{"id":693,"date":"2024-05-21T21:41:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T09:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2025-01-01T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T05:44:08","slug":"five-hundred-launching-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/five-hundred-launching-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Hundred &#8211; Launching this week!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a05582b32adb955aa773956c14094f96\">Five Hundred &#8211; Steam Release<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a few hundred hours of work, a whole lot of testing, a huge amount of reading of the Steamworks API &#8211; but <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2824200\/Five_Hundred\/\">Five Hundred &#8211; Steam Edition<\/a> &#8211; is coming this week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-85726b50c032f1e0cf1fb53a914b319f\">Screenshots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_7-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-id=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_7-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-698\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_7-1.png 1920w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_7-1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_7-1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_7-1-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_7-1-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-id=\"696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-696\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_3.png 1920w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_3-300x169.png 300w, 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http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_5-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_5-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_5-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1380\" data-id=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_1.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_1-300x162.jpg 300w, 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http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_2-300x162.png 300w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_2-1024x552.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_2-768x414.png 768w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_2-1536x828.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_2-2048x1104.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-396213c6a8c6498832c83e995b568204\">New Features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As previously discussed, the Steam Edition includes a very large amount of new features. Some of the major ones:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Improved Artificial Intelligence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Licenced music<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multiplayer modes (2-4 players, any combination of teams)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Animated backgrounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tutorial prompts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Misere bids<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Redesigned preferences interface<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More game options and quality-of-life effects<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Refined user interface in several places<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improved performance on very low-spec systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Steam Achievements<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Steam Leaderboards and statistics tracking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More cardsets, cardbacks, and tables<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many, many, many bugfixes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All for the low, low price of about $2.50USD (or equivalent in various currencies)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11277158fa4f0d1f7990f4a4be3b2d18\">Link<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2824200\/Five_Hundred\/\">Five Hundred on Steam<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e593b4161c595af74ae63c5b92c8b5b4\">Sunset Edition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because it didn&#8217;t feel right to just leave the old freeware version back at the 2015 release forever, I&#8217;ve updated the parts of the old codebase that I could, and have made this available as &#8220;V1.90 Sunset Edition&#8221;. It is missing a few features compared to the Steam edition, specifically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No Steam Achievements or Leaderboards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No Music<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Less statistics tracking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No Multiplayer mode (500 multiplayer needs Steam&#8217;s Networking API)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No animated backdrops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would really, really appreciate it if people who enjoy Five Hundred play via the Steam Edition &#8211; it provides a lot of additional functionality, auto-updating, better feature support, and maybe (over time) will allow me to recoup some of the licencing costs for the tools I used to make it! That said, the Freeware version will remain available (if not updated in future).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Hundred &#8211; Steam Release It&#8217;s been a few hundred hours of work, a whole lot of testing, a huge amount of reading of the Steamworks API &#8211; but Five Hundred &#8211; Steam Edition &#8211; is coming this week! 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