What changed
Every release of Rex Mundi, newest first, in the words the game shows on its Updates page. The builds of each are on the releases page on GitHub.
0.2.1
Rex Mundi is open source, under the MIT License, at github.com/alexisbcz/rexmundi. The releases and the updates now come from there, and the README says how to install the game by hand or build it from source.
0.2.0
Orders are no longer certain. Before it writes a turn, the game master throws a twenty-sided die for each order in doubt, and for the world's own gambles, and the window throws the dice again when the turn lands: a natural 20 shines and a natural 1 shakes. Your leader now stands over the flag, today's real leaders from free photographs, and each successor with a face made for the game, in uniform while the country is at war. The built-in game master gives an upset election and a junta a new leader.
0.1.0
Undo the last turn with U, or branch a game from the Load page or from history and play a turn another way. Start an order with ? to ask your advisor a question: time does not move. Give your country an ambition, and the game master judges each turn how close you are. Wars are part of the world now, and the map draws their front. A country founded in play can fly a flag of its own. While the game master works, the chronicle says what it is doing, and when a turn does not come, it shows why. History plays itself with Space, and a game exports as a video from the Load page. The game master keeps private notes from turn to turn, so the world remembers what it wants.
0.0.8
On Linux, rexmundi-agent answers from a terminal as the game master's tools, guide among them, when the game was installed with the line from the download page. That line now puts rexmundi and rexmundi-agent on the PATH on macOS too.
0.0.7
The name in the title bar sits level with the crown.
The banner that asks for your country no longer has a bright line along its top.
0.0.6
Rex Mundi has a mark: the crown, drawn left of the name in the title bar.
The game master settings call Pi and OpenAI Codex by the names they give themselves.
0.0.5
Every coding agent now plays from its shell, with nothing to set up, and pi joins Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Mistral Vibe as a game master.
Countries can belong to things: the EU, NATO, or a pact signed in play. A province can be laid waste and a government can move its seat, and the map shows ruins and seats. The hover card names the capital the game says.
Every control has a page of its own in the menu, and the keys are yours to change. The past reads as one column down the middle of the chronicle, and a long entry no longer draws over its header. The updater no longer fails when it checks a second time.
On a Mac, the download page has a line to paste into Terminal that installs a copy macOS opens on the first try.
0.0.4
Rex Mundi now installs the way your own system expects. Windows gets an installer, macOS a disk image, Linux one file that runs wherever you put it. Everything is inside it, so there is nothing to keep together and nothing else to install. The plain archives are still there for anyone who would rather have a folder.
An order can point at a place. The right button puts a pin on the map, the left button drags it, and the order carries where it is: a strait, a stretch of open water, the far side of a border, any of the places no province name says plainly. The map also reads a third way, by province: each one takes its country's colour a step lighter or darker than its neighbours, with its borders drawn.
When something goes wrong the game now says so. Every run is written down in a logs folder beside your games, a crash leaves a report, and rexmundi --diagnose prints the one page a bug report needs: the version, the graphics driver, where your games are kept and whether your game master is on this machine. Where all of it is, and what to try first, is on the new troubleshooting page.
The settings start with whichever game master is already on your machine, and will not offer one that is not there. The window names the build it came from, so a screenshot says which version it is.
0.0.3
The what's-new text on the Updates page reads as paragraphs again, instead of keeping the line breaks of the message it was written in.
This is also the first release the workflow publishes by itself.
0.0.2
Nothing new to play. This one exists to prove the updater works, and to check that a release installs cleanly on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Underneath: the map is no longer fetched again when it has not changed, so an update like this one is two megabytes rather than eighty.