List of updates

[Jimmy V.]

2018/04/19 Improvements on Lost Cities and Keltis Card animations

Following your feedback about unpleasant animations, we have just updated those 2 games. We will later improve Siberia Card (and maybe other games as needed).

Lost Cities:
Cards in hand do not glow anymore (animation removed). We think the animations was not properly rendered by slow machines/browsers.

Keltis Card:
Cards in hand have a lighter effect.
Action buttons have lighter animations.
Wishing stone animation is simpler and faster.
End phase indicator looks better.

[Jimmy V.]

2018/04/19 Improvements on Finito animations

In Finito, the unpleasant animations on the tokens have been removed.
The red glowing numbers have changed a bit too.

[Jimmy V.]

2018/05/11 The platform is now fully encrypted (https)

Happy Meeple is now encrypted with an SSL certificate. Your browser should not warn you any more about data being sent in the clear over the internet. Hopefully, this will bring us more new players.
This is a major update. We had to change a lot of code to make it work. So please keep an eye and report anything unusual. It may be a bug.

[Jimmy V.]

2018/06/06 Siberia Card bug correction

Some users experienced a bug in Siberia Card after a deck reshuffling. Some cards were not showing in their hand (see https://www.happymeeple.com/forum/siberia-the-card-game/bug-cards-not-shown-in-hand-cards/). The bug is now corrected.
Various improvements/changes for login via Facebook.

[Jimmy V.]

2018/12/06 Circle The Wagons

Our 10th game, Circle The Wagons was released with a $100 challenge.
Updates made in the first few days can be found in the thread: Circle The Wagons feedback.

2018/12/10 Indicator of first and second player

A 1 and a 2 are now displayed next to the players' meeple to indicate the first and second player. This has long been missing. It is especially important in Level X, and to a lesser degree in Glastonbury.

[Jimmy V.]

2018/12/18 Pull-To-Refresh feature disabled

On most of the website, the Pull-To-Refresh feature has been disabled. The Pull-To-Refresh feature allows mobile users (on Chrome Android at least) to refresh the page by scrolling down.
To prevent this, we applied the following CSS style to the body element of the page.
body {
  overscroll-behavior-y: none;
}
It means that the new behaviour will not work if your browser does not understand the overscroll-behavior property. For Chrome Android, the property is available from version 70.
As usual, let us know if this change has unwanted side effects.

[Jimmy V.]

2018/12/18 Daily Quests for Circle The Wagons added

New Daily Quests for Circle The Wagons will be generated from now on.

[Jimmy V.]

2018/12/19 Various improvements

Improvement on the loading time of the login page. Images in the slideshow are loaded when needed, not all at loading time. And they are also smaller in size.
The bell ringing when an opponent has been found in the inn and when the game is about to start is slightly louder following popular demand. Please remember that the title of the tab where Happy Meeple is running blinks when a game is starting to let you know about it if you are surfing in another tab.
New Daily Quests with the Circle The Wagons game.
Ad refreshs stops after a while. We noticed that our pages crashed if we left them open for a long time with ads constantly refreshing.

[Jimmy V.]

2019/02/04 Team changes

We reorganized teams. There are now 22 teams instead of 30.

Some teams were too small and thus not competitive. So we grouped a few countries together to form stronger teams.

Please note that we are trying to bring people together rather than divide them. So don't be frustrated if there are not enough players from your country to form a strong team and start making new friends within your team.

Here are some of the most important changes:

Central Europe has been created. Benelux has been created. Oceania has been created. Southern Europe has been created.
Brazil joins Latin America. Turkey joins Asia.
India has its own team.
Portugal and Spain join forces.

You can comment on these changes here: https://www.happymeeple.com/forum/tips-polls-updates/teams-reorganized/

[Jimmy V.]

2019/02/08 Team chat

Each team has its own chat. So you can meet your teammates and set team targets as you wish. Feel free to introduce yourself!

Admins have their own chat and admin zone.

Offers open in a specific tab for each partner rather than in one tab for all. This allows you to visit all pages later at your convenience with the assurance that a partner will not override the previous one.

Casual Game Insider magazine is a new partner.

[Jimmy V.]

2019/02/12 Minor improvements on chats

Browsers should not suggest texts in the chat box anymore.
Experienced players (experience >=50 will not need to confirm when they like a message) anymore.
All mentions to Google Plus Network are removed (Google Plus social network is stopped).

[Jimmy V.]

2019/02/28 Various improvements

The one-on-one game chat is now always on top of all other chats.
A list of recommended pages are now available at the bottom of the menu and game pages.

[Jimmy V.]

2019/05/10 Resign button and improvement on replaying with the same opponent

There is now a resign button next to your name. The icon of the button is a white flag.
If you resign, you lose the game as if you had played it to the end. No penalties for that, expect the loss of the game. If you have to abandon a game, please always use the resign button. It is much better than closing the page or letting the clock run down.

The "Play against the same opponent" button has 2 new features:
1) the players are matched automatically. If you are the second player to ask for a rematch, the match will start immediately without the need for further action in the inn.
2) a notification is displayed at the top of the opponent's screen when the new table is opened. The notification will also appear if you open a table for any number of friends. All of them will be notified that you opened a table for them.

Minor changes to the gaming code. Circle The Wagons in particular has been affected.

[Jimmy V.]

2019/09/26  Illegal move issue solved

We found the reasons why it was possible to make an illegal move. The case was rare but it did happen.
When two human players requested a rematch but one of them finally decided to play against a bot instead, the server actually created 2 matches for the 2nd player instead of one. When the player later played a move, it was sent to the wrong match which caused the "illegal move".
In some other instances, the issue may have been the result of the rare possibility that is maybe given in Lost Cities or Glastonbury to play the same move twice. We are not sure if this actually generated the issue. But we patched the code so as to make sure that this is not possible anymore.

We added some new partners.
Zatu is an online board game shop based in the UK. Some of our players will see their offers (not only UK players).
Philibert is our long-standing French partner. As they also sell worldwide, we made their English shop available to some of our non-French players too.

[Jimmy V.]

2019/12/03 Raging Bulls release - a new solo line

Raging Bulls is released.

Raging Bulls is the first game of our solo line.

The solo games offer 3 modes of play:

• Tutorial-challenges to teach the game
• Extra challenges (try to get 3 stars) to hone your skills
• The full game to play for rating (or use training mode for unrated play)

Each challenge has its own ranking list. If you beat a world record, you earn gold and King’s favours. The more a world record has been beaten, the higher the reward for beating it again.

The white meeple is earned after collecting a few stars.
The color meeples are earned by either collecting stars or by scoring x times a certain score in the full game mode (online mode).
The black meeple is, as usual, earned by a mix of minimum rating plus experience.