- Rain Games anniversary sale! - 28 April 2021
Starting today, we at Rain Games will celebrate ten years as a company! In those years, we have made several games that you fans have made a hit! To celebrate this, we will have a week with an all-out sale on our games on Steam! Enjoy Viking Chess:Hnefatafl with 25% off For a starter, enjoy this brand new anniversary video for our games on PC! Join the celebration! 🎊🎊
- What I'm working on! - 16 September 2020
Dear players, I've been quite busy the last few months. Reason is, i've been building a Kickstarter campaign for a new videogame, "Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne". For "Viking Chess: Hnefatafl", i've been working behind the scenes with upgrading backend, making it easier to further develop the game. While I can't set a date for a new content update just yet, just know that it's in the works. We've also tested the game on mobile platforms, and with some tweaks and adjustments, I'm hoping to get a release out for mobile. It looks great on tablets! Please check out our Kickstarter campaign for "Girl Genius: AICH". If the Kickstarter is successful, we are developing for PC/Mac/Linux available here on Steam, and Nintendo Switch™, with other consoles as stretch goals. Girl Genius™ is the multiple Hugo Award winning graphic novel series by Phil & Kaja Foglio, of fame from the ear…
- SALE: Play Viking Chess: Hnefatafl With Your Family and Friends this Easter - 5 April 2020
From today 10 AM Pacific Time until 18th April you can grab a copy of Viking Chess: Hnefatafl for 25% off on Steam! Play this two player board-game on your PC or Mac with your family or friends over the Easter holidays with local multiplayer, or online play. You can also play single-player against the AI. Viking Chess: Hnefatafl is a strategic board-game with assumed origins all the way back to the Viking era, using the popular ruleset for Hnefatafl; the "Copenhagen Ruleset".
- Hotfix - v.1.01 - 6 March 2020
* Fixed an issue where boardpieces could be untextured when loading a saved game * Fixed an issue with music audio dropping out ** If you have a technical issue with music audio dropping out, please tell us at our Steam forum or at our Discord. Thanks!
- Big Update! We're releasing out of Early Access - 5 March 2020
Viking Chess: Hnefatafl releases out of Early Access this evening at approximately 19:00 CET! Please join us this evening for online games. We are gathering a little crew of friends and developers to drink a few horns of mead and play the game with you! We want to thank all players during Early Access, for your contribution to making Viking Chess a better game. As a homage to all players that helped out the development of this game, we have implemented an unlockable title in your honor; "Shaman". Win the title ingame by "finding the secret bug"! Among the many fixes and improvements this update, you will find an exciting new feature, namely an unlockable Boardpiece Set. Once you win the set by completing the "Valkyrie" title, you unlock the epic "Valkyrie Set". Since the 16th of October, and during these months of Early Access we have delivered many content updates and patches, improvin…
- Update 0.15 - Patch notes - 23 January 2020
Hello Early Access players! Patch notes: - Added "Restart Game" button to Ingame menu in Singleplayer & Local Hotseat Multiplayer. - Added "Concede Game" button to Ingame menu in Multiplayer(online). You can now concede a game, meaning that you admit defeat to your opponent and the game ends. - Fixed default input keys for camera movement, that was set incorrectly last game update, and snuck itself into the update. - Fixed an issue in Tutorial, where the new Input system did not work to move the camera. - Fixed an issue in Tutorial, where "Exit to main menu" button did not work. - Added functionality to let you choose a "Boardpiece package" to play with. These are the 3D models of pieces and associated assets. This feature is not completed yet, but you will see a dropdown menu in Singleplayer game setup where you can select a "Boardpiece set". Coming soon! - Added unlockable title "Galn…
- Content Update 0.14 EA - 21 January 2020
Hello Early Access players! Here's a new content update with a host of new unlockable titles available for you to win, and some fixes and improvements! Viking Chess: Hnefatafl releases out of Early Access soon! Tell your friends. ** Note ** - Your progression and unlocks will be wiped when the game leaves Early Access, but we'll give Early Access players an extra treat with an unique unlockable title that only players in Early Access will recieve - New unlockable titles: Note! Unlockable titles are not available to be unlocked in the Tutorial or in a local hotseat multiplayer game. - "Raider": Win a game as the Attackers - "Shield": Win a game as the Defenders - "Bulwark": As the Defenders, win a game by constructing an Edge Fort - "Kingslayer": As the Attackers, capture the King! - "Invader": As the Attackers, end your turn with 4 Attackers around the Throne - "Blood Axe": As the Attac…
- Patch Notes v.0.13 EA - 8 January 2020
Hello Early Access players! Patch Notes: - Resolved an issue where an actor could be captured incorrectly. - The defeated players' pieces now "die" when a Win Condition is triggered. - Achievement unlocked message in game UI when you unlock an unlockable or win an achievement. - Fixed an issue in your game Statistics, where some values could be updated incorrectly. - Fixed mouse Cursor to display in correct size on MacOS All the best! - Kenny G
- Important issues and bugfix patch 0.12 EA - 5 January 2020
Hello Early Access players! We start the new year by resolving some important issues and bugs. Thank you to community members that sent descriptive bug and issue reports on our Steam forum! If you have an issue with the game or believe you've found a bug, please head on over to our Steam forum at our bug report forum or pop by our Discord. Patch notes: - Important: Resolved an issue where the King could be incorrectly captured in a Shieldwall. Note to players: The King cannot be captured in a Shieldwall in the Copenhagen ruleset of Hnefatafl. - Important: Resolved an issue where an Edge Fort win condition would not be triggered correctly. - Minor: Piece count in UI for each faction was not updated correctly when loading a game - Minor: Reset button in UI was available to click when it was not supposed to be available. - Minor: EditProfile UI window in Start Menu was enabled when leaving…
- Content Patch 0.11 EA for MacOS now available! - 27 December 2019
Hello Early Access players on Mac OS! Content update 0.11 EA with new features are now available for you as well. Please refer to previous patch notes for new features. All the best! - Kenny G
- Content Update v.0.11 EA - 22 December 2019
Hello Early Access players! Here's a present for the holiday season, a new content update with new features, also features requested by the community. Note! MacOS players will recieve this update during the holiday TL/DR patch notes: - Local hotseat multiplayer. Now you can play on one machine against another human player! - Game statistics. Check your number of wins, losses etc - Unlockables. You can adorn your player name with a prefix title to show off your progression and skill to other players. - Better AI on Hard and Nightmare difficulty. Easy and Medium will stay at their approximate difficulty level further on as well. What we're working on next: - Bugfix: Clicking "Reset" button on some tutorial levels does not work correctly. - Bugfix: A situation was found where the king could be captured by 3 enemies around him. - Bugfix: Check that Edge Fort mechanic is always triggered cor…
- A Dev Diary - Happy Christmas! - 16 December 2019
Hello everyone! So, just like Andy Williams sings; "It's the most wonderful time of the year", and on that note I thought it would be fun to give you all a little look behind the scenes of the development of Viking Chess: Hnefatafl. Viking Chess has been in Early Access since the release on the 16th of October, and since then we have released around 10 updates, big and small. I think the game has improved much over these updates, and I believe we will have a very nice little game by the end of Early Access. I believe that a few more updates are in order to release the game out of Early Access early next year. We all want a better AI to play against, and a fully featured game with good singleplayer, good multiplayer and game progression. Viking Chess is a very small, niche indiegame with a very low budget, so I thank you all for your patience here in Early Access, while I improve the gam…
- Upcoming Content Patch 0.11EA - 29 November 2019
Hello Early Access players! Here's some news on an upcoming content update. First off all, we apologize for some delay since the last update. We've had some stressfull weeks where we've done work on other projects to put food on our plates. We're preparing a more meaty content update for you, that needs a little bit more time in the oven to cook just right. Here's a few of the upcoming features in Content Patch 0.11 EA: Better AI. More finetuned behaviors, and in general a more difficult AI at higher difficulty levels. Bookkeeping. Recorded game statistics that you can view in your profile to keep track of your progress, like for example number of wins/losses and more cool stuff like number of captures you've made or number of special attacks like shieldwall you've made. Unlockables. You can unlock prefix titles to garnish your player profile name, and display your commitment and skill-…
- 0.10 EA Patch notes - 8 November 2019
Hello Early Access players! Here's a little update for you. 2D topdown view mode now displays piece sprites in black, white and a King-ly blue instead of the 3D models top down. Many players requested a simpler view in 2D. Fixed Multiplayer Game Lobby UI for different aspect ratios. Added "Edit Profile" button in the Start Menu. Many smaller bugfixes
- Patch notes v.0.09 EA - Content update, UI fixes - 3 November 2019
Hello Early Access players, here's a new content patch for you! Note! The patch is available on Windows now, Mac OS players will recieve the patch tomorrow 04.11. Content: - Singleplayer game setup in Start Menu have been reworked to be more in line with the rest of the game's UI. - Players can now select difficulty levels when playing Singleplayer versus AI! -- Difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard, Nightmare. - Tweaks and updates to each AI difficulty level. Still a work in progress, but we're getting there! - Overhauled many aspects of the user interface. -- Most importantly, all UI screens should now be displayed well on different resolutions. -- Reworked many UI layouts. -- Crisper and more readable text in UI. -- Freshened up some sprite assets. - New Viking Horn 3D model in all game scenes. - Higher resolution of lightmaps in all game scenes. As always, thanks for playing Viking…
- Patch 0.08 EA Patch notes - 25 October 2019
Greetings all Early Access players and thank you for playing our game and your feedback so far! Much feedback have been gathered, both from our forums and other sources, and one thing that many players want is a better 2D camera view, viewing the board top down. So we've created just that! :) 2D ortographic top down view: -------------------------------------- - Accessed by pressing the button in game, toggling between top down 2D mode and perspective 3D mode. - New movepath graphics when in 2D view mode. - Adjustments to 3D models when in 2D view mode, they no longer cast or recieve shadows to have a clearer visual read when viewing them top down in ortographic camera. - Note! When you have selected an actor that you want to move; while the actor is selected you are not allowed to toggle between top down view mode and perspective. This is intentional. Please hop over to the forums or o…
- Patch notes v.0.07 - 20 October 2019
We've had some busy days after launch in Early Access, with the "Konsoll" game developer conference in Bergen, Norway. Now we're back on it and ready to push out frequent updates. Thank you all so far for feedback and reviews, we appreciate it! Patch Notes version 0.07: - The AI now selects a Move from a pool of "equally good moves", to encourage dynamic behavior. - Fixed Win Condition where if a Faction have no available legal moves, that Faction looses the game.
- Launch! News! Upcoming features! - 16 October 2019
We are excited to finally launch in Early Access, and to see the community react to and play our game! In our "Early Access Description" we stated that AI was expected to be a bit weak at Launch, but.... we have managed to develop an AI in time for launch that performs quite well, and will certainly challenge the new and the average player! We are excited to hear and see your reactions. Please post feedback and reactions in our Steam forum under "Early Access Feedback". Thank you! If you find an issue or a bug, please post it in our Steam forum under "Early Access Bug Report". Thank you! Prelaunch hotfix: - For players that had access to the game pre-launch there was an issue in Tutorial where Actors were unclickable. This is fixed. - Updated Credits - Updated build with newest AI, where the King performs better. --------------------------------------------------------------------------…
