Wagic

One of the things I enjoy the most in Wagic is when the AI surprises me with extremely clever moves.

The AI in Wagic is driven by randomness, logic, and a bit of revenge. It basically “learns” which cards in your deck are a threat to it, and tends to target these cards more than others with its spells.

Today I got owned in something like 6 turns by the AI deck Depletion, and the moves were so good I have to talk about them.

On its first turn, the AI cast “Tome scour” on me, making me moving 5 cards from my library to my graveyard.

Unfortunately, the best card of my deck was in there: Ob Nixilis, the Fallen. That card is sooo unbalanced that it’s a great game finisher.

On its second turn, the AI cast Animate Dead on my beloved creature.

3 turns later, I was dead. (On top of the AI’s excellent moves, I had a very crappy starting hand, but even without it, such a powerful creature on turn 2…what can you do?)

Owing to its “revenge” mechanism, the AI in Wagic can be extremely good against combo decks, or, in my case, decks that mostly rely on one card to win

If you have good stories about the AI owning you in a way that seemed “clever” don’t hesitate to share them

J, the incredible mad scientist behind the port of JGE (and therefore Wagic) for Linux is back and made awesome progress on a Mac port. We’re not entirely there yet, but this screenshot shows you that it’s coming

J also fixed a bunch of issues for compilation on 64bits OSes, but some of his changes are not in the SVN yet. They should be there soon though. Thanks a lot Dude

JGE++ is the only library that allows you to compile a game for the Sony PSP, Windows and Linux from the same source code. The latest version of JGE is available on our SVN.

You can already play Avenger of Zendikar in Wagic 0.10

I’m happy to announce that thanks to the terrific work of Dr. Solomat, Wagic already handles 56 cards of the new Worldwake set.

Yes, that means you can already playtest some cards of this new set in Wagic.

Some of the cards will only work with the SVN version of Wagic, but most of them are working with the current 0.10.1 release.

You can get the file on our SVN, here. To install it in your Wagic folder, just save that file as Res/sets/WWK/_cards.dat (of course you have to create the WWK folder) in your Wagic installation, and you’re done.

You can discuss this set in Dr.Solomat’s release thread

The Wagic team is hard at work to provide more playable cards, bug fixes, and cool new features in next Wagic release, so stay tuned

Wagic is not published or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

I want to thank people who have donated in the past and who will donate in the future for Wagic.
I have a job that pays for the server so money is not a problem for me, but as a matter of principle, I want Wagic to be able to provide the funds for its own needs. (You have probably seen that I put ads recently on the website to help with that).

That being said, I don’t use the donations money for the server. The donations received in 2008 were initially supposed to go to team Typhoon for the release of the HEN, but they agreed on this money going to the Red Cross instead. I thought this was a very cool idea.

Here’s how the money received in 2009 was used:

• A donation was made to the Wikimedia foundation. The Wikimedia foundation is the association behind Wikipedia. I’ve been using Wikipedia for years, and I strongly believe in the freedom and sharing of knowledge. Wikipedia is one of the most famous sites in the world, and people can easily forget how fast it could disappear if it ever lost its independence.
• A major part of the donation money was sent to the Red Cross, again. It is one of the rare humanitarian organizations that accept paypal donations. If you know other trusted organizations that accept paypal, please give me their name. I am especially interested in organizations that dedicate their work to children.
• I bought a book called “La Bataille HADOPI”. It is a book about the recently voted “three strikes, you’re out” law in France. I strongly believe that the current copyright laws in many countries of the world are completely obsolete and should be thought again. I think that the recent laws voted in Europe such as the French HADOPI law make things even worse. The benefits for this book were sent to the French association “La Quadrature du Net“, which fights for fundamental rights on the internet, including the right to share culture. (I unfortunately can’t recommend the book, as most of the articles inside are extremely biased)

I’m extremely happy if Wagic can contribute to good things. It feels like I brag about it, but I mostly want donators to know where the money goes… Wagic was built using shared knowledge and tools, and I think this is a way of “giving back” somehow. Well, that, and the fact that Wagic is free and open source, of course

One of the donators suggested that I buy a Mac and start working on an iPhone port. I am far from having enough donations for that, but the idea of an iPhone port (through cydia, of course, not an official app) is nice, so if you’re an iPhone dev and think you can work on a port, please, please do so and/or contact me, I’ll gladly help! (On a side note, there are games on the AppStore named Wagic, they are NOT related to us in any way)

Ho ho ho, here’s our present to all Homebrew fans: A new version of Wagic, full of Christmas joy!

We’ve worked very hard in the past two months to fix bugs and add features, so I hope you’ll enjoy this new version. Many thanks go to the people who have given their time for this release, especially Abrasax, Daddy32, Dr.Solomat, Ilya B, J, Jeck, Lakeesha, Leungclj, Psyringe, Yeshua. I also especially want to thank Raphael for fixing the purple screen bug, a bug that had been in Wagic for several months now.

What is wagic?

Wagic is a fan-made heroic-fantasy card game, in which you fight with your army against the computer. As you win battles, you earn credits that allow you to improve your deck and unlock more cards, and extra game modes. Wagic started as a small project, but has grown over the years, and is now often compared to commercial video games for its replay value and its high quality graphics.

Wagic is free, runs on Windows, Linux, and the Sony PSP. It is available in many languages, and fully customizable. you can create your own themes, your own cards, and even your own rules. Because Wagic is community driven and open source, it gets regularly improved with original contents and mods.

What’s new?

It has become difficult for me to summarize a release. It’s not only about new cards anymore, every release seems to bring more new stuff than the previous one! The major new features for this release are the “trophy room” and the “tasks mode”. The trophy room is a cool place where you can see details about all the sets and modes you have unlocked. The tasks mode is a very fun way to get more credits when you play: In the shop, press “start”, and see the “available tasks”. They are usually pretty clear on what you need to do to get extra credits. The tasks require you to build very clever decks that have a very specific purpose, such as winning a battle with insane amounts of life

Of course, we also added many (many!) cards in this release. Actually, we added as much cards as we could, and Wagic now has more than 5000 cards you can play with, in more than 50 sets.

You think that’d be enough for a new release, but we didn’t stop here. Wagic 0.10.1 has two new themes included: Final Saga by Ilya B (that’s now the default theme), and the Christmas theme by Lakeesha. There are also 50 new opponents, which brings the total of AI decks to 100. Overall, unlocking all the modes/cards and “beating” Wagic should take you a fair amount of time, definitely more than it takes to beat Uncharted 2

And so many other things: ingame music, bug fixes, language selection (no need for international players to wait for a patch anymore)…

Complete Changelog:

• More than 1500 new cards. Wagic now allows you to play with 5149 cards, from more than 50 expansions, including Magic 2010, Zendikar, Revised, Alara, Conflux, shadowmoor,…
• Added a “cheat” mode (don’t ask, I didn’t add it, I can’t tell you how to unlock it )
• Deck statistics improvements
• Bug fixes with audio
• InGame music
• Language is now an option, no need to wait for patches, you can choose English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, or Portuguese
• New parser abilities: PreventAllcombatDamage, becomes…, horsemanship, myTurnOnly, asSorcery, myUpkeepOnly(and similar…), 0 mana activated abilities now work, equipment, threshold, cycling, protection from(target), nofizzle, autohand, autograveyard
• Minor AI improvements, and bug fixes
• New theme: final Saga (thanks to Ilya B)
• New theme: Christmas (thanks to Lakeesha)
• External rules system now allows you to create your own rules. Check mtg.txt in res/rules
• “Purple Screen of despair” issue solved, thanks to Raphael and Yeshua.
• New feature: Trophy Room
• New feature: Tasks. Get more credits by fulfilling the quests given to you by the shopkeeper!
• hundreds of bug fixes for specific cards

Note for beginners:

Wagic requires you to know the basic rules of the game that inspired it. If it’s you’re first time playing, you might feel that the decks of your opponents are too tough. I suggest in that case to play against the 10 first decks of the “choose opponent” list, as these decks are historically less strong than the other ones. Good luck

Download:

If you like Wagic, please consider making a donation. I do my best to use the money wisely. Thanks in advance!

Go to the download page

As usual, enjoy Wagic!

This is probably the first time we get a seasonal Theme for Wagic, and this one not only perfectly fits the Christmas season, it is also very well done and funny, so I hope you’ll fall in love with it the way I did.

I’ll cut the crap, screenshots and a download link are all you need:

Download

To install, just unzip the Christmas folder to your WTH/Res/themes folder, then in the game, go to options > User and choose the “Christmas” theme

don’t forget to go to the original thread and thank Lakeesha for this awesome work!

By the way Wagic’s next release is coming real soon, so stay tuned