Introduce barbarians as a non-diplomatic civ appended to state.civs,
providing escalating pressure that scales with difficulty and target
civ era. Key mechanics:
- Uprisings spawn on explored tiles, capped by a growing population
limit to keep raids an event rather than a fourth empire
- Era-based pressure curve: raids decay as a civ advances, stopping
entirely at hard-stop techs (industrialization/conscription/railroad)
- Killing hordes summons a Barbarian Leader with an escort; cornering
the lone leader triggers a gold ransom scaled by era and difficulty
- Captured cities are either razed (small) or held inert (large)
- Leader expires after a set lifetime if not ransomed
Diplomacy and AI carefully exclude barbarians to prevent three traps:
shared-enemy attitude pollution, permanent war phase pinning, and
government ladder lockout. Pre-feature saves remain compatible.
New assets: optional civilization-barbarians.png sheet (8 frames).
Updated sprites.md and unit tooltips. Comprehensive verification tests
added in verifyCivilization.js.
Add a complete Total Annihilation clone including:
- TotalAnnihilationGame.js: Main scene with fixed-step loop, input handling,
camera controls, selection, orders, and match lifecycle
- TAHud.js: Resource strip with flow rates, selection info, build/production
grid, minimap with fog of war, and toast notifications
- TAScreens.js: Main menu, skirmish setup, campaign list, pause menu, and
victory/defeat results
- totalannihilation-campaign.json: 6 hand-authored campaign missions with
escalating difficulty (skill 1→5)
- tools/genTACampaign.js: Campaign generator that bakes terrain from the
seeded map generator
- tools/verifyTotalAnnihilation.js: 13-section end-to-end test suite covering
rules integrity, artwork, economy, pathfinding, combat, fog of war,
map generation, serialization, AI skill ladder, and campaign winnability
- tools/lib/taStubScene.js: Minimal Phaser stub for headless testing
Engine improvements:
- TALogic.js: Swept projectile collision (no tunneling), quadratic AoE
falloff, manual weapon support (D-Gun), unrecoverable elimination, onTick
callback for AI stepping
- TAAI.js: Skill-based economy ladders, simultaneous factory+economy growth,
sticky focus-fire, home defense gating by skill, tune/profile overrides
- TANav.js: fitField dilation for unit clearance, stale fit mask invalidation
- TAWorldView.js: _addWorld for layer ordering, frame-accurate zoom anchor
math, container depth sorting every frame
- TARules.js: autoRangeOf excludes manual weapons, manual flag compilation
Art & data:
- Mayan civilization artwork added to civilization-artwork.json
- Several opponents switched to mayan citySheet
- totalannihilation-rules.json: balanced unit stats, new commanderlaser weapon,
restructured AI skill tuning, formatted JSON
- sprites.md: complete art spec for drop-in PNG sheets
- Registered in gamesRegistry, assetManifest, PreloadScene, GameRoomScene,
and soundtrack service
- Add steampunk city sheet asset configuration
- Reassign Victor and other opponents to steampunk city theme
- Enable wheel scrolling on city choices list
- Allow non-combat units (e.g., caravans) to enter enemy cities
- Block movement into enemy cities when at war
- Add CivilizationCityMap.js: draws the 21-tile fat cross in the city screen
with terrain, specials, city sprite, pips, borders, units, and veiled tiles
- Replace fixed 28-row build list with a scrollable window; add shield cost
and turn-estimate annotations per build choice
- Add garrison display: fortified units shown as clickable roundels
- Refactor tileYield() to accept a `notes` array that records each rule's
delta, enabling accurate tooltips that can never drift from engine math
- Extract paintTerrainDiamond() and specialColor() from CivilizationMapView
so the city map and main map share identical rendering
- Add cityCentreYield() enforcing the 1-shield/1-trade market-economy floor
- Add cityTileStatus() for consistent worked/idle/taken/offmap classification
- Add describeCityTileTooltip() with terrain title, yield breakdown, missing
improvement explanations, and status line
- Wire improvementSheet and iconSheet paths in civilization-artwork.json
- Add comprehensive verifyCivilization checks for yield notes, centre floor,
tile status, tooltips, and build list capacity
- Add japanese-themed city sprite sheet (PNG + PSD) and register in artwork config
- Switch several opponents to cyberpunk or japanese city themes
- Fix hut badge stale display by including tile coordinates in hut events and
repainting affected tiles immediately via repaintFromEvents
- Replace diagonal lattice world generation with hash-based jittered grid:
* Shield grassland now uses balanced 2x2 blocks hashed per position to remove
visible screen-space banding while preserving 50% density
* Special resources placed on jittered blocks with adjacency avoidance,
eliminating clumping and barren regions
- Update sprites.md paths and status markers to reflect completed sheets
- Expand verifyCivilization checks for shield density range and special placement
quality (no adjacency, balanced windows, no screen-column alignment)
- Update Tetris Attack dialogue with control instructions and typo fixes
Implement a full Advance Wars clone with campaign (20 missions) and
War Room skirmish mode. Includes:
- Headless game engine (AdvanceWarsLogic) with complete AW1 rules:
terrain movement, combat, capture, production, transports, fuel,
fog of war, CO powers, and multiple objective types
- AI opponent (skill 1-5, aggression/capture tuning) with BFS
pathfinding, threat evaluation, production counter-tables, and
fog trap awareness
- Canvas-rendered map view with procedural stand-ins that can be
replaced by drop-in painted spritesheets (no code changes)
- 11 playable COs with unique day-to-day modifiers and powers
(Hyper Repair, Lightning Strike, Tsunami, Meteor Strike, etc.)
- Campaign briefings with typewriter text and opponent portraits
- Comprehensive headless verification suite (rules, combat formula,
pathfinding, economy, capture, fog, CO powers, soak tests)
- New assets: terrain/building sheets, adventure music tracks,
game icon frame 86
- Refactor SpireClimb and SWDBG to use the shared soundtrack service
- Add bottom-right status log panel with scrollable entries, word wrap,
mask clipping, and mouse wheel scrolling; cap at 60 entries
- Replace toast popups with announceStatus() for major events (war, tech,
first contact, city founded, trade routes, huts) — centered modal with
CONTINUE button that animates into the log; supports queued popups and
custom onDismiss callbacks (e.g. first contact opens diplomacy)
- Add smooth panToTile() tween for camera movement when selecting next unit,
refactored clampPan into panBounds() reused by both clamp and tween
- Add classic city sprite sheet (civilization-cities-classic.png) and
register it in artwork JSON and asset manifest
- Replace circular civ rings and selection ring with isometric ellipses
matching the 2:1 tile ratio for better depth reading
- Paint tile neighbors in ascending c+r order during repaintTileAndNeighbors
to prevent tall features from being overwritten by lower-sum neighbors
- Stop panTween on pointer down to avoid conflict with manual dragging
- Add bottom-right status log panel with scrollable entries, word wrap,
mask clipping, and mouse wheel scrolling; cap at 60 entries
- Replace toast popups with announceStatus() for major events (war, tech,
first contact, city founded, trade routes, huts) — centered modal with
CONTINUE button that animates into the log; supports queued popups and
custom onDismiss callbacks (e.g. first contact opens diplomacy)
- Add smooth panToTile() tween for camera movement when selecting next unit,
refactored clampPan into panBounds() reused by both clamp and tween
- Add classic city sprite sheet (civilization-cities-classic.png) and
register it in artwork JSON and asset manifest
- Replace circular civ rings and selection ring with isometric ellipses
matching the 2:1 tile ratio for better depth reading
- Paint tile neighbors in ascending c+r order during repaintTileAndNeighbors
to prevent tall features from being overwritten by lower-sum neighbors
- Stop panTween on pointer down to avoid conflict with manual dragging
- Add civilization-units.png sprite sheet (64×96 frames with 32px headroom)
- Animate unit movement along paths with smooth gliding after resolving logic
- Add city founding name prompt modal with TextInput and Enter/Escape support
- Support zoom-to-mouse-position via wheel, with extended zoom levels
- Flash-pulse End Turn button when no units have remaining movement
- Fix banner rendering with setSize instead of direct width assignment
- Adjust badge positions for taller sprite frames
- Decouple city name preview (peekCityName) from cursor consumption
- Set terrainSheet path to actual image file in artwork configuration
- Update civilization-terrain.png sprite sheet
- Reposition top-right HUD buttons 100px left for better spacing
Brian Fertig