- 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
- 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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- 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
- 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 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
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.
- 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.
- Introduce `Sounds.js` utility and load new audio assets (dice, cards, chips, casino).
- Play appropriate sound effects in Backgammon, Blackjack, Holdem, Parchisi, Phase10, SkipBo, and Yatzi.
- Add `background-casino.png` and `background-room.png` to PreloadScene.
- Update OpponentSelectScene with new backgrounds, styled title/subtitle pills, and improved Start/Back buttons.
- Enhance opponent selection with gradient backgrounds and shadows via `applyOpponentStyle`.
- Implement `highlightTile` for better visual feedback in option selectors.
- Randomly select a card back for card games in OpponentSelectScene.
- Implement core Parchisi logic (ParchisiLogic.js) including board rules,
move validation, and state management.
- Add Minimax-based AI (ParchisiAI.js) with heuristic evaluation for move
selection, supporting up to 3 AI opponents.
- Create full Phaser game scene (ParchisiGame.js) with animated board,
pawns, dice, and UI elements.
- Register new game assets (fonts, images, video animations).
- Update game registry to support 1-4 players with 3 AI opponents.
- Integrate Parchisi into the main scene loader and game room dispatch.
- Update HoldemLogic.js: reduce blind level interval to 5 minutes, fix single-pot split logic, and apply minor formatting/whitespace changes.
- Add new ParchisiLogic.js file implementing pure game logic for the Parchisi board game, including path definition, player entry points, safe squares, and home columns.
- Add new assets: gerome.png, ethel video animations (happy/idle/upset), gerome/jeff video animations (happy/idle/upset), and update opponents.png/psd.
Brian Fertig