Ancient Games

The ***Ancient Games*** company is the on-going single-man company that produces the Ancient Games themselves.

## Timeline

January 10, 2015
Ancient Games is founded.

March 1, 2015
Senet is released for the first time.

January 20, 2017
Starter, Egyptian, Persian, Aztec and Greek boards for Senet.

March 10, 2017
The Royal Game of Ur is released for the first time.

March 24, 2017
Avatars, new dice and a new UI (User Interface) make their entrance.

March 26, 2017
The Eighties Board is released.

April 3, 2017
Senet is updated to the v1.3 version (Ur will be updated in April 20):

* Victory Chests Rewards, including a chance for Dice and Avatars for a total of 54 rare items
* New UI (User Interface)
* Player Profile (formed by an Avatar, a Name and its Experience Level)
* Events
* 5 new Boards (Arabic, Roman, Inuit, Australian and Tibetan), plus a sixth additional Board unlockable at Level 5.

June 8, 2017
The Royal Game of Ur is updated (same will go for Senet in June 13):

* Renewed Boards, plus several ones added (Disco, Steampunk, iSenet/iUr, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Water, Fire, Air, Earth, Level 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25)
* New Local Multiplayer Mode
* Improved Dice system and UI.

June 21, 2017
The Second Season of Ancient Games begins (it will end in September 20). Players must win 50 games in 3 months in order to unlock a themed Board (Summer in this case). Spring Board is made available at the Store.

July 15, 2017
After 50 reviews on Google Play, iUr Board is now available for free.

July 27, 2017
After 100 reviews on Google Play, the Improvised Board is now available for free.

September 21, 2017
The Third Season of Ancient Games begins (it will end in December 20). The Board in stack is Autumn, and the Summer Board goes in Store.

September 24, 2017
First part of the v1.3 of Senet and Ur (3.1):

* UI updated and bug fixed
* Four new Challenges (Anansi's Games (he can shuffle all pawns on the board), Altars of Quetzalcoatl (players that control at least an Altar can throw more than 1), Torment of Hades (pawns have a chance to going back before leaving the board) and Blessings of Ganesha (if a player is blessed, he/she can throw again).
* Added the ability to save a game and continue it later.
* Leaderboards and Achievements.
* Ability to zoom in Boards

November, 1, 2017
Second part of the v1.3 of Senet and Ur (3.2):

* Bug fix
* Improved AI for Senet
* New "Help me" button during game (automatically allows the best possible move for the current situation, but costs 1 Gold Bar)
* Automatic End Turn (in Options)
* Now every Season requires 30 victories (was 50)
* Ability to delete corrupted savegames.

May 21, 2018
Secret Words is released. Plus, Senet and Ur are updated in their v1.4:

* Savegames fix
* Ability to disable bad luck protection in Options
* New UI

June 14, 2018
Senet and Ur are now translated in Italian and Portuguese, plus there are two started boards (Light and Dark).

26 agosto 2018
XII Scripta beta is released for the first time.

4 gennaio 2019
Beta version of v1.5 of Game of Ur is released.

* Heroic difficulty
* Spanish and Arabian languages
* 12% Gold and Experience as a reward for all players (plus 10% for all translators, as well as all Store Boards and ad-free game)
* Irving Finkel ruleset
* Anonymus mode
* Board variants
* Two new currencies (Stars and Gems)
* Daily Quests
* A brand new Multiplayer Campaign Mode

17 gennaio 2019
V1.5 of Ur is live.

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