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| + | -> [[/users|A list of users]] should help you to get an Opponent. | ||
Revision as of 00:21, 23 August 2011
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Archived news
- 2010-07-12: P2P support available. Play against other Miniature users. Full changelog here
- 2009-12-21: Miniature learns to use animations (0.1.5-1). Miniature is now using exclusive features of Qt 4.6.
- 2009-12-20: Miniature got a bug tracker component, thanks to André!
- 2009-11-28: First bug report. :)
- 2009-11-27: Miniature 0.1.2-1 released for Maemo and Ubuntu with first Chess rules applied.
- 2009-11-17: Miniature available for your desktop PC
- 2009-11-16: A first & dummy .deb package of Miniature is available in Maemo 5 extras-devel.
- 2009-11-11: "(10:52:48 PM) mikhas: well, it's confirmed: Miniature runs on Qt 4.6, on the N900"
- 2009-11-10: Talk thread started: Miniature development: Play chess games online
- 2009-11-09: Miniature - it moves!, first blog post from Michael Hasselmann.
- 2009-11-08: First running example mimicking the "first realistic mockup".
- 2009-11-06: Code repository created: http://gitorious.org/miniature - source code exists since the beginning.
- 2009-11-06: First realistic mockup for playing basic online chess (portrait).
- 2009-10-31: First idea proposed in a Talk thread: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
Miniature for Maemo 5 (unstable)
Miniature 0.1.3-1 is available in Maemo 5 Extras-devel, a repository recommended only to developers. End users will do good staying far from it, but there is a launchpad PPA with irregularly updated Ubuntu 9.04 packages.
New features in the last version:
- Candidate UI to move pieces: one click to select piece, second click to select destination square and click to an external button to confirm the move. Pieces and squares can be changed at will before clicking the confirmation button.
- Checks are detected now.
- Backend fixes improving the responsiveness of the moves.
Features implemented in previous releases:
- Boot a screen in portrait mode.
- Display a nice-looking board.
- Set the pieces in starting position.
- Enforce basic chess rules except:
- Checkmate
- Stalemate
- Castling
- En-passant
- Pawn promotion (works in the desktop version)
Old screenshots
This is how the real application will look like in v0.1.x-x.
 Cool little animation to show that pieces turn around between the moves
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 Situation after white's move: The player with the black pieces also is able to see it's pieces from his/her point of view
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 Starting position for human vs human, face to face.
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 Selecting one piece to move.
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 Selecting destination square.
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 Miniature learns chess in korius' development branch. Here rooks and knights know how to behave with each other.
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Old mockups
How things should look like in the future. (We are looking for real designers!)
 First boot.
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Users
Do you want to test Miniature and it's cool possibility to play against other people over the air? Or do you want to make simply a match versus someone who is part of the community?
-> A list of users should help you to get an Opponent.