- Implement complete game logic (ChineseCheckersLogic.js) with hex board,
move generation (steps/jump chains), and rule enforcement.
- Add single-ply heuristic AI (ChineseCheckersAI.js) that prioritizes pulling
laggard pegs forward and entering the target triangle.
- Build Phaser-based UI (ChineseCheckersGame.js) with radial portraits,
animated peg moves, and turn indicators.
- Register the game in the server registry and frontend routing.
- Introduce `MusicPlayer` class for in-game music with shuffle, skip, and mute controls
- Add `MenuMusic` utility for background music in menu scenes
- Load music tracks and metadata via `music.json`
- Implement drag-and-drop for SkipBo cards with visual feedback
- Add card flight animations for Phase 10 AI actions and player draws
- Update Phase 10 AI turn timing and reduce delays for smoother gameplay
- Extract button creation and destruction into `_createStagingButtons` and `_destroyStagingButtons`.
- Ensure buttons are properly destroyed when staging is cleared, submitted, or when turn conditions change.
- Prevent memory leaks and stale UI state by centralizing button lifecycle management.
- Add piece click sound effect in Backgammon on landing.
- Remove the hardcoded "Lay Down Phase" button and `findLaydown` auto-complete.
- Add a dynamic staging area at the bottom of the screen that renders empty slots for each phase group.
- Enable drag-and-drop of hand cards into staging slots to manually build phases.
- Add "Submit Phase" and "Clear" buttons to commit or reset the staged layout.
- Implement validation using `validateLaydown` before submitting.
- Fix Button hit area coordinates to ensure reliable click detection.
- Update status text rendering with a background graphic for better visibility.
- Update `laidStart` coordinates for top, bottom, left, and right slots to reposition laid cards
- Changes aim to improve card visibility and spacing during gameplay
- Update portrait and nameLabel coordinates for top, bottom, left, and right slots to improve layout alignment
- Adjust chip positions for left and right slots to better fit the new UI design
- Add chipRotation property to left and right slot layouts to rotate phase chips appropriately
- Apply chip rotation in makeSeatChip when layout.chipRotation is defined
- Allow dragging local hand cards to discard pile or valid hit targets.
- Add visual feedback with action highlights for discard (red) and hit (gold) zones.
- Handle drag state transitions, including settling cards and animating to target.
- Support 'skip' card drag with immediate modal opening.
- Refactor drop target detection and group center calculation for reuse.
- Adjust portrait and button positions for better layout alignment.
- Implement pointer-based drag handlers for Phase10 player hand.
- Add visual feedback including card scaling, rotation tilt, shadow, and slot indicators during drag.
- Reorder hand array and animate cards to new positions on drop.
- Prevent conflicts by ending active drags during scene transitions or state updates.
- Implement pointer-based drag handlers for Phase10 player hand.
- Add visual feedback including card scaling, rotation tilt, shadow, and slot indicators during drag.
- Reorder hand array and animate cards to new positions on drop.
- Prevent conflicts by ending active drags during scene transitions or state updates.
- Introduce `Sounds.js` utility and load new audio assets (dice, cards, chips, casino).
- Play appropriate sound effects in Backgammon, Blackjack, Holdem, Parchisi, Phase10, SkipBo, and Yatzi.
- Add `background-casino.png` and `background-room.png` to PreloadScene.
- Update OpponentSelectScene with new backgrounds, styled title/subtitle pills, and improved Start/Back buttons.
- Enhance opponent selection with gradient backgrounds and shadows via `applyOpponentStyle`.
- Implement `highlightTile` for better visual feedback in option selectors.
- Randomly select a card back for card games in OpponentSelectScene.
- Add `isPlayerStuck` and `applyAutoPass` logic to SkipBoLogic.
- Handle stuck players by automatically passing their turn.
- Detect draw conditions when all players are stuck consecutively.
- Update UI to display appropriate messages for auto-passes and draws.
- Pass subtitle text to `showGameOverPanel` for clearer win/loss/draw context.
- Add pointerdown listener to clear selectedSource and highlights when clicking empty space.
- Improves UX by allowing players to easily cancel card selection.
- Shift stock, discard, hand, portrait, and label positions for 'bottom' and 'top' slots in `slotLayout`.
- Ensures elements are correctly centered and spaced on the game board.
- Update Phase10Game and SkipBoGame to use sprite textures for card backs when available, falling back to graphics drawing otherwise.
- Add outline rotation to SkipBo stock and discard piles for better visual alignment with card orientation.
- Update color palette to warm vintage tones (gold, cream, dark brown) in config.js
- Apply 'Righteous' and 'Julius Sans One' fonts across all game scenes and UI components
- Redesign Parchisi game logic: switch to counter-clockwise movement, update entry/home positions, and add bonus chip indicator
- Improve Parchisi UI: reposition dice and buttons, add turn indicator movement with callbacks, and fix AI turn timing
- Enhance LandingScene with animated logo, avatar support, and improved layout
- Update Button component with rounded corners, shadow effects, and hover states
- Add background image and main title asset loading in PreloadScene
- Extend auth service to include displayName and avatarPath in session user data
- Update CSS to match new theme and load custom fonts
- Implement core Parchisi logic (ParchisiLogic.js) including board rules,
move validation, and state management.
- Add Minimax-based AI (ParchisiAI.js) with heuristic evaluation for move
selection, supporting up to 3 AI opponents.
- Create full Phaser game scene (ParchisiGame.js) with animated board,
pawns, dice, and UI elements.
- Register new game assets (fonts, images, video animations).
- Update game registry to support 1-4 players with 3 AI opponents.
- Integrate Parchisi into the main scene loader and game room dispatch.
- Add animated betting prompts with pulsing chip buttons and text overlay
- Implement delayed start for betting animations after 5 seconds
- Refactor chip buttons to use containers for proper hit detection
- Update Button component to ensure interactive events work on all child objects
- Improve betting UI visibility management with proper show/hide states
- Add depth management for betting prompts and chip buttons
Refactors `animateSingleCard` to accept a specific card object instead of seat/index parameters, simplifying the logic for determining hand position and card index. Updates hit actions for both player and AI to animate the new card individually, revealing its face-up state at the destination upon completion. This replaces the previous bulk `renderSeatCards` call with a more granular visual update.
- Introduce BlackjackGame as a new playable game in the client
- Register Blackjack in the server game registry with updated player limits (1-5 players, 0-4 opponents)
- Wire up Blackjack in main.js and GameRoomScene for routing
- Fix OpponentSelectScene to handle games with minOpponents=0
- Remove incomplete ParchisiLogic.js implementation
- Update HoldemLogic.js: reduce blind level interval to 5 minutes, fix single-pot split logic, and apply minor formatting/whitespace changes.
- Add new ParchisiLogic.js file implementing pure game logic for the Parchisi board game, including path definition, player entry points, safe squares, and home columns.
- Add new assets: gerome.png, ethel video animations (happy/idle/upset), gerome/jeff video animations (happy/idle/upset), and update opponents.png/psd.
Brian Fertig