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  • v0.12

    6f86aaf9 · Update awg and jsonlib mods · 
    ADV Beta Version 12

Branches are already implemented in this version.
Before we called them "subgames"; branches are games
created by games.
This feature includes the following new API calls:
- "create" a new branch.
- "manage" a mod inside a branch.
- "destroy" a branch.
- "teleport" a player from branch A to branch B
  (either A or B may be the caller branch).
- Send a JSON message to the "parent" game.
- Send a JSON message to a branch ("child" game).
And the following new hooks:
- A branch performed a "kick" on a player.
- The "parent" game sent a JSON message.
- A branch ("child" game) sent a JSON message.

In this version we also have new mods:
- Beta Version 4 of Adv Journey,
  an interactive fiction game inspired in The Hobbit.
- Adv Basic, a collection of old text games
  originally written in BASIC.
- ACL, which adds access control functionality
  to games.

JsonLib
- Log imports as events inside postgres
- Some JSON Creator fixes and improvements

AWG
- Crusts: a mechanism to allow the creation of basic
  planets as default
- Further world creation customization, based on recipes
- Possibility to load and modify an existing world applying
  a recipe to it
- Balance improvements, including better randomizations,
  limits and defaults

Also:
- Help and documentation improvements, including a man page
- Add mod examples for documentation purposes
- Sync command improvements
- Command history improvements
- Add administration and moderation tasks
- Add users/ directory for storing static information
  that is persistent after game destructions
- Mods as libs (lib hooks are not executed)
- Archive server log files monthly
- Add more administration options, such as game creation
  rate and games count limits
- Add tool to backup and restore the entire server state
- Store chat backlog
- Many other fixes, improvements and code cleaning

  • v0.11

    2bb0da5a · Provide revision number in program version · 
    ADV Beta Version 11

Server/Client
- Provide date and time of each game creation
- Support translations and provide lang option to mods
- Support random strings for the client
- Add spanish translations
- Make user and game names more secure
- Provide server uptime on login
- Add mod type and version
- Only allow creating games with mods of type "game"
- Remove game directories once destroyed
- Run connections over SSL
- Add "sync" server hook
- Add "set-description" API call
- Ignore tab completion in chat mode
- Provide revision number in program version
- Other fixes and improvements

JsonLib
- Limit amount of queries per commit on importers
- Creator: Abort word input
- Creator: Save preview scroll state and show active
  trigger and condition on title
- Creator: Move triggers and conditions up and down
- Improve objects importer performance
- Add ord column for conditions
- Add trigger types
- Improve optional fields behaviour
- Other fixes and improvements

AWG
- Provide nwaterfalls and is_altitude_accident attributes
- Add experimental attributes: effective_temperature and
  soil_quality
- Other minor improvements

  • v0.10

    f2d41f8b · Update mods · 
    ADV Beta Version 10

Server/Client
- Add a minimal dice system
- Add server hooks
- Add an API Call for /write commands
- Don't specify seconds-per-tick when creating games
- Client: add default-game option
- Client: fix switching server logins

Mods
- Add JSON creator tool to jsonlib
- Improve index.json format
- Implement ecoregions on awg
- Add and improve logs inside the database
- Implement many mechanisms inside the database: actions,
  flags, api_calls, objects activation, attributes
  and modifiers
- Implement forced triggers
- Implement spawns, populations and resources
- Substantially improve game initialization sequence
- Substantially improve game messages
- Import dictionaries inside the database
- Implement labels
- Remove obsolete climate mod
- Many fixes and lot of code cleaning

  • v0.9

    f1a373de · Update adv-core and adv mods · 
    ADV Beta Version 9

Server/Client
- Server: try opening the TCP socket a certain number of
  times (two options were added to configure this
  behaviour: socket-period and socket-tries)
- Now mods can tag messages with the "tag" field to tell
  the client to replace older lines
- Show current server and default server on /servers
- Show number of currently connected players at login
- Add '/help topics'
- Add climate mod
- Other minor fixes and improvements

Mods
- Stats
- Attribute estimation and modifiers
- Flags
- Boundaries
- Read database options from properties
- Other fixes and improvements
- Climate starting point; sun height calculation

  • v0.8

    1e9499e8 · Update mods · 
    ADV Beta Version 8

- Show client version on /version
- Now the client shows a timestamp on chat messages,
  server connections, server disconnections and server
  connection failures
- New API Calls: broadcast, seconds-per-tick, kick (force
  a leave on a player) and abort (stop a hook execution)
- Now the update hook is disabled when seconds-per-tick
  is zero
- Mods are up to date
- Minor fixes and improvements

  • v0.7

    3ad62126 · Give adv-initdb a better location · 
    ADV Beta Version 7

Migration to new design. By default, PostgreSQL and Perl
will both be needed tools for mods. For this reason, some
packages will appear as optional dependencies for ADV.

- Add destroy and offline hooks
- Add a standard for message types
- Support sending messages to players in batches
- Add uninstall target to mods Makefiles
- Provide a shell script to create a database
- Provide database connection information through the
  server's config.json file
- Fix systemd service
- Fix game destruction
- Fix mod dependencies resolution

  • v0.6

    ba2c81ae · Add uninstall target · 
    ADV Beta Version 6

- Remove SYSCONFIGDIR; everything is now located under
  PREFIX/share/adv
- Command completion is now implemented on the client:
  every time the TAB key is pressed when the cursor is at
  the end, the client completes the command with the last
  match found on the commands history, cyclically
- Makefile now has an uninstall target
- Minor fixes and improvements

  • v0.5

    83529946 · Add adv-core and adv mods · 
    ADV Beta Version 5

- Add awg, adv-core and adv mods
- Add mod template
- Minor fixes and improvements

  • v0.4

    43911fcb · Resolve mod dependencies · 
    ADV Beta Version 4

- Add mod dependencies resolution
- Add an error handling mechanism through the error.json
  file to allow independent mods to work together on the
  same game
- Substantially improve client help mechanism
- Provide more info about mods on client
- Minor fixes and improvements

  • v0.3

    786e109c · Improve help text · 
    ADV Beta Version 3

- Improve manage hook: send manage commands only
  to a specific mod and inside the game you are in
- Add attached text to action hook
- Persistent chat/play inside client
- Other improvements and fixes

  • v0.2

    a8782a17 · Don't use mktemp() · 
    ADV Beta Version 2

- Add new Client API: mods
- Add new hook: manage
- Provide game mods through the "games" Client API call
- Minor improvements

  • v0.1

    721c6d24 · Send game a player is in through games API call · 
    ADV Beta Version 1

- Functional server and fully compatible client with
  configurable servers, aliases, key bindings and some
  additional options.
- Rather complete Client API with login, logout, register,
  password, version, create, manage, destroy, transfer,
  enter, leave, games and action API calls.
- Minimal but functional Mod API with:
  - start, stop, init, update, action, enter and leave
    hooks.
  - send, log, run, pause and resume API calls.