It's been a month since our last big release, so we've done a batch of bug-fixes and other improvements! We're also knocking down the cost of Premium to $3.99 for a short time (I haven't decided how long). Grab it now! :)

UPDATE 20151027: These changes are now on Windows, Mac, and Linux instead of just Windows like they were last night.

Here are a bunch of fixes we've done!

• New HUD! We noticed that the old HUD would occasionally cause people to think that they were the opposite color than what they really were. This was partially because the OPPONENT's captured pieces were on your own HUD. The new HUD makes that much less ambiguous and it also encapsulates the turn-timer which was previously just kind of thrown onto the screen.
  
• Elo Ratings changes can't be "re-played" by clicking on a Steam Notification from a finished game and re-loading the endgame anymore.
  
• Fixed the layout of the belated BLC-signup dialog.
  
• Cross-promotion tool that shows other BlueLine games can now detect Steam sales and show the discount percentage.
  
• Additional fixes for Intel HD Graphics cards.
  
• Smaller log-file
  
• Better displaying of names with apostrophes in them, in the Online Game Menu String.
  
• Fixed a rare potential crash from leaving the Online Game Menu Screen running.
  
• Added a visible menu button to the game. This improves mouse-only accessibility. See below...
  

Accessibility

To make it so that a game can be played by as many people as possible, it's important to make games accept a wide variety of input. You can currently play Simply Chess with Keyboard, Mouse, or GamePad... and any mixture of those.

Prior to this release, we had a shortcoming that there was no way to pull up the in-game menu using just the mouse. This meant that mouse-only users (such as those that you Speech Recognition) would have to close the entire app each time they finished a game. That's got to be really annoying, so we fixed it.

Since accessibility is a fairly easy thing, that BlueLine is trying to get more game developers to put some time into... we Streamed the processes of adding this menu button (and talked about accessibility while doing it). The stream was on http://twitch.tv/bluelinegames and now that it's over, the video is up on youtube, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjYFJkvg9-s&t=28s

Here is a bonus-pretzel since you're a BlueLine player... inside info is that Hive is 75%-77% off of various packages for a few more days!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/251210/