Chessplosion 1.3 brings a new rook emblem and a redesigned home screen that follows your device's light or dark appearance. The camera frames the board more clearly on narrow phones. You can now find players and send invitations for turn-based classic chess or Artillery chess matches.

Bug fixes for a smoother game.

Bug fixes.

Performance improvements and more stability throughout the game.

CORRESPONDENCE GAMES — PLAY A FRIEND, MOVE BY MOVE - Challenge someone from your friends list, or send an invitation link. The link works for a player who does not have the app yet. - Turn by turn, not in real time. Nobody waits for the other one to come online — you move when you have a minute. - Open a game and it goes straight to where you left off. You see your opponent's throw, not thirty moves you already know. - After a throw both sides see exactly the same board: the result travels with the move instead of being simulated twice. - One difficulty level for both sides, so the throw is the same job for each of you. - It needs an identity, otherwise the other side does not know who they are playing. One tap is enough, no email address needed. - Correspondence games do not count towards the leaderboard. THE MAIN MENU SAYS WHAT IS RUNNING - Your turn, a game with your opponent to move, or an invitation nobody has answered yet — the menu entry now says which, instead of counting only the moves you owe. THE KING - A toppled king is set back up while one of your own pieces still stands beside him. Only a bare king ends the game, so there is an order to play for: clear the guards first. - Base radius and weight now come from a table per piece. The king was the wobbliest piece on the board — a throw landing anywhere in the back rank often decided the game by scatter rather than by aim. ACCOUNT AND FRIENDS - Signing up is an email address and a password. The name below it is optional, and Change name in the account view gets you out of an assigned one. - Your own friend code and the field for someone else's now sit on the same screen. Reading yours out loud no longer means switching screens. - A button that is working now shows it, instead of standing still for two seconds. GETTING STARTED - The rules of the throwing mode are in the game now, not only in the manual. - The first game opens with a capture in the first move, so the first throw happens right away. - The end screen shows the place this game would have taken on the leaderboard, with a button that saves it without leaving the screen. - "Difficulty" means the throw, "Strength" means the opponent. They used to share one word. MAC - The window can be dragged, resized and zoomed again. The transparent title bar was swallowing the mouse in exactly the strip you grab a window by. FIXED - Scores never arrived. A signed-in player could finish a game and the leaderboard stayed empty — the session was being mangled in storage. - Every refusal from the server read as "Balane Play is unreachable", including "that name is taken". - Aiming on a phone held upright was unusable. - Replays of the debris variant drifted apart: where the projectile came to rest was recomputed instead of replayed.

BALANE PLAY — ONE ACCOUNT ACROSS EVERY BALANE GAME - A leaderboard, worldwide or friends only, for today, this week, this month or all time. It counts the opponent pieces you have toppled. - Add friends by friend code or by name. - Report and block right where the name appears. - Delete your account again in two taps. - Or keep playing without one. The game is complete without an account. THROWING - Long throws now scatter far more. Reaching across the board is a gamble again, not target practice. - More scatter on all three difficulty levels. THE COMPUTER OPPONENT - It no longer aims at the king every single time. It picks between several targets. - It accounts for its own inaccuracy while aiming and leaves a valuable target at the edge alone when the throw is too risky. - Computer and human now throw with the same ballistics. TWO PLAYERS, ONE DEVICE - The board turns to whoever is to move. Switch it off under Settings > Board. FIXED - On slow devices a throw could hang and leave the game stuck. It now always resolves. - Damaged recordings can no longer upset the physics.