핵스볼/업데이트 내역

I fixed a small bug in the scrollbar and added player and room count to the room list.

The game is gaining a lot of popularity, which I love, but it is also going to be quite expensive :( By now half of the appspot free bandwidth quota is gone, I’m paying for 5 more gigabytes per day now, hope I wont go broke ;P

Yet another site update, this changes were made by dear brother Pilaf.

The flash client got a few minor changes, the default value for the score limit and time limit is now 5 instead of “None”, and I made the room connection phase timeout faster and present a nicer error message.

I’m working to fix it right now.

Seems to be working fine now, fewh. The reason for the downtime was an embarassing bug, so I’ll keep it to myself :P

I (hopefully) fixed an issue which allowed players to freeze rooms to death by spamming long chat messages.

Also added chat scrollbar and new input mappings: WASD for movement; CTRL, SPACE, SHIFT and NUMPAD 0 for kicking.

The news page is now using tumblr, replacing the old placeholder. Thanks Pilaf :)

Here’s the change list:

○ Limited the length of nicknames to 25 characterss (People were using this to bring down rooms).
○ Implemented a room number of players limit, this is configurable in the room creation menu.
○ Guest is not the default nickname anymore, players now need to fill the nick with something in order to play.
○ Text input boxes now have hints when empty. :)
In other news, it has been a week since HaxBall was released and the number of visits has already surpassed 100k :D

The Electronic Sports League ( ESL ) has created a HaxBall League! In it you can join a ladder and compete against other players to see who’s the best HaxBall player. Go check it out!

HaxBall is now a sport!

Changelog:

○ Pressing enter on the nick or room password text fields now works as expected.
○ Double clicking a room in the room list will make you join that room.
○ Small bug fixes and optimizations.

As of now HaxBall has ads. I know nobody likes them, me included, but as the popularity of the game grows so do the hosting costs, and sadly donations aren’t enough (though many great thanks to everyone who donated ♥).

We tried to use ads that keep nagging to a minimum and don’t affect the fun of the game. Hopefully nobody will be mortally offended.

Love,

Basro

With the huge amounts of players came huge amounts of rooms, which made finding a specific room quite an annoying task. Room links are here to solve that :)

To use a room link just press the menu button in a game, copy the room URL and give it to a friend.

Another small new feature is the option to not display the room in the room list. This, in combination with room links, can be an nice alternative to password-protected rooms.

Enjoy :)

The /store chat command is back! With it you can store the currently loaded stadium in your hard drive, it will then become available in the stadium list.

You can now also export stored stadiums as .hbs files using the export button in the stadium selection menu.

Enjoy!

A resolution scaling setting has been added. By selecting a value lower than 100% the game will be drawn at lower resolutions and then the resulting image is scaled up by the browser. This could improve the performance of the game for some people.

This update is pretty big and involved some considerable internal restructuring, I’d not be surprized if I broke some custom stadiums in the process. Please report if you notice anything has broken.

Edit: The negative reception to the extrapolation limit was stronger than I expected so I’m reverting those changes.

Game changes:
○ Implemented a video setting for disabling custom avatars.
○ Improved the order in which players will appear in the chat autocompletion list.
○ Implemented a ball kicking ratelimit option which lets you configure how often players can kick the ball. This might be useful to level the playing field between people who are using key repeat macros and players that simply use their fingers. This can be accessed with the /kick_ratelimit chat command (which only admin players can use)
○ Added a lot of new physics features. Among them gravity vectors, a new physics object called “Joint” which can join two discs together, the ability to make any disc kickable or scorable (including players), a configurable kickback force and more. Here’s a video showing gravity and joints
○ Changed the maximum value of extrapolation to 50ms. This feature has been quite a controversial feature and while I don't believe it gives players any advantage it was also never meant to be used with values higher than this anyway.

Headless Host Changes:

You can read full changelog here.
○ Added the ability to remove the headless host player from the player list.
○ Added room announcements with configurable styling and sounds.
○ Added the ability to get and modify all properties of any disc in the game.
○ Added the ability to override the avatar of a player.
○ Added a convinient way to reorder the list of players.
○ Added the ability to set the new ball kicking rate limit options.

Stadium (.hbs) File Changes:

There's a lot of changes, the full changelog is here.

The stadium files documentation has been revamped and completed, you can read it here.