- Implement core game logic, AI opponent with skill scaling, and Phaser UI
- Register game in server registry and wire into app routing
- Add card assets and sprites
- Replace `gameicons` spritesheet with `game-icons` and load it in PreloadScene
- Add `iconFrame` support to game registry and render icons next to menu buttons
- Introduce animated dock arrows in Battleship to improve ship placement UI
- Clean up arrow lifecycle management in Battleship scene
- Implement full Boggle frontend using Phaser, featuring a wooden tray UI, player word sheet, opponent cards, and an animated hourglass timer.
- Add AI scheduling system that simulates opponent word finds based on configurable skill levels and word length/rarity weighting.
- Introduce pure game logic for adjacency validation, path checking, and classic scoring with duplicate-word resolution.
- Add backend board generation and exhaustive solver using a dictionary trie, exposing `/api/words/boggle/start` for board setup.
- Register Boggle in the game registry, scene router, and opponent selection UI.
- Include tutorial assets for Parchisi.
- Relocate Leave button to the bottom of the game screen
- Extend peg reveal animation duration to 2.3s with smoother tick timing
- Introduce MASTERMIND_CALCULATE sound effect to play during the reveal
- Update audio preload and SFX registry to support the new sound
- Introduce core game logic, AI engine, and Phaser UI for a cyberpunk-themed Mastermind implementation.
- AI features 5 difficulty tiers using random, consistent, and Knuth minimax strategies.
- Implement turn-based duel mechanics where player and AI race to crack each other's secret codes.
- Add neon visuals, peg-fly animations, staggered feedback reveals, and 7 custom sound effects.
- Register game in server registry, update menu/room scenes, preload assets, and include tutorial docs.
- Introduce `hasTutorial` flag to game registry
- Add "?" button on game menu to open tutorial modals
- Implement shared hover tooltip on game menu
- Add tutorial modal CSS styling
- Register Battleship game with tutorial flag
- Load Battleship sound effects
- Add custom card texture spritesheet and render cards using sprite frames
- Prevent AI from repeatedly asking for the same rank after a failed catch
- Track and exclude previously attempted (target, rank) pairs per turn to reduce redundant moves
- Load gofish-cards assets in preload scene
- Introduce muted palette and stroke outlines for unclaimed route segments so claimed routes pop
- Refactor busy state handling to toggle dim overlay and suppress hand render flicker during animations
- Improve modal layout using right-band centering, responsive font sizing, and word wrapping
- Block input briefly after modal close to prevent accidental clicks
- Add animated tab icons to the game menu with scale transitions and pulsing glow effects
- Load new tab-icons assets in the preload scene
- Replace column-based game list with a tabbed category interface and grid layout
- Add active state management to tabs and refactor Button component for consistent visual states
- Increase Dominion AI Platinum purchase threshold from 5 to 9 coins in Colony games
- Add Ticket to Ride card assets
- Implement Hangman game scene using Phaser with a sketch/paper-style UI
- Add pure logic module for word masking, wrong guess tracking, and win/loss conditions
- Create backend `/api/words/hangman/start` endpoint with curated word pools for easy, medium, and hard difficulties
- Register game in scene manager and route dispatcher for seamless menu integration
- Add score tracking and basic game state management
- Add gold hex resource picking phase with AI support
- Implement ship building mechanics and update build costs UI
- Introduce fog tiles that reveal terrain when roads/ships are built adjacent
- Replace robber token with pirate ship graphic
- Persist random tile frames for consistent hex visuals
- Update game state machine to handle gold pick queue and phase transitions
- Adjust UI layout (card positions, build panel) to accommodate Seafarers elements
- Decouple static board geometry from game state by introducing a board registry and `geoFor(state)` accessor. All AI and logic functions now dynamically resolve topology.
- Add support for Seafarers scenarios (New Shores, Four Islands, Oceania, Fog Island) with scenario-specific setup rules and victory conditions.
- Implement ship mechanics: players build maritime routes on coastal/sea edges that count toward the longest road.
- Introduce sea, gold, and fog terrain types. Update hex rendering, AI pathfinding, and placement rules to respect land vs. water constraints.
- Add pirate token rendering and logic, plus expansion scoring hooks for bonus victory points.
- Update lobby UI to allow expansion and scenario selection, passing configuration through to the game scene.
- Refactor `CatanBoard.js` geometry generation for O(1) edge lookups and dynamic port assignment.
- Adjust Wordle AI skill profiles to lower win rates and increase blunder chances for better difficulty curve
- Center Wordle player portrait vertically with the playfield
- Add Steve's humorous tutorial for Settlers of Catan (markdown + assets)
- Update OpponentSelectScene to hide playfield options for word games and adjust scroll height
- Fix migration script to temporarily disable foreign keys to allow schema changes
- Add migration to extend games.category to include 'word'
- Register Wordle game in server registry under 'word' category
- Add `/api/words` API routes
- Update client to integrate WordleGame scene
- Adjust game menu layout to accommodate a new 'Word' category column
- Enable skill controls and game room dispatch for Wordle
- Track deck/discard pile counts during animations for real-time UI updates
- Implement animated discard pile countdown when shuffling
- Dynamically show/hide deck and discard piles based on animation state
- Replace generic card SFX with specific sounds for buying treasures, purchasing, and dealing
- Update Dominion card assets to align with new UI/audio feedback
- Add a particle emitter effect to supply pile cards using a generated sparkle texture.
- Include a `coins.mp3` sound effect for purchase interactions.
- Implement `_clearSupplyFx` to manage emitter lifecycle during render cycles.
- Implement Checkers and Chess with complete Phaser UI, pure logic modules, and alpha-beta minimax AI opponents featuring a 1-5 skill model.
- Extend opponent skill selector to support Checkers and Chess.
- Register new games in frontend routing and backend registry.
- Improve Dominion game UX: add persistent phase dials and turn arrow indicators, add confirmation prompts for ending actions/turns, and refine card animation timings.
- Update Dominion card asset files.
- Implement drag-and-drop reordering for the player's hand with a visual play drop zone.
- Add smooth, multi-phase animations for AI opponents (play, draw, cleanup, gain).
- Refactor hand rendering to preserve manual order and improve playability highlighting.
- Update card draw animations to target existing sprite coordinates directly.
- Add visual discard pile with card sprite and count badge
- Center action buttons and remove redundant Play Treasures button
- Track in-play cards for accurate animation source positions
- Refactor `setState` to handle discard, gain, and draw animations sequentially
- Add multi-phase discard animation (fly face-up, fold, unfold face-down)
- Add gain card animation to deck or discard pile
- Improve animation queue handling with `_animating` and `_pendingAnimState`
feat(dominion): add card draw animations and visual deck pile
- Implement animation system for drawing cards from deck to hand
- Add input blocking and state queuing during animations to prevent race conditions
- Replace text-only deck counter with a visual card pile and count badge
- Support face-down card rendering for animation start positions
- Ensure all human actions respect animation state
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- Introduce Balam (spriteIndex 16) and Steve (spriteIndex 17) as new opponents
- Include full speech configurations (intro, happy, upset, pick) for both characters
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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 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
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.
- Add a "Matches so far" panel to the HUD that tracks paired ranks and remaining matches.
- Introduce `animateRefill` to visually animate cards flying from the pool to an empty hand.
- Refactor turn flow to use `playRefillsThenFinish` for sequential refill animations after pairing or empty-hand draws.
- Update `GoFishLogic` to capture refill events in `lastAsk.refills` for the animation system.
- GoFish: Display animated banners when players are dealt starting pairs at the beginning of the game.
- Parchisi: Add pulsing glow and expanding ripple visual cues to indicate movable pawns.
- Parchisi: Implement click-outside dismissal for pawn selection highlights to improve interaction clarity.
- Update `handleLogEffects` to accept an `onDone` callback, ensuring post-state logic (unblocking input, updating UI) only executes after visual effects complete.
- Introduce `animateForcedDraw` to display a prominent "+N" banner and animate card draws with custom timing parameters.
- Refactor `animateBatchDraw` to support configurable `flyDuration` and `stagger` via a `timing` object.
- Apply the new callback pattern across all move execution paths (`playCard`, `drawCard`, AI moves) to prevent race conditions and ensure consistent animation flow.
Brian Fertig