- 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
- 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 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
- VictoryCamDirector: cinematic post-race camera system with shuffled
shot types (chase, orbit, front, trackside) and hard-cut transitions;
player can press ENTER to skip.
- Engine audio: per-racer engine hum (heavy/fast/medium) with pitch
tracking based on kart speed; engine-start sound at green light.
- Star power loop sound that stops when star expires.
- Positional audio: AI kart sounds (spin, hit, flatten) scale volume
with distance from player.
- Enhanced event sounds: item-use, boost, EMP, squash, bump, coin,
star now play appropriate SFX.
- Player kart autopiloted after finishing for victory-lap vignette;
race phase waits for entire field (up to 90s safety cap).
- EMP now emits target list for per-target shrink sounds; squash
collision emits event.
- Animated race results screen with staggered row reveals.
- Animated cup standings with running point counter and position
arrows; tweens rows to new ranks.
- Podium reveal: 3rd → 2nd → 1st staggered with confetti, count-up,
and CRT pulse; winner speech plays.
- Mode7 camera now tracks height and focal length; setCamera accepts
arbitrary poses for cinematic shots.
- New audio assets: engine-start/heavy/fast/medium/rev, kart-coin,
kart-flatten, kart-thump, kart-shrink, kart-spin, kart-hit,
kart-shell, kart-star.
- 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 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
Introduce a step-by-step adventure battle modal that replaces the old
fixed-delay fx when heroes walk through a dungeon. The modal shows the
hero queue and dungeon layout, then plays hero-by-hero, room-by-room
with battle animations, a play-by-play log, and Continue-gated progression.
Key changes:
- Adventure battle modal with hero/dungeon rows, battle zone, log panel,
and Continue button; handles room hits, trap kills, boss wounds, and
hero deaths with animations
- Split adventure walk events correctly across mid-walk decision pauses
using pre-mutation dungeon/hero snapshots captured in applyDecision()
- New phase wheel UI (Round Start / Build / Bait / Adventure / Round End)
with spinning animation and icons, driven by new phase events
- Replace heroToken circles with miniHeroCard portraits at entrance gates,
with shrink animation from town to gate size during heroWalks
- Support proxy dragging from hover previews and deep-dive modal
- Add renderInto() to Portrait.js for static portrait copies in the modal
- 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 Azul (tile-drafting game) with full game logic, AI (5 skill levels),
spritesheet rendering, and animated wall-tiling/scoring
- Add Inês-flavored tutorial text and 96×96 tile spritesheet
- Register Azul in gamesRegistry, main.js, GameRoomScene, OpponentSelectScene,
and PreloadScene
- Add tutorial videos for Blokus and Chinese Checkers
- Update Blokus and Chinese Checkers registry entries with hasTutorial: true
- Add Klaxon (mecha) tutorial for Blokus and Kage (samurai) tutorial for
Chinese Checkers
- Fix TutorialModal close-button click fallthrough with transient shield overlay
Brian Fertig