Battle Chess: Game of Kings™ news & patch notes

The last audio bug is squished. When in the "Options" menu, you can slide both SFX and Music volume controls and they actually work. The settings are saved so when you quit and play again, the settings will remain.

The music streaming system wasn't properly setting the volume from the background thread. Issue has been fixed. All music have been converted to a new format, the "*.stream" file. Generated from using the original high quality wave files.

It was found that when a game begins, sometimes there is a silence before the game starts and sometimes a combat sound effect won't play. This is found to be that when setting the volume, the code errantly used the PREVIOUS volume, and saved the value of the new volume, but not set it. The code flow was fixed.

In tracking down an issue with audio, it was found that out of 683 .wav files, 2 had invalid headers. After fixing those headers, a possible buffer overrun has been fixed. This is a data update, so it will be a bit of a download. We are hard at work squishing bugs. :)

On occassion, the resource manager used in Battlechess would leak some memory. Leaking memory is bad. This issue is fixed.

The BattleChess Game of Kings 1.1.1 patch is out now.

• Updated the Steam API to 1.54 (The latest)
• Fixed an issue where the memory format iterator was performing a buffer overrun under certain circumstances
• Fixed an out of memory issue that triggers when textures were not properly released as the game is played from 10 to 60 minutes. Texture tracking refactored and the issue was fixed.

A stack overflow was found in the chess logic that causes peices to change color and then the game will crash. The version was updated to 1.1.

Work log Updated Steam API to latest SDK Updated Burgerlib to latest version (Massive sub system re-write) Updated to latest Visual Studio Added support for import / export of standard chess "FEN" save games. Added network framework for future support of cross-chess play. Chess algorithm crash fixes. Replaced use of strtok() to a version that supports multi-threaded operation (Fixed a race condition that caused random crashes) Cleaned up dead code. Updated texture read code. Internally uses UTF-8 exclusively. Report bugs to [email protected]

Bugs fixed: Saved over 20 Meg in wasted memory Updated math functions to latest libraries Minor fix for visual error using nVidia 545GT Cleaned up startup/shutdown code Updated to latest Steam libraries Seperated config files for local and roaming data (Hardware values are tied to machine, get settings are in Roaming). Re-did steam manager to allow future update for steam cloud save games. Debuging code added to monitor for issues with loss of texture. (Data stored on local machine only) Plugged up memory leak in streaming audio A big shout out to those who have sent in bug reports!

Bugs fixed: Saved over 20 Meg in wasted memory Updated math functions to latest libraries Minor fix for visual error using nVidia 545GT Cleaned up startup/shutdown code Updated to latest Steam libraries Seperated config files for local and roaming data (Hardware values are tied to machine, get settings are in Roaming). Re-did steam manager to allow future update for steam cloud save games. Debuging code added to monitor for issues with loss of texture. (Data stored on local machine only) Plugged up memory leak in streaming audio A big shout out to those who have sent in bug reports!

Please send an email with what you found and how to reproduce it to [email protected] Thanks!

Please send an email with what you found and how to reproduce it to [email protected] Thanks!

Pretty much everything is fixed. The only thing that hasn't been fully tested is the Combat Vault, however, the next build is currently being tested which will have the Vault enabled so you can view your previous kills at your leisure! Thank you so much for being patient with us! :)

Pretty much everything is fixed. The only thing that hasn't been fully tested is the Combat Vault, however, the next build is currently being tested which will have the Vault enabled so you can view your previous kills at your leisure! Thank you so much for being patient with us! :)

Fixed a buffer overrun in the chess logic. (Took forever to find this one) Fixed an invalid value being sent to the light shader (Caused memory trashing). Played 4 games from start to finish, no crashes. Either I'm really lucky, or I found the crash bug. Please, prove me right!!!

Fixed a buffer overrun in the chess logic. (Took forever to find this one) Fixed an invalid value being sent to the light shader (Caused memory trashing). Played 4 games from start to finish, no crashes. Either I'm really lucky, or I found the crash bug. Please, prove me right!!!

It's been a while, and thankfully the issues that have kept us from working on this game have been resolved. Please, do your worst. There's a github based bug tracker set up so the community can report the bugs and watch the progress as issues are fixed. If there's any feature requests, please note them as such and they will be considered. Thank you for your patience in helping get Battle Chess perfected. I mean it, do your worst, follow the link below and report issues, but be civil. We're here to play video games and have fun! https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/battlechessgameofkings/issues

It's been a while, and thankfully the issues that have kept us from working on this game have been resolved. Please, do your worst. There's a github based bug tracker set up so the community can report the bugs and watch the progress as issues are fixed. If there's any feature requests, please note them as such and they will be considered. Thank you for your patience in helping get Battle Chess perfected. I mean it, do your worst, follow the link below and report issues, but be civil. We're here to play video games and have fun! https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/battlechessgameofkings/issues

Seems that converting from a right handed coordinate system to a left handed one is... fun... Loads of fun. Rather amusing seeing pieces face the wrong way and other nastiness. Trust me, you DON"T want what I've got right now. I expect a delay of a week before I get all of the rotation issues fixed. Converting from DirectX to OpenGL is a level of hell. Don't worry, I'm feeling the burn.

Seems that converting from a right handed coordinate system to a left handed one is... fun... Loads of fun. Rather amusing seeing pieces face the wrong way and other nastiness. Trust me, you DON"T want what I've got right now. I expect a delay of a week before I get all of the rotation issues fixed. Converting from DirectX to OpenGL is a level of hell. Don't worry, I'm feeling the burn.

So sorry for the delays, we have been swamped with another project which sucked up our resources for a few months. We are going through the messages here and addressing all issues with BattleChess: Game of Kings. On another note: a fan was calling our phone number and leaving messages, we wanted to reply, but since the fan didn't mention a return phone in the message and the caller ID was blocked, we couldn't respond. Please, leave a return number if you want a response.

So sorry for the delays, we have been swamped with another project which sucked up our resources for a few months. We are going through the messages here and addressing all issues with BattleChess: Game of Kings. On another note: a fan was calling our phone number and leaving messages, we wanted to reply, but since the fan didn't mention a return phone in the message and the caller ID was blocked, we couldn't respond. Please, leave a return number if you want a response.

Recently, my mother passed away, and when I finally was able to settle her affairs, my wife's father passed away suddenly, causing us to once again drop what we were doing and settle the family's affairs. After getting back, comes E3, and a giant pile of contracts, emails and other stuff that sucked the time and life out of me. It's all behind us now. Soooooooo... I'm doing a Perforce get, building and coding and wrapping up the few remaining bugs left in BattleChess: Game of Kings, so we can move this game from Early Access to full release! Thank you, everyone, who has pre-purchased the game and helped me through your bug reports to help polish this game to a level of quality you'd expect from Olde Sküül and my old company, Interplay Productions! Rebecca Heineman One frazzed coder PS. Tell your friends to buy the game and slip some burgers under the slot in my office door. Yum!

Recently, my mother passed away, and when I finally was able to settle her affairs, my wife's father passed away suddenly, causing us to once again drop what we were doing and settle the family's affairs. After getting back, comes E3, and a giant pile of contracts, emails and other stuff that sucked the time and life out of me. It's all behind us now. Soooooooo... I'm doing a Perforce get, building and coding and wrapping up the few remaining bugs left in BattleChess: Game of Kings, so we can move this game from Early Access to full release! Thank you, everyone, who has pre-purchased the game and helped me through your bug reports to help polish this game to a level of quality you'd expect from Olde Sküül and my old company, Interplay Productions! Rebecca Heineman One frazzed coder PS. Tell your friends to buy the game and slip some burgers under the slot in my office door. Yum!

A new version of BattleChess is up! Please report any issues. Looks like it's only a week or two away from being final! Thank you so much for getting BattleChess! I get to eat tonight! Work log... Fixed memory trasher in "Prop" handler (Item's in character hands/feet) Fixed crash and hang when changing screen resolution Fixed issue where data was uninitialized on the MENUSTART data load Cleaned up chess logic. Removed obsolete code SSE2 support on machines that have it Game doesn't crash when Steam isn't running when battlechess is started Built all code under LLVM (Mac) and fixed all code warnings found (Minor issues discovered) Removed all traces of GameSpy (Leftover code from old codebase) Fixed a memory leak when an achievement is unlocked Underlying engine code, too many improvements / fixes to list.

A new version of BattleChess is up! Please report any issues. Looks like it's only a week or two away from being final! Thank you so much for getting BattleChess! I get to eat tonight! Work log... Fixed memory trasher in "Prop" handler (Item's in character hands/feet) Fixed crash and hang when changing screen resolution Fixed issue where data was uninitialized on the MENUSTART data load Cleaned up chess logic. Removed obsolete code SSE2 support on machines that have it Game doesn't crash when Steam isn't running when battlechess is started Built all code under LLVM (Mac) and fixed all code warnings found (Minor issues discovered) Removed all traces of GameSpy (Leftover code from old codebase) Fixed a memory leak when an achievement is unlocked Underlying engine code, too many improvements / fixes to list.

Work log... Cleaned up Battlechess.ini Added a "dirty" flag for BattleChess.ini updating Flattened the Controller Config file Made the controller config file work on both 32 and 64 bit exe Removed the saving of pointers in the controller config file Movies use the Burgerlib file system Removed dead code Added Battle Music (Odd, it's still not playing, will fix shortly) Fixed label conflicts Port all tools to the Mac (PowerPC/Intel) Updated the decompressor/compressor class Updated BattleChess Classic's tools to Visual Studio Ported Huffman compressor/decompressor from 16 bit code to 32/64 bit code Built for Linux (Not deployed, will go beta soon) Built for MacOSX (Intel, Not deployed, will go beta soon) Updated Burgerlib compressors to add Deflate, LZSS and RLE to new class Ported PowerOf2(), BitReverse() to amd64 and x86 assembly Ported Tick::ReadMilliseconds() to SHIELD and OUYA Updated MakeProjects to create CodeBlocks projects files for Linux target Updated Buildbot scripts to auto-build Linux exe Updated Buildbot scripts to auto-build MacOSX exe Updated Slicer to better compress 32 bit ARGB to DXT5 format Added PS4 target for Visual Studio Props file Updated copyrights on Burgerlib source for prepping for sourceforge upload.

Work log... Cleaned up Battlechess.ini Added a "dirty" flag for BattleChess.ini updating Flattened the Controller Config file Made the controller config file work on both 32 and 64 bit exe Removed the saving of pointers in the controller config file Movies use the Burgerlib file system Removed dead code Added Battle Music (Odd, it's still not playing, will fix shortly) Fixed label conflicts Port all tools to the Mac (PowerPC/Intel) Updated the decompressor/compressor class Updated BattleChess Classic's tools to Visual Studio Ported Huffman compressor/decompressor from 16 bit code to 32/64 bit code Built for Linux (Not deployed, will go beta soon) Built for MacOSX (Intel, Not deployed, will go beta soon) Updated Burgerlib compressors to add Deflate, LZSS and RLE to new class Ported PowerOf2(), BitReverse() to amd64 and x86 assembly Ported Tick::ReadMilliseconds() to SHIELD and OUYA Updated MakeProjects to create CodeBlocks projects files for Linux target Updated Buildbot scripts to auto-build Linux exe Updated Buildbot scripts to auto-build MacOSX exe Updated Slicer to better compress 32 bit ARGB to DXT5 format Added PS4 target for Visual Studio Props file Updated copyrights on Burgerlib source for prepping for sourceforge upload.