Sea3D 1.1.5 with easy rejoin now available!

Jason Fugate — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:03:31 -0000

Sea3D takes a giant step forward with this release. Previously, when playing online, if someone dropped from the game, everyone had to exit the game, the host had to reload it and everyone had to rejoin. No longer. Sea3D now has the capability for dropped players to simply reconnect and rejoin immediately, and play continues from the exact spot it was when the player dropped.

Sea3D is an OpenGL implementation of Settlers of Catan, including the Seafarers expansion. It has all maps, including special rules, numerous variants, stats, history, and online play with built-in game finding and ELO ladder ranking. It is available at http://www.settlers3d.net

Sea3D 1.1.0 with built-in ladder now available!

Jason Fugate — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:06:31 -0000

Yes, that's right, the newest version of Sea3D (which has basic Settlers, all Seafarers maps with special rules, volcanoes, AND jungles) now has a built-in ladder ranking system to go along with a built-in game finder!

With the built-in ladder, Sea3D automatically posts the game data to the S3D Connector website (http://www.s3dconnector.net) and everyone's ladder ratings are automatically updated! This helps to cut down on cheating. Also, since Sea3D allows you to restart games if someone drops, you can KNOW if someone is intentionally quitting if they refuse to rejoin your game. In the future, we will also be working to create an automatic "quitter's list" of people who continually quit ladder games and don't restart.

Also, if you have any suggestions or ideas on how to make the Sea3D ladder better, Sea3D is still in active development and you can make your suggestions and they will be listened to. Download the latest version of Sea3D at [url]http://www.settlers3d.net[/url].

Sea3D 1.0.8 with Jungles/Volcanoes now available!

Jason Fugate — Thu, 15 May 2003 18:54:17 -0000

Sea3D version 1.0.8 adds two new tiles to the popular board games Settlers of Catan! These new tiles, a volcanoe and a jungle tile, each have different properties and are fully described at Mayfair Games' online variants page: http://www.universityofcatan.com/scenarios/scenarios.html

Further improvements to the Connector and some minor bug fixes are also included in this release.

Sea3D 1.0.5 BETA with S3D Connector now available!

Jason Fugate — Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:40:44 -0000

This is the biggest thing to hit Settlers3D in a long time. This release of Sea3D has S3D
Connector technology in it that allows you to find games across the Internet from within
Sea3D itself! Now you can find games at any time from anywhere, even if none of your
friends are online. Sea3D also has an updated rotating cube of fame, which may have YOUR
name on it, if you've submitted a bug report in the past.

To get the new version and find out more about S3D Connector, visit
http://www.settlers3d.net. If you like it, tell your friends about it! The more people
using S3D Connector, the easier it will be to find games to play!

S3D 1.0.0 and Sea3D 1.0.2 BETA available!

Jason Fugate — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:42:20 -0000

In development by Jason Fugate for almost 18 months, S3D (short for Settlers3D) is now generally available as a 1.0 release. This release is the culmination of hundreds of hours of development effort along with incredible testing and support given by dozens of volunteer playtesters. S3D 1.0.0 has been played thousands of times and is as bug-free as can possibly be. All new development will now move to the Seafarers expansion, Sea3D.

S3D is a computer version of the extremely popular board game by the same name. It has full network support over TCP/IP, hotseat games, tracking games, stats, game history, OpenGL graphics, player and game databases, full help system, and much more. It started in October of 2001 as a way for the developer to statistically figure out who of his friends was the best Settlers player and has since grown to its current status.

Sea3D, now in BETA, builds on S3D by incorporating the popular Seafarers expansion into the game. Available to the public for the first time, Sea3D 1.0.2 has five Seafarers maps included, along with all the new rules needed to play the expanded game.

The S3D/Sea3D home page can be found at http://www.settlers3d.net

S3D is now open source!

Jason Fugate — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:38:20 -0000