- Implement core game logic in BaccaratLogic.js including shoe management,
hand evaluation, and betting resolution with standard rules (5% banker
commission, 8-to-1 tie payout).
- Create BaccaratGame.js Phaser scene with full UI: betting panel, chip
selection, seat portraits, and animated card dealing.
- Add BaccaratAI.js for opponent bet sizing and type selection (weighted
toward Banker).
- Introduce "Equation Ribbon" reveal sequence that walks through each card's
value, sums them, and performs a mod-10 reduction with visual flair.
- Register Baccarat in the server game registry and frontend scene dispatch.
- Add a 10-second countdown timer between ball draws with a dedicated UI overlay
- Implement visual flash effect on opponent panels when their cards match the called number
- Play happy emotion animation on opponent portraits during matches
- Replace CASINO_WIN/LOSE sounds with CASINO_BLACKJACK for win/loss events
- Fix fullscreen toggle to properly handle exitFullscreen and requestFullscreen
- Add new video assets for opponent emotions (happy, idle, upset)
- Add `sfx-bingo-balls` audio asset and load it in PreloadScene
- Register `BINGO_BALLS` sound in the SFX constants
- Play the sound when the bingo ball spinning animation starts
- Reduce mini card dimensions from 125x125 to 90x90 pixels
- Adjust positioning coordinates from (px+54.5, py+34.5) to (px+28, py+8)
- Improves visual alignment and spacing of opponent's bingo card in the UI
- Update player card background border radius from 5 to 15 for smoother corners
- Change called numbers board background color from cream to black for better contrast
- Remove unnecessary whitespace in `init()` and physics calculation lines (code cleanup)
- Add cream white background behind the player's bingo card
- Add cream white background behind opponent mini-cards
- Add cream white background behind the called numbers board
- Adjust player card header position (HEADER_Y, ROW0_Y) to accommodate new layout
Introduce a new Bingo game featuring a physics-driven drum with Matter.js,
AI opponents that auto-daub and claim wins with suspenseful delays, and a
"claim race" mechanic where the human can beat AI to the punch. Includes
complete game logic, UI components (drum, card, opponent panels, called
numbers board), and server registration for the new game slug.
- Improve Catan AI to evaluate 1-hop lookahead nodes and prioritize bridge connections for better road expansion.
- Add visual feedback for opponent Monopoly plays (resource text + fireworks).
- Redesign game-over screen with dynamic winner portraits (video for AI, avatar fallback for human) and fireworks.
- Add eliminated player panel in Hold'em with animated portrait transitions.
- Export `longestRoadFor` for use in AI logic.
- Add 12 new MP3 speech files for Jerry (intro, happy, upset, pick)
- Update opponents.json to include Jerry's speech configuration
- Fix HoldemLogic to exclude folded players from seat order calculation
- Update Holdem game configuration to allow 3-7 AI opponents (previously fixed at 3)
- Implement dynamic seat layout using an elliptical distribution for balanced positioning
- Add computeSeatLayout() to calculate positions based on opponent count, with special handling for side/diagonal corners
- Adjust portrait, card, and UI element positioning to adapt to different table sizes
- Update AI personality definitions to include 7 distinct profiles with varied aggression/bluff rates
- Modify AI decision logic to limp more frequently in unraised preflop scenarios
- Update hand summary modal to scale rows dynamically to fit 7+ players
- Update server game registry to reflect new max opponent count
- Switch `animateActionText` from Phaser text to DOM container to ensure it renders above opponent portrait videos (which are DOM-based and thus always on top of the Phaser canvas)
- Apply text-shadow via inline CSS for better cross-browser compatibility with DOM text
- Increase depth to `D.modal + 100` to guarantee visibility over all other layers
- Replace left-to-right seat processing with clockwise PLAY_ORDER starting top-right
- Animate deal sequence to follow the new play order
- Add pulsing highlight ring for active player's portrait
- Show large animated action callouts (Hit/Stand/Double/Split) between player and cards
- Position action buttons dynamically relative to the active player's portrait
- Update result reveal order to match clockwise play order
- Move betting UI panel and adjust button depths for proper layering
- Remove unused `nextActiveSeat` import in favor of `nextPlaySeat` method
feat(blackjack): expand player capacity to 7 and improve table visuals
- Increase maximum players from 5 to 7 (6 opponents) by updating seat positions, logic loops, and server registry.
- Add traditional felt table markings including curved text for rules ("Blackjack pays 3 to 2", "Insurance pays 2 to 1") and card/bet spot outlines.
- Refactor seat label rendering to use a consistent centered layout under portraits.
- Adjust bet circle positioning logic for the new seat layout.
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- Implement intelligent AI trade initiation (proposeTrade) and response logic (respondToTrade) that adjusts willingness based on the requester's victory points.
- Add hover tooltips for harbors, Longest Road, and Largest Army cards to improve user understanding of game mechanics.
- Add a generic info tooltip system for UI elements.
- Add fullscreen toggle button to Landing and Game Menu scenes.
- Fix AI trade animation and status messages for better feedback.
- Implement visual tracking for Longest Road and Largest Army cards with
smooth transfer animations between players and the central display.
- Add audio feedback for special card ownership changes and opponent dev card plays.
- Display opponent development card details with a zoom-in animation when played.
- Update opponent panels to remove special card badges in favor of the new visual system.
- Add necessary spritesheet and audio assets to the preload scene.
- Minor fix to restore dice state in Parchisi logic after three-doubles penalty.
- Go Fish: Add support for 2-card and 4-card match variants.
- Update `GoFishGame` and `GoFishLogic` to use a configurable `matchSize` (default 4).
- Add UI toggle in `OpponentSelectScene` to select match variant.
- Update labels and logic to reflect 'Books' (4-card) vs 'Pairs' (2-card).
- Nerts: Improve AI and UI responsiveness.
- Add 'Last Move' timer panel with Shuffle (60s) and Resign (90s) buttons.
- Implement foundation cooldowns to prevent rapid-fire AI moves.
- Add dynamic layout for foundations and opponent panels based on player count.
- Show opponent Nerts, stock, and waste cards in opponent panels.
- Add `reshuffleAllStocks` utility in `NertsLogic`.
The AI now waits to build a road until no settlement spots are immediately reachable. This prevents wasting resources on roads when a settlement could be built, ensuring more efficient resource accumulation for higher-cost structures.
- Detect when the robber steals a resource from player 0 by comparing resource counts before and after the move.
- Display a temporary "CARD STOLEN" banner with the stolen resource name and robber's name.
- Play a lose sound effect to provide immediate audio feedback.
- Apply this notification logic consistently across all three locations where the robber is moved (AI turn, player turn, and initial setup).
- Add `STANDARD_RESOURCES` array to `CatanBoard.js` for the classic beginner layout
- Allow users to choose between 'random' and 'standard' tile placement in `OpponentSelectScene`
- Pass `tilePlacement` config through `GameRoomScene` to `CatanGame` and `CatanLogic`
- Update robber voice clip files to new recordings
- Add animated robber movement with custom sprite, sound effects, and glow
- Implement dynamic dice roll animation with arc trajectory and sound cues
- Replace static resource hand with draggable, selectable cards
- Add victory points badge above player portrait
- Expand trade panel width and button sizes for better usability
- Load new robber asset and speech clips in preload scene
- Replace static sea background with a radial gradient for a richer look.
- Redesign settlement and city graphics with drop shadows and white halos.
- Enhance road rendering with a white core for better visibility.
- Add VP badges and card count fans to opponent panels.
- Support card back sprites via `data.cardBack` for accurate card rendering.
- Mark Catan as a card game in the registry.
- Add `background-catan-board.png` for enhanced board visuals
- Implement inset polygon logic to create layered hex borders (colored swatch, dark ring, image area)
- Adjust tile image scaling to fit within the innermost inset polygon
- Reduce outer border line width for a crisper appearance
- Add fallback resource color fill for the inner image area if texture is missing
- Add high-resolution `catancards.png` and `catantiles.png` assets
- Replace hexagon background colors with textured tile images from spritesheet
- Redesign resource hand with card-style UI (dark background, artwork, colored borders)
- Introduce a new Bank Panel on the right side showing resource and dev card counts
- Implement resource collection animations (chit pulse, particle effects, card flight)
- Export `HEX_W` constant for use in tile sizing calculations
- Replace the random hex chit assignment with a fixed spiral-based sequence (`CHIT_SPIRAL` and `CHIT_SEQUENCE`) to ensure consistent board layouts.
- Randomize the initial player turn order using a shuffled seat array instead of the static snake pattern.
- Update the build costs legend UI to display colored resource swatches in a bottom panel.
- Add new `pick` audio clips for each opponent in `opponents.json` and corresponding MP3 files
- Implement a spectrum visualizer overlay for opponent portraits that activates during pick speech playback
- Integrate `SpeechQueue` to handle opponent pick audio with start/stop callbacks for the visualizer
- Add `setMenuMusicVolume` utility and adjust menu music volume during opponent selection
- Prevent speech/visualizer triggers during initial scene load and game start sequences
- Add 22 new MP3 speech files for characters Jeff and Fireball
- Update public/data/opponents.json to include speech arrays for both characters
- Each character now has intro, happy, and upset speech categories with 2-5 variations
- Add speech assets and configuration for Brad and Mario
- Update opponents.json with new speech arrays for intro, happy, and upset states
- Prevent discarding cards while cards are staged in Phase 10
- Add visual feedback (_shakeStagingButtons) when staging rules are violated
- Add _hasStagedCards helper to check staging group state
- Move staged cards back to hand if user attempts to discard during staging
- Introduce a canvas-based audio visualizer overlay on opponent portraits that activates during speech playback
- Update `SpeechQueue` to support `onStart` and `onEnd` callbacks for hooking into audio events
- Modify `Portrait` to trigger the visualizer with emotion-specific colors (blue for intro, green for happy, red for upset)
- Add `speech` metadata to `opponents.json` for Ethel and Bernie, defining available intro/happy/upset audio clips
- Ensure proper cleanup of visualizer state and resources on portrait destruction
- Implement `SpeechQueue` to manage opponent dialogue clips
- Add `speech` configuration to opponent data (Cy-Bro, Victor, Croc) with intro, happy, and upset states
- Trigger random speech clips in `Portrait.js` based on emotion and a 60% probability
- Play intro speech clips when opponent portraits are created
- Update `MusicPlayer` volume to 0.15 and clean up formatting/whitespace
- Sort player's hand by suit and value for consistent layout
- Implement drag-to-sort functionality for the local hand with visual feedback (slot indicators, card displacement, play zone highlighting)
- Refactor pass confirmation to include multi-phase animation: outgoing cards fly to target, incoming cards animate in from source, flip to reveal, and settle into sorted positions
- Add background to hearts broken indicator for better visibility
- Update card interaction handlers to support both click and drag events
- Implement Hearts game logic (HeartsLogic.js) with classic rules: passing, trick-taking, scoring, and moon-shooting mechanics
- Add AI opponent logic (HeartsAI.js) with heuristic-based card selection for passing and playing
- Create HeartsGame.js Phaser scene with full UI: card rendering, animations, trick collection, score tracking, and game flow
- Register Hearts in game registry as a 4-player card game
- Integrate Hearts into game routing and menu dispatch
- Replace fixed `TRACK_PITCH` tiling with `computeTrackLayout()` to dynamically fit tiles within track bounds
- Add `tileHalfW()` helper to correctly calculate width for double vs. single tiles
- Add truncation marks ("+N«") when the tile count exceeds visible track space
- Update marker placement, flash effects, and next-tile positioning to use the new dynamic layout coordinates
- Adjust score badge positioning to align relative to portrait radius
- Implement `paintRails()` to render decorative railroad ties and rails along player tracks
- Add `updateScoreBadges()` to display animated score circles for each player with color-coded borders based on score thresholds
- Fix double tile highlighting logic to correctly identify and style open doubles
- Update tile rendering to respect double tile orientation (vertical vs horizontal)
- Adjust track background colors for better visual contrast
- Add interactive boneyard pile with click-to-draw functionality and animations
- Display opponent hand counts as mini-domino dots next to portraits
- Apply background padding to all UI text elements for improved readability
- Refactor draw animations to support both human and AI tile drawing from the boneyard
- Implement Mexican Train game logic, AI opponent, and Phaser UI scene
- Register Mexican Train in server game registry and client dispatch tables
- Add roulette spin sound effect and improved win/lose animations with fireworks
- Update preload scene and sound registry to support new audio assets
Adds animated "Win!" or "Lose" badges that appear sequentially for each player after a roll, accompanied by sound effects. Introduces a colorful fireworks particle animation for wins. Adjusts dice landing positions for better visibility and removes redundant emotion/sound calls in favor of the new sequential result display.
Adds a staggered slide-and-fade animation for AI bets in Craps, making chips appear to fly from each player's seat to the felt. Updates `renderAiBets` to accept an `animate` flag and triggers the effect only during the betting phase. Removes the call from `beginRound` to avoid redundant rendering.
Implements a fully playable Roulette game with American double-zero rules, a spinning wheel animation, and a heuristic AI that assigns distinct betting personalities to opponents. Adds colored identity rings to player portraits in both Craps and Roulette for better visual distinction. Updates Craps to render AI bets directly on the felt with color-coded chips and names, and adjusts dice landing positions.
Introduces pulsing box-shadow animations to opponent portraits to provide visual feedback during gameplay. Opponents now display "happy" (green pulse) or "upset" (red pulse) emotions in response to specific game actions across Go Fish, Phase 10, and Skip Bo. Includes new video assets for Victor and updated sprite sheets.
Brian Fertig