Xenocide is being built in the open and it changes often. Everything here has shipped and is live in the game right now, newest first.
When a descent ends the board dropped the piles and the last hand, kept the result, and put the box score and the reckoning where you can reach them without leaving the screen. Losing now reads the way winning does.
Read this entryThe board a solo player meets was redrawn as a left rail and a body, then filled out until it fit the window, then made to hold still so nothing jumps mid-turn except when you resize the window.
Read this entryThe hand used to wrap into two rows on a phone, and the thing you touch fell off the bottom. It fans into one overlapping row now, sized to whatever width it is given.
Read this entryA finished descent already had a narration you could read back. Now it also has a box score, a table with one row per turn, and it works for a spectator watching a descent as it happens.
Read this entryOne word was doing two jobs. Now there are two words, and the sentence that was impossible to write writes itself.
Read this entryBanish was doing the right job under a name another game already owns. The replacement carries a fiction the old word never had.
Read this entryOn a phone, the only place a partner's play appeared vanished the moment it became your turn.
Read this entryA campaign is three descents, and it was keeping two numbers about each of them.
Read this entryThree tables were played and all three died the same way. A table now holds two Echoes between them, and deliberately nothing else.
Read this entryA phone now shows the Woken, the piles, the Counter of Fates and every card in your hand at once, and there is a way to hide everything that is not the game.
Read this entryA slot is now sight or reach. Look at your partner's card and keep the slot, or take the card and spend it. The cap is gone.
Read this entryPut an entity down at full Dominion, exactly, in a single play, and cards come back out of the Grave.
Read this entryTwo seats may never tell each other what they hold. Expunge an entity exactly and one card of their Redoubt turns over anyway, both ways, to a limit of three.
Read this entrySolo stopped being about surviving twelve and started being about finishing them. A subdued entity is not gone, a clean run is a currency, and the medal finally counts the thing the game says matters.
Read this entryA pair of six or higher no longer always answers as Dream. Which Force it binds into is your reading, and at a table no two of you hold the same one.
Read this entryWhat one descent was, what all of them add up to, and what they say about how you play. Including the one number the board has never shown you.
Read this entrySpending a Force into a domain that has bound it wastes the ability entirely. The cards have always said so. Now the game asks first, once.
Read this entryNot difficult. Impossible. A descent alone was lost before it began, for reasons that were arithmetic rather than skill, and I had shipped it that way for months.
Read this entryTerror lets you carry a card into the next descent. If that card was an entity, it was dealt to you and left in the Pantheon as well, so you could meet a Spawn whose card was already in your hand.
Read this entryEvery stylesheet on this site already carries a fingerprint so a change reaches you immediately. The card paintings did not, and a repainted entity could have kept showing you the old drawing for hours.
Read this entryThe board is worked out from how many people are sitting down. The menu that let you choose its arrangement is gone, because by the end the only thing it could offer you was a mistake.
Read this entryBuilds have names now, taken from people who led uprisings, in the order they rose. The board you were playing last week was Wallace. This one is Bruce, and it is a beta.
Read this entryA Cycle opens with a page of text now. Who you are, what was done to you, and why twelve of them are still dreaming, told to the player who was never going to open the Lore page.
Read this entryWith company, the seats moved inside the Counter of Fates. It says whose turn it is, who follows, and what everyone is holding, which the lanes never quite managed.
Read this entryA row of fixed lines you can send to the table, chosen so that every one of them is something a teammate would want to hear. There is no free text and there never will be.
Read this entryThe zoom in the Pantheon worked on one entity out of sixteen. It works on every painted one now, and it shows the whole creature instead of the top of it.
Read this entryOn a phone the game was drawing a board nobody had designed, because every rule that builds the two boards was written inside a desktop-only clause. Your hand began 1033 pixels down. It begins at 599 now.
Read this entryThe title cards were announcing a new tier before showing the banishment that caused it. They queue now, they survive the click that raised them, and the Consumed screen finally says why you died.
Read this entryThe solo board is the default when you play alone, instead of something you had to find in a menu. It is derived rather than remembered, so it never becomes a preference you did not choose.
Read this entryAn unpayable Strike was ending a solo game while an Echo was still unspent, which the rulebook does not say. A player noticed by reading the rules rather than believing the screen.
Read this entryBlood, Dream, Swarm and Void are artwork now rather than the four suit marks you already know. A bound Force wears chains; the Void gets an egg instead, because the Void is the one that keeps counting.
Read this entryEvery entity in the Pantheon now carries painted artwork, and so do the three Empyreans. The last one taught the pipeline to predict its own failures before rendering anything.
Read this entryReporting a problem used to mean navigating away from the game that just broke. It now opens where you are, carrying the same diagnostic. Settings moved into a dialog for the same reason.
Read this entryA row of twelve under the Pantheon count showing which entities are gone and which are still standing. They were specified as coloured dots, and dots were wrong.
Read this entryPainted artwork for nine cards, including the Heretic. It is tinted through the skin rather than pasted on, so the same file is bone on black in Original and black on cream in Woodcut.
Read this entryClick any entity on the Pantheon and it opens large, with arrows to move through the rest. For the painted ones there is a second view that goes closer still.
Read this entryEvery small card token in the game spent a day wearing the colour of the defeat screen, in every skin. Here is how a stylesheet came to contain the same block twice, and what now catches it.
Read this entryA third layout, for solo play. The table of lanes goes away, because with one seat it was a single row describing itself, and the arithmetic you actually use takes its place.
Read this entryNyarlathotep was a Herald, four ranks below Cthulhu. Azathoth was an Ancient you could meet on a Tuesday. Both have moved, and two entities you have never met have taken their chairs.
Read this entryThree small pieces of motion. A banished Ancient is taken rather than replaced, the mark on the entry screen smoulders, and you are a constellation that comes apart.
Read this entryAn alternate layout that gives the Ancient the whole height of the screen, behind a toggle in the menu. Both are supported; neither is going away.
Read this entryEvery entity you fight, with its Force, its Dominion and its Strike. Plus the campaign finally written down for players instead of only existing in the game.
Read this entryA rename, because people were reading "the Record" as their own win and loss record rather than the project's.
Read this entryThe thing you are fighting now holds a column of its own, the table grows sideways instead of downwards, and the actions sit next to the cards they spend.
Read this entryA new skin called Original, and a discipline underneath it. Five colours, one job each, and nothing decorative is allowed to borrow one.
Read this entryShipping an update used to end every game in progress. It does not any more.
Read this entryCampaign mode, first level. Three descents, an Empyrean beneath the twelve in each, and what you carry out of one you take into the next.
Read this entryHalf of every interaction in the game was arithmetic you had already done. That half is gone.
Read this entryA second coach, one that speaks before your move and has to defend the choice with facts you can check.
Read this entryBlood, Dream, Swarm and Void are drawings now, plus title cards and two new skins.
Read this entryA full pass over everything Xenocide says to you, and thirteen messages that had never been rethemed at all.
Read this entryThe first version. Twelve entities, four Forces, and a deck drawn entirely in code.
Read this entryThe Tomes rewritten to teach, a full Lexicon, a guided tour, and the first coach.
Read this entryThe last of the borrowed vocabulary, two marks instead of one, and numbers that show their movement.
Read this entryNothing in that area yet.