Note. This only impacts users using the German, Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese locales. Thanks to Henek for investigating and identifying the offending strings.

A crash was discovered as of this release, probably related to the increase in translated text. It impacts only these 3 well maintained locales, and only under Windows. The reason for it isn't precisely known (Freetype2 bug? some underlying Windows system thing it uses?). We do have a couple of workarounds though.

1) Easiest. Just switch to English or some other language you understand that is not German/Swedish/Brazilian Portuguese in config settings. Don't forget to restart Hedgewars after changing languages.

2) Change the crashing strings. Henek has thoughtfully fixed the few strings with similar ones that don't seem to crash.
a) Download http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6618468/Locale.zip
b) Go to C:\Documents and Settings\Hedgewars 0.9.14.1\share\hedgewars\Data\Locale and copy 3 files in the zip there.

We're gonna look into this, hopefully a better solution can be found.

Let us know if any other locales have problems!

Oh, then there is solution #3... install Linux

Major bug found in map mode that needs fixing. 0.9.14.1 will be out very shortly. Hold the applause. ... bugs fixed I think. 0.9.14.1 should be out shortly.

I'm honored and happy to announce that the new version (0.9.14) of Hedgewars is now available for download in the Download section! :D
(It's possible that not all versions for all supported operating systems are available for download yet, so be patient!)

::Highlights::

New devastating weapons!

Show no mercy and let your hedgehog army fry, smash, poison and destroy your enemies like never before!
Not only will the Flamethrower, Hammer, Sticky Mines and Old Limburger take your sadism to a new level, they will also let you forge new strategies for giving your challenger a hard time.
And if you are willing to sacrifice a hog for a good cause then you'll truly enjoy to wreak havoc behind enemy lines using the Piano Strike!

New powerful utilities!

You are lazy AND smart? You'll love the Portal Gun! Move yourself, hogs and things from A to B etc. and back! Be daring, be creative, be nasty! :D
Also don't mourn your fallen hogs too much, because now you get a chance to bring them back to life using the Resurrector! Take care not to revive hogs that you want to stay dead though!

New Maps and Themes

Nowhere to run to, no place to hide!
Fight your enemies in the junge, at construction sites, on stage and even in the minds of artists!

Improved interface and Lobby

We don't only want you to have fun during the game, but also on the way getting there!
The new lobby should now do a better job of helping you to find the game you're looking for!

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26 oct - Koda's birthday
31 oct - Hedgewars' birthday
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5 days of free Hedgewars for iOS
download it now from the AppStore - iTunes link
weee

The update has been finally been approved!
It takes care of all the problems that were reported and hopefully some that weren't :)

I'd like also to highlight something that should have been made clear from the start, but hasn't been clarified enoguh: ALL people who donated ANY amount during our past donation drive can request a promocode and download Hegewars-iOS for free.
Please PM or email me about this :)

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As some of you might have noticed, we set up a Twitter account for Hedgewars some time ago. Unfortunately most of our tweets so far have been auto generated notices by Facebook and - well, let's be honest - rather boring. Thinking about that situation I decided that we should use Twitter a lot more interactively. Otherwise you could just pick any RSS news feed provided as well.


For now there are two different official Hedgewars Twitter accounts:

If you'd just like to keep track, follow us using your Twitter account or subscribe to the provided RSS feed(s). If you'd like to interact with us there, you'll have to sign up for free first.

Why should you follow us, you might ask? Well, there might be quick thoughts or polls as well as small tidbits of new features worked on that aren't big enough to be featured on our news page. Or how about small competitions to win custom hats or other neat things on special occasions?

Also note that we might set up more language specific accounts if there's enough interest (and we got someone to maintain it) - so just tell us!

Grab it now on the Hedgewars App Store page. This first release features local gameplay only. Online multiplayer will follow in a later update.

Please note that we've encountered a tiny issue with the British voicepack which might cause the game to crash when trying to jump, so don't use that one for now. We'll try to provide a patch for this ASAP.

So,

The other night we decided to try something new, we wanted to update you on our progress with a video, including some commentary from a group of devs.

So, myself, Armagon and Firefox took to a multiplayer game and attempted to show some of it off.
In advance, I apologise for the quality of my mic, this was a last minute video. But hopefully you'll enjoy seeing what we've been up too

 Well, I guess the caption tells you everything you have to know. The Hammer is a short range (melee) weapon that will take 1/3 of the victim's health and knock it into the ground. If there's no ground below ... well, see the video. The cheese was changed so it has a small explosion that releases some really smelly cheese(?) clouds that will make hogs sick if they touch it. While this may hit lots of hedgehogs you'll need the wind on your side (or so).