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(November 23): added a new map (United States of Advertising)

(March 20): the next minor version has been released (0.7.4)

(February 2): the next major version has been released (0.7)

(January 19): the next minor version has been released (0.6.8)

(December 22): the next major version has been released (0.6)

(October 23): in preparation of a public release the homepage has been revamped!

(September 27): the next major version has been released (0.5) - we are getting close to releasing the first full version.

(August 24): since august 1'st we've received 54,521 requests for pages from 466 unique visitors. for an early beta-version this is pretty decent - thanks to all the beta-testers for their support.

(August 16): the first version is going well. we are fixing numerous bugs, re-doing the point system, and preparing the game for play with multiple maps.

(August 2): the first playable version (0.1b) is now ready! if you want to join our mailing list (if you are beta testing please do) send a blank message to beta@revolutiongame.com.

(July 27): we're very close to beta - if you are interested in testing the game please email beta@revolutiongame.com.

(July 26): checkout our first screenshot here.

Build History

Version 0.7

Build 4 (Mar 20, 9:12pm)

Fixed 2 bugs on the Shapes map

Deleted some bogus games and users

Build 3 (Feb 5, 2:55am)

Made a few minor changes to the Shapes map

Added the first item to the help page (please submit any questions you have about the game)

New game options are now shown when playing/viewing a game

Fixed bug in the daily maintenance routine

Build 2 (Feb 3, 10:42pm)

Added a new map! (Shapes)

Added a chat room

Fixed recent bug that would send you to the wrong page when viewing your cards

Fixed another bug with the point system

Formatting changes to Play/View and Archived games

Build 1 (Feb 2, 8:10pm)

When any game starts the country placement starts with a random player (used to be player 1)

When a team game starts it gives countries in the play order

Added valid colors for a 15'th and 16'th player in the Hennon Harga map

If you double-click the give country button it will no longer count as 2 gives

New game options: Change the sides on dice, bonus divisor, min daily bonus, fortify through teammates

When calculating a game value it's now based on your Points+Ante instead of just Points

When you win an attack you automatically move in the number of dice you rolled (removes exploit)

Formatted the display game page (and added a confirmation box on game delete)

Fixed images and text placement on map Hennon Harga

You can not invite people to ante games who do not have enough points

The clear orders button is now gone (hitting attack or fortify will clear orders)

Fixed bugs on game view and browse archived games

Fix bug involving inviting people to an ante team game

If you join a game it now always displays the correct output

Fixed a bug where it would skip 2 players in a row

Inactive users are now automatically removed from invite games that haven't started

Deleted game Better Watch Out (it was FUBAR)

The continent bonus chart is now color-coded

Version 0.6

Build 8 (Jan 25, 7:16pm)

The new map is ready: Henon Harga

Added some content to the help page

Viewing a game now returns you to Play/View

Formatted the message center

Build 7 (Jan 24, 12:42am)

The system will now send a message when the first person gets close to the reset point

Added funky cursors in a few places

Cursor doesn't flicker anymore when moving over a country box

Added an option to email a password if you entered your address

Almost finished adding a new map

Build 6 (Jan 23, 12:29am)

Fixed a bug that would reveal anonymous players in team games you are not involved in

We now log browser signatures and IP addresses at every login (to help discourage dupe accounts)

Daily Maintenance will now only run once per day (avoids create/join cap exploit)

Daily Maintenance will now run immediately after a reset (to reset the create/join cap)

Begin work on a new map courtesy of Henny: Henon Harga

Build 5 (Jan 19, 12:10am)

The winners name is mentioned in the log and system message on reset

The system log is cleared on reset

Play/View Games now shows Sequential and Ante fields (removed anonymous)

Added some new stats to the Top 10 page (total games, total points in ante)

Fixed spelling mistake: anti

If your turn is played in a teamgame you now receive a system message

When you take over a continent it will now display the right name

Fixed team invite games (no, really, we did)

Game start: Army placement in team games now goes in play order

If there are no games to display in Play/View it now says there aren't any instead of being blank

Slightly changed system log message when a game was won (and indicate if it was a team game)

Added a vacation mode feature (all sequential turns will be immediately skipped)

You cannot use the (, ), or * characters in your name

You can now go straight to Play/View after ending a turn

Build 4 (Jan 13, 9:19pm)

There is now a View Kills page off the main menu

Colorized the buttons and input fields

Finished formatting the player info page

Build 3 (Dec 29, 7:51pm)

Changed some default settings in Create Game

You can always see the identity of your teammate in Give Country

Formatted the player info page

Build 2 (Dec 28, 7:29pm)

You can now play your team-mates turn in a sequential team game if he is absent for more than 3 days

Sequential team games are now ordered by first player on each team, second player on each team, etc...

You can now see the identity of your teammate in an anonymous team game

Changed the color scheme on the menus

There is now a splash screen when you login that dynamically preloads all the images in your browsers cache (you can skip the preload in your player preferences)

Sounds have been added to a few of the pages (you can disable them in player preferences)

You can now create 1 game per day and join 3 (or 3 and 7 if you are involved in under 10 games)

If the cash value is at the top/bottom it will always display decrementing/incrementing

Added more information to the system event log (new users, game wins)

Changed formatting of the index page

Made the in-game error messages more descriptive

Fixed a bug where 2 people could join a game at the same time (don't cross the streams)

Fixed joining an invite team game

Build 1 (Dec 22, 1:47am)

You can now invite specific people into specific spots in a game

From now on you can only create and join 1 game per day (unless you are involved in under a certain number of games)

Message system: you can now set the email notification to only send messages when you are offline

Message system: you can now receive a message when it's your turn in a sequential game

Fixed adjacency bug on the Canadian Seperation map

Fixed bug related to card cashing

Added a help page (which doesn't have any content and isn't very helpful) =:-)

The help icons now contain help

Version 0.5
Build 8 (Nov 27, 9:19pm)

A new map is finally available!

Fixed bug for IE6 users

Continued work on Invite games (not finished yet)

Build 7 (Nov 27, 9:19pm)

Who's Online now displays more information and hides info on anonymous games

Fixed bug that caused some users to not be logged in/out properly

Fixed new user bug

Fixed delete game page

Fixed errors related to using the " ' < and > characters in game names

The game and homepage will now gracefully handle unsupported browsers

Slightly modified point system (devalued 2 and 3 player games)

Changed location of continent bonus chart

Build 6 (Nov 24, 2:00am)

An automated reset function has been created - as a result the game has now been reset!

Added a system log (users can view the log to see what happened during daily maintenance, resets, etc)

Inactive users are automatically deleted based on sysop configurable parameters

When a user goes inactive they will be notified via a system message

Build 5 (Nov 23, 8:45pm)

Ensured people who login or create a user have cookies enabled

The sysop can set a maximum number of users who can login at a time

Cash Cards now tells you the value and direction of the cash

Fixed display bug related to incrementing and decrementing

The game now displays the estimated number of points you'll receive for a win

Build 4 (Nov 16, 11:14pm)

Added an anti feature you can use to throw points in a pot when a game is created - when the game is over the winner gets all

You can now look at your cards when viewing a game

Formatted the pre-game and post-game pages

There's new cards! (a little big - but at least they're new)

Build 3 (Nov 13, 3:31am)

Fixed bug where you couldn't give countries if you had 0 fortifications left

Further randomized country placement and dice rolls

Non-sequential games become playable the day after they start and you can't play the same game more than once within 8 hours

Options configured on the homepage will now last 30 days between visits

Replaced some missing images

Added meaningful error messages during login process

You can now view a history of resets from the main menu

The bottom of the game window now contains more information about the game

Fixed view other games

You can now see the identity of the winner of an anonymous game

Player names are now limited to 15 characters, game names to 30

Added formatting to all of the game management pages

Build 2 (Oct 6, 9:06pm)

A note is placed beside all inactive users on Top10

Top10 is now ordered by (your selection), inactive status, name

Began work on multi-server system, intro pages have changed

IE smart-tags have been disabled

Disabled right click and text selection on all pages

Build 1 (Sept 27, 1:29am)

The game has been reset - congrats to Tesseractive who gets the first General Star

Reset = all games (active, not started, and archived) have been deleted and everyone is back to 0 points

We deleted alot of user accounts (ones that haven't logged-in for a while or ones that looks like they were made by accident)

General Stars appear on the player info screen and the top 10

Players can not have less than 0 points

Changed the points awarded for all situations of the game

Fixed error message when creating a new account

When a game is finished you will now receive an email (if notification activated)

Fixed bug where you would lose your turn if you clicked play and someone else was already playing

If you miss x days your continent bonus will now be multiplied by x (as well as your bonus for # of countries)

If you haven't logged in for 10 days your account becomes inactive and your turns will be automatically skipped in every sequential game

Fixed a bug where people were being skipped improperly during sequential games

The cards in the game increment up and down, up and down, up and down, the cards in the game increment up and down, all game looooong (sung to the tune of "the wheels on the bus")

Almost all of the pages now use hotkeys (type the letter on your keyboard), they are indicated by ()

We've started beautifying some of the pages - this will be a slow, horrible process

Version 0.1
Build 6.5 (Sept 21, 11:08pm)

Southern Europe is now adjacent to Egypt

Deleted some bogus games

The number of turns you have played in a game now increments at the start of your turn

Made a few changes to the main menu

View archived games now works properly

Fixed a bug in the archived games menu

Build 6 (Aug 22, 3:07am)

You can now remove yourself from any type of game

You can now create and play anonymous games

Finished games over 7 days old are now moved to the archive section

You can view the archive section from the main menu

Fixed the bug where 1 player owns all the countries when a game starts

Everytime you gain/lose points, or a game that you are in starts you will receive a system message (if you have that option enabled)

Fixed giving people random points in team games

When you steal cards/kill someone it will now update the display immediately

You can now edit your account (Change password and notification options)

Fixed truncation and line-wrapping problem with the message system

The notification options now work

Sequential games will now skip users who haven't played in 4 days (and notify them that they were skipped)

Changed the behaviour of the attack/fortify buttons (minor changes)

Clicking on the attack or fortify button now clears any orders and resets the armies box to 3

MAP - Drew a connecting line between Egypt and Western Europe

MAP - made it more obvious that Alaska and Western Canada are adjacent

Fixed the a small bug in bonus armies details

The view game button doesn't appear now if you are forced to cash a set

When viewing a game which hasn't started the players appear in the order that they joined

Build 5 (Aug 16, 7:15pm)

Fixed the bug where it would log you out after playing your turns

Added the ability for the system operator to send messages to all users

Added some stats to the Last 10 Callers page

Players show up as dead on the gameinfo screen as soon as you kill them (used to happen the next day)

Fixed numerous problems with cashing cards

You can now view your cards at the beginning of your turn and after you steal them

Bonus details has been fixed - it'll display the proper writeup under all circumstances

We changed the format of the gamecounts on the main menu

Build 4 (Aug 14, 3:05am)

Deleted a few user accounts that looked like they were made by accident (jk, rick, and Bill Billster)

You can now click on a users name (anywhere it appears) and pull up a detailed window about their account (including how many times you've killed them)

We now count and display how many times a user has logged in

Fixed problem where negative armies would appear on the map

Fixed exploit where you could move more armies than allowed after winning a battle

Dead people now appear as D E A D on the userlist inside a game

Stopped the "We adjusted your attack force" message from appearing multiple times

Fixed the map image - Scandanavia is now connected to Iceland

Added a "Last 10 Players" page which shows the last 10 people who've logged into the game

Bonus details now shows the correct value for the number of armies you receive for your countries

The number of cards you have now appears correctly after cashing a set

If a game is locked it will now tell you who has locked it

In a team game you can only give away 2 countries per turn

Streamlined the message system

Build 3.5 (Aug 11, 10:31pm)

Fixed the bug that made team games un-joinable before they were full

Put in a cap of 3 days missed where you will still get extra armies

Removed bonus armies for missed days in a sequential game

It now says who everyone is waiting for to play in a sequential game

Pulled finished games out of your active games table

Fixed the bug where middle east - southern Europe weren't connected

In sequential games, if you don't play for 5 days it will skip your turn. If the other players are more than 5 days old(because
they've been waiting for someone to play) they have 2 days until there turn is skipped aswell

Build 3 (Aug 7, 3:58am)

You can now give countries to your partners in team games

Message system now online

Each member of a team now gets equal credit for a kill (and winning the game)

Fixed problem where you couldn't attack Southern Europe from Middle East

Fixed an exploit where you could win a game repeated times

Fortifying in the middle of your turn didn't work before - it does now

You can now remove yourself from a game you have joined

Fixed the count of number of games you are dead in

Deleted the pull-out bar on the game screen in favour of a list at the bottom of the map

You can now view how many cards another player has, when he played last, and how many times he's played in that game (since this fix)

If you are absent from a non-sequential game for more than a day you now get your daily quota times the number of days you were absent

Creator now gets to play first in a sequential game

You might have noticed the number of armies you got for a set seemed random - it was. Problem solved

Made it clear on the map that Eastern US and Central America are connected

The Who's Online screen now shows the location of each user

When you conquer a continent you get a nice and pretty message

Almost completed the ability to invite people into games

Build 2 (Aug 3, 1:49am)

Ensured browsers and proxy servers don't cache copies of the game pages

If you are able to play a game you now have the option to view it without starting your turn

Fixed the bug where your username doesn't appear when you first create an account

You can now view a game if it's locked by another player

Added a viewgame button when deciding to cash in a set of cards

The fortify page will tell you when you are out of fortifications

If you kill a player you can now cash newly obtained cards in the middle of your turn and continue with your attack

Made a few of the screens less ugly (not good looking, just less ugly)

Build 1 (Aug 2, 4:30am)

The first build - what can we say!