HaxBall News

Changelog:

• Pressing enter on the nick or room password text fields now works as expected.
• Double clicking a room in the room list will make you join that room.
• Small bug fixes and optimizations.

The Electronic Sports League ( ESL ) has created a HaxBall League! In it you can join a ladder and compete against other players to see who’s the best HaxBall player. Go check it out!

HaxBall is now a sport!

Here’s the change list:

• Limited the length of nicknames to 25 characterss (People were using this to bring down rooms).
• Implemented a room number of players limit, this is configurable in the room creation menu.
• Guest is not the default nickname anymore, players now need to fill the nick with something in order to play.
• Text input boxes now have hints when empty. :)

In other news, it has been a week since HaxBall was released and the number of visits has already surpassed 100k :D

The news page is now using tumblr, replacing the old placeholder. Thanks Pilaf :)

I (hopefully) fixed an issue which allowed players to freeze rooms to death by spamming long chat messages.

Also added chat scrollbar and new input mappings: WASD for movement; CTRL, SPACE, SHIFT and NUMPAD 0 for kicking.

Seems to be working fine now, fewh. The reason for the downtime was an embarassing bug, so I’ll keep it to myself :P

I’m working to fix it right now.

Yet another site update, this changes were made by dear brother Pilaf.

The flash client got a few minor changes, the default value for the score limit and time limit is now 5 instead of “None”, and I made the room connection phase timeout faster and present a nicer error message.

I fixed a small bug in the scrollbar and added player and room count to the room list.

The game is gaining a lot of popularity, which I love, but it is also going to be quite expensive :( By now half of the appspot free bandwidth quota is gone, I’m paying for 5 more gigabytes per day now, hope I wont go broke ;P

My good friend Jonathan Sully kindly donated his time to make this site for HaxBall. Another donation is the lovely logo that can be seen in the about page, made by my other good friend Qualo.

In other news there has been a few changes to the HaxBall flash client, the most important of them is that now only the room host can use the admin controls of the game. (Unless the “Everyone is admin” option is set). Another small change is that now you can see other people’s country flag in the game lobby.