Cobra Dragon Games Changelog v 015 (2012-05-11) ----------------- - Added a new student mode to let students play without chat/forum access - Fixed issue where registering wouldn't log you in - No longer require an email to play v 014 (2010-03-03) ------------------ - Reverted rating system, removed bonuses - Tweaked the serpentine interface to use the space more efficiently - Added text to show your expected score during a game - Added text to show how much your rating changed - Fixed the chat scrolling bug v 013.5 (2010-03-02) -------------------- - Tweak rating system - Winning players get a two point rating bonus - Players under 800 rating get a three point rating bonus - Players between 800 and 999 get a two point rating bonus - Players between 1000 and 1199 get a one point rating bonus - Show rating changes after each game - In the Serpentine lobby, show only active players (logged in past two weeks) v 013.4 (2010-02-18) -------------------- - Don't require new users to validate new accounts - Log the user in automatically after registration v 013.3 (2009-02-27) -------------------- - Removed links to the stats pages and stopped Serpentine from keeping stats v 013.2 (2008-11-25) -------------------- - Fixed issue where word chart showed NaN and incorrect amounts - Fixed issue where word entry was case sensitive and capslock or capitalized letters invalidated a word v 013.1 (2008-11-07) -------------------- - Fixed player info to only show up when you click on a player's name - Fixed player info so it doesn't show peoples' real names v 013 (2008-11-06) ------------------ - When you hover over a player's information and avatar if they've uploaded it (from the forum Options) - Now, when press the left or right button the serpentine board is rotated left of right. No longer have to press the "Rotate" button v 012.1 (2008-11-03) ------------------- - Trying a new flash socket bridge. Hopefully better connectivity. - Removed some sounds, now there is only round end/start sound, and it's a more pleasing ding. - Now when kicked/leaving from a game, go to the lobby (again) instead of the homepage - Fixed the words box scrolling issue v 012 (2008-10-27) ----------------- - Added game sounds v 011.1 (2008-10-25) -------------------- - Fixed the blue words issue - Tweaked rating group colors a bit - Working on getting wordslist/chart working more consistently - added a new "times up" note when entering words after time is up - Forum now shows all posts in the thread, instead of one at a time (changeable in options) v 011 (2008-10-18) ------------------ - Big change in the ratings system (more volative, directly related to scores) - Fixed nasty bug in word chart where it was saying there were more words than there really were - Now in the top words list, shows the words you got in blue - Hopefully word chart/top words should work more consistently (cross your fingers) v 010.3 (2008-10-17) -------------------- - Made fixes to the serpentine chat window and words list windows, they now should scroll better, and more naturally - Changed the Journeyman color to a shade of orange - Now keeping track of the last time you logged in (part of a larger set of changes that will come later) - Added an email confirmation field when registering, will prevent email typos - When a newly registered person tries to log in without validating their account, they now have a more informative error message. - Some administrative tools have been improved. v.010.2 (2008-10-16) -------------------- - No longer keeping track of score stats (still keeping word lengths and rating changes), as well as numbers of words in a game. Keeping the stats like I have been takes a lot of resources, and I'm figuring out what I can keep and what I still need to throw out. - Fixed a bug in the word chart where it sometimes displayed the wrong numbers - Now, the word list on the left shows the "Top Words" of that board, showing the top 150 words findable on the board (not just what people got). It also shows how many people got each word v010.1 (2008-10-14) ------------------- - Word chart now gets reset to zero every round - Removed some wasted white space above the game board - Changed "Words others got" wording to "Words everyone got" - Sometimes, if you ejected yourself from the game and came back, it would show an old game board, and wouldn't update until the next round. This is fixed. v010 (2008-10-12) ----------------- - There is now a word chart that shows how many words of differing letters there are - The "Words Others Got" list is now sorted in order of largest to smallest - Mousing is changed and hopefully improved. The new action is to click on the first letter of a word, mouse over the word, then click on the last letter to send the word. It also now keeps the word that you're working on highlighted. - Improved the efficiency of the chat window, hopefully removed some bugs - Ratings are now a bit more volatile for players with a lot of games. - Tweaked some rules for some of the rooms v009 (2008-10-10) ------------------ - Now keeping some statistics about players and words. You can see the current reports by clicking on the stats links on the homepage or the lobby pages - Now, when you rotate the board, the word entry box is immediately focused. - Now, at the end of each round the chat entry is focused. At the beginning, the word entry is focused - Added two new Serpentine Rooms! One is a 5x5, 5 letter-min board, the other is a 4x4, 3 letter-min quick round (30s each) - Various small tweaks on the server v008 (2008-10-09) ----------------- - Moved the Leave Game button to underneath the words box - In the lobby, the rating that appears at the top of the page for each player is no longer cached (it will now always be correct) - Added a new Ratings page that will let you look at all the players' ratings and # of games played. You can get there by clicking on the More link underneath the top ten in the lobby. v007 (2008-10-03) ----------------- - Drag-style mousing works. Still isn't quite perfect but it's workable - Board rotation - New ENABLE2K dictionary - Fixed bugs where Words others got and word-at-last-second doesn't show up at the end of rounds - Improvements to the game server - Fixed scrolling in the chat window so you can go back to look at previous char remarks v006 (2008-09-29) ------------------ - Added "Your Stats" table to the account page - Added a winner message for players that win a round - Added a client that gives me remote control over the game server v005.1 (2008-09-28) ----------------- - Quick fix for the lobby chat. Better logic for determining if players are in the lobby or not. v005 (2008-09-27) --------- - You can now chat in the lobby, before you enter the actual game. - The words box should hopefully scroll now when the "Other Players Words" listing shows up - I've added server chat messages like, "Adam has entered the game" or "Jenny has left the game" v004 (2008-09-25) ----------------- - Added additional intermediate and advanced rooms, with 5 letters per side, and rounds lasting three minutes each. - Added a "Words others got" listing after each round, where is shows you all the words the other players got but you didn't - A color-coded ratings system. There are now a whole range of ratings groups, from "Needs Improvement" to "Senior Master". - The Serpentine letters are now clickable like buttons - Some minor bugfixes in the game and server - More ratings tweaking v003 (2008-09-25) ------------------- - Added some administrative tools for the site - Switched gamesplayed/ratings columns in lobby top 10 listing - Made some small changes to the page header to possibly help the site get listed on search engines - Made some error messages friendlier (in a sneaky kind of way) v002 (2008-09-24) -------------------- - Was constantly getting an "Invalid Response from Server" popup during the game. - An extra comma (hopefully) will not show up in the players listing - Chat/Player/Word listing windows now (should) scroll automatically - I've reworked the player/chat windows to be bigger and format better with different inputs - Added a "Leave" button, so that you get immediately logged out of the game (not the site though) - Tweaked the rating system - Now displaying game rules in the lobby of the game - Displaying a top 10 list of players in the lobby (based on rating) v001 (2008-09-23) ------------------- Initial Release