In the BehindTheHedge series we provide brief glimpses into what's going on at the development side of the game.

In this episode I talk about development for the next version 0.9.25 and future plans.

It has happened!
Version 0.9.24.1 is here!

Highlights

• Minigun
• Rework of training missions
• Rework of themes (esp. im Sudden Death)
• Schemes are now saved in separate files
• Many improvements for styles

There are many other smaller changes as well!

See the Download page to obtain Hedgewars.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you downloaded 0.9.24, please download 0.9.24.1 to fix a bug that would cause crashes when joining active games, and a Qt5 crasher that was impacting fullscreened frontends.

Follow this link to read more about the awesome new features in this version!

The next Hedgewars release is in the works.

Release Candidate 1 for 0.9.24 is here!
This is not the official 0.9.24 release yet, just a preview version for testing. Please report bugs!

Highlights include a fully reworked tutorial, the minigun, reworked themes when in Sudden Death and lots of smaller improvements.

Read the preliminary changelog here!

For Windows users
Download 0.9.24 Release Candidate 1: Hedgewars-0.9.24-RC1.zip

GNU/Linux users:
As always, see Building on GNU/Linux, which should still apply. But it is strongly recommended to run:

cd ~/hg/hedgewars/trunk;hg pull -u;hg up 6313386c851e;cmake .;make install

To make sure you are in sync with the Windows version. Note you need Qt version 5.0.0 (or later) now.

Info for Translators

If you want to translate Hedgewars, now is the perfect time to do so!
As before, we promise not to change any strings before the next release (the so-called string freeze).
See Translations for details and/or talk to us in our chatroom.

It's party time for Hedgewars!
Version 0.9.23 has been finally released!

(It was about time, wasn't it? )

Download

Find the download links on the Download page. There's no Mac OS version this time, but we hope to release one soon.

Changes

This release is very big this time. We hope it was worth the very long wait.

Here's the official change log (warning: very big!).

The wiki will soon be updated for version 0.9.23.

Highlights

• Battalion style
• Fort mode is now a map type
• Fort mode now works with more than 2 teams
• Rubber duck weapon
• New theme, map, 3 forts, 3 missions, some hats and graves
• WxW allows you to select one of many wall sets
• Complete HedgeEditor overhaul
• Greatly improved script parameter support in styles
• Improved stats screens
• Various improvements for almost all styles
• AI hedgehogs can now use Homing Bee, Vampirism and Time Box
• Campaign page now shows your progress
• Countdown sounds
• Improved randomization options in team and multiplayer pages
• Improved theme customization support
• Various Lua API additions
• Fix cursor often jumping around after clicking
• A huge amount of bugfixes for both campaigns, the missions and styles
• Video recording functionality is restored

Click here to read more about the awesome new features in version 0.9.23!

Release Candidate 2 for 0.9.23 is here!

It's like Release Candidate 1 (see the previous post), but with a few more bugfixes.

We also added a new music for the Jungle theme, made by community member alfadur (thanks!).

Updated preliminary changelog with summary

For Windows users
Download 0.9.23 Release Candidate 2: Hedgewars-0.9.23-RC2.zip

GNU/Linux users:
As always, see Building on GNU/Linux, which should still apply. But it is strongly recommended to run:

cd ~/hg/hedgewars/trunk;hg pull -u;hg up 255c2978b366;cmake .;make install

To make sure you are in sync with the Windows version. Note you need SDL version 2 now.