- Add a 10-second countdown timer between ball draws with a dedicated UI overlay
- Implement visual flash effect on opponent panels when their cards match the called number
- Play happy emotion animation on opponent portraits during matches
- Replace CASINO_WIN/LOSE sounds with CASINO_BLACKJACK for win/loss events
- Fix fullscreen toggle to properly handle exitFullscreen and requestFullscreen
- Add new video assets for opponent emotions (happy, idle, upset)
- Add `sfx-bingo-balls` audio asset and load it in PreloadScene
- Register `BINGO_BALLS` sound in the SFX constants
- Play the sound when the bingo ball spinning animation starts
- Add 12 new MP3 speech files for Jerry (intro, happy, upset, pick)
- Update opponents.json to include Jerry's speech configuration
- Fix HoldemLogic to exclude folded players from seat order calculation
- Implement visual tracking for Longest Road and Largest Army cards with
smooth transfer animations between players and the central display.
- Add audio feedback for special card ownership changes and opponent dev card plays.
- Display opponent development card details with a zoom-in animation when played.
- Update opponent panels to remove special card badges in favor of the new visual system.
- Add necessary spritesheet and audio assets to the preload scene.
- Minor fix to restore dice state in Parchisi logic after three-doubles penalty.
- Add `STANDARD_RESOURCES` array to `CatanBoard.js` for the classic beginner layout
- Allow users to choose between 'random' and 'standard' tile placement in `OpponentSelectScene`
- Pass `tilePlacement` config through `GameRoomScene` to `CatanGame` and `CatanLogic`
- Update robber voice clip files to new recordings
- Add animated robber movement with custom sprite, sound effects, and glow
- Implement dynamic dice roll animation with arc trajectory and sound cues
- Replace static resource hand with draggable, selectable cards
- Add victory points badge above player portrait
- Expand trade panel width and button sizes for better usability
- Load new robber asset and speech clips in preload scene
- Replace static sea background with a radial gradient for a richer look.
- Redesign settlement and city graphics with drop shadows and white halos.
- Enhance road rendering with a white core for better visibility.
- Add VP badges and card count fans to opponent panels.
- Support card back sprites via `data.cardBack` for accurate card rendering.
- Mark Catan as a card game in the registry.
- Add `background-catan-board.png` for enhanced board visuals
- Implement inset polygon logic to create layered hex borders (colored swatch, dark ring, image area)
- Adjust tile image scaling to fit within the innermost inset polygon
- Reduce outer border line width for a crisper appearance
- Add fallback resource color fill for the inner image area if texture is missing
- Add high-resolution `catancards.png` and `catantiles.png` assets
- Replace hexagon background colors with textured tile images from spritesheet
- Redesign resource hand with card-style UI (dark background, artwork, colored borders)
- Introduce a new Bank Panel on the right side showing resource and dev card counts
- Implement resource collection animations (chit pulse, particle effects, card flight)
- Export `HEX_W` constant for use in tile sizing calculations
- Add new `pick` audio clips for each opponent in `opponents.json` and corresponding MP3 files
- Implement a spectrum visualizer overlay for opponent portraits that activates during pick speech playback
- Integrate `SpeechQueue` to handle opponent pick audio with start/stop callbacks for the visualizer
- Add `setMenuMusicVolume` utility and adjust menu music volume during opponent selection
- Prevent speech/visualizer triggers during initial scene load and game start sequences
- Add 22 new MP3 speech files for characters Jeff and Fireball
- Update public/data/opponents.json to include speech arrays for both characters
- Each character now has intro, happy, and upset speech categories with 2-5 variations
- Add speech assets and configuration for Brad and Mario
- Update opponents.json with new speech arrays for intro, happy, and upset states
- Prevent discarding cards while cards are staged in Phase 10
- Add visual feedback (_shakeStagingButtons) when staging rules are violated
- Add _hasStagedCards helper to check staging group state
- Move staged cards back to hand if user attempts to discard during staging
- Introduce a canvas-based audio visualizer overlay on opponent portraits that activates during speech playback
- Update `SpeechQueue` to support `onStart` and `onEnd` callbacks for hooking into audio events
- Modify `Portrait` to trigger the visualizer with emotion-specific colors (blue for intro, green for happy, red for upset)
- Add `speech` metadata to `opponents.json` for Ethel and Bernie, defining available intro/happy/upset audio clips
- Ensure proper cleanup of visualizer state and resources on portrait destruction
- Implement `SpeechQueue` to manage opponent dialogue clips
- Add `speech` configuration to opponent data (Cy-Bro, Victor, Croc) with intro, happy, and upset states
- Trigger random speech clips in `Portrait.js` based on emotion and a 60% probability
- Play intro speech clips when opponent portraits are created
- Update `MusicPlayer` volume to 0.15 and clean up formatting/whitespace
- Sort player's hand by suit and value for consistent layout
- Implement drag-to-sort functionality for the local hand with visual feedback (slot indicators, card displacement, play zone highlighting)
- Refactor pass confirmation to include multi-phase animation: outgoing cards fly to target, incoming cards animate in from source, flip to reveal, and settle into sorted positions
- Add background to hearts broken indicator for better visibility
- Update card interaction handlers to support both click and drag events
- Implement Mexican Train game logic, AI opponent, and Phaser UI scene
- Register Mexican Train in server game registry and client dispatch tables
- Add roulette spin sound effect and improved win/lose animations with fireworks
- Update preload scene and sound registry to support new audio assets
Introduces pulsing box-shadow animations to opponent portraits to provide visual feedback during gameplay. Opponents now display "happy" (green pulse) or "upset" (red pulse) emotions in response to specific game actions across Go Fish, Phase 10, and Skip Bo. Includes new video assets for Victor and updated sprite sheets.
- Add a "Matches so far" panel to the HUD that tracks paired ranks and remaining matches.
- Introduce `animateRefill` to visually animate cards flying from the pool to an empty hand.
- Refactor turn flow to use `playRefillsThenFinish` for sequential refill animations after pairing or empty-hand draws.
- Update `GoFishLogic` to capture refill events in `lastAsk.refills` for the animation system.
- GoFish: Display animated banners when players are dealt starting pairs at the beginning of the game.
- Parchisi: Add pulsing glow and expanding ripple visual cues to indicate movable pawns.
- Parchisi: Implement click-outside dismissal for pawn selection highlights to improve interaction clarity.
- Update `handleLogEffects` to accept an `onDone` callback, ensuring post-state logic (unblocking input, updating UI) only executes after visual effects complete.
- Introduce `animateForcedDraw` to display a prominent "+N" banner and animate card draws with custom timing parameters.
- Refactor `animateBatchDraw` to support configurable `flyDuration` and `stagger` via a `timing` object.
- Apply the new callback pattern across all move execution paths (`playCard`, `drawCard`, AI moves) to prevent race conditions and ensure consistent animation flow.
- Introduce `MusicPlayer` class for in-game music with shuffle, skip, and mute controls
- Add `MenuMusic` utility for background music in menu scenes
- Load music tracks and metadata via `music.json`
- Implement drag-and-drop for SkipBo cards with visual feedback
- Add card flight animations for Phase 10 AI actions and player draws
- Update Phase 10 AI turn timing and reduce delays for smoother gameplay
- 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