Unknown-Horizons News

Fancy new and improved old toys

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:24:00 +0200

Heya,It's time to finally get this update out (there have actually been more changes since we've started writing this, but that will go into the next update): Map Preview For your convenience we hav...

Awesome status icons

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:45:00 +0200

Short update from our visual department. Enjoy! Want more animations? Then check out a huge improvement to the looks of Unknown Horizons: Animated status icons that notify you whenever something cou...

Survived once more

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:28:00 +0200

Heya everybody,in case the headline confused you: We're not getting death threats for developing an awesome game. What we survived is merging a rewrite that changed huge parts of our codebase. Why doi...

Merry Festivus/Hanukkah/Christmas/Winter!

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:20:00 +0200

The whole Unknown Horizons Team wishes all of you a Merry Festivus/Hanukkah/Christmas/Winter and a good start into the new year! (Christmas Tux by mdh3ll @ Gnome-Look)...

Some steps towards 2012.1

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:27:00 +0200

Closer to world domination Good news for our Asian friends: Thanks to the untiring efforts of chrisoelmueller and others, we finally managed to support CJKV characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and ...

RPM Packages, New Graphics and Media Coverage

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:27:00 +0200

Hey everyone, we are back with a couple of updates. Enjoy! RPM Packages We can proudly present new packages for all major RPM-based linux distributions created by Nelson Marques (nmarques). He does ...

FOSDEM2012: Visit our Open Source Games Devroom! (Call for Speakers Inside!)

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:22:00 +0200

Great news for everybody interested in FLOSS Gaming and Game development: FOSDEM 2012 will host a devroom centered on the development of Free and Open Source Games! So what is FOSDEM? Quoting from th...

2011.3 Linux Packages for Ubuntu, Debian and OpenSuse

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:14:00 +0200

Hey everyone,we've finished our Linux packages for Ubuntu, Debian and OpenSuse. Thanks to Christoph for the Debian based packages and nmarques for the OpenSuse packages! You'll find links for your di...

The ice is now officially broken

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:14:00 +0200

Just 3 days after the release of 2011.3, we have received the first video presenting the additions and improvements. Check it out: All props for this great presentation go to --> qubodup <--,...

Unknown Horizons 2011.3 Release

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:05:00 +0200

Heya everybody,today we proudly announce our latest release: Unknown Horizons 2011.3! Sorry for the slight delay, we think it was worth fixing some more problems to ensure you can enjoy a great releas...

Release 2011.3 Coming Up

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:01:00 +0200

Hey everyone,our next release Unknown Horizons 2011.3 is coming this week! Before we unleash the downloads for you (and fixed all the last minute bugs) we'd like to give you an overview of the upcomin...

FIFE 0.3.3 out for some days now

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:30:00 +0200

Heya! On OCT 6, FIFE team released version 0.3.3 of their engine that is the machine room of Unknown Horizons (official release announcement). We found some minor issues, but be assured FIFE did an a...

Release preparations

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:02:00 +0200

Heya! Figured a small update post would be great to have, so here we go. During the last weeks, we ironed out several critical issues on our way to 2011.3 and it looks like even out tileset branch ca...

How the settlement AI works

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:00:00 +0200

During this year's Google Summer of Code I worked on a computer player (artificial intelligence) for Unknown Horizons. In this post I will give a quick overview of how it works from the player's persp...

Summer of Code results are here!

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:04:00 +0200

Heya! Since our last posting is rather old already, we'll update with the big news today: during last week, both Summer of Code students working with UH finally merged their results into master. This...