Hello everybody,

fans of strategy games like Civ and Master of Magic probably want to take a look at this new game, Leylines.

http://crystalshard.binary-people.com/leylines.html

Leylines is a turn-based strategy game in a fantasy world. It features 50 different units and 50 magic spells, and has a hoard of other options including heroes, terrain modification, season changes, diplomacy and three different victory conditions.
Multiplayer options include hot-seat, split-screen and play-by-e-mail, in case you find the AI not challenging enough.
You should try it, it's very addictive.

The screenshots on your website are horribly, horribly blurred. Is it a resizing problem or is your jpg quality just set too low? (I always end up using cropped png's when I can help it because resizing my pixels looks terrible.)

Ditto on the pics on the webpage.

What is the typical play time?
(time to get into it and complete)

From your FAQ:

Problem: task switching crashes the game
I'm fully aware of that. Unfortunately, microsof doesn't have a faq for what to do if a program seems to interfere with their task switcher, because they believe it to be infallible. In other words I haven't been able to fix the bug for lack of good documentation on the windows core. Sorry.


Say what? Do you know how to use a debugger? This is no excuse for shoddy programming...

Task switching? Sounds like you mean alt-tab? If that's what you're talking about, then it has nothing to do with Microsoft being at fault (as much as I'd like them to be :)). This just means you're not properly handling the alt-tab. I don't use the raw DirectX (I'm using SDL) so I can't give you the exact details, but on alt-tab you lose the screen object (or whatever it's called, it's been years since I've used DirectX) and you lose all your surfaces. It's up to you to re-create the screen object, set the video mode, and reload the graphics once the game gets focus again.

Papillon -> that would be the low quality setting. It should decrease bandwidth usage. I'll see if I can get better ones. And I must say that it's a retro-styled game so don't expect too good graphics in-game.

Cyrus_zuo -> dependent on what map size you use, etc. I'd say three to four hours on average.

Henrik -> Yes, the one in Visual Studio is quite nice. But the game doesn't even respond to alt-tab on my machine (which according to microsoft is impossible) and on certain others it does work, and on certain others it crashes when switching back to it.

Fenix Down -> yes, I'm aware of that. The function DirectDrawSurface->Restore () returns a generic failure. If I'm missing something obvious here please tell!

Hi Radiant. What version of DirectX are you using?
There are several ways of dealing with this problem depending on the version.

Hi-
Ive just visited the site, and wanted to check out the screenshots-
I would prefer it if the screenshots were in thumb size and then enlarged when clicked upon- Right now there are too many screenshots, the screen is to large and lots of needles loading if i just want to check out one or two screenshots- It a bit irritating-
hope it helpes!

Carrot -> 7.0

Vejlko -> I believe leyshots.html has thumbs at the top. I'll see what I can do about the other pages.