Magarena 1.15

[melvin]

Download Magarena 1.15

As usual, please report bugs for 1.15 in this thread or on the project issues page

Special thanks to Rachel for code contributions and Goblin Hero for allowing us to use his vector mana symbols.

Release 1.15 (June 20, 2011)
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- 916 cards in total
- added standard cube (303 cards)
- added extended cube (557 cards)
- added legacy cube (915 cards, all except Skullclamp)

- added Tectonic Edge
- added Flashfreeze
- added Pyroclasm
- added Tumble Magnet
- added Inkmoth Nexus
- added Spell Pierce
- added Sphere of the Suns
- added Celestial Purge
- added Mox Opal
- added Signal Pest
- added Negate
- added Mark of Mutiny
- added Explore
- added Nature's Claim

- reduce the number of passes needed if you have the skip single option
preference enabled (item on the stack is shown for 1s before resolving)
- changed default height and width of the application window to be 1024x600
- use symbols drawn by Goblin Hero
- fixed Vines of Vastwood so that if you target an opponent's creature, the
opponent cannot target the creature (previously Vines of Vastwood prevents
the opponent of the controller of the creature from targetting it)
- fixed implementation of first strike, so that triggers may occur after
dealing first strike damage and before regular damage is dealt (fixes issue
11: "Double Strike creature that leaves play after first strike still deals
regular damage (Dread bug)")
- state-based actions are carried out simultaneously instead of one permanent
at a time (fixes issue 7: "Problem in interaction between 704.3/704.5g and
613.4")
- fixed card pic for spirit token
- added cancel button to download images dialog, now it is possible to stop
downloading
- add this README.txt to the game's help menu
- added caching to Monte Carlo Tree Search AI so that simulations performed
for one decision can be reused when computing the next decision
- evaluated the AIs with different parameters, results available at
http://code.google.com/p/magarena/wiki/AIStrength

[Huggybaby]

Oh snap, thanks for the cool new release melvin!

Now I'm off to read http://code.google.com/p/magarena/wiki/AIStrength, great stuff!

[melvin]

Your welcome Btw, I've simplified the logic for the "skip single choice" option, so that the game will auto skip at more places, however it does seem a little too aggressive. Let me know if the games goes too fast with that option on and where I should add some pauses.

[telengard]

Your welcome Btw, I've simplified the logic for the "skip single choice" option, so that the game will auto skip at more places, however it does seem a little too aggressive. Let me know if the games goes too fast with that option on and where I should add some pauses.

Very cool stuff! I enjoyed the stats on AIs playing each other. I use AIs playing each other (with LOTS of assert()s) to flesh out bugs/crashes. And yes, fleshing out game state synchronization issues is painful.

~telengard

[ubeefx]

Yes, the AI strength page is very cool stuff.
Implementing game state caching in MTCS is also a nice evolution.
It was very helpful to MiniMax evaluation speed, next to the pruning.

[melvin]

Yeah, the AI strength page is useful to see how the various AIs stack up against each other. More importantly, it shows how various changes affect the "strength" of the AI.

One thing I forgot to mention in the README is that I added solver capability to the Monte Carlo Tree Search AI. It will stop its search once it is able to prove that it can win the game. When the AI starts playing really fast (taking much less than the number of second allocated), be very afraid

[Huggybaby]

When the AI starts playing really fast (taking much less than the number of second allocated), be very afraid

Oh yeah baby!

[pedro1973]

Nice as always...

Downloading...

I hope you can implement the tournament or league gameplay in future releases.

THX.

[atar]

Is it possible to post a download link(mediafire etc) for the images?That will be really helpfull for me.Thnx in advance

[jeffwadsworth]

Is it possible to post a download link(mediafire etc) for the images?That will be really helpfull for me.Thnx in advance

The image download is built-in. File->Download Images

[atar]

i know that already but i have problems with my connection...

[ubeefx]

The Limited Edition 1.13 topic contains a Mediafire download with most of the card images.
But the usual way is to download them with the builtin functionality.

[Aswan jaguar]

I didn't play 1.14 PC problems,but with 1.15 I have crashes often which I didn't have with 1.13 Limited.
Could it be that I now have 1g memory to 1,5g before,+ an element that makes gameplay faster messes up and game "hangs"?Some times this happens when I hit the button once but although I have smt to play it goes 2 steps ahead try to undo game "hangs" and you can't do a thing.If you minimize it and go later it shows only 1/3 or less of the elements the screen should have.
I know a solution is to set it not to skip phases and push each time the button but I really like the fast game provided by Magarena.
Another thing is if I block AI's attack and undo 1,2 steps let AI attack again before I declare blockers the previous assigned blockers appear on the screen.

[melvin]

The problem is most likely due to bugs introduced between 1.13 and 1.15 and not because of the change in the amount of ram.

Setting the game to skip phases should work correctly, if not it is a bug and that needs to be fixed. For that I'll need more details:
1. Which AI are you playing against?
2. You mention "this happens when I hit the button", which button are you referring to? The skip (->) button?
3. Were there a lot of creatures on the battlefield? Up to 1.15, the AI could hang when there are a lot of creatures on the battlefield. There is a fix in the version under development.

I've seen the problem with the blockers before, just didn't think it was that serious. I'll add it to the issues page and we will tackle it. Thanks for the report.

[Aswan jaguar]

1.Default strength.
2.Right key or > button on the screen.
3.Not always,I had crashes with 3,4 creatures only on the field.