Merry Christmas! Wagic 0.3.1 Released
First of all, many thanks to Abrasax and J for their help, this new release wouldn’t be so full of new stuff without them. And thanks of course to the beta testers. Strangely enough, except a few card bugs here and there, most of the reports we got were “feature” requests (well, to some extent, some of them can be considered as bugs too…), so my guess is that this release should be quite stable.
So what do we have for you here ? Well, first of all, you’ll probably notice that the big jpegs are not in this release, only thumbnails. The game still handles the big pictures, of course, but you’ll have to find them yourself. The main reason for that is bandwidth, as this decision will allow us to put far more cards in the future, for a smaller zip file. It also allows us to put music and sfx in the package for a smaller total size. Oh yes, music is finally here, and a few sounds as well, so that Wagic looks (sounds ?) more like an actual video game now (the soundtrack is by Celestial Aeon Project). Overall, lots of new customizable contents have been added, and the card parser has been improved, which means more cards for you and less code for me.
Oh, I almost forgot, around 250 new cards (Wagic now officially supports around 700 cards, not counting the hundreds more available on the forum), new icons and a new logo.
And thanks to CrazyRazor for the avatars, that I included in the release.
enjoy a few screenshots and videos. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll be on holiday during the Christmas season, so don’t expect many updates in the weeks to come.
Changelog
General
- Added 240 new cards, including the ones from the Ice Age Mod by Abrasax, and cards from Shadowmoor
- (PSP) Mp3 Playback fixed. (note : Mp3s can’t have an ID3V2 tag)
- Added SFX (check the Res/sound/sfx/README.txt file for customization)
- Shop Memory leak fixed. Going repeatedly to the shop should not crash the game anymore
- The deck editor now has 3 scrolling speeds. You can switch by using the “select” button
- (internal) Input system updated
- (Windows) it is now possible to resize the window and play fullscreen
- Added an avatar directory for the AI. Check Res/ai/baka/avatars/README.txt for customization !
- The cards file parser has been upgraded, you can now add more cards by yourself
- new keywords : lord , life ,foreach,bury all, destroy all, @, draw,…
- target mechanism updated (attacker, blocker, colors, tapped, abilities…)
- more info here
- The AI should play Wrath of God and other such cards more “wisely”
- You can now choose your opponent based on its deck name when you play against the AI. Difficulty is computed based on your victories against the AI with a specific deck.
- (sources/internal): you can now play the game on Linux (if you compile it from the sources) (thanks J !)
- New mana icons, new logo
- Fixed a graveyard bug that made the game crash
- A few ingame speed improvements
Cards – Bugs where fixed for the following cards:
- Lava Axe
- Control magic
- Circle of protection (all)
- Zombie Master
- Spark elemental
- Righteousness
- Ascendant Evincar
- Nightmare (10E)
- Terror
- Wrath of god
- Some fixes for various Ice Age cards
Known Bugs
- Brass Man and Paralyze tend to crash the game. Please don’t use them
- Hybrid mana cost is not shown in the “text” version of the card pictures
- Volume control does not work. Sound/Music is either on or off.
Download
Download here, as usual
If you plan to give the information to a news site, please make sure the game works on your own psp before, thanks 😉
PS: To people who still think this is an “incomplete” game: sure it is still work in progress, sure it is no Shandalar, but compared to a large majority of PSP homebrews out there, it has an incredible replay value, cool graphics, lots of customizable stuff, and it’s pretty stable. Don’t get confused by the “0” in “0.3.1”, I think Wagic has reached a level where people can stop calling it “beta”.
Thanks Dude, a great homebrew, hope this project grow! congratz…
Great, thanks for the update. I will test my diffs for compiling on the Mac and if complete will submit them for inclusion for the next release.
Game is coming along awesome. I dont like the new logo or icons as much though. Especially the Japanese letters for the mana icons….
Thanks guys.
@NyghtcrawleR:
Regarding the icons and the logo, I knew we would get mixed reactions, but we are trying to remove all copyrighted contents from the game, one step after the other.
I’m expecting people to come up with graphical mods though, and I’m pretty sure someone will find a way to get the old icons/logo in the new format, and have them for download somewhere.
@Nanocore:
that’s great news ! Please contact me at wagic dot the dot homebrew at gmail dot com whenever you want, so we can work together on adding your changes !
YO! The release was great. haha.
but why would you want to remove the copyrighted contents? It is based on magic the gathering cards, so why remove them anyway?
It has improved quite a lot, but the most worth waiting for is the multiplayer. Too bad need to wait for psp-3000 to be cracked first.
I think it is currently one of the best homebrew you could find on psp 😀
Thanks Monkit.
Basically using copyrighted content without permission is illegal, and legal trouble could lead to the complete end of the project. Also, using 100% original content is best for Wagic’s reputation in the psp community as a homebrew.
This does not mean Wagic will become a complete different game, only that people who actually want the card pictures and all other copyrighted stuff will have to get it themselves.
I think that the thumbnails, given their size, could be considered “fair use”, which is why I didn’t remove them yet.
I haven’t started working on multiplayer yet. I’m still waiting for the hack of the psp3000, or enough donations to get a second hand psp. I still have hopes for the psp 3000 to be hacked 🙂
Is there any place in the forum or so which i can get the other images from? I think it would be nice if the big images are zipped in another file and posted in forum so that we could have a nicer wagic.
I understand your idea of making it copyright free but without removing everything I dont see that ever happening. I doubt thumbnails fall under fair use. Its either all or nothing. btw, I’d rather it be all 🙂
If it were to be all removed I think you should make it easier to replace icons and such for those so inclined. It was easy to replace the card backs, but the front screen and icons, not so much because the sizes of the icons changed and the background as well. If you use the old images, it gets all screwy. Like I said, if you want to remove everything, just make it easy for people to change it on their own. You also used the adesign file format for some images which doesnt help in that cause.
Thanks for the great app though. The progression is great and by far one of the best apps to date.
You make good points. It is true that thumbnails don’t fall under fair use, and if I ever get a C&D by WotC I’ll remove every single bit of copyrighted stuff. The game still works without the thumbnails+big pictures, although it is ugly. Ultimately, the _cards.dat files could contain information for the game to automatically download cards, that’s how I plan to stay clear but still allow people to play with the card pictures.
The icons are easy to replace, it’s just a matter of photoshop skills, it’s not like the files were encrypted or something. I don’t know what the adesign file format is. I use paint dot Net and usually save the files as png with the default settings. But I’m not the only one working on the project, so I sometimes have no control on that. Especially, I did not create the new logo and icons, I suck at design 🙁
Edit: Note that the main reason for not including the big pictures is the server bandwidth.
The psi file format is from adesign. I dont think photoshop supports that extension. I’ll have to look into it more but dont think it works.
As for the images, to save bandwidth the easiest thing to do is use mediafire. Its fast and you could just link it. Saves you bandwidth and makes all those guys happy.
Ah, no, the psi files are hge particles.
you can get the editor at the following url :http://hge.relishgames.com/doc/index.html?peditor__main.html
I figured out the graphics editing. I never did icons before so that was what confused me at first. It is actually easy to do so disregard my last comments about that haha.
*** the new one looks like *** so bland i was about to donate till i installed it and saw no background just single colored cards how do i put in real cards on the game if not this is useless to me so bland
@JayzenFreeze: if I got 1 dollar each time somebody contacted me to tell me they would donate if … (insert whatever you want here), I could probably stop working and spend my life improving Wagic 😀
And if you want to play the real stuff, why don’t you play MTG Online, or real magic cards with a friend ?
Good information. Lucky me I found your website by accident (stumbleupon).
I’ve book marked it for later!