Update: Custom stadiums and HaxBall anniversary!
Time sure flies! It has already been 1 year since HaxBall was first released and ever since the game has never stopped growing in popularity. Last Friday was an all time record of 100k unique visitors...
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Apparently I introduced a bug on game replays which breaks it if you change the stadium during recording. I’ve found the reason and fixed it but I’ll need to release another backwards incompatible...
View ArticleDefault stadiums in .hbs format.
Some people have asked me for the dimensions of the official HaxBall stadiums so here you go: classic.hbs rounded.hbs easy.hbs small.hbs hockey.hbs big.hbs big_rounded.hbs big_easy.hbs...
View ArticlePossible bug for Mac players. Requesting helpers! (Done)
Apparently some Mac users are getting desynchronized since the latest updates. I have an idea of why this is happening but I don’t own a Mac so I can’t make any tests. If you own a Mac and you are...
View ArticleUpdate: Random tweaks and features.
Changes: Removed the “Country” column in the room list, instead the flags are now shown in the “~Distance” column. As a side effect the room names now have more space. Made the chat reject newline...
View ArticleUpdate: Replayer improvements!
Changes: Added a progress bar to the replayer control panel. Clicking on it will make HaxBall fast forward until it reaches that position, this emulates some form of video seeking. Yes, just one...
View ArticleUpdate: Game pausing and replayer tooltip.
Changes: Added a pause button that admins can use. It should be useful for when a player leaves, you can pause the game while you fix the teams. I understand very well that crappy room admins will be...
View ArticleProblems with geolocation
I’ve just found out about it and I’m working to fix it. Update: As far as I’ve seen the problem seems to fix itself if you close and open the browser again. It’s probably something going wrong on the...
View ArticleUpdate: Pause countdown and bugfixes.
Changes: Resuming a paused game now has a 2 seconds delay during which a progress bar is displayed. Fixed a bug in which typing the letter p in the kick reason would pause the game. Slightly lowered...
View ArticleBug: Waiting for game state... (Probably fixed)
There seems to be a new bug in town which is causing the connection process to hang in the “Waiting for game state” stage. I have not made any changes to the game recently so I’m quite baffled about...
View ArticleTiny update: Improved chat log.
Changes: The chat log will no longer reset it’s position to the bottom when a new message arrives while you were scrolling through it. Lot’s of tiny bug fixes inside the chat log which no one will...
View ArticleUpdate: Custom stadium storage and checksums
This update is meant to help leagues and other organizations that want to play custom stadiums in a competitive environment. It also makes hosting and sharing custom stadiums way less of a hassle....
View ArticleLatest Chrome update breaks HaxBall.
Chrome has recently released an automatic update which changes the flash player it uses. This new flash player (called Pepper Flash) seems to have issues with HaxBall and may cause lag and all sort of...
View ArticleUpdate: Ping vision!
Changes: Players ping is now visible next to their nicks in the room player list. Player names in the room players list are now left aligned and the player list is slightly wider. Hardware...
View ArticleUpdate: Handicap feature and tuned netcode!
This update is backwards compatible, so you won’t get any rooms marked with [OLD] this time, to check if you are running on this version try typing “/handicap” on the chat, it should print “* Ping...
View ArticleOops...
There was a bug in the handicap feature released in the last update which caused undesired input lag for handicapped players. This bug doesn’t happen if you are the host and that was the only way in...
View ArticleUpdate: Handicap is now visible.
Changes The handicap of every player will now be visible in green next to the ping. It will also appear in replays. Increased the precision of the ping displayed in the players list, it now changes in...
View ArticleSite is down due to denial of service attack.
This is awful! Someone has launched a huge denial of service attack towards HaxBall servers. This attack has caused disruptions to other users of the hosting provider I’m using and because of that they...
View ArticleRTMFP server is not responding (Working now)
Just letting everyone know that I know about it and I’m looking into it.Update: It’s working fine now.
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