Seventeenth (Final) Turn Summary

The seventeenth, and as it turned out final, turn of “the 2009 campaign” of Strategic Primer began at the end of the sixteenth, in October 2020, and eventually ended in June 2022. The end was substantially delayed by the need to bring the assistive programs to a new release, including porting the whole suite from Ceylon back to Java, as well as the usual time constraints and time-sink elements. Here are some highlights of this turn, described as usual in general terms; I’ll look back on the campaign as a whole in a future post.

Assistive Programs Release (0.4.9019)

In the more than a year (eep!) since the last “release candidate”, a very great deal of development has gone on in the suite of assistive programs for players and Judges of Strategic Primer. There are a number of new features, mostly having to do with automating details of running a turn, but the biggest change is the port back to Java. Because of a change in development direction I’ve given the new release the number 0.4.9019 even though the amount of change from the last “release candidate” is immense; more about all of that below.