Version 14

Client

• Shorter loading times.
• Fix the bug of the disappearing joystick.
• Update the translations.
• Integrate Italian, Spanish, and Ukrainian languages.
• Add a way to use another fancy font for some languages.
• Use readable names in the remote configuration file.

Game features

• Fences block the players but let the flames go through.
• Store the entities per cell position in entity_world_map.

Server

• Push a message in a feed of Discord when a player needs an opponent.

Build scripts

• Handle --help in setup.sh even if the other arguments are invalid.
• Add Google benchmark library in the dependencies.

Tooling

• Add Tracy sections for each game system.
• Handle swipes in the script_director.

CI and tests

• Add a test to ensure that the flames go through the players.
• Add tests for remove_dead_objects().
• Add some tests for the shield power-ups.
• Add a test checking the death of multiple players on the same flame.
• Use Ubuntu 25.10 in the CI, update package revisions.
• Check on the CI that all source files have a license.

Hygiene

• Switch to C++23.
• Update Axmol to 2.11.0.0.
• Update iscool::core to 1.23.0.

Version 13

Client

• Restore the background for the end-game screen of draw games.
• Restore the inputs in the language selection popup.
• Update the translations (Breton, French, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil)).
• New translations: Kabyle, Occitan.
• Add a loading screen.
• Fix read of uninitialized variable.
• Update the icon.

Tooling

• Add scripting tools to run UI tests.

Hygiene

• Update Axmol to 2.10.0.
• Update libunwind to 1.8.3.
• Update cpptrace to 1.0.4.
• Update Boost to 1.89.0.
• Update iscool::core to 1.20.0.
• Update Android tools.

Version 12

Client Features

• Fix incorrect position of the soft stick.
• Add the selection screen for the game features.
• bim --version displays the version number.

Server features

• bim-server --version displays the version number.

Development

• Add a CMake option to set the Android architectures to build.
• Nodes can be added into children of other nodes via styles.
• Move non-Axmol app code into its own library.
• Action delay creation from a style.
• Action sequence creation from a style.
• Handle both "to" and "by" properties for rotations from style.
• Do not change the position of a node if the style properties are not set.
• Use boost::unordered_node_map for cached style bounds and display properties.
• Widget-bounded inputs ignore inputs from outside their bounding boxes.
• Extract the button behavior from the button class.
• Specific item size in bim::axmol::widget::list.

Hygiene

• Update Axmol to 2.9.0.

Version 11

Client features

• Integrate PostHog to collect some insights about the game usage.
• Animate the transitions from one screen to the next.
• Back to 60 fps in the menus.
• Translate the game in Turkish (thanks @asetsiya & @weblate)
• Display the server statistics on the lobby.
• Add a button to join our Discord server from the matchmaking screen.
• Bug fix: Remove the screen wheel nodes from the main scene on destruction.
• Shop and stats buttons on the lobby.
• Show a message to invite the user to donate on platforms where there is no shop.
• Add a link to Weblate in the language popup.

Game features

• The flames intersect each other.

Server features

• Dump network traffic into the statistics.
• Bug fix: Update the session count statistics when a client is explicitly disconnected.
• Collect server stats on a rolling window.
• Add the hello/hello_ok messages to introduce the game servers.

General

• Add and use tracy profiler.
• Update iscool::core to 1.19.0.
• Update Axmol to 2.8.1.
• Add a GitHub workflow job to check the build as if it was done for F-Droid.
• Cache the dependencies from one GitHub workflow run to the next.
• Add a factory function to build an ax::ui::UIRichText.
• Add a factory function to build an ax::ClippingRectangleNode.
• Allow to set ax::Label's line spacing from the styles.
• Add an input listener that triggers on any tap.
• Add a style property to apply an offset to a node.
• Add an action to move a node, with properties taken from a style.

Version 10

Client features

• New assets for the power-ups.
• Display the player's statistics on the lobby.
• Added a way to change the language via the settings.
• Added Breton, German, Portuguese, and Portuguese (Brasil)
  translations of the game (thanks @weblate contributors).
• Show if the game is FOSS, as well as a dev build, in the settings.
• Close the settings when the back button is pressed (thanks @saransh-g1).
• Initial support for keyboard controls in the desktop client (thanks @saransh-g1).

Game features

• Add the shield game feature.

Server features

• Implemented instant stats on the server (based on the work of @HanevyN).

Bug fixes

• Fix a case of a falling block not being solid.
• Fix a crash of the client when restarting after downloading the new
  config.
• Fix server crash on removal of updated GeoIP location for IP.

Hygiene

• Update Axmol to 2.7.1.
• Update iscool::core to 1.16.1.
• Avoid spurious rebuilds of shaders.
• Deactivate LTO explicitly if it is not enabled in CMake.
• Use mold for debug builds.
• Minify the JSON resources during the build.
• Add the transation files in AUTHORS.md.

Version 9

Client features

• Add a shop where the user can buy coins.
• Fetch the client config on the first launch.
• Fix spurious disconnection messages.
• Silently reconnect the client if it has been disconnected from outside a game.

Server features

• Display the clients' GeoIP-guessed country in the server's logs. Don't show the IP anymore.
• The server can get its configuration from the command line arguments or a configuration file, or both.
• Display the stack trace if the server crashes.
• Store all persistent server-generated files in a single directory when running in Docker mode.

Hygiene

• Update iscool::core to 1.14.3.
• Use non-interactive front-end for package installation in the CI.
• Display the duration of the dependency builds in setup.sh

Version 8

Client features

• Graphic updates on the lobby.
• Graphic updates on the end game screen when the player has not won.
• Use an arrow button for the back button on the end game screen.
• The player gets coins for every game played.
• Game features can be bought with coins.
• Fix some typos in the matchmaking waiting texts.

Server features

• The games are created with all features selected by the players.

Hygiene

• Pass UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer's option to abort the program on error when running the tests.
• Update Ubuntu's version to latest non-LTS on the CI.
• Extract the debug symbols from the release binaries.
• Enable interprocedural optimization on release builds.
• no-path-in-apk.sh checks the unsigned APK if there is no keystore.
• Templatize power-up factories (thanks @HanevyN)
• Update iscool::core to 1.14.0.
• Update Pack My Sprites to 1.3.0.

Version 7

Client features

• The players are animated.
• Display some messages on the matchmaking screen when waiting.

Game features

• Implement invisibility (thanks @jlallas384).

Bug fixes

• Unsafe use of std::optional in authentication_service (thanks @JuanPedroCasanas).
• Don't disconnect for both earliness and lateness in the same iteration.
• Totally disconnect the clients from the server when they are kicked out of a game.

Hygiene

• Use table2d in arena (thanks @HanevyN).
• Add a script to check the metadata files.
• Update Axmol to 2.5.0
• Update iscool::core to 1.13.0

Version 6

Client features

• Display a message when a new version is available.
• Fetch the app config from the server.
• Add the Bluesky and GitHub buttons in the settings.
• Reduce the strength of the slowness applied when the client is too
  far ahead.
• Unlock game features as the player wins games.
• Keep updating the matchmaking screen even when the ready button has
  been pressed.
• Center the control deck horizontally.
• Enlarge the d-pad.
• Thicker border for the spike on the matchmaking screen.
• Display only two features on the matchmaking screen.
• Add the fog of war game feature.
• Add a button to leave the matchmaking screen toward the lobby.

Server features

• Disconnect the players if they are inactive for too long.
• Remove inactive players from the matchmaking after a short delay.
• Randomize the players' initial position.

Bug fixes

• Release the buttons when they leave the scene.
• Fix incorrect computation of max-percents limited sizes.
• Reset the drop bomb request at each game.

Version 5

Client features

• Keep the screen on while on the matchmaking screen.
• Reduce the cooldown between two taps to 100 ms.
• Switch to 30 FPS in the menus.
• New in-game UI assets.
• Show a message and reset the app when the player is disconnected.
• Restart the app if the player leaves for 30 seconds or more.
• Fix incorrect order of the inputs for the popups.
• Add a message on the lobby to tell that the game is in alpha.
• Add the share and e-mail buttons in the settings.
• Fix the glitch when the game starts.

Bug fixes

• Remove dereference of non-dereferenceable iterator on session
  removal (server).

Submission to F-Droid, reproducible builds

• Remove PNG chunks preventing reproducible builds.
• Add a test to ensure that the PNGs have no chunk preventing
  reproducible builds.
• Remove the Gradle wrapper files from the repository.
• Build ImageMagick as part as the host dependencies.
• Pass -fmacro-prefix-map to the compiler to have reproducible builds.
• Remove the build ID from the Android release build, to get
  reproducible builds.
• Remove the dependencies info from the APK, it is refused by F-Droid.
• Metadata for F-Droid.

Hygiene

• Update Axmol to 2.3.2.
• Update iscool::core to 1.12.0.
• Add the todo list in the repository.
• Keep the global CFLAGS for the build.
• setup.sh always uses Ninja.
• Install libjpeg-dev instead of libjpeg-turbo8-dev.
• Remove informational messages from the build of Boost.
• Remove the build of the bundle when only the APK is targeted.
• Apply -fvisibility=hidden to the game itself.
• Start from a clean Git repository when building a dependency.