuff:

• New Lua modules to help engineering a team: FixedPositions and TheWall!

• Goal exclusion radius.
• Additonal match stats: Ball possession, terrain occupation and attack/defense ratio.

• Added --lua option to execute a Lua script.

• 2018-03-10

It's time for a major update with many new features!

• Bigger match viewer.

• Teams can use custom colors.
• Recording feature for matches and replay of recorded matches.
• Engine can be used as a standalone Dll.
• Debug drawing interface. Modules can draw simple shapes on the arena.
• Control random seed for engine to have perfect determinisitc matches, if required.
• Lua language support for control modules fully implemented.

• Improved Lea.lua example module.

• 2014-05-31

Switched to CMake (http://www.cmake.org/) as a platform independent build system. There should be no major obstacles now to build on Linux also. (But it hasn't been done yet). Everything builds fine on MS Visual Studio 2012 Express (v11) on Windows7. Also i upgraded Lua to its latest release 5.2.3. Now concentrating on the Lua integration.

• 2014-05-21

After another long dormant phase, i have decided to revive the project once again. It's another Soccer Worldcup year after all! The old web space on Assembla has timed out. Also, they removed Trac support completely. Finally i signed up for a free project on Sourceforge. I set up a temporary Linux host in order to host the old Trac site so i could import it into the Sourceforge Wiki. I also switched to Mercurial for version control since i begin to like it much better than Subversion. I used the convert extension so that all the history from the SVN repository is preserved.

I am now trying to compile the project, update the dependencies and then get serious with the Lua integration. Any help will be appreciated.

• 2010-07-20

As of 2010-07-20, Podball (v2) has officially entered public beta stage. The infrastructure is mature, the interfaces are getting stable. The first contest will be launched soon! Subscribe to the ​mailing list to get notified.