Replace the turn-report "New Turn" popup row with a cinematic vignette that
plays the moment the player plants a colony: the soundtrack ducks, the world's
1920×1080 backdrop fills the screen, a 960×544 clip of this world being settled
plays in a framed window, and the founding numbers are read out underneath.
Key changes:
- Add `colonyVideos` block (15 clips, one per colonisable planet type) to
artwork JSON; clips are fetched just-in-time via ensureColonyVideo() when a
colony ship reaches a settleable world, keeping the set (~19 MB) out of the
eager manifest
- Add `vega-colony-cue` audio to the eager manifest for the founding soundtrack
- Remove `colonised` from NOTABLE_TYPES and TYPE_LABEL so the event is no longer
announced twice (once in the vignette, once in the turn report)
- Add `sourceWidth()` guard in VegaArt.js to fix a Phaser Video placeholder
width bug exposed by the non-square 960×544 colony clips (2.5× scale issue)
- Apply `sourceWidth()` to portrait and commander video scaling paths as well
- Add depth entry `intro: 78` to VegaScreens.js for the vignette overlay
- Add section 6b to the verifier: checks manifest exclusion, key conventions,
sourceWidth() behavior, turn-report classification, and colony stats
See build-plan trap #23 for the full sourceWidth() explanation.
Introduce looping commander videos (256×256) alongside ship thumbnails in
the side panel and colony catalogue. Each species×hull combination loads
its officer clip from shipVideos, falling back to portrait video → still →
procedural sheet. A scene-lifetime pool (VegaShipMedia.js) prevents decoder
thrash on every panel rebuild.
Add VegaShipDetail — a full-resolution pop-over (D.detail depth 76) showing
the commander at 256px, hull at 192px, derived stat block, and knapsack
loadout. Opens from both the side panel and colony screen without stacking
through openModal.
Add a "New Turn" popup (VegaTurnReportScreen) that interrupts the player
for notable events (discovery, first contact, diplomacy, eliminations).
Events are classified and sorted by consequence in VegaTurnReport.js.
Logic now emits 'discovered' events when fleets enter unexplored systems.
Update asset manifest to load nested shipVideos, extend verification to
validate shipVideoKey conventions, bump ships sheet to 192px frames, and
document the new art contract.
- Add human ship spritesheet (ships.png) and increase frame size to 192x192
- Add jungle world background texture (world-jungle-01.png)
- Add human ship animation videos (scout, frigate, destroyer, cruiser,
battleship, transport, colony)
- Enable species card selection with required choice before starting game
- Disable "Begin" button until a species is selected
- Add title logo breathing animation and light sweep effect on landing screen
- Reposition title and start button on landing layout
Move colony management (sliders, build queue, catalogue) from the
system-view modal into a dedicated full-screen colony view
(VegaColonyView.js). The system view now inspects worlds read-only
with a "View Colony" button to open the management screen.
Key changes:
- Add VegaColonyView.js with colony screen, build queue flyout,
scrolling catalogue, allocation sliders with padlocks, and
planet-type backdrops
- Add world backdrop artwork support (1920×1080, one per planet type)
declared in mastervega-artwork.json worldBackgrounds
- Add headless queue helpers to VegaLogic.js: collapseQueue,
moveQueueRun, colonyBuildRate, queueEtas, enqueueMany
- Fix star map pointer blocking (drags no longer pan map through modal)
- Move ORBIT constant to VegaScreens.js, add D.colony depth layer
- Update docs (build-plan, sprites) and verification suite
The colony screen stacks over the system view without requiring a
second modal, hiding the system layer and pausing the orrery while
open.
- Add video, still, and procedural three-tier portrait system for all 10 species
- Add species-specific speech clips and UI voiceover (SpeechQueue integration)
- Add landing screen with New Game / Resume / Return to Arcade buttons
- Add species detail pop-over with animated expand/collapse and auto-introduction
- Add game-specific soundtrack (masterofvega-music.json, 4 tracks)
- Add video asset type support in assetLoader and PreloadScene
- Add portraitVideos and portraitStills sections to artwork manifest
- Add verification for portraits, speech clips, and music tracks
- Update sprites.md with documentation for new assets and filenames
Introduces Master of Vega, a turn-based 4X strategy game built on MOO1 rules with MOO2 conveniences. The implementation features a fully headless, deterministic engine (VegaLogic) with zero Phaser dependencies, enabling complete Node-based verification (809 checks) and reproducible galaxy generation via mulberry32 RNG.
Key features:
- Preset ship hulls with an auto-refitting Mark system and provably monotonic knapsack loadouts.
- Tactical grid combat with banked damage resolution to eliminate first-strike bias.
- Galactic Council diplomacy, stalemate-breaking, and invasion forecasting.
- Drop-in artwork compatibility with procedural stand-ins for all spritesheets.
- Hireable leaders (admin/captain) and colony building queues.
Architecture splits cleanly into headless modules (GalaxyGen, Logic, AI, Combat, Diplomacy, Ships, Leaders) and a render tier (StarMap, SystemView, CombatView, Screens, Nebula, Art, Fx). A comprehensive build plan documents 19 architectural traps discovered and resolved during development.
Registers the game in the registry, asset manifest, preload scene, and soundtrack service. Includes tools/verifyMasterOfVega.js for automated rule validation, art verification, economy balancing, and AI self-play soaking.
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.
Introduce a second detection layer independent of line-of-sight vision.
Radar buildings (Radar Tower, Advanced Radar) provide coverage that reveals
unit positions through fog as contacts, while Radar Jammers can blind enemy
radar within range without affecting normal sight.
Key changes:
- Add three sensor buildings: Radar Tower, Advanced Radar, Radar Jammer
- Implement computeRadar() with jamming logic and stampDisc() optimization
- Add isDetectedBy() for radar contact detection
- Draw radar contacts as green diamond blips in WorldView
- Show radar contacts as neutral green pips on minimap
- Expand build grid to 2 rows and artwork sheets to 4 rows
- Refuse repair orders on airborne units; builders stop chasing airborne targets
- Add validation for radarRange and jamRange in rules compiler
- Update sprites.md documentation and add comprehensive tests
Add `air` and `fortification` armor classes to enable more nuanced
balance. Aircraft now use `air` class instead of light/medium, and
defensive turrets use `fortification` instead of `structure`, allowing
weapons to specialize against planes and defenses without affecting
other targets.
- Add armor classes to all 12 weapons with appropriate multipliers
- Adjust weapon stats (sniperrifle, rocketpod, shoulderrocket)
- Reduce HP on several combat units for balance
- Reclassify aircraft and defensive turrets to new armor classes
- Add repair and rally command buttons with custom glyphs and tooltips
- Refactor bottom command bar into a structured, discoverable grid with
visibility filtering per selection type
- Replace patrol's there-and-back with a circuit-based route system;
CTRL-clicking extends the patrol instead of stacking orders
- Builders guarding structures now repair damage first, then assist
production — assist to producing factories now works correctly
- Add Commander death cascade: nuclear blast, outward vaporization wave,
and screen-wide flash timed to the audio sample
- Introduce `fortification` and `air` armor classes; rebalance weapons,
unit HP, and ranges across the roster
- Remove the static hint line; all commands now have prompts and button
tooltips instead
- Add verification tests for patrol routes, guarding builders, vaporised
entity rendering, and the full command bar
Replace hover-based aircraft movement with a two-state system: LANDED
(grounded, cannot shoot, vulnerable to all weapons) and FLYING (at
cruise speed, uses air domain protection). Aircraft can no longer stop
in mid-air; armed units execute strafing passes with overshoot and
come-about logic.
Key changes:
- Add `liftFrac` simulation state for altitude, `airborne` dynamic flag
(vs static `isAir`) so landed aircraft are ordinary ground targets
- Implement `stepStraferOrders` for aircraft that overfly targets and
repeat passes; idle aircraft clear hostile keepout zones
- Add `overshoot` and `keepout` flight properties to fighter/bomber
- AI gains static defense (Laser Tower, Missile Launcher) at skill 4+,
with threat-based placement and economy gating
- Fighter gains ground gun (pintlegun); air management uses `airClaimed`
set instead of interceptor-only classification
- Update campaign m05 seed (71644) to compensate for balance shifts
- Update tooltips, documentation, and tests for new behavior
Closes#1234
- Add `flight` blocks to Fighter, Bomber, and Hover Constructor in rules JSON
defining height, takeoff time, and landing time
- Implement purely cosmetic altitude system: units ease upward when given
orders and settle back down when idle, using smoothstep easing
- Shadow stays pinned to ground position, fades in and shrinks as altitude
increases — the gap between body and shadow sells the height
- Health/build bars move with the lifted body; selection ring stays on ground
- Add production dials (progress pies) on the player's own factories:
top-left shows whole queue progress, top-right shows unit on the bench
- Pass real delta time to render() for framerate-independent takeoff animation
- Update sprites.md with flight system docs and art implications
- Add stub scene support and comprehensive verification tests
Introduce a two-layer domain system (ground/air) that separates units into
independent simulation layers. Air units ignore the nav grid, never collide
with ground units, and can only be targeted by weapons listing "air" in their
targets. Hover units gain water-crossing ability via the move class cost table.
New content:
- Fighter (air interceptor with AA cannons)
- Bomber (ground-attack aircraft with bomb rack)
- Hover Constructor (water-crossing builder)
- Airfield (produces all three air units)
AI gains air superiority management: interceptors hunt enemy aircraft instead
of joining ground pushes, and the production mix auto-counters observed enemy
air. Ground anti-air (rocket troopers/tanks) also gain targeting weight.
Rendering adds a dedicated depth band for aircraft above all ground actors,
plus a displaced shadow sprite for altitude perception. HUD tooltips display
domain and weapon targeting information.
Validation ensures domain/moveClass agreement, requires at least one anti-air
weapon when air units exist, and excludes air classes from corridor generation.
Comprehensive test fixtures cover domain separation, collision, splash, and
order handling.
feat(zuma): redesign level 7
feat(shift): add 9 new artwork pieces
chore: remove Worms game entirely
- Goo Tower: introduce `asleep` state for pile balls. Asleep balls ignore physics/wandering and cannot be picked up until they gain a clear line of sight to an attached structure. Adds zZzZz visual, editor toggle, auto-play filtering, and logic tests.
- Goo Tower Lvl 9 & Zuma Lvl 7: completely redesigned terrain, ball/pile positions, and pipe placement.
- Shift: register 9 new artwork pieces.
- Worms: remove all source files, assets, verifier, build docs, and game wiring.
Add new shift-themed artwork images (cat-on-tiger, flying-over-the-city,
japanese-road, octo-mecha, paris-in-rain, steampunk-sky-city, tiger-warrior)
and register them in shift-artwork.json. Update game-icons.png and .psd.
Add Worms (inspired by Worms Armageddon) as a new arcade game with:
- **Procedural terrain** — seeded Island and Cavern generation, full destruction via `carveCircle`, girder placement, ROCK immunity
- **Bespoke physics** — worm locomotion (walk, jump, backflip, ballistic flight, fall damage), projectile simulation with wind/bounce/homing, ninja rope with corner wrapping, explosion geometry with linear falloff
- **16 weapons** — Bazooka, Grenade, Cluster, Shotgun, Uzi, Fire Punch, Dynamite, Mine, Air Strike, Homing Missile, Holy Hand Grenade, Blowtorch, Girder, Teleport, Ninja Rope, Skip Go (+ Surrender)
- **Match rules engine** — 45s turns, retreat phase, sudden death with rising water, crates, mines, oil drums, chain reactions, deterministic hash-based state
- **8 themes** — Forest, Desert, Farm, Hell, Arctic, Jungle, Construction, Space with full procedural palettes and drop-in art hooks (`data/worms-artwork.json`)
- **Phaser scene** — mode select, quick match setup, camera, HUD, weapon panel, slingshot aim, 2-player hotseat
- **Headless verifier** (`tools/verifyWorms.js`) — 207 checks across terrain, physics, weapons, and match logic; deterministic through the sim
- **Wiring** — registry (iconFrame 92), main.js scene registration, slug dispatch, asset manifest resolver, preload
Also updates `level-008.json` with new solid/spike geometry, additional balls and strands, and repositioned pipe.
Replace the "ride the rim" gear mechanic with instant ball destruction on
contact. Update hazardAt(), resolveTerrain(), and all related tests.
Redesign level 5 ("Watch Out") and level 6 with new terrain layouts
featuring gear hazards, updated ball/pipe/pile positions.
feat(shift): paginate artwork selection and reveal on completion
Add page navigation to artwork cards when there are more than one page,
and fade in the completed artwork over the puzzle after winning.
chore: add 9 new Shift artwork entries
- Generate 60 levels across 5 themed tiers (Downtown, Freight Yard, Airport Apron,
Construction, Night City) with guaranteed minimal and unsolved board states
- Rewrite generator (tools/genRushHour.js) with refine() pipeline that strips
redundant vehicles and re-hardens boards, plus hill-climbing phase B
- Add comprehensive verifier (tools/verifyRushHour.js) checking solver correctness,
structural criteria, MINIMAL/UNSOLVED properties, and curriculum shape
- Implement procedural vehicle art (RushHourArt.js) with baked textures, per-theme
decals (hazard, hivis, freight, neon), and themed board surfaces
- Move level bank to assets/gamedata/rushhour/levels.json and fetch on entry
instead of preloading at boot
- Restructure level JSON with tiers, level names, par, and difficulty metrics
(decoyDensity, targetRetreats, firstMoveFanout, carsMoved)
- Update level select to display tiers with themed swatches and color-coded labels
- Show level name and theme in HUD during gameplay
- Tighten hint solver with maxStates budget to prevent main-thread stalls
- Update PreloadScene to remove rushhour.json from boot-time assets
- Reduce pushSpeed across all 20 levels to ~60% of original values in
tools/genZuma.js, making the chain advance more slowly and giving the
player more reaction time. starScores() thresholds auto-adjust downward
since they are derived from pushSpeed.
- Add per-level background art (zuma-background-1 / -2) alternated per
level via a new `background` field in each level definition; draw it in
ZumaGame.drawBackground() over the solid fallback rectangle.
- Register the two new background textures and sfx-zuma-lose in the asset
manifest.
- Add playLoseFanfare() mirroring playStartFanfare() to duck/pause music
and play the lose SFX when the chain goes over the edge (onLost).
- Add a black stroke to the "ZUMA!" win banner for readability.
- Bump music volume to 0.5 in zuma-music.json.
Introduce underground tunnel sections to Zuma levels, letting the
chain roll out of sight and back in. Tunnels are arc-length intervals
on the path; while a ball is submerged it is inert — ignored by shots,
the laser sight, and explosions — and the path itself is drawn as a
faint buried trace beneath any live section that crosses it.
Engine (ZumaLogic.js): TUNNEL constants, normalizeTunnels, isHidden,
visibilityAt, pathSpans, sampleRange, nearestS; createLevel,
syncPositions, applyPower, stepFlights, and rayHit all honour
submersion. validateLevel lints mouth placement, spacing, and the
40% max-hidden fraction.
Game (ZumaGame.js): depth layer reorg so a live path always wins an
overlap with a tunnel stone; addPortal draws the two-layer maw (stone
below the chain, mouth above it); drawPit replaces the old skull with
a broken-stone collar and vapour swirl; startPitFall rolls the lost
chain over the lip in order, shrinking marbles into the dark; the
level-start fanfare ducks the soundtrack via MusicPlayer pause/resume.
Editor (ZumaEditor.js): new Tunnels tool with click-to-place,
drag-to-slide, right-click-to-remove, ESC-to-cancel; three graphics
layers (buried path, live path, handles) matching the game's
stacking; queueGameAssets so editor Test Play has the lazy art ready.
Art: ZumaPortal.js (carved serpent-head maw, symmetric so one
texture serves both ends) and ZumaPit.js (shaft of darkening discs
read as depth, not a painted circle).
Audio: four Zuma SFX (shoot, hit, start, explode) and a three-track
soundtrack wired through data/zuma-music.json and the asset manifest;
genZuma.js gains a tunnels column (fractions of path length) and
verifyZuma.js gains a tunnel test suite.
Significantly raise pushSpeed values across all levels (roughly 4x increase)
to make the game more challenging. Updated corresponding star score thresholds
proportionally. Adjusted editor UI max pushSpeed to 400 and updated validation
constraints to match.
Changes affect:
- data/zuma.json: level definitions with new pushSpeed and starScores
- src/games/zuma/ZumaEditor.js: editor input max value
- src/games/zuma/ZumaLogic.js: validation range
- tools/genZuma.js: generator table values
- Replace drawn ball textures with 32-frame rolling cycle + fixed specular
highlight, so marbles visibly rotate as they travel along the path
- Switch from Phaser Containers to a Layer for proper depth-sorted rendering
- Replace hand-drawn frog with assets/images/zuma/frog.png sprite sheet
(2 frames: base disc + slotted overlay for the mouth)
- Add ZumaEditor (/?zuma-editor=1): drag/insert/delete path points, move
frog, tune parameters, test-play, export bank or single level
- Increase BALL_RADIUS 24→32, BALL_SPACING 48→64, and rebalance all tuning
constants (catchup/pullback speeds, explosion radius, frog clearance)
- Extract geometry lint (validateLevel, validateLevelParams) into ZumaLogic
so genZuma.js, verifyZuma.js, and the editor share identical rules
- Rewrite genZuma.js with a Pen class (straights + circular arcs at uniform
STEP=70px) to avoid Catmull-Rom overshoot; regenerate all 20 levels
- Update verifyZuma.js aimbot soak: 8 seeds/level, ≥80% bank clear rate,
star curve calibrated above mechanical play
- Update level data: new coordinates, adjusted quotas/speeds/colors/scores
- Add new background images (background-01.png, background-02.png)
Introduce three new entities:
- Rocket Trooper: anti-armor infantry with shoulder-mounted guided rocket
- Constructor: unarmed tracked builder to replace lost commander build capacity
- Advanced Vehicle Plant: 4×4 factory with doubled production bays
Update AI composition weights and counter logic for the new units. Fix
byDef map to use Object.create(null) so the "constructor" key doesn't
shadow Object.prototype.constructor and silently poison gap calculations.
Add procedural art shapes for all three, register proc shapes in TARules,
update sprite frame assignments, and add core-structures assets.
- Add TA-specific sound effects (machinegun, 50cal, rocket variants, unit/vehicle loss)
- Add background artwork and update core-units sprite sheet with correct path and dimensions
- Introduce pintle gun weapon with burst fire mechanics
- Switch weapon sounds to TA-themed audio; support sound arrays for random variant picking
- Add impactSound field to projectile weapons, propagated through sim events
- Reduce unit build times and increase structure HP for better pacing
- Enable idle breathing/rotation animations on resource generators
- Replace solid-color backdrop with painted background image on main menu
- Fix camera state cleanup so menus render correctly after gameplay
Bloxorz:
- Rewrite renderer with axonometric projection, rigid 3D box rolling, and continuous face shading
- Introduce new tile types: heavy switches (standing-only), soft switches, hold pads, fragile ground, split cubes, and teleporters
- Redesign all 36 levels using hand-authored ASCII maps in the generator, organized into six progressive acts
- Add design gates to verify solvability, mechanic necessity, and difficulty progression across acts
- Improve input handling with a directional compass, WASD/arrow key resolution, and smooth teleport/fall animations
- Update tutorial to document new mechanics and tile behaviors
Total Annihilation:
- Extend unit/building sight range to cover weapon max range + 2 tiles for improved fog visibility
- Implement crossfade between wireframe and finished sprites for building construction
- Switch to full-color assets by removing army tinting, and update artwork JSON paths/sizes
- Adjust weapon stats (damage, reload times) in rules
- Update sprites documentation to reflect the new visual pipeline
- Add Bloxorz as a new logic game with tutorial support
- Register Bloxorz in games registry, main scene, and game room dispatch
- Preload bloxorz.json artwork data in PreloadScene
- Fix arm-structures artwork path and frame dimensions for Total Annihilation
- Balance Total Annihilation weapon stats:
- Increase tankgun damage (95→145)
- Decrease rocketpod damage (130→80)
- Decrease towerlaser damage but increase fire rate (62→52, 1.4→0.4s reload)
- Decrease towermissile damage but increase fire rate (175→135, 4.5→1.5s reload)
- Introduce configurable victory modes: "commander" (default, kill enemy commander) and
"annihilation" (fight until army can no longer produce)
- Add Laser Tower (1x1, hitscan) and Missile Launcher (2x2, guided with min-range dead zone)
as buildable defensive structures with new towerlaser and towermissile weapons
- Units now hold at weapon range when attacking buildings instead of closing to point-blank,
controlled by new engageHoldFraction constant (0.45)
- Replace center-to-center distance with surface distance for building targets; buildings are
treated as rectangles with true half-extents, improving combat accuracy
- Buildings (towers) now freely traverse and aim in all directions regardless of art orientation
- Commander unit flagged with isCommander; victory conditions validate presence of commanders
- Update campaign missions to use destroyCommander objective; reseed m02 (old seed unwinnable
after combat balance changes)
- Add skirmish setup UI for selecting victory conditions
- Update AI skill ladder verification thresholds to account for engage hold behavior
- Add comprehensive tests for victory conditions and defensive structures
- Add self-healing system for units with `selfHeal` definition (e.g. Commander)
- Healing pauses for 30 seconds after taking damage to prevent out-healing fights
- Rates converted to per-tick at load time for efficient simulation
- Improve build queue interaction: use CTRL (or Cmd) to chain multiple builds,
release to cancel placement automatically — no need to press Esc or click again
- Track queue modifier state from DOM events for robustness across focus loss
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
Introduce active diplomacy where rival leaders approach the player with
requests, demands, trades, and gifts rather than passively waiting.
New CivilizationDiplomacy.js module handles:
- 9 request kinds (joinWar, breakTreaty, borderUltimatum, demandGold,
demandTech, techTrade, ceasefire, peace, alliance) with initiative
tiers so urgent calls to arms aren't drowned out by filler offers
- Cooldowns per (leader, target, kind) plus a per-leader gap so a
leader can't spam different requests to bypass rate limits
- Frustration grudge (0-100) raised by refusals, decaying each turn
and dragging attitude toward hostility through the ordinary war path
- Escalation: frustrated leaders demand compensation, then renounce
treaties at breaking point, with ordinary hostility finishing the job
- Border ultimatum promises checked when pledges expire (double penalty
for broken word)
- Unprompted gold/tech gifts from leaders with high attitude
- Staleness validation so requests the world invalidated are dropped
- AI-to-AI requests resolve immediately through the same pipeline
UI changes:
- AI requests queued on state.pendingRequests, presented via audience
popup at the start of the human turn (one per turn, configurable)
- Diplomacy screen shows ACCEPT/REFUSE with consequence hints until
answered; unanswered requests lapse with half-weight penalties
- New event types: treatyRenounced, pledgeBroken/pledgeKept, aiGift
- Leader dialogue for demands, refusals, gifts, and renouncements
- Tetris Attack menu gets a title art backdrop
Data/infra:
- diplomacyRequests tuning in civilization-rules.json (thresholds,
cooldowns, attitude weights, per-request config)
- Frustration, requestCooldown, lastRequestTurn, pledges fields on
civ state — all backward-compatible with old saves
- Full verification suite covering eligibility, resolution, cooldowns,
frustration arc, serialization, and fuzz testing
- 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 per-character voice clip system (match, supermatch, win, lose) that
loads lazily per round and falls back gracefully when clips are missing
- Queue voices to play after arcade cues, with intelligent interruption handling
so only one line plays at a time
- Rename ensureRoundBackgrounds to ensureRoundAssets to handle both images and audio
- Reduce background music volume from 0.8 to 0.4
- Update character sprite sheet and document voice clip structure in sprites.md
Refactor Stage Clear narrative from battling opponents to helping friends.
Update character poses: friends cheer on clears and fret during danger.
Implement multi-line intro cutscenes with step-by-step progression and random background art.
Switch dialog to randomized arrays (introLines, winLines, loseLines).
Add new sound effects for Beth and Jerry.
Update validation and documentation to match new data structure.
- Implement staggered tile pop animation: face overlay flashes on each tile,
then shatters into four quadrants that fly diagonally while shrinking/fading
- Play 8-bit card sound per tile, 8-bit action/win sounds for 4+/5+ tile clears
- Adjust character speed levels in tetrisattack.json (Jerry-1, Michael-2,
Steve-2, Victor-3, Klaxon-4)
- Replace cursor movement SFX with click sound
- Update advancewars-units and tetrisattack-panels sprite sheets and PSDs
- Add sfx-click and sfx-casino-win-8bit to preload and sound registry
Detect when a player shortcuts across geometry and skips checkpoint gates
by monitoring the spline projection delta. When the player jumps past
the configured skip threshold, they are teleported back to the last
legitimate checkpoint, shown a blinking "CHECKPOINT MISSED" banner,
and given a brief invulnerability window.
- Add checkpointMissSkip and checkpointMissMs config values
- Implement delta-based gate-skipping detection in kart logic
- Add HUD banner and sound feedback for missed checkpoints
- Make player sprite blink during the correction window
- Add verification tests for detection, correction, and clean-race false positives
- Make Tetris Attack portrait frame half-transparent
Restructure Tetris Attack Stage Clear from "clear all target panels" to a
multi-stage round system with a sliding boundary line.
Gameplay changes:
- Each character now has 5 stages instead of a single match
- A CLEAR line appears after a set number of rows rise, then rides the
stack upward; the objective is to clear everything above it
- Clearing a stage advances to the next: same board, faster speed, fresh line
- Stage progress is saved to localStorage; characters unlock sequentially
- Added a stage select screen with progress squares per character
Logic changes:
- Replaced `targetsTotal` with `clearLine` tracking and `countAboveLine`
- Added `advanceStage()` to resume play on the same stack one speed level higher
- Win condition now checks `countAboveLine() === 0` instead of target count
- Removed `target` flag from panels; panels below the line are irrelevant
- Continuous speed ramp via fractional `speed` per stage
UI changes:
- Clear line drawn as a pulsing bar with "◀ CLEAR" label outside the board
- "CLEAR LINE!" announcement on appearance, "STAGE N CLEAR!" banner on win
- HUD shows stage number instead of panel count
- Game over offers "Retry Stage", "Stage Select", or "Menu"
Asset changes:
- Backgrounds renamed to `background-{hero}-r{stage}.png` (5 per character)
- Lazy-load backgrounds per round instead of preloading all 30 images
- Updated tetrisattack.json with `stagesPerRound`, `stageSpeedStep`, and
per-character `clearLineRows`
Tests:
- Rewrote stage clear soak tests for the new mechanic
- Added stage round progression, speed ramp, and board preservation tests
Advance Wars:
- Add HP override system (seed/set/clearHpOverride) so units show correct
HP during enemy-turn replay until their battle animation plays
- Redesign river/road channel rendering with layered depth: rivers get
deep channel, light core, and ripple crests; roads get concrete shoulders,
asphalt, and dashed centre lines phase-locked to tile seams
Tetris Attack:
- Add character sprite sheet and per-host background images (beth, jerry,
michael, steve, victor, klaxon)
- Declare hero background assets in manifest; scene falls back gracefully
when art is missing
- Update characterSheet path in tetrisattack-artwork.json
Implement the full Tetris Attack clone with three game modes:
- Endless: clear panels as the stack rises, speed increases with levels
- Stage Clear: defeat 6 character opponents (Beth, Jerry, Michael, Steve, Victor, Klaxon) in sequence
- Puzzle: solve 24 pre-vetted puzzles within move limits
Core engine (src/games/tetrisattack/TetrisAttackLogic.js) is a pure, deterministic
state machine with match detection, chain propagation, gravity, and scoring tables
matching the SNES original. Includes a headless verifier (verifyTetrisAttack.js)
testing match detection, chains, gravity invariants, top-out, puzzle solvability,
and seeded determinism.
Art is fully optional via drop-in spritesheets (spec: sprites.md); procedural
fallbacks draw 16-bit-style panel icons with distinct shapes for colorblind access.
Puzzle bank generated by genTetrisAttackPuzzles.js and verified as solvable within
optimal move counts.
Shared nintendo soundtrack reused via soundtrack overrides.
- Add HP text readout to battle animations showing 1-10 scale HP
(matching Advance Wars' classic HP display), with smooth tweening
- Extract cursor drawing into procedural texture, keeping it independent
of the UI sheet
- Add advancewars-ui.png sprite sheet and update artwork config
- Assign battle sounds to each unit type (gunfire, tank, cannon, missile, etc.)
and play the appropriate sound on attack/counterattack in battle animations
- Add per-unit-type movement sounds (march for infantry/mech, engine-fast,
engine-heavy) that loop during move animations and stop cleanly on completion
- Play jump sound during capture animation hops and activation sound on capture
- Play explosion sound when units are defeated in combat or crash
- Lighten unit tint relative to buildings so units remain visually distinct
when standing on captured buildings
- Add new audio assets: battle sounds, march, 8bit-jump, and update battle-tank
Introduce a new battle background spritesheet (advancewars-battlebg) that
displays context-appropriate backdrops behind each fighter during battle
cut-ins. The backdrop is selected based on the terrain/building type the
fighter is standing on (city, base, airport, port, plain, wood, mountain,
sea, reef, shoal, river, bridge, road, hq).
- Add battleBgSheet to artwork.json and asset manifest
- Implement playBattleAnim() backdrop system with terrain lookup
- Provide procedural fallback matching the real sheet's frame map for
art-free playability
- Mirror defender backdrops to match mirrored defender sprites
- Document the 14-frame sheet spec in sprites.md (256×256 cells, 5 cols)
Introduce a unit unlock system that progressively grants access to new
unit types as the player advances through the campaign. Each mission
specifies which units each army can build, starting with basic units
and unlocking MD Tanks, Rockets, Anti-Air, Missiles, Lander, Cruiser,
and eventually the full armory.
- Add unit sprite sheet (advancewars-units.png) and artwork config
- Implement unlock validation in production and build options
- Add tutorial dialogue from Ethel explaining new mechanics and units
- Balance AI difficulty by reducing skill levels and aggression
- Adjust capture weights for more balanced AI behavior
- Add introductory city capture mechanic in first mission
- Update verification tool to support unlockedUnits
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
Introduce game-specific music overrides using the soundtrack service.
Adds arcadedark and hacker music packs, and wires them to Balatro,
Colorado Defense, Tempest, Mastermind, Hexsweeper, Dot Link, and 2048.
Games now lazy-load their soundtrack assets on entry instead of sharing
a single generic music cache.
- Introduce soundtrack override system allowing games to define custom music
- Add Nintendo-themed soundtrack for Super Kart (2 tracks with metadata)
- Make main menu track configurable via data/music.json instead of hardcoded
- Add MusicPlayer volume parameter for per-soundtrack volume control
- Lazy-load per-game audio assets via assetManifest on game entry
- Add SPACE/X keyboard shortcuts to advance Super Kart menus
- Play kart-spinner SFX when player picks up an item in Super Kart
- Increase speech queue volume to 1.0
- Add Super Kart icons artwork and additional music assets
- Super Kart: populate missing theme image paths, increase acceleration spread,
and add a track loading panel to the editor
- Civilization: display completion notifications for spaceship parts with
direct navigation to the building city
- Profile: implement export/import via .fcg files with validation, download,
and restore flows
- UI: add multi-button modal support, improve ProfileScene layout with avatar
masking and info card, and rename Arcade category to "Video Games"
- Add Coinage (1 shield → 1 gold) and Public Works (2 shields → 1 food)
special build options for cities, with remainder carry logic in shieldBox
- Update AI to fall back to producing gold or food instead of stockpiling
redundant defenders when nothing else is available
- Fix mid-build detection to check build.type before comparing shield progress
- Add City Screen UI for special builds: display gain per turn, color-coded
rows, and tooltips
- Only apply class-switch penalty when switching between unit/building
production types
- Add verification tests for coinage payout, public works remainder carry,
and AI special build fallback
feat(superkart): fix player kart scale + add missing backdrop images
- Compute PLAYER_KART_SCALE from MODE7 parameters instead of hardcoding,
keeping player and AI karts consistent at the camera's follow distance
- Wire up previously null backdrops: volcano, scrapyard, swamp, speedway,
nightcity
- Add beach theme artwork and register paths in artwork JSON
- Implement AI rubber-banding that scales AI top speed based on gap to player
- Configure engine classes with varying rubber-band strength (Cruiser most forgiving, Turbo least)
- Balance racer stats: boost Kona top speed, reduce heavy racer accel/handling
- Update verification script to validate new rubber-banding configuration
- Track drift charge duration while sliding and payout a speed boost
when the drift is released cleanly (not stalled or reversed)
- Boost strength scales with drift duration, capped at maximum charge
- Added configurable mini-turbo parameters (min/max ms, boost ms,
boost multiplier range) to superkart-rules.json
- Increase drift visual rotation angle from 6° to 14° for more
pronounced drift feedback
- Reset charge on respawn, spin, and new drift start
- Add new racer spritesheets (8 angles × 64×64) for all 9 racers
- Introduce KART_ROT_FRAMES constant as single source of truth for rotation frame count
- Update SuperKartMode7.angleFrame(), SuperKartGame frame math, and procedural fallback
to derive from KART_ROT_FRAMES instead of magic numbers
- Update data/superkart-artwork.json with asset paths and 8-angle metadata
- Update sprites.md documentation to reflect 8-view-angle contract
Complete kart racing game featuring 12 procedurally generated tracks
across 3 cups, 9 unique racers with distinct stats, headless physics
simulation, and a secret track editor (?superkart-editor=1).
Core features:
- Mode 7 ground renderer with parallax horizon backdrops
- 12 hand-tuned tracks (speedway, beach, swamp, scrapyard, volcano, nightcity)
- 9-racer roster with balanced archetypes (all-rounder, drift pirate, etc.)
- Headless race simulation for deterministic AI and headless verification
- Item system (bolt, seeker, oil, turbo, overdrive, emp, coins)
- Position-weighted item roulette and rubber-banding
- AI opponents with skill-based driving and stuck-recovery
- Full track editor with live preview, validation, and export
- 275 verification checks covering schema, physics, AI soak, and determinism
Data files: data/superkart-racers.json, superkart-rules.json, superkart-artwork.json
Game data: assets/gamedata/superkart/ (cups.json + 12 track files)
Tools: genSuperKartTracks.js, verifySuperKart.js
Add audio feedback for combat events by introducing unit-specific sound
effects that play during attack animations. Each unit in civilization-rules.json
now has a battleSound property mapping to appropriate audio assets. Adds 10
new MP3 files (arrows, cannon, catapult, gunfire-classic/modern, helicopter,
missile, submarine, sword, tank) and integrates playback in CivilizationMapView's
combat lunge animation.
- Introduce difficulty-based combat multipliers and veteran promotion chances (Chieftain/Warlord eased, Prince+ neutral)
- Randomize leader selection on setup screen and add dynamic portrait with pick speech
- Replace inline hover text with a centralized Tooltip component for tech tree, foreign cities, and buildings
- Add descriptive flavor text for governments and terrain improvements
- Add building completion notifications with a "VIEW CITY" action button
- Expand deferred city attack cinematics to cover explored rival cities
- Improve Tempest flipper AI to scale lane-flipping chance/cooldown with level and enable climbing flips
- Add verification tests for difficulty combat modifiers and veteran rates
- 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
Allow each opponent to declare their own 2-3 starting technologies in
opponents.json, independent of their civ trait. During game creation,
personal and trait-based starting techs are unioned (deduped) so
pioneering leaders with overlapping lists don't double-grant.
- Add optional setup screen background image (civilization-setup-bg)
- Update leader detail panel description to list personal starting techs
- Deduplicate trait + personal techs via Set in CivilizationLogic
- Add validation for startingTechs arrays, tech existence, 2-3 total count,
and variety across leaders in verifyCivilization
- Add integration tests for personal tech granting and overlap deduplication
Introduce civTraits data structure with 8 traits (scientific, industrious,
commercial, philosophical, zealous, mercantile, pioneering, wealthy) that
provide science/gold/shield multipliers, starting gold, and starting
technologies. Assign each opponent a trait in opponents.json.
- Apply trait bonuses to starting gold and grant starting techs during
game creation in CivilizationLogic
- Route trait multipliers into cityYields for science, gold, and production
- Add a leader detail panel to the setup screen showing name, trait name,
and description, updated live when selecting leaders
- Add validation for civTraits in CivilizationRules (multipliers positive,
starting techs valid, etc.)
- Add verification tests for trait application and city yield multipliers
- Nudge unit sprite position 5px down for better tile alignment
- 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
- Update ship sprite frame dimensions to match actual UQM rotation assets
- Parse .ani hotspot files to correctly center tightly-cropped ship frames
- Replace CRT overlay effect with native camera shake for hit/explosion feedback
- Fix camera zoom clamping to prevent ships from going off-screen on 16:9 display
- Correct ship rotation frame mapping (UQM sheets rotate clockwise)
- Add keyboard navigation to ship picker with focus rings and sound feedback
- Support both control clusters for hotseat and single-player ship selection
- Remove unused CRT overlay import and related cleanup code
- Update asset fetcher to handle per-frame hotspot alignment from .ani files
- Register Star Control in games registry as 2-player arcade game
- Import and register StarControlGame scene
- Add starcontrol slug mapping in GameRoomScene dispatch
- Load star-control-ships.json asset data in PreloadScene
- Add dynamic ship sprite sheet loading in asset manifest
- Update README to reflect new game in Arcade/Console/PC category
- Update game icons to include Star Control icon (frame 82)
Add character assets (sprites/videos) and sound effects for Aiko, Blackwind,
DV-8-2303, Kage, Nadia, Nicole, and Steve.
Power overhauls:
- Extreme Ball: lasts 2 shots, cascade splits into 4 balls on 2nd bounces
- Cannonball: adds Space Blast-style explosion on green peg trigger
- Beam Up: retargets to a clear-path orange peg on return
- Overclock: lasts 2 shots, grants free ball every 6 pegs, pitch-rising hum
- Laser Sweep: follow-up sweep on random orange peg after 1s delay
- Shadow Slash: follow-up slash on random orange peg after 1s delay
- Cosmic Bloom: adds small Space Blast around green peg
- Rewind: glitch effect, portal opens targeting clear orange peg, refunds on drain
Add visual effects (shockwave rings, portal animation, glitch bars, split
particles), happy reaction dedup per ball, and comprehensive verification
tests for all new mechanics.
Introduce lazy loading for game-specific artwork to reduce startup time.
Game assets are now defined in src/data/assetManifest.js and loaded on
first entry via src/services/assetLoader.js, replacing the previous
approach of loading all game art in PreloadScene.
Balatro improvements:
- Add bump/shake animation to chips and mult counters on score changes
- Animate round score flying into the left-bar readout with explosion
- Fix tween cleanup during view swaps to prevent crashes
- Add planetSheet artwork path to balatro-artwork.json
- Introduce BalatroCrtPipeline for subtle CRT effects (scanlines, grain, glitch bursts)
- Attach CRT pipeline to main camera with event-driven pulse on boss rounds and game over
- Add frameIsBlank check to detect blank/unpainted texture frames and fall back to procedural cards
- Implement roundedArtKey and addRoundedArt for rendering art with rounded corners
- Update joker, tarot, planet, spectral, deck, shop, and voucher rendering to use rounded art
- Increase font sizes across UI elements for better readability
- Add border strokes to joker cards with custom art
- Trigger CRT pulse on high multipliers (x2+) and score announcements
- Reference art image paths in balatro-artwork.json
Regenerate all galaxy cards from the owner's physical card CSV
(assets/info/sw-force-cards.csv) with verified stats, abilities, and
bounty rewards. Cross-check is enforced by tools/verifySWDBG.js.
New mechanics:
- oppChoice: opponent picks between discard / giveForce / attackBoost
(Duros Spy, B-Wing)
- dealDamage: exile-self effect targeting base OR enemy capital (Y-Wing)
- buyGalaxyDiscard: exile a unit to purchase from the discard pile
(Jawa Scavenger)
- topdeckNextPurchase: next buy goes on deck top (Twi'lek Smuggler)
- takeRowTemp: borrow a row card, exile it at turn end (Grand Moff Tarkin)
- lookTopSwap: peek deck top, swap with a row card while Force is yours
(Moff Jerjerrod)
- lookOppHand: reveal opponent's hand, optionally topdeck a card
(Jyn Erso)
- purchaseToHand: onPurchase adds card to hand instead of discard
(Fang Fighter)
New ability gates: requiresOppCapital, requiresTraitInPlay,
requiresOtherHero, requiresForce (on multi effects).
New constant ops: typeBoost (Admiral Piett), selfBoostPerBaseLost
(Baze Malbus). New timing: onPurchase.
Updated 55+ cards with corrected costs, attacks, HP, counts, traits,
and abilities. Added 11 new frames to the art sheet (55–65); 4 frames
orphaned but preserved.
Adds ~20 scripted rule spot-checks covering all new mechanics.
- Outer Rim Pilot: change from card exile to resource gain on self-exile
- TIE Fighter: reduce cost from 2 to 1
- Scout Trooper: add 2 attack, reduce target from 3 to 2
- Imperial Carrier: increase resources from 1 to 3
- Star Destroyer: increase attack from 3 to 4
- Duros Spy: change trait from Spy to Trooper
- Luke Skywalker: increase reward, change ability from onPlay to action, clarify target
- Hammerhead Corvette: reduce cost to 4, remove attack, add resources, clarify target options
- Mon Calamari Cruiser: reduce cost from 8 to 6, reduce hp from 8 to 6
- Kel Dor Mystic: add self-exile cost to ability
- IG-88: increase attack to 5, change from rowBonus to exileCards on bounty
- Add `requiresCapital` ability gate to card definitions
- Rework TIE Fighter: constant boost → action that draws a card if you control a capital ship
- Rework Darth Vader: constant +4 attack while Force is with you (removed damage ability)
- Rework Cassian Andor: onBounty trigger forces opponent discard on galaxy row kills
- Rework Luke Skywalker: onPlay destroy enemy capital ship if Force is with you
- Centralize ability requirement checks via `abilityGatePasses()` helper
- Apply gate checks to onBounty, onPlay, and onReveal triggers
- Add Force track shift SFX (light/dark variations) with randomized playback
- Update verification tests for new card behaviors
- Animate card draws, plays, and row refills with smooth flight transitions
and mid-flight reveal flips during initial deal
- Introduce slot helper methods for consistent card positioning across
renderers and animations
- Show opponent hand as face-down fan with visible draw/discard pile counts
- Track pending card UIDs to prevent rendering cards mid-animation
- Support game-specific default playfields via gamesRegistry
- Add guardFreshButton to prevent accidental clicks from pointer event bubbling
- Add Starscape and Fantasy playfields; set Starscape as default for Star Wars
- Add swdbg-cards-art.png and swdbg-bases-art.png spritesheets
- Add corresponding PSD source files
- Update swdbg-artwork.json to reference new art assets
- Adjust card sheet frame height from 230 to 155
- Add hover-to-zoom preview popup for cards in both DungeonBoss and SWDBG games
(500ms delay, follows pointer, hides behind opponent videos)
- Add new artwork sprite sheets and update frame dimensions in JSON/config:
dungeonboss-rooms 300×200, spells 300×160, heroes 300×225, bosses 300×275
swdbg-cards-art 300×155 art window
- Introduce canonical CARD_ASPECT ratios and fitCardBox() for consistent card shapes
- Switch DungeonBoss opponent panels from dark to parchment theme
- Switch SWDBG card face from light to dark navy theme with updated accent colors
- Add setVideoVisible() to Portrait to pause videos during hover popups
- Update sprites.md documentation with new frame sizes and status
Implement two complete card games with full rule engines, AI opponents
(5 skill levels), procedural rendering, and drop-in art support.
Dungeon Boss: Boss Monster-style dungeon building game for 2-4 players.
Players build dungeons of rooms and spells to lure and defeat heroes,
harvesting souls to win. Includes 8 bosses, 31 room cards, 16 spells,
and 41 heroes with class-based baiting mechanics.
Star Wars Deckbuilder: 2-player deckbuilding game. Players build decks
from faction and neutral cards, purchase from the galaxy row, bounty hunt
enemy units, and attack bases. First to destroy 3 enemy bases wins.
Includes 90-card galaxy deck, 10 bases with abilities, and the Force
mechanic.
Both games include:
- Pure logic engines (rules-verified by headless test suites)
- Synchronous heuristic AI with skill-based decision quality
- Phaser scenes with vector-rendered procedural art
- Drop-in sprite sheet support via JSON mappings
- Tutorial documentation and art specifications
- Registration in the game registry and scene loader
Unscramble 4 base words, then collect circled letters to solve a riddle
bonus answer. Includes a seeded puzzle generator (tools/genJumble.js),
a verifier (tools/verifyJumble.js), and 58 procedurally generated levels
with progressive difficulty.
Also:
- Fix Pai Gow Poker seat rendering to only draw active seats
- Reduce Pai Gow max players from 6→5, max opponents from 5→4
- Add track 19 ("Down the Line" by Journey) to music
- Add Michael opponent voice lines (terry, victor)
- Update game-icons sprite sheet
Convert absolute root-relative paths to relative paths across all game
asset JSON configs (playfields, slots, shift, spireclimb) and tutorial
markdown files to fix path resolution.
- Change Maurice's opponent ID from "Maurice" to "maurice" for consistency
- Replace Phaser disableInteractive/setDraggable with removeInteractive for fleet locking
- Update development server port from 8000 to 3000 in start_web.sh
Brian Fertig