Knights Development Blog

Knights version 015 has been released. Get it from http://www.knightsgame.org.uk/download.html

New features include:

• Potion and scroll respawning (called “Stuff respawning” on the quest selection screen). This makes potions and scrolls respawn a certain time after they are used. This should be useful for multiplayer games where the potions and scrolls run out very quickly if there are a lot of knights. (Originally suggested by dukey, back when we had the first multiplayer games of Knights…)
• Team Duel to the Death mode. This works like a normal duel to the death, except that knights divide into teams (based on their house colours) and the team that kills all the other team’s knights is the winner.
• Single player games can be played on the server. Other players can observe, so this is useful if one player wants to show other players how to play the game. (Requested by Moo.)
• A speech bubble icon now appears above a knight’s head while they are typing a chat message. (Requested by K9.)

There are also a few bug fixes (see download page for full details). I have also added initial support for Lua scripting but you can’t do very much with this yet — I’m really just laying the foundations for future releases at the moment.

For the next version (016) I want to make some improvements to the control system (this has been discussed here a few times, and also some people on moddb mentioned it), and also continue working on the Lua scripting.

Knights version 013 has now been released. Download from here: http://www.knightsgame.org.uk/download.html

The main new features in this version are a tutorial, and single player mode. There is also the option to have timed quests, and a number of bug fixes. See the above download link for full release notes.

Have fun!

A new version of Knights has been released. Get it from the download page.

This is the first stable release to include multiplayer support. The main purpose of the release is to fix (most of) the bugs that were found during the beta test and also to add one or two new things (for example the in-game player list).

The online server has been upgraded and the beta server has now been taken offline.

If you downloaded the multiplayer beta, please don’t use it any more as it will not work properly with the new server. Instead download the latest version.

Many thanks to everyone who helped out with the multiplayer testing.

Enjoy…

A new version of Knights has been released. Visit the download page to get it.

The main new features are that the lobby window now pops to the front when somebody connects to the server, and that “observer” support for internet games is fully working. There are also a host of minor fixes and changes which are mentioned on the download page.

Also Kalle Marjola recently contacted me to say that he has changed the licence of the original game to the GNU GPL. I have decided to follow suit and release my version under the GPL as well. This should clarify the licensing situation and also allow Knights to be included in Linux distributions and similar things.

Welcome to the new Knights development blog. I will be keeping this up to date with announcements of new Knights releases, and other news of interest to Knights players. I also plan to discuss future Knights developments here, so if you’d like to see what’s going into the next version then please do keep an eye on this blog.

I also plan to use the blog as a means of getting feedback from users, so if you have any comments – whether they are bug reports, ideas for new features, or just general comments – then please do post them here (or drop me an email if you prefer).

Today also sees the release of version 010 of Knights. This is a bug fix release containing the following improvements:

• Fixed bug where controls would sometimes not work properly when playing online.
• Fixed error “writeUbyte: out of range” when non-ASCII characters were typed into the chat box.
• It’s now possible to join a game that already has two players in it. You won’t be able to play or watch the game, but you will be able to chat with the existing players.

Download it from the Knights home page.