Описание игры, торрент, скриншоты, видео

Super Secret Content
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* Wouldn't you like to know!

Features
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* New 'Golem' monster added to Battle Arena.
* Can now put website links in text boxes.
* More racial variety in random character generation.
* Caps lock now disables sprite overlays.
* Improvements to audio based on distance.
* Some bad looking animations now look better.
* Renamed 'Birdsoldier' to 'Hunter'.
* No more movement grid - it looked dumb.
* Sprites now support hue shifts based on region lightness.
* Lots of crucial bugfixes.
* Fixed a lot of asset management issues. Much more sane now.
* A whole bunch of additional sprite accessories.

Feb. 28, 2015: ENGINE DEMO v1.5.0
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Features
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* An EXTREME amount of optimization and speed increases
* Interactive 3D objects for tilesets (staircases, for example)
* Can now change player color for online games
* Zooming out now shows the map more visibly
* Sprites now now appear darker in darkened areas of the map
* Lots and lots of code refactoring
* More sprites - men, women, and... a chef?!

Optimizations
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* Completely re-wrote rendering engine for HUGE speed improvements
* Hundreds of speed optimizations in the code, everywhere!
* Dynamic "Sprite Atlases" created to improve render performance
* New framebuffer system to speed-up and upgrade sprite rendering
* No more deprecated OpenGL code

Changes
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* Increased maximum render distance from 26 to 51 due to optimizations
* Rewrote horizon drawing code - looks good now!
* Camera now follows sprites much tighter

Fixes
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* Many, many, MANY minor bug-fixes all over the place
* Networking layer no longer chokes on huge amounts of pending data
* Cheesetopia corpses no longer blink (whoops)
* Server doesn't break when sending more than 256 visible entities
* Character vision now updates properly and quickly
* 3D objects now clean up the files extracted to the 'tmp' folder

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TBA: ENGINE DEMO v1.4.3
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Features
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* Linux Version!
* New "Tower War" map: Winterforge.
* New music track for Winterforge.
* Several OpenGL fixes and efficiency upgrades.
* Male characters now sport facial hair.
* Bird characters have a variety of beaks and possible face/beard styles.
* Move range is now displayed in combat and while holding "shift".
* Rollcoon is now a monster in "Battle Arena", with new spell animations.
* Scary Halloween monster near the end of "Battle Arena".
* New, better-looking animated water.
* Individual maps can specify their time of day.
* Distributable Linux binaries!
* "Tower War" now broadcasts messages when towers are under attack.
* New (currently unused) sprites for man, woman, and woman-with-a-dress.
* "Battle Arena" team members are now spawned every 2 rounds (adjustable).
* Caliston monster now has spots.

Changes
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* Priest's "Heal" spell just got a BIG buff, so... heal more!
* Multiplayer balance changes to "Battle Arena".
* MP3 files replaced with OGGs.
* JPG files replaced with PNGs.
* Camera is no longer glued to characters in "Character" keyboard mode.
* Height bonuses are now calculated by angles, not tile height difference.
* Magic attacks are no longer effected by height bonuses.
* Messages at the top of the screen now have black bars for extra visibility.
* Vignette rendering updated.
* Added 'Vignette' slider in 'Options' window.

Bugfixes
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* No longer possible to walk up steep walls using WASD.
* Can no longer be pushed up steep walls either.
* Shadows now properly draw on bridges, rather than on the water below them.

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Oct. 8, 2014: ENGINE DEMO v1.4.2
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Features
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* New "Auto Follow" and "Auto Attack" options in the HUD "control strip".
* Keyboard control (WASD) now easily visible via the hud control strip.
* HUD is more compact, with fancy groupings.
* All character eyes now blink independently.
* Male soldier sprite got some better animations.
* Doubled the Radness and Badness of Tower War's music.
* Subframe features in the Sprite Editor are nearly finished.

Changes
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* Explore mode features some work-in-progress "Kingdom" stuff.
* Some female hairstyles were fixed / work better.
* Jumping in animations no longer bounce when landing.
* Tower War and Battle Arena default to keyboard controlling character.
* Removed insta-jump-to-character in keyboard=character mode.

Bugfixes
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* Experience is distributed in Battle Arena again.
* Redundant equipment in Battle Arena, Explore Mode, Cheesetopia are gone.
* Shadows draw much better now.
* Slime Runner! has less ugly shearing when looking straight ahead.
* Hud expansion/contraction behaves properly with server lag or new characters.
* Game no longer auto-pauses when you are defeated.
* Distances are now stored properly. No more broken orders 50% of the time.
* Fullscreen mode now allows edge-of-screen scrolling regradless of "Auto-Grab" option.
* Server-side connections no longer suffer from 'buffer overflow' problems.

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Sep. 13, 2014: ENGINE DEMO v1.4.1
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Changes
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* Additional vertical angles for Slime Runner!.
* Slightly harder to die in Cheesetopia.

Bugfixes
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* Slime Runner! runs again, derp.
* No more division-by-zero errors when height penalties aren't defined.
* HUD no longer causes crashes, especially when quitting a game.
* Tower War names now properly reflect players' teams.
* Scenes no longer continue playing while server is paused.
* Tutorial no longer hits account player limit.

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Sep. 6, 2014: ENGINE DEMO v1.4.0
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Features
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* Game renamed to 'Harmonia Tactics', complete with new logo!
* New tutorial to explain basic game concepts.
* Real-time cutscenes.
* Four single-player demos for new game engine features.
* Height is now a factor for troop movement.
* Attacking from high places provides a bonus.
* New 'Paradox' map added to 'Tower War'.
* Hitting 'Escape' in-game brings up the game menu.
* Rewrote chat window to use a more traditional interface.

Misc. Features
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* Rollcoon monster!
* Doors and context-sensitive object commands.
* One new spell - 'Gust' for Monk.
* 'Slime Runner' wasn't working properly - now it does.
* Screen resolution / window size is now saved and can be modified from the options window.
* Hitting 'x' now centers the camera on the selected character.
* Double-clicking on characters in the HUD now centers the camera on them.

Changes
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* Maps are more visible indoors.
* Enemy HUD is now in the upper-left corner rather than the lower-left.
* Buffed 'Heal' spell.
* Reaching 0 respawns in Tower War results in effectively permanent death.

Engine Upgrades
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* For RPG-like mods, new accounts can be created.
* Massive server speed improvements.
* Server now caches object distances - it takes a healthy chunk of memory, but drastically improves CPU usage.
* Major upgrades to camera functionality.
* Dialogue improvements - it no longer steals game control.

Bug fixes
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* Order icons at the end of paths are now drawn correctly.
* HUD no longer crashes on occasion.
* Remade map background to tile properly.
* Fixed a few pathing errors.
* Tower War now resets the camera between rounds.

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Jun. 1, 2014: ENGINE DEMO v1.3.0
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Features
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* Five magic spells are in and fully usable. Hoorah!
* Window now grabs mouse, allowing for mouse scrolling.
* HUD windows can now be expanded/contracted to show either more character detail or more map visibility.
* Stats now use a 'Tag' system for balance. In the HUD, rather than showing the player class, there are various icons representing bonuses (Blue) and penalties (Red) to stats.
* More rendering filters for sprites, specifically for magic and lighting.
* Chat window is more useful.

Tower War Features
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* New Map 'Cavern of Balance' (Map #2).
* New Map 'Festering Cavern' (Map #3).
* Teams can be chosen when connecting.
* Lots of balance changes and AI improvements.
* Added more options to the 'New Game' window.
* New players connect at the level of the weakest player so team balance doesn't immediately shift.
* Many, many bugfixes, tweaks, and performance upgrades.

Misc. Features
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* Minor tileset beautification.
* Modified a lot of sprite frame details, and female sprites should look more lady-like.
* Animations now have 'Subframes' as well as 'Frames' for the purpose of animations.
* Sprite Editor can add (but not yet remove/copy/modify) subframes.
* New 'Tag' system applied to Battle Arena monsters.
* File Chooser dialogue now works a little better.
* Game/Interface sound effects are now on separate channels.
* New sound effects for user interface.
* Objects can now be glued onto other objects, i.e, "attacker.*weapon.tip".
* New music track for swamp: "It Approaches".
* Tactical icon resolution upgraded.
* Crossbow/Cannon now have proper arrows and animations.
* Sprite textures can now be exported to PNGs using the Sprite Editor.
* Explosions no longer have shadows.
* Tower War team colors have more variety.

Bugfixes
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* Unit orders should no longer persist when the order is over.
* Fixes to Windows/Linux background process launching and management.
* Fixed some potentially game-stopping network bugs.
* Reorganized a lot of files, which means a full update is necessary.
* Sprite Editor bugfixes - it doesn't lock up constantly anymore!
* Updated artwork for the grid to be the same pixel size as common tilesets.

Internal Changes
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* Path-finding completely overhauled - faster, cleaner, more flexible!
* LOTS of speed and memory enhancements for both server and client.
* Render engine now uses a more advanced (and cleaner!) shader management layer.
* Several server-side performance optimizations.
* Textures are now sorted by name in splay trees.
* Sprite limb system overhauled to be much more versatile.

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Apr. 1, 2014: ENGINE DEMO v1.2.1
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Features
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* Overhauled sprite drawing code.
* Buggy sprite editor now available from the main menu.

Misc. Features
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* UI buttons are a little bit easier to see.
* Different arrows can be specified for animations.
* Tile layers can now pulsate.
* AI think time is now slightly random so they're not 100% in sync.
* Extra 'shadow_offset' property for sprites.
* Some extra sprite shadow beautification.
* Cannon/longbow now uses plasma bolts.
* Current and total files to load are now displayed.
* Empty containers are now listed as empty.
* Added notes to Cheesetopia, small tweaks, some extra script.

Bugfixes
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* Targets were broken when removed and re-added too quickly.
* AI now properly remembers its orders instead of throwing them away.

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Mar. 28, 2014: ENGINE DEMO v1.2.0
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Features
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* Cheesetopia mode!
* Early NPC dialogue.
* Allies/enemies can be selected and targetted using the HUD.
* Hovering over tiles now highlights their entities.
* Terrain grid is always visible during mouseover.
* Holding 'Ctrl' now hides entities for item/terrain selection.
* Better, sleeker font for basic text.
* Holding 'Shift' now shows attack ranges for weapons/entities.
* AI now makes decisions before executing their turns.

Misc. Features
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* Hitting 'Esc' now closes all inventory windows.
* Sprites no longer adjust their colors based on default luminance.
* Lightmaps are now rendered properly.
* Small HP font beautification.
* Increased 'X' box for closing windows.
* Terrain rendering now uses the same method for mouseovers, making all highlighting much easier.
* Sprite editor has more 'Attachment' control.

Bugfixes
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* Bots respawn again in "Tower Wars".
* Client/server combat movement speeds are now synchronized properly.
* Several fixes to enemy AI tracking.

Internal Changes
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* Multiple default fonts for options buttons, headers, text, HUD, etc.
* Linux version can now spawn the server from the client.
* Classes now register themselves for character creation.
* Mods can now change character classes, default key modes.
* Subtextures are now scaleable using texture_draw_box().
* Torches now appear held in character's off-hand.
* 'Limbs' can now use color data from other sprites (for equipment).
* Tile layers can now have ambient glow.
* Negative health generation now works.
* 'inside' and 'outside' effect searches are now available.

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Mar. 8, 2014: ENGINE DEMO v1.1.0
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Features
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* 'New Game' window for mod selection and options
* Created options for Battle Arena mode
* 'Multiplayer' is now available
* HUD for ally/enemy level and status
* New, bigger, less-italicized font
* 'Tower War' mode for single- and multi-player
* Tower War server available 24/7 at harmonia-online.net:5010
* Time-of-day and torches removed from Battle Arena and Tower War
* Overhauled the chat window
* Players now have a 'Display Name' for use in chat
* Can now hit 'f' to order your force to follow a selected unit
* Probably a hundred bugfixes
* 'Double-tapped' keys are now boundable
* Keys 1 through 0 can be double-tapped to center the camera on a unit
* Hold 'shift' or double-tab WASD to run or move camera quickly
* Defeat now displays a message rather than disconnecting immediately
* Hold 'shift' for item details.
* New 'Crystal Biome' audio track

Misc. Features
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* Additional tips
* Several UI Upgrades
* Battle Arena balance changes
* Old-school Telnet mode no longer enabled by default
* Fewer assets are uploaded from the server
* Zero-damage attacks now show 'Fail!'
* Improved client/server handshake and version control
* Letterbox mode during combat has been temporarily disabled
* Difficulty orbs for Battle Arena have been relocated.

Internal Changes
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* Rewrote client/server option system
* Split script files into mods in the new 'mods' folder
* Changes to sprite orders to improve performance/traffic