unknown-horizons / unknown-horizons.github.io

New Unknown Horizons homepage

Unknown-Horizons based on Fifengine is no longer in development. We are porting it to Godot Engine.

Please dont report any new bugs.

Only bugfixes will get acepted for maybe an last release.

New git repo for the Godot port is: https://github.com/unknown-horizons/godot-port

Unknown Horizons is a 2D real time strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy.

Find more information about Unknown Horizons on our website.

Installation

For installation instructions check the "Downloads" section on our website.

Building from source

To get the latest version of the game, you have to build it from source:

• Instructions for GNU/Linux
• Instructions for Windows
• Instructions for OS X

If you want to start hacking on Unknown Horizons, check out this guide and contact us to help you get started. A development workflow with containers is also available. We have easy tasks for starters here.

Dependencies

Technology	Component
Python 3	Used for everything
SQLite	Maps
YAML	Object files storing component based information, easily scriptable
fifengine	The C++ game engine, provides Python bindings
fifechan	GUI library
pyenet	The multiplayer library. Can be ignored if you don't want to play multiplayer

Community

Type	Where?
Discord	https://discord.gg/VX6m2ZX
Bug Tracker	https://github.com/unknown-horizons/unknown-horizons/issues
IRC Channel	irc://irc.freenode.net/unknown-horizons
Web IRC Link	https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=unknown-horizons

More support info here.

License

This game is free software. It uses the GNU General Public License, version 2. The licenses used for music, artwork, sounds, etc. can be found here.

unknown-horizons.github.io's Issues

point wiki.unknown-horizons.org to github wiki

The wiki now has a long url.
It could be a bit shorter if we would make wiki.unknown-horizons.org redirect to github.com/unknown-horizons/unknown-horizons/wiki/

unknown horizons forum cant create account

I am asked to enter a confirmation code which should be displayed in an image however no such image seems to exist so I am unable to create an account

see this image: http://92.19.232.58:81/owncloud/index.php/s/I6Su9XiNN5py8tT

I also tried to contact the board administrator using the form on the website however this gave an error when I tried to send the message which is why I am posting here.

"About" and "Media" pages are missing when entering from forum

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Go to https://forum.unknown-horizons.org/
2. Click either "About" or "Media"
3. "About" redirects to http://unknown-horizons.org/game/ and "Media" to http://unknown-horizons.org/media/screenshot-gallery/

Produce a let's play video

The last let's play video was published 4 years sago... It's time to produce a new one since there is also a youtube link on the UH website!

Link to youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/UnknownHorizonsGame

@LinuxDonald Does anyone here has access to this youtube channel?

Create buildmenu icon for public bath

ID: 87

Add gallery

Right now the gallery is maintained manually with no thumbnails, which is very ugly on mobile devices.

Link on forum site results in "Page not found" error

On the forum site https://forum.unknown-horizons.org/ is a link labeled "Imprint" (on the top, right of the "Donate" link). Following it leads to http://unknown-horizons.org/site/index.php?page=imprint which returns a "Page not found" error site.

Rebuild website

I've been thinking about our website for a while, and there's a few points that could need improvement in my opinion:

• difficult to contribute (as in: I have no idea where the source code is)
• uncertain hosting (who is hosting the website, are we dependent on a single person?)
• not responsive / mobile ready

I'm proposing to tackle the first two issues by moving to a static site generator, which makes it trivial to host the webpage. For example using GitHub-Pages. Also contributing is much easier, since the source code is just another repositiory here on GitHub.

The third issue can be fixed by redesigning the website and using a more modern approach to things.

Yesterday I started work on a potential replacement for the current website. Keep in mind, at this point I've mostly setup a static site generator (Lektor in this case, written in Python) and slapped some Bootstrap styles on it. That's why the design still screams "Bootstrap!" right now. This is completely work-in-progress, trying to figure out content & structure, with less focus on styling and eye-catching things.

I'll probably write some more thoughts later this evening. Until then, here is the current repository:

Repository: https://github.com/squiddy/unknown-horizons-website
Current build: https://squiddy.github.io/unknown-horizons-website/

Fix broken web page

I found a broken page at our UH website: http://unknown-horizons.org/support/irc/

Use https

Github pages just gained https support for custom domain names!
https://blog.github.com/2018-05-01-github-pages-custom-domains-https/
We should set this up for unknown-horizons.org
Who has access to the DNS records?

Submit news automatically to social media

We should think about the social media stuff. Are we able to provide a mechanism via the static site to forward published news to them, like we did in the past with the old page?

#1 (comment)

Host static JSON file with release information

Something like http://unknown-horizons.org/current-version.json that will be fetched by the game to display the "New version available" hint.

This is meant to deprecate the current location under http://updates.unknown-horizons.org/current_version.php.

I'd go for JSON, since we can easily add fields later and the parsing in python is trivial.

{
  "version": "2017.2",
  "download_url": "http://unknown-horizons.org/download/something"
}

Perhaps even OS specific download URLs with one fallback URL.

New homepage screenshot

The current screenshot on the homepage has an error that was fixed in unknown-horizons/unknown-horizons#2804

The problem here is that buildings that were actually placed behind the main market building are drawn in front of it.

We should make a new screenshot for the homepage so we don't advertise with our old bugs

"Media" and "About" links from forum page broken

Hi,
just noticed this small error on the Unknown Horizons forums.
Clicking the link "Media" or the "About" link from the forums page shows a 404 - page not found error. The same pages are accessable on the homepage without errors, but not directly from the forums.
Cheers

Fix forum link

(continuation of unknown-horizons/unknown-horizons#2931)

Please fix the forum link on http://unknown-horizons.org/get-involved/

This is the link to the new forum:
https://forum.freegamedev.net/viewforum.php?f=100

Create 404 page

https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-custom-404-page-for-your-github-pages-site/

Add on the Topbar Forum Link

Add on the Topbar Forum Link:
Four users that want help it where easier to find fast the forum instand first clicking on Support.

@squiddy could you maybe do this?