Introduce `VegaCombatV2.js`, a parallel headless combat engine that simulates
individual ships (not stack aggregates) in continuous time rather than discrete
rounds. Ships have per-hull `sizeScale`, `sizeSpeedMult`, and `turnRateBase`
fields; every entity tracks its own cooldown, position, facing, and angular
momentum. Damage and movement are banked per-tick to preserve fairness.
Accompanying files:
- `VegaCombatViewV2.js` — zoomable/pannable Phaser view with parallax starfield
- `VegaCombatCamera.js` — cursor-anchored zoom + drag-to-pan (listener cleanup
on destroy to avoid stacking across battles)
- `VegaFormations.js` — formation strategy plumbing (chosen per side, not yet
read by movement/targeting)
- Hull-specific destroy audio cues and vega buildings art
Wired behind `?movsim`'s Live/V2 toggle in `VegaCombatSim.js` — the live engine
and all real player battles are untouched.
Also fixes several latent bugs discovered during the rewrite:
- Trap 26: simultaneous wipe-out now checks draw before single-side wins
- Trap 27: movement is banked (two-phase) like damage
- Trap 28: weighted-random targeting tames chaotic nearest-neighbour sensitivity
- Trap 29: fleet gap clamped to 85% world width to prevent starvation
- Trap 30: `RANGE_EPS` tolerance prevents steering-induced standoffs
See `docs/mastervega-build-plan.md` for full design notes.
Move vega audio files into assets/fx/vega/ subdirectory and register them via
assetManifest.js. Add weapon and missile sound cues banded by ship Mark, with
staggered playback in VegaCombatView to prevent audio clipping during barrages.
Wire up two previously inert tech effects in combat:
- Stealth Field (cloaked): applies a flat accuracy malus via cloakEvasion rule.
- Black Hole Generator (singularity): adds passive shield pierce via
singularityShieldPierce rule on every weapon fired by the design.
Update tech descriptions, ship detail display, and designFor() to reflect
these effects. Fix a bug where singularity was never copied into the design
object.
Add vega-endturn cue to End Turn / Next Round buttons (no-op when busy),
remove hardcoded audio loads from PreloadScene, and add verification tests
that isolate each flag with A/B battle comparisons.
- Introduce Colony Focus: a per-colony autopilot that auto-queues one
building/ship per turn when the queue is empty. Supports seven modes
(manual, improvement, research, fleet, growth, trade, defense) with
cost-aware affordability checks matching AI behaviour.
- Add Allocation Focus: one-time slider presets (default, research,
growth, production, military) that bulk-overwrite channel allocations.
- Refactor colony view flyout into a shared drawer supporting queue,
colony focus, and allocation focus modes with in-place swapping.
- Replace "Built here" text with hoverable building icon row and
tooltips on the colony screen.
- Add per-species audience music tracks and diplomacy music ducking when
seeking/planning an audience.
- Add sound effects for star selection, zoom in/out, and colony view
opening.
- Back-fill `focus: 'manual'` on old saves for forwards compatibility.
- Add verification tests exercising each focus mode in isolation.
- Implement 10 manual save slots with metadata (turn, year, empire, species, date)
- Add ☰ game menu button with Save, Load, Return to Main Menu, and Quit to Arcade
- Replace generic sounds with 7 custom Vega sound effects (select, build, close,
newturn, unit, view, warp)
- Introduce uiClick() helper to standardize click sound across all modal screens
- Update research video paths for umbrix and rrashaa species
- Refactor button handlers in all Vega screens to use uiClick() pattern
- Save/load uses scene restart via pendingSavedState for clean HUD/map teardown
- 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.
- Add gootower-bg to asset manifest
- Replace drawSky() with drawBackground() method that renders the background texture
- Display background when entering play mode
- 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
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
- 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.
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.
- 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 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
Brian Fertig