Lower the minimum distance requirement for establishing trade routes
from 8 to 6 tiles, making caravan routes more accessible. Also refactors
the log message in CivilizationGame to use the TRADE_ROUTE_MIN_DIST
constant instead of a hardcoded value.
- Implement "waste" as corruption's production sibling: distant cities lose
shields to waste (half the corruption decay rate), halved by courthouses.
- Update city yields, UI summaries, and government screen to display waste
alongside corruption and support costs.
- AI now builds courthouses early when combined corruption + waste loss
exceeds 4 per turn, preventing distant cities from becoming useless.
- Refresh building effect tooltips and palace description to reflect waste.
- Introduce CivilizationChat.js with OPENERS, PLAYER_LINES, and REPLIES pools
for dynamic diplomacy dialogue between leaders and player.
- Add chat log panel to diplomacy screen with typing animation, scrolling,
and persistent chat history stored in state.
- All diplomatic actions (treaties, war, gifts, tech exchange) now generate
contextual chat messages.
- Add GOVT button and openGovernmentScreen() with empire wellbeing summary,
government cards showing pros/cons, and revolution mechanic.
- Allow disbanding units with warning about troops aboard transports.
- Improve combat capture: land units can capture undefended cities after
winning battle; sea/air units cannot.
- Enhance unit stack tooltips with home city display, ship cargo summary,
grouped friendly stacks, and enemy effective defense info.
- Preserve portrait emotion animations by reusing when switching leaders.
- Add disembark action to transport unit action menu when carrying units
- Highlight valid landing tiles adjacent to boats (clear of enemies)
- Unload all passengers onto a single chosen tile at once
- Implement targeting mode with cancel support (Escape or clicking away)
- Extract unitsOnBoat and disembarkTiles logic functions
- Add green diamond tile highlights in view layer
- 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 Tempest (Atari 1981 vector arcade clone) with full simulation logic,
Phaser rendering scene, vector font, and headless verification suite
- Register Tempest in games registry, main scene list, and game room dispatch
- Add reusable Tooltip UI component for hover-based information display
- Add Civilization unit/building tooltips in city screen and map hover
(CivilizationTooltips.js with flag and effect descriptions)
- Update Civilization click handling to distinguish hover-only from real
click targets via hoverOnly data flag
- Update civilization-units and game-icons assets
- Rewrite Kohr-Ah guidedBlades: one-shot-per-press with blades that fly
straight while held, then slow and become homing mines near enemies;
blades persist indefinitely and cap at 8 live (oldest recycled)
- Add bladeFireHeld tracking and canFire/tick hooks for blade cooldown
- Update AI to tap fire for Kohr-Ah blades instead of holding
- Reduce PLANET_GRAVITY from 1.6e6 to 1.1e6 for better slingshot physics
- Add dark outline pass under road/rail lines in Civilization map for
better visibility against light terrain
- 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
When a city cannot complete a build (e.g., size < 2 for settlers),
shields were accumulating past the build cost, showing confusing
values like "60/40 shields" or negative turn counts.
- Cap shieldBox at buildCost each turn in processCity
- Clamp displayed shields to min(shieldBox, cost) in city screen
- Add tests verifying shield capping and stalled build completion
When a city cannot complete a build (e.g., size < 2 for settlers),
shields were accumulating past the build cost, showing confusing
values like "60/40 shields" or negative turn counts.
- Cap shieldBox at buildCost each turn in processCity
- Clamp displayed shields to min(shieldBox, cost) in city screen
- Add tests verifying shield capping and stalled build completion
- Capture attacker/defender snapshot (id, civ, type, start position) in
combat events so the UI can reconstruct them after resolution
- Add `animateCombat()` that plays sequential lunge/retreat animations for
each combat, death flash/shrink for the loser, and optional victory glide
for unopposed winners stepping onto the cleared tile
- Add `animateUnitsAlong()` to glide AI civ units between before/after
snapshots, enabling the same "resolve now, animate after" pattern for
AI turns
- Track unit containers in `unitContainers` map for lookup by unitId
- When player unit encounters combat mid-path, animate the peaceful leg
first then play the clash
- Add `collectNewCombatEvents()` to pick up and mark consumed combat events
- Add `isTileVisible()` helper for filtering AI combat to visible tiles
- Update tests to verify advance-after-kill and combat event shape
- 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
- Hide player's fortified units inside cities on the map to reduce clutter
- Add garrison strip in city screen to view/unfortify garrisoned units
- Add "move or inspect" dialog when selecting a city with a movable unit
- Refactor moveTo into reusable method for cleaner click handling
- Make confirmDialog accept custom button labels
- Add civilization-terrain.png sprite sheet for terrain rendering
- Implement cinematic ship entry from off-screen positions along facing direction
- Spawn fading ghost afterimages every ~70ms to trace arrival trajectory
- Use cubic ease-out for smooth deceleration as ships reach starting positions
- Properly clean up ghost sprites during scene shutdown and intro transitions
- Continue fading mid-lifetime ghosts after intro ends for clean visual exit
- 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)
- Replace time-based splitAt/splitDone with screen-space Y zones (SPLIT_ZONE_1
at top third, SPLIT_ZONE_2 at halfway) for more predictable MIRV behavior
- Add MIRV_RESPLIT_WAVE (wave 8): from wave 8 onward, MIRV buses split twice
instead of once, creating more late-game pressure
- Lower early-game difficulty: MIRV starts at wave 3 (was 6), reduced base
chance (0.05 vs 0.15), increased growth rate, lowered max (0.4 vs 0.5)
- MIRV trunk continues flying toward its target after each split
- Updated verification tests for split-zone geometry and new missile fields
- Cleaned up obsolete splitAt/splitDone fields across test fixtures
- Chain reaction explosions: player kills trigger delayed secondary blasts
that can destroy nearby missiles (bounded to one extra tier)
- Inter-wave "COLORADO DEFENDED" recap animation showing surviving cities
(+500 each) and leftover missiles (+25 each) with tallying sounds
- Dynamic wave bonus: replaced flat SCORE_WAVE_BONUS with per-surviving-city
and per-remaining-missile bonuses, emitted in waveComplete event data
- Vector-style skyline: hand-authored Rocky Mountain ridgelines with snow
caps, building presets for varied city skylines, wireframe silos/cities
- Minimal VectorFont module for the recap banner text
- Curved CRT overlay: WebGL barrel-distortion pipeline with chromatic
aberration, sheen highlight, vignette, and pulse on impacts
- Three new 8-bit SFX: explode, explode2 (chain), count (tally)
- Updated verification tests for chain reactions, wave bonus breakdown
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.
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.
- Replace uniform orange peg selection with weighted sampling, favoring circle pegs over brick sections (~2:1 ratio) to keep gameplay peg-centric
- Rework Body Slam (The Smasher) power to launch at 0.7× speed with reduced gravity, aligning physics with updated power documentation
- Adjust orange/green peg counts for levels 26, 27, 30, and 32 to fine-tune difficulty
- Add Maurice character assets (PNG & MP4)
- Clean up redundant portrait emotion triggers and add verification tests for weighted sampling and slam ball behavior
- Multiball now spawns 3 additional balls fanned at ±18° instead of 1 mirrored ball
- Fireball scales ball radius by 3x
- Zen Ball grants 3 stacking charges, consuming one per shot
- Reduce base launch speed to 920 and add rotateVec utility for velocity rotation
- Update verification tests to match new power behaviors
- Add opponent portrait emotional reactions in SWDBG for expensive purchases and bounty defeats
Update PEG_TINT and PEG_LIT color constants to match the dominant fills
of the peg frames in peggle-sprites.png, ensuring procedural bricks and
fallback pegs stay in scheme. Document that these constants should be
re-sampled if the spritesheet is repainted.
Previously, tile text colors alternated between dark (#1a1208) for lower
values and white (#ffffff) for higher values (index >= 5). This change
simplifies the logic to use white text for all tiles, reflecting a
consistent dark-themed tile design.
Expand Peggle from 5 to 25 levels (5 per friend) with unique shapes and
progressive difficulty. Each friend block (Ethel, Kona, Zanthor, Fireball,
Victor) gets distinct names, backgrounds, and level layouts.
- Redesign level select: one row per friend showing portrait, name, power,
and their 5 level tiles
- Add friend intro screens: video (or portrait fallback), bio, and power
explainer before each friend's first level
- Intros skip on replay/try-again; input hold prevents accidental cannon
launches after UI clicks
- Add intro videos for Ethel and Kona; document the video system
- Update level generator with `pentagram()` helper and 5 variants per friend
- Verify block integrity, intro markers (1,6,11,16,21), and level name uniqueness
Rearrange the chips/mult display area to add labeled headers and improve
visual hierarchy. Move the hand name text upward to accommodate the new
layout structure.
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
Add m6x11.ttf and register it via @font-face in styles.css. Use it as
the primary font throughout BalatroGame.js and BalatroViews.js (with
Julius Sans One as fallback), giving the game a consistent pixel-art
aesthetic. Update PreloadScene to warm the new font alongside
YummyCupcakes.
- Add Balatro-style hover tooltips for cards, jokers, consumables, shop
items, packs, and vouchers with detailed stat information
- Add a looping energy hum that climbs in pitch with the running score
- Add visual jitter to chips/mult boxes that intensifies with the hum
- Improve scoring animation by grouping events per card/joker anchor
- Stamp joker UIDs onto events for proper animation anchoring
- Add drag distance threshold to prevent accidental joker drags
- Implement sequential deal animation with cards flying in from off-screen
and rotating 400° before landing
- Add discard animation where selected cards fly to screen center then
shrink away
- Animate played cards flying from their hand positions to the played row
instead of popping into place
- Track pending deals via _pendingDeal to coordinate animations with
game state updates in doDiscard, doPlay, and blind selection
Brian Fertig