Marius Bancila’s Blog

Many of you have requested an update of the game, with new elements and challenges. After lot of time in coordinating the translations, the latest update is finally ready, with the exception of the German translation which is not available for the new elements (if anyone interested in helping there, please drop a comment). Alchemy 2.1 adds 56 new elements, bringing the total to 500. The game is now also available in Polish and Bulgarian, bringing the total number of languages to 16.

The list of the 56 new elements is:

The entire list of elements (500) is available here.

Starting with this version, when you unlock all the available elements a notification is displayed, which looks like this:

In addition to these, some fixes were implemented. The most important is about the Wiki button, which used to always search in the English version of the encyclopedia. Now, it searches articles in the language selected in the game. That means if you use English it will continue to search in en.wikipedia.org, but if you use French for example it will search at fr.wikipedia.org.

I want to thank again to the people that translated the game. Your work is appreciated. If anyone else wants to translate Alchemy to a language not yet available please drop a comment so I can contact you.

Any feedback or suggestion is welcomed.

You can download the latest version of the game from this page.

Alchemy 2.0 brings a modified layout, a set of 44 new elements (to a total of 444), hints, and translation to Hebrew.

The most reported bug for Alchemy so far has been the layout mess on small resolution systems, such as netbooks. It wasn’t a bug actually, but a feature. The application required a higher resolution, that how it was designed in the first place. The new version can run on netbooks too, but the minimum resolution is 1024×600. In order to support these small resolutions the layout was slightly modified so that it looks the same whether you use a lower or a higher screen resolution. Here is a screenshot from a netbook with 1024×600.

The following changes were done to the interface:

• The buttons where put on top of the right panel
• The trash icon where you could drag elements was removed and replaced with a button that when clicked removes all the elements from the desktop. Removing a single or only some elements is still possible by holding the CTRL key and selecting them with the mouse. Then press the DELETE key.
• Hints are displayed on top of the window on the left and center panes. They are cycled every 15 seconds.
• Displaying the total play time is enabled by default; it can be disabled from the Settings page.

A list of 44 new elements have been added to the game. The total is now 444. The list of new elements is:

The list with all the elements is available here.

The new version is also available in Hebrew. The total number of supported languages other than English is now 10. I want to thank again to all the volunteers that helped translating Alchemy to other languages. You can find their names in the Credits window. If anyone wants to help translating Alchemy to another language please drop a comment so I can contact you.

Download the latest version of the game from this page.

[Update] Alchemy 1.7.5 is out, with support for Italian.

I have released Alchemy version 1.7.4 with support for German. No other changes were made to the game. Currently, the game is available in the following languages (except for English): Romanian, Dutch, Czech, Portuguese, Hungarian, French, Danish, German.

I want to thank all those that volunteered to translate the game. They are:

• Ruud van der Eem for Dutch
• Lukas Juda (LKJ) for Czech
• Bruno Silva for Portuguese
• Zoltán Perge for Hungarian
• Fabien Celier (Lord of Dark) for French
• Jeppe Uhd for Danish
• Martin for German
• Leandro Papi for Italian

If you want to translate the game to another language, not yet supported, please drop a comment using a valid email address so I can contact you back.

You can download the latest version of the game from here.

Alchemy 1.7 brings a set of 20 new elements (tot a total of 400), allows you to display a timer with the total elapsed play time and is available in French.

The 20 new elements are:

The complete list of elements is available here.

Starting with version 1.7 you can display the total elapsed time since the beginning of the game. This can be enabled from the Settings page (in the More window) by checking the Display Timer option. However, if you already played Alchemy, the timer will only show the time you spent starting with version 1.7. The timer is reset only when you reset the game progress and start from scratch.

In addition the game is now available in French. If you want to help translating Alchemy to your language, please drop a comment so I can contact you.

Download the latest game version from here.

Starting with version 1.6 Alchemy is available in Hungarian. This update brings a new way of deleting elements: you can select elements from the desktop with the mouse while holding the CTRL key pressed and then removed them from the desktop by pressing the Delete key. When they are selected for deletion they are marked with a red border, to distinguish from the white border used to show the selected element when Tab to combine option is enabled. The following image shows three elements ready to be deleted.

In addition, several updates were made to the Czech translation. Also, some elements that were incorrectly marked as non-terminals were added to the terminals list (this fixed was announced for version 1.5 but was done only in version 1.6).

If you want to help translating Alchemy to your language please drop a comment so I can contact you.

You can download the latest version from here.

Alchemy 1.5 brings a set of new elements (focused on countries), a reorganization of parts of the user interface, translation to new languages and some new features requested by the users.

New elements
30 new elements have been added in version 1.5. Most of them are countries.

The list of new elements is:

You can find the entire list of elements for the latest version here.

Changes to the User Interface
You can find the description of UI for the latest version here. On short:

• Wiki button is back
• Cheats button was removed and the Cheats window was moved to another place
• Language button was replaced with button More; this opens a new window that allows you to:
  • saved and load your progress to a specific file, other than the default one; also reset your current progress
  • select the language
  • select various user specific settings
  • see the list of all available elements
  • see a list of those that helped translating Alchemy to other languages

New Features
The new features are disabled by default, and can be enabled from More > Settings. They are stored in the same file with the progress, so when you load from another file it changes to the settings stored in that file.

Combine only new prevents you from making already unlocked combinations over and over again. With this feature set, each combination can only be made once.

Tap to combine allows you to combine elements without dragging one over the other. You select the first element, and then the second, and if they make a combination, you get the result automatically. When you tap on an element, you can see a selection mark around the icon.

New Languages
Alchemy 1.5 is available in the following new languages:

• Portuguese: translated by Bruno Silva
• Czech: translated by Lukas Juda (LKJ)

Thank you all that helped with the translation, and if anyone wants to translate to another language please drop a comment so I can contact you.

The latest version is available for download here.

UPDATE: due to some problems with the Dutch and Czech translations I had to release a quick fix. Latest update is 1.5.2.

I have localized Alchemy to Romanian and Dutch and implemented live preview when dragging elements across the desktop area. Button Wikipedia was replaced with a language button. When you click it a new window pops-up displaying a list of available languages.

The game language changes immediately. However, since the two lists with the elements are sorted alphabetically, when you change the language, the order of the elements in the list changes.

Special thanks to Ruud van der Eem who translated Alchemy for Dutch.

If you want to help translate Alchemy to your language, drop a comment so I can contact you.

Download the latest version from here.

Alchemy 1.3 is the latest update of Alchemy for Windows that brings 50 new exciting elements (taking the total to 350) and new features such as hints. The new elements in this release are focused on games; they include games such as Starcraft, Warcraft, Need For Speed, Tomb Rider, Resident Evil, characters such as Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Jim Raynor, Zeratul, Queen of Blades, Lich King, and the races Zerg, Protoss, Terran, Fire Elemental.

The new elements are:

You can find the list with all the 350 elements in Alchemy 1.3 here.

One new cool feature is the availability of hints. Press the new Hints button and a window pops-up displaying one possible element you can create, indicating also one of the two elements used to create it. To close the hints window, just click anywhere on it.

Another feature available in version 1.3 is adding elements to the desktop area by double clicking on them in the unlocked elements list. Terminal elements cannot be added to the desktop.

Note: if you already played Alchemy, just replace the old executable with the new one. Don’t delete the user settings file having your account name and extension .aus, or you loose the elements and combinations you unlocked so far.

Download the latest version from here.

Alchemy 1.2 is a new update of Alchemy for Windows that brings 40 new elements to the game. This update is focused on physics on space, with elements such as Void, Big Bang, Big Crunch, Black hole, Wormhole, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking. The program is now build for Any CPU, so it runs as a 32-bit process on 32-bit machines, and as a 64-bit process on 64-bit machines.

The list of the 40 new elements is:

The complete list of the 300 elements available in version 1.2 is available here.

Note: if you already played Alchemy, just replace the old executable with the new one. Don’t delete the user settings file having your account name and extension .aus, or you loose the elements and combinations you unlocked so far.

Update: Download the latest version from here.

Alchemy 1.1 is the first update of Alchemy. It features 50 new cool elements and fixes a problem with the three elements (Bread, Hourglass and Snow) that were marked as terminals though they were required for making other elements. Combinations and elements are now verified formally so that they can all be resolved.

The list of the 50 new elements is:

The entire list of elements is available here.

Note: if you already played Alchemy, just replace the old executable with the new one. Don’t delete the user settings file having your account name and extension .aus, or you loose the elements and combinations you unlocked so far.

Update: Download the latest version from here.