- Draw Chance and Community Chest card decks on the board center
- Add animated card draw with flip effect from deck position
- Add animated rent payment with money flying between players
- Integrate new Monopoly sound effects (purchase, expense, paid)
- Extract applyRent() to MonopolyLogic for cleaner state handling
- Update monopoly-cards spritesheet with new card art
- Track `fromSpace` before incrementing position for arc direction logic
- Flip Bézier control point for spaces 20–29 so pawns hop outward (away from center)
- Fixes awkward inward arc that made pieces clip through the board on the bottom edge
- Add complete Monopoly implementation with pure state engine (MonopolyLogic.js),
static data (MonopolyData.js), AI (MonopolyAI.js), and Phaser scene (MonopolyGame.js)
- Implement full game rules: property buying, auctions, building houses/hotels,
mortgages, jail, chance/community chest cards, rent calculation, bankruptcy
- Add 5-level AI with configurable greed, blunder rate, and thinking delay
- Add spritesheet loading for monopoly pawns and cards with graceful fallbacks
- Register game in registry, main.js, and game room scene dispatcher
- Add spritesheet creation guide (sprites.md) and update game-icons.png
- Animate cards flying from player's panel to center slot on play/deviate moves
- Use tweens with Cubic.easeOut for smooth card placement (1200ms)
- Refactor applyMove to handle pass as early return and compute animation destination upfront
- Extract _postMoveEvents helper for post-move event handling
- Simplify forced move flow by removing manual delay and slot position capture
- Clean up flyCard reference on scene cleanup to prevent memory leaks
- Rename game from "Yatzi" to "Zahtzee" across UI and server registry
- Move game category from tabletop to cards
- Persist last selected menu category using _lastCategory
- Update game-icons asset files
- Implement Kiitos game logic: build-a-word mechanic with forced plays,
deviations, and pass resolution when stuck
- Add 3-round progression escalating rules (4+ words, prepend, super-Kiitos
insert-anywhere, double scoring)
- Create server-side dictionary engine with prefix trie, word validation,
and skill-aware AI move selection
- Build cozy Nordic café-themed Phaser scene with drag-and-drop letter cards
- Support 1 human + up to 3 AI opponents with turn-based play
- Integrate Kiitos into game menu, room scene, and opponent selection
- Add game icon to game-icons sheet
- Implement full Stratego rules, including hidden information, combat,
and flag capture mechanics
- Add 5-level AI with heuristic evaluation, unknown enemy reasoning,
and skill-scaled blunders/lookahead
- Create setup phase allowing piece swap and shuffle before battle
- Add detailed unit reference panel with scrollable ability notes
- Implement turn-based battle animations with sci-fi sound effects
- Integrate Stratego into game menu, room scene, and opponent selection
- Add spritesheet assets (stratego-pieces.png) and game menu icon
- Register Stratego in server game registry
Refactor bank() to return bankable amount instead of mutating state,
enabling the UI layer to handle score updates and display a floating
+score animation that slides to the player's score pad. Applies to
both human and AI turns.
- Extend selection scoring to include set-aside dice combined with
currently selected dice
- Replace greedy score-all with exhaustive search over all subsets
of rolled dice, finding the optimal combination with set-aside dice
- Update turn score display to correctly show combined points during
pick phase
- Extract header into buildHeader() with black background panel and depth layering
- Add background panel to shelf area with accent border
- Adjust shelf dice positioning to align with new panel
- Show pending +selected score during awaitPick phase in scratch pad
- Rename "Farkel" to "Farkle" in UI title and server game registry
- Replace tumble animation with new animateDice method featuring:
- Dice thrown from elevated position with arc trajectory
- Random face cycling while airborne
- Bounce landing with per-die staggered timing
- Spin and scale animations
- Squash-bounce effect on final die
- Refactor die rendering to use containers for transform animations
- Add new Farkel dice game (2-4 players, tabletop category)
- Update Video Poker CRT screen from green phosphor to royal blue theme
- Refresh game-icons sprite sheet for new game assets
- Replace generic card/place SFX with thematic water sounds (splash, sink, raise, dry)
- Preload new water sound effects in PreloadScene
- Introduce AI character speech via SpeechQueue on character reveal
- Clear speech queue when advancing past character selection
- Make trade modal panel height dynamic; wrap hand cards to second row if >4
- Refactor card fly animations to use Containers for correct border scaling
- Animate AI partner card placement to HUD thumbnails
- Add Waters Rise animation: card flies to meter, triggers water rise with segment fade and marker slide
- Introduce animated intro sequence, player role intros, and deck count displays.
- Replace direct treasure giving with a new Trade Modal for swapping cards between players.
- Add smooth Phaser animations for pawn movement, shore-ups, flood/treasure card draws, and card swaps.
- Improve state management during animations using immutable cloning and peek functions (`peekFloodDraw`, `peekTreasureDraw`).
- Update role definitions with detailed descriptions and remove 'messenger' from `ROLE_KEYS`.
- Change default difficulty to 'novice'.
- Implement cinematic noble claiming animation with fireworks and sound, shrinking to panel thumbnails
- Add hover ring highlight and gem sound effects for token selection zones
- Render claimed noble thumbnails in player panels with dynamic positioning
- Trigger happy emotion on player portraits when purchasing point cards
- Relocate Leave button to bottom-right and remove unused playIntro flag
- Exclude Splendor from card back selection in OpponentSelectScene
- Add 500ms hover-intent preview for reserve cards, temporarily hiding player portraits
- Dynamically calculate control bar panel height based on player count
- Adjust reserve button positioning and increase control bar background opacity
- Reposition turn label and remove redundant win condition subtitle
- Integrate audio feedback for card interactions (ui-attach) and achievement animations (firework)
- Implement card fly-to-center animation with fireworks for buy and reserve actions
- Add persistent bought-card thumbnails in player panels with automatic wrapping
- Build full card containers (costs, points, gem badges) for smooth scaling transitions
- Suppress reserve pills and buy animations in UI until transitions complete
- Apply animation triggers consistently for both human and AI turns
- Introduce portrait rendering for players and opponents via `buildPortraits`.
- Compact and right-align gem cells with updated sizing, spacing, and smaller fonts.
- Add divider and total row displaying combined bonus and token counts.
- Increase panel background opacity and fix reserved card interactivity checks.
- Add a dark background panel behind the token bank for better visual contrast.
- Introduce `animGemToSelection` and `animAITake` to animate gems flying from the bank to the selection bar and player panels.
- Update `onTokenClick` and `confirmTake` to trigger gem animations for human players.
- Integrate gem take animations into the AI turn sequence.
- Add `playerGemPos`/`humanGemPos` helpers for dynamic gem coordinate calculation.
- Adjust token count text, alignment, and depth layers in `drawBank` for cleaner rendering.
- Add `splendor-gems` spritesheet (6 frames, 64×64) for gem icons.
- Introduce `gemFrame` helper to map gem colors to spritesheet indices.
- Update gem rendering in player bars, card badges, and cost pips to use sprites when available.
- Add `hasGems` flag to gracefully fallback to vector circles when art is missing.
- Register new asset in PreloadScene.
- Blokus: Adjust tray coordinates and add a background panel for improved layout separation.
- Splendor: Integrate a 28-frame spritesheet for development cards, nobles, and deck backs.
- Refactor frame mapping to calculate indices dynamically based on tier and bonus color.
- Unify card rendering pipeline: draw tinted background, overlay spritesheet art (when available), then render vector overlays.
- Add hover preview panel for reserved cards.
- Document spritesheet layout and update preload scene asset comments.
Introduce a visual transition where AI pieces fly from their opponent
portrait to the board upon placement. Human player placements remain
instant with a flash effect. Implemented animateAIPiece to handle the
tweening and temporary graphics rendering.
Integrate portrait avatars into the Blokus score panels by increasing
panel height and adjusting the layout. Added portrait graphics with
colored strokes and repositioned text elements to accommodate the new
visual components.
Adjust button coordinates in buildControls() to update the control tray layout.
Pass, Rotate, and Flip buttons are moved lower and centered relative to the tray,
while New and Leave buttons are positioned at the bottom right.
- Register Splendor in server game registry with metadata
- Import and register SplendorGame in frontend main.js
- Map 'splendor' slug to SplendorGame in GameRoomScene
- Preload splendor-cards spritesheet in PreloadScene
- Update game-icons assets for the new game
- Animate initial card deal with staggered fly-in effect and block input during playback
- Replace instant card placement with flip-and-fly animation for stock draws across variants
- Add automatic foundation completion when Klondike is effectively won (stock empty, all face-up, foundation-only path exists)
- Adjust Sudoku notebook spiral binding to top-only and refine title positioning
- Extract generic drag-and-drop logic to support both Klondike and new Three Shuffles leg
- Implement "Three Shuffles and a Draw" game rules: build tableau down in suit, shuffle up to 2x, then draw one buried card
- Update Three Shuffles engine to handle pile-based tableau and foundation clearing
- Add UI controls for shuffle and draw actions in the new leg
- Implement visual card rendering for Forbidden Island using a new spritesheet with procedural fallback
- Register and wire up the new "Solitaire Tour" game across client, server, and preload scenes
- Update game icon and card asset bundles
Brian Fertig