v1.3.3b

game 1.3.3b

The biggest release yet by reach: Open Doctrines now runs on more than thirty
platforms, from a Steam Deck to a Nintendo Wii to a microcontroller over a
serial line. Turns process about three times faster, saves are smaller, and a
new Accessibility tab adds high contrast, larger text and more.

New places to play

• Steam Deck and handhelds. Linux and Windows desktop builds now run on
  SDL3, with real touch: tap to click, drag to move, two fingers to zoom. On the
  Deck the window fits its 1280x800 screen, Game Mode goes fullscreen at the
  panel's own size, and the controller drives the cursor, menus and zoom.
• Raspberry Pi OS, 64-bit and 32-bit, built for OpenGL ES so a Pi 4 or 5
  draws the map on its GPU, with .deb packages that install with apt.
• ChromeOS: a .deb for its Linux container, and an Android APK for every
  CPU a Chromebook has.
• NetBSD, and Arm builds of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD.
• OpenIndiana (illumos), Haiku and SerenityOS. SerenityOS has no
  usable OpenGL, so the game draws there with raylib's software renderer; the
  colours are the same lookup tables the shaders use.
• PlayStation Vita (homebrew .vpk), Nintendo Wii and Nintendo 3DS
  (Homebrew Channel / Homebrew Launcher), DOS (DJGPP, with CWSDPMI
  included; runs in DOSBox-X) and RISC OS 5. Consoles load worlds at reduced
  resolution to fit their memory; network play, mods and sound are off there
  for now.
• Two experiment editions, like the TempleOS one: FreeRTOS, the rules
  on a microcontroller played over a serial console, and Plan 9 (9front), a
  console game and a libdraw map built with 9front's own compiler. Both play a
  31-turn game byte for byte the same as every other build.

Accessibility

A new Settings -> Accessibility tab. Everything is off by default.

• High contrast: opaque black panels and white text (21:1); coloured text,
  lines and buttons adjusted to at least 7:1 while keeping their hue, so war is
  still red and alliances still green, and the colour-blind palettes still work.
• Text size 100%, 110% or 120%.
• Reduce motion: the pulsing highlights hold still.
• Hold to confirm: declaring war and deleting a world or map need the button
  held, so a slip of the hand cannot do it.
• Longer messages: notifications stay three times as long.
• Sound cues: a refusal also flashes a marker at the pointer.
• Hyperlegible font: Atkinson Hyperlegible, the Braille Institute's face for
  low vision, as a choice under Settings -> Display -> Font.

The new settings are translated into every language. ACCESSIBILITY.md lists
everything the game does for players who see, hear or play differently.

Faster and smaller

• Turns process 2.7 to 3.1 times faster, with bit-identical results. Most of
  a turn was repainting the map; the border field is now rebuilt only where
  provinces changed hands, with NEON and SSE2 versions of its inner loop.
• Saves store each turn as a diff and append turns in place, and compress
  with libdeflate: a third of the time and a little smaller than before, still
  ordinary zip files that older builds read.
• The map editor generates worlds about three times faster, and can no
  longer finish with provinces on screen and an empty country list.

Also new

• A readable vector font draws the interface by default; the original pixel
  font is still a choice, and you can import a font of your own from Settings
  (checked strictly before it is used).
• Mods and map scripts can reshape the map at runtime -- morph provinces and
  edit terrain -- through Gearbox 1.5's new Map.Write capability, or morph and
  terrain in a map script (#OD/MapEngine/4). The mod sandbox is hardened.
• Fog-of-war saves are sealed in games built from source with the prebuilt libraries, as they are in official builds.
• The economy breakdown shows monuments and sector flows.
• Built on raylib 6.2.
• The web build scales correctly on Retina screens and has an on-screen
  keyboard on touch devices.

Fixed

• Multiplayer orders resolve in a fixed order on every machine, and a save is
  written so a crash can no longer leave it half-written.
• A signed-out multiplayer join opens the Account screen instead of a dead
  button; a reconnect no longer shows a held seat as unverified; the browser
  sign-in waits 30 minutes, not 10; linking a provider already tied to another
  account now offers a way back.
• Stack protection on far more functions, and fortified libc calls on optimised
  builds.