Barricade

Barricade is a strategy game inspired from the famous board game of type pawn race which is a turn based game. It can be played by the whole family, from parents to children.

It requires a good strategy : you need to make a smart balance between : Blocking the enemies, Attacking the enemies, Protecting your pawns, Moves quickness, Grouping your pawns for a higher power.

Barricade can be played alone against the computer or with 2, 3, 4 players..., depending on the game board. No matter the method, you need to prevent the others from arriving to the final square before you!

What is new in this release:

• mainly bug fix for mac, but to be up to date with the latest version

What is new in version 3.0.0:

• New major features : board editor (create your own boards) and boards manager (import some new boards that have been created by some other players and have been downloaded from the boards catalog, for instance).
• Introduced computer AI levels : bronze, silver and gold medals (gold is the highest level). A bronze medal (default value) computer does not block the pawns of the opponents in their home.
• New option : make a 6 value with the dice allows to play again (disabled by default).
• Addition of 2 new boards : "Snake" and "Ray".
• Addition of 1 new skin : "Glossy".
• Modified skins to obtain more readable boards and better distinguish between out, barricade and goal squares.
• Boards preview in the "Board" menu with a board thumbnail window displayed in the upper right corner of the screen (can be disabled).
• Ability to play alone on a server against only computers (to wait for real opponents).
• Bug fix : no more crash when a computer has its pawns blocked at home.
• Bug fix : changing the speed of the moves of the computers while in a game is now working.

What is new in version 1.6.0:

• Addition of one new board: "android".
• Addition of one new skin: "winter".

Requirements:

• Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment