Ancient Beast v0.5 has finally been released! Party Time! 🐻 🎉

• 3 new playable units (Cycloper, Bounty Hunter & Horn Head) 🧌
• we finally have playable bots! them can even play themselves 🤖
• UI moved to the bottom, no more arm fatigue on touch screens 🦾
• abilities get targeting location previews so you know where to be 🎯
• quite a few unit abilities got revamped, becoming more interesting 👻
• a lot more ranged abilities got projectile sprites, being way more fun 🏹
• Xray was greatly improved, now you can see though like Super Man 🩻
• input is now Android touch friendly, so you can even play on the go 📱
• Abolished and Infernal got some nice new burning shader effects 🔥
• Dragon Bones combat location got polished, no longer sketchy 🐲
• lots of bug fixes and optimizations, making game quite stable 🪲

Head over to https://ancientbeast.com/ 🐺 and duel a bot ⚔️

There's way more stuff:

• UI got usability enhancements 💟
• nicely animated particle bars 📶
• moved from JS to TypeScript 🛠️
• Meta Powers got revamped 🔋
• a ton of bug fixes all around 👾

Full Changelog: v0.4...v0.5

• 3 new playable creatures: Stomper, Vehemoth, Golden Wyrm
• 3 new epic sound tracks
• one new combat location
• revamped some abilities
• balancing creatures stats
• revamped the music player
• UI usability enhancements
• a ton of bug fixes all around
• partial code base restructuring
• development workflow tweaks
• several documentation updates
• online multiplayer closed beta
• our project token called XatteR

Over 480 issues closed, you can see list over here:
https://github.com/FreezingMoon/AncientBeast/milestone/4?closed=1

What's Changed

• Grunt on heroku by @ktiedt in #1122
• Loading-bar implemented #1123 by @Sharkoon1 in #1131
• Added grunt-express-server to grunt tasks to automatically start server on grunt by @Sharkoon1 in #1133
• Less is more by @ktiedt in #1136
• Build clean up by @ktiedt in #1137
• Fixes #1100 by @DreadKnight in #1138
• updated data.json for scavenger, to make ability cost appear inline in UI by @thamaranth in #1141
• fixed UI for start button by @thamaranth in #1143
• fixes #1105 - Avoid multiple deaths and bugs because of it by abortin… by @ktiedt in #1149
• Fixes #1098 - this may not be the best fix, but it appears typeOver f… by @ktiedt in #1150
• Fixes #1146 by guarding against invalid object references by @ktiedt in #1148
• stop music playing via game.js by @GeneralMeow in #1144
• Moved out a lot of code into different files by @Sharkoon1 in #1156
• Related to #1123 - less DOM, less CSS, less JS == WIN! by @ktiedt in #1157
• This removes the excessive copy rules from the Gruntfile by @ktiedt in #1160
• Massive cleanup by @ktiedt in #1162
• Its dataaaaa not dataaaas by @ktiedt in #1166
• Simple cleanup in how creature data is loaded by @ktiedt in #1167
• Fixes #1168 by @ktiedt in #1170
• additional fix for #1168 by @ktiedt in #1171
• This should fix #1151 by @ktiedt in #1172
• fixes #1173 by @ktiedt in #1182
• Fixes #1175 by @ktiedt in #1181
• fixes spa Goggles toggle bug by @thamaranth in #1191
• Potential fix for #1158 by @DreadKnight in #1159
• Fixes #1193 - Updated phaser to 2.7.10ce by @ktiedt in #1194
• updating contribution and readme markdowns by @ktiedt in #1198
• don't cancel selected ability while escaping dash by @schnellboot in #1197
• Round marker cursor is now of type "helper" by @schnellboot in #1199
• switch to same unit in dash by @schnellboot in #1200
• refactored projectile method from old code in snow bunny ice spit by @yoel123 in #1213
• Removed 'Canceled' after selecting creature for materialization by @rjordanbarnes in #1222
• Reworked card anchor to more consistently fit text. by @d3caf in #1221
• 'Canceled' now appears when selecting an ability while one is active by @rjordanbarnes in #1226
• Added loading cursor to loading screen by @rjordanbarnes in #1227
• Comments's spelling review by @TheMyopist in #1228
• Documentation cleanup and a few formatting fixes by @ktiedt in #1229
• Units now face the correct direction when using Area of Effect abilities by @rjordanbarnes in #1230
• Add Screen Shake to Uncle Fungus & Add .vs to .gitignore file by @medallyon in #1234
• Priest no longer turns after getting hit by @rjordanbarnes in #1235
• Added support for hover off handler in the hex to allow toggle of info by @ShaneWalsh in #1240
• Godlet Dashboard Toggle by @sammorrow in #1237
• Removed the creature player style from inactive creatures so they sim… by @ShaneWalsh in #1244
• Revert "Godlet Dashboard Toggle" by @DreadKnight in #1245
• UI issues #1249 #1246 #1238 by @ShaneWalsh in #1256
• Fix #1196 by @medallyon in #1259
• Prototype delete #1216 by @ktiedt in #1257
• Fixes #1266 by @ktiedt in #1267
• Fixes #1269 by @ktiedt in #1270
• Fixed bug that caused the game to crash when picking up drops by @iBlackShadow in #1271
• Fixes #1262 - Added support for hashes and made it the default output… by @ktiedt in #1268
• Fixes #1272 by @ktiedt in #1273
• UI Issues #1248 and #1247 by @ShaneWalsh in #1258
• Fixed bug on triggerDeleteEffect function that crashed the game by @iBlackShadow in #1278
• redone godlet randomzer by @sammorrow in #1280
• #1274 Selecting a non active creature multiple times bigger drop by @ShaneWalsh in #1279
• issue 730 self highlight resolved by always calling creature highligh… by @ShaneWalsh in #1283
• fix for colored frame for selected ability #1281 by @rootCause87 in #1284
• Fixed issue #739 by @iBlackShadow in #1285
• Addressing #1252: drops offer score points by @dusty-wil in #1286
• Issue_1250 by @ShaneWalsh in #1290
• Issue_1291: resolved the hex highlighting issue when selecting a hex … by @ShaneWalsh in #1293
• #1298: Unit names changed from red to white in the dash (in-game) section by @Amaros90 in #1299
• G.gamelog.get('save') will now save the game log to a file by @Amaros90 in #1300
• Glow passive ability by @TommyDong1998 in #1304
• AD_1296: Removing previous change and adding support for parameter ta… by @ShaneWalsh in #1297
• Updated workflow to use ES6 modules, webpack and yarn by @RobinVdBroeck in #1309
• Fix Windows build issue by @tiffanystallings in #1315
• warning should not overlap #1185 by @danieldiaz14 in #1314
• Fixes for #1322 by @ktiedt in #1326
• Update webpack and other modules (faster builds) and add live-rebuild… by @ktiedt in #1328
• Issue 962 by @ktiedt in #1333
• Fixes #1331 by @ktiedt in #1332
• Issue #1336 solved by @Stopczyt in #1338
• Issue #454 by @marcel-odya in #1339
• Resolved issues: #845, #1320 by @marcel-odya in #1341
• Fixes #1342 by @ktiedt in #1343
• Fixed screen rescaling and added cross-env for better cross platform development by @paezao in #1345
• MouseWheel event fixed by @paezao in #1346
• Inverted wheel hability scrolling by @paezao in #1348
• fix: dash player tabs broken by @tristanmkernan in #1349
• refactor PR #1349 by @tristanmkernan in #1350
• feat: show disabled curso...

Check out the release log https://ancientbeast.com/blog/2017-03-15

Version 0.2 was released on 15th June (2013)

Perspective grid has been dropped u_u

• 3 new creatures (Uncle Fungus, Gumble, Abolished)
• creature balancing
• hotkey support (chrome)
• improved UI behaviour
• less MySQL usage
• a lot of bug fixes

Who wants to get the game in multiplayer in near future, feel free to add me on skype: dk.vali
We're working on a video to showcase the changes in greater detail.