Changelog of @hackage/Allure 0.11.0.0

v0.11.0.0

Partially work around regression in libsdl2 2.0.16 (https://github.com/LambdaHack/LambdaHack/issues/281); to also avoid deformed boxes around tiles on the game map, please switch to a different SDL2 version
Deduplicate UI code for exiting game, with extra style points
Create monadic test harness and use it for UI and other unit tests
Validate empty content and fix other soundness issues revealed by unit tests
Add extra hints in --more and similar lines when tutorial is on
Show full history at SPACE press and let second SPACE close it
Spawn insects in the swamp
Remove slot letter display in menus and instead display subtle bullets
Repurpose item slots to item roles
Redo display and control of main menu and its submenus
Make Teletype frontend a bit closer to playable
Switch right pane item description display from mono to prop font
Ensure score not zero if victory
Add a custom SDL cursor, working around a bug in SDL2 bindings
Gut out most content symbols; weren't used even in lore menus after all
Add a flag to disable the costly optimizations (that give 15-25% speedup)
Add faction kind content and redo game mode content to use it
Display seen faction lore
Simplify and fortify faction and client assignment code
Make a few unique items that were identified meta-game identifiable instead
Fix persistence of meta-game discoveries in save files
When assigning a faction, first try the group actor was picked from
When assigned faction is dead, don't spawn the actor
Don't use benign weapons on projectiles not to lose the fun
Make the unique harpoon worth saving for a unique foe
Spawn enemies closer and fix too random spawning location
Improve display of item's range
Warn when SDL game windows is resized not via config file
Ban or force sleep on levels
Protect against unset or primitive OS locale
Add temporary hearing aids
Disallow generating a door beside an opening in room's wall
Permit smaller caves and validate cave content more accurately
Try harder to generate escape from dungeon in a level corner
Avoid exit/escape confusion in content names and descriptions
Add Gauntlet game mode and Machinarium spaceship level
Don't require identification for cooked plants
Make Bob speak less often and explode more often
Make Bob's monologue less repetitive
Make oriels lit, until there is any game-play fun in having to go to them
Make loot in initial caves more consistent
Rule out giant octopus on initial levels to teach simple tactics better
Give player more time to hunt bees before they die
Fix raid heroes not having genetic flaws contrary to description
Many fixes, refactorings, tweaks and balancing changes

v0.10.3.0

Work around regression https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1076 by making the scalable square font the default as the map font; the tiny map fonts, for which there is no such workaround, won't work for anybody with freetype 2.11.0
Enable display of details in right pane in many menus
Switch mouse wheel to move selection now that it changes right pane display
Make the line where messages wrap configurable in config file
Remove rarely used options from config file and code
Prepare client-server for delays when operating over the network
Reveal all map at game over and make it explorable
Don't run with -threaded, increasing speed by a couple dozen percent
Don't show messages during enemy turn (except when under AI control)
Spawn many actors at once with probability correlated to spawning at all
Gut out Ubuntu Font Family fonts
Add a few tutorial messages, reword some in-game texts
Move with CI from Travis to GitHub Actions (but GHA can't keep up as well)
Make place content directly define legends instead of overriding them
Add a warning that crosshair is out of flinging range
Add ANSI display to SDL2 frontend; remove vty, hcurses and GTK frontends
Make Teletype frontend more usable (input, speed, overlays)
Remove sight malus from light sources to avoid micromanagement
Keep convenience settings between new games
Add an option to mark FOV area with grey background
Refactor and clean up a lot of the code
Unhardwire various constants (hat tip to Jamie)
Fix a couple of bugs and improve documentation
Add whole new kinds of tests (even greater hat tip to Jamie)

v0.10.2.0

Make GLASS_HAIL less deadly and less noisy visually
Advertise the C-Tab command instead of A-Tab
Tweak some wearables rarity
Make intruder's explosions less deadly
Disable testing ubuntu fonts, because they can't be distributed in Debian
Be more consistent about moving corrupted files aside
Make torches a bit more common
Help AI not to leave a scout guarding the stash
Ensure some gems in escape scenario
Prevent occasionally few gardening tools
Make explosions definitions small and symmetric again
Fix heroes starting on exit in escape scenario
Reword some scenario texts
Change organ symbols to avoid 'eat' when activating them
Make gardening tools less common, but keep metal pipes
Fix 'Letting Go' message, because it could get activated
Hack buckler definition once more
Hack shield definitions to help AI understand their value
Explain in Q&A why sometimes timeout weapons are never used
Fix backstories, because they can be manually triggered
Replace the special periodic activation handling with effect conditions
Fix the healing necklace better used from the backpack
Replace the special effect handling under ranged with effect condition
Reduce and describe the micromanagement of bucklers and shields
Fix Letting Go not identifying even at death
Fix typos in content texts
Update documentation files
Add a group for exlusively tools; unused ATM
Fix small oil explosions never getting anywhere
Reword initial scenario texts
Talk about the relevant lore command in manual
Signal that lore command is sometimes context-sensitive
Simplify desertedAirlock description
Reword a virtue description
Make embeds easier to recognize knowing their tiles
Don't end stairs with a path
Don't describe the goal tile when performing mouse goto
Declare the codebase lens-free
Explain why whiskey not drunk, but smashed only
Improve initial level descriptions
Reword backstoryNeutral3
Avoid distributing test.exe in Windows packages
Fix comments about easy stairs vs hard stairs
Fix intruders not exploding on death
Fix Heavy Eyes preventing reaching level 4
Remove savefiles if config file too old
Use lz-string.js externs for minification
Update LambdaHack.cabal.flattened
Make focused explosions more likely to hit nearby actors
Let one more common embed provide bad missiles
Hlint the codebase
Provide an excuse why the flask from fire cabinet is not identified
Make barrels less common in raid tutorial
Explain the flags of genetic flaw
Avoid 'you are less more tidy'
Help the raid scenario opponent survive a little longer
Prevent too many torches in raid, causing blindness
Use MinorAspects flag for backstories
Do not include the default config file that Windows users can't read anyway
Read config file in UTF8 mode even on Windows
Prevent premature identification of 'Letting Go'
Prevent premature identification of backstory items
Update the copyright year
Update manual wrt backstory items addition
Add a comment about geneticFlaw not in CONDITION group
Reorder actor and organ content
Give the new alien a unique and glaring colour
Shorten a backstory name to pass validation
Make sure the backstory descriptions are actually a backstory
Register the recently added backstory items
Add bravery virtue
Add alcoholist backstory item
Add three more backstories and unify names
Add two more vices
Use question marks in verb effects
Try to amass explosive monsters on arena levels
Add an alien with an explosive organ (fixes #108)
Add the explosive flotation bag organ
Make sure hero professions are not randomly changing
Hardwire the player team continuity token
Unify and shorter backstory group names
Flesh out initial backstory items
Change the symbol of backstory items
Use the flavours specialized for stories
For now, assign heroes a backstory from a mix of all categories
Mock up categories of backstory content items
Add the first backstory organ
Make sure heroes spawned in safari mode are properly numbered
Add a few more hero names
Mark the personal genetic flaws as meta game persistent, as they should be
Express variety of genetic flaws as multiple content items
Add team continuity across scenarios to content
Make buckler and shield attacks and messages not so spammy
Fix bucklers too powerful and shields too weak when UnderRanged activates
Describe the new challenges in the manual
Make shields more common and attractive to AI
Add UnderMelee and tweak the Old Gorget
Add a potion of melee deflection
Buff shields with ranged deflection
Add deflection temporary conditions
Explain the pointman/leader discrepancy
Write key names as on the keyboard, button names as in the button
Unify pluralization of skills and challenges
Mark some game modes as tutorials
Split a list in manual in many paragraphs for better in-game display
Keep the rest of the manual in content
Simplify an address in manual not to spill over 80 columns
Hint in config file to disable the special movement keys
Hint that stealth if possible and AI vs player symmetric
Limit mentions of 'playing' not to break immersion
Change 'scenario' to 'adventure' to be more immersive
Add a scenario lore menu
Mention that scale needs to be configured for high dpi displays
Add the fullscreen option to the UI config file
Don't configure the unused data directories when invoking cabal
When installing don't create the now empty GameDefinition/fonts/
Don't limit jobs to 1 now that cabal shows errors fine
Don't embed the fonts in the web frontend version
Get rid of datafiles from .cabal
Kill the font license files that are duplicated in COPYLEFT file
Get rid of the now unused fontDir option
Embed game-supplied font files
Version config file
Write the homepage address in full in Main Menu; fixes #98
Make historyMax divisible by screenful
Don't let ESC clear messages in aiming mode; was confusing
Add Discord and Matrix addresses to the manual
Add links to discord and matrix chat
Tweak unique entities in content, adding 'the' as needed
Add extra config options for messages
Customize messages more comfortably
Simplify restarting client
Adjust weapon colours slightly towards colour meaning table
Name the robot until somebody comes up with a better name
Semi-retire the Allure gitter
Reflect changes in highlighting in the manual
Avoid unfortunate line gluing in main menu text
Wrap messages after 53 columns
Lower cminStairDist for shallowRogue now that margins forbidden
Fix a missing mouse command description
Update documentation to the config changes
Add Debian desktop files, as per packaging policy
Fix screensavers broken by UI faction not being the first
Fix 'open main menu' command of Dashboard
Comment the config file some more
Gut out Ubuntu Family Fonts from Debian package, because non-free
Beautify CREDITS
Rank the fontsets differently
Make the fontset tests more random
Permit text usage in tests
Settile on 'auxiliary fonts' instead of 'long text'
Update config wrt engine changes
Molify Debian's lintian
Fix license name
Legalize all the long text fonts even more
Legalize all the long text fonts
Add the ubuntu font family set of long text fonts
Add another set of long text fonts
Add new long text fonts based Adobe Source
Remove old long text fonts
Explain the communication overhead concept
Fix Allure.cabal.flattened test component
Parse config at compile time
Let foes occupiy exit in escape scenario, etc.
Add missing cskip specifications
Bring back SPACE as clearning messages
Update the default config wrt changes to RET keybinding
Don't mention the spaceship in outdoor stairs description
Make the brawl scenario 2-level
Use the increased expressiveness of initial actor generation
Make long poles a bit more common and tweak content a bit
Don't confuse the player when trying to convey the actor is malfunctioning
Reword ESC description again
Add a random item to each hero starting inventory
Tweak details of the content a bit
Update command docs to command help changes
Let only ESC clear messages
Prevent AI-inaccessible areas inside shuttles
Make spacesuits and tools more common, but later on
Avoid 'jewelry case of gain jewelry'
Move SPACE to CmdAim category
Document that MMB and RMB cycle detail level
Bind SPACE to cycle detail level in aiming mode
Advise role-playing
Fix calling gameover an 'endgame'
Advise to replay initial scenarios
Let the Welded Robot speak periodically
Don't spoil the normal storyline in the hint about blowtorch
Add a comment that blowtorch is safe from item polymorphing
Add a hint about the puzzle to the manual
Make the torn spacesuit even more common
Name or prepare for naming all uniques
Give all uniques their last words
Add extra hints in the signboards on first level
Reorder consistenly mode kind component definitions in the file
Make hints about the first puzzle more obvious and more common
Make torn spacesuit more common again
Add a couple of late spawn-only actors
Mark some actors as common among late spawns
Factor out victoryOutcomes
Shorten a field name to avoid >80 length lines
Make terrain names harder to confuse with items
Properly in-game document the screensaver scenarios
Add missing scenario motivation blurbs
Make the tools slightly less abundant at the start
Tweak the scenario meta notes
Rework game rules desccription similarly as in LH
Add bulbousBullfrog to credits
Add a comment to the default config with an example for rebinding a key
Hint in-game about how stairs work
Encourage interaction with terrain in outermost level
Clarify that nominal values of burning and wounding are used
Drive the point home that spacesuits differ
Drive the point home that tools are used for crafting
Be more explicit in the crafting tip
Ensure the position of the boss is reported as worth visiting
Document crafting in-game and in the manual
Explain why octopus copes on land
Add cabal.project.local.testing for 'make fastCrawl'
Avoid building all exes
Add scenario rule notes to be displayed instead of full notes
Use hex character literals to simplify notation
Add make target to test minified JS for node
Make the safari easter egg less common as a screensaver
Disable compiling from source in brew-sdl2-osx travis build, due to OOM
Tone down and speed up animations of the deadliest explosions
Make space for vertical dormitory rooms
Make the dormitories more realistic given how tiny they are
Make all ignition blasts yellow
Hint in ambush description that somebody turned off power
Spread evenly the loot in ambush scenario
Make sure the initial entrance doesn't appear in ambush scenario
Make safari scenario harder now that aliens are buffed up
Improve module haddocks for content
Give the player more ammo in ambush scenario
Make zoo easier to create an ambush position in
Make sure burning bush eventually transforms to a dark floor tile
Make escape cave easier to put on fire
Hide unneeded content group name patterns
Add short-caves debug game mode
Bump too rare places
Use the JS splitmix optimization
Tweak CI link in README in case it matters
Make firefighting items more common outside of fire cabinets
Add a Q&A about autoexplore (only relevant to Allure)
Make sure all non-seeing actors are described so
Move ClientOptions.hs to adhere to the convention about module hierarchies
Meld LH and Allure content
Don't have noctovisor neavly guaranteed
Add items for detecting enemy stashes
Reflavour the stuck doors trap
Tone down spotlight
Explain the goofy handling of recharging in stash
Prevent exploiting deposit boxes ad infinitum
Make detection radiuses uniform, for ease of use
Make residential decks better connected
Add a couple more escape items
Adjust the SDL test to run without installing fonts, as Debian requires
Make the jewlery caches and deposit boxes much more lucrative
Make necklace explosions even less likely to block the way
Make octopus more common now that it's more interesting
Make jewlery cases less disappointing for experienced players
Let blasts destroy ice pillars
Fix a pair of fire projectiles first igniting, second dousing a tile
Add Q&A about hearing
Make military knife again likely to appear in crawl dungeon
Let stuck doors be forced, inducing flight
Shorten brawl scenario note to fit on the screen with square font
Remove the confusing damage from bomb's weight impact
Prevent exploit of getting cords from torches made out of rags
Move most tools to first 4 levels and laboratory
Fix crafting in water impossible when refrigeration coil equipped
Make hearing maluses less harsh
Make firefighting cabinets more common, particularly on outermost level
Fix too high melee armor of a spacesuit
Permit transformation of weld vis cold source, not only blowtorch
Enable crafting with water sources in fire tiles
Add some more tools and torn suits
Boil waste container to safely remove refrigeration coil
Differentiate the names of small fires and not the count
Don't create the same 2 spacesuit parts when dismating a torn suit
Make crawl loot number randomness much less wild
Make tools more common on first two levels
Add cord as a bonding tool and wick
Have more tools at outermost level
Make thornbush a bit rarer, because it doesn't exlode, so is boring
Make arena deck of double height, with trees
Avoid dark fences around lit interiors with no pillars in staircase defs
Shorten other item group names
Shorten hammer and shield group names
Use the DECON abbreviation to shorten messages
Fix patterns for hammers
Mention in hammer description that crafting replaces handles
Fit workshop crafting description into one screen
Don't risk crafting scrap from hammers and axes
Display cooking after crafting in embed description
Factor out extraWaterAssocs
Equip rags by default; newbies don't find them anyway
Mention in octopus description that it has high noctovision
Consistently create on the ground all items looted from terrain
Balance removing hunger via organ hits
Add random variety to crafted items to enable min-maxing
Move some item definitions and rebase them
Remove a trailing space in mode description
Don't get two rags out of a torch that took one to produce
Reflect keybindings change in the start scenario menu
Increase the timeout of jumping pole
Prevent AI from hasting twice in a row
Add recharging and discharging self to a couple of weapons
Get rid of DropBestWeapon
Adjust to engine changes to charging effects
Let the rhino charge via pushing
Let all drones charge via pushing
Fix a mixed up organ name
Prevent the new organs from being dropped
Differentiate dragon and alligator by removing the pushing from the former
Add jumping organs
Move ink sac to equipment so that it can be explicitly triggered
Make octopus's ink weaker but lasting longer
Add the ink sac octopus's organ
Permit meleeing with construction glove
Let burning oil explode even on direct hit on actor, not only on the floor
Re-classify a couple of weapons
Fix razorwire fence
Make killing thornbush even more optional than before
Move to-dam bonuses from organs to actor definitions
Increase timeouts of animal organs to at least approach human weapon timeouts
Prevent sharp harpoon from being generated often and shallowly
Make armadillo into a proper tank
Touch up aliens actors
Prevent razor from excluding other weapons
Move the defition of lip to the proper place
Give tentancle a cooldown
Make clawing horror an early but mostly harmless armorless tank
Reorder organs
Balance organs
Add two organs from LambdaHack
Remove cooldown from two weapon kinds
Sometimes generate tools in threes
Generate torn spacesuits in bunches
Generate less items, particularly at shallow levels
Reorder items inside several item groups
Overhaul noise caves
Let some tools appear together
Designate some scouts for slack tactics factions
Add comments explaining why dL dice positive or negative
Adjust to crafint depth-neutral and tweak content a bit otherwise
Make the max HP maluses not so easy to ignore
Rebalance armor bonuses
Rebalance to-hit bonuses
Fix hammer stats and tweak a few others
Make Smithhammer interesting
Make it easier to use permanent tools
Make it possible to undo weapon crafting
Make axe worse than pipe
Make item-modification scrolls and torn spacesuits more common
Make cooking fruits less tedius, remaining defs
Place much more oil spills on the exit deck
Make cooking fruits less tedius
Let the player see if enemies carry even special lights, etc.
Don't suggest that opening a deposit box destroys it
Improve name of a couple of item groups
Tweak frequency of detection items, etc.
Don't let the alien boss waste time unequipping gems
Sometimes add a lift staircase to laboratories
Make more rooms dark to help with stealth
Make Laboratory deck less annoying by decontaminating only upwards
Fix weapon order of Smithhammer
Make it more common for aliens to carry light
Make using and crafting harpoons more worthwhile
Add workshop to a couple more places
Make it more likely there is workshop in laboratory
Tone down poison
Make the outermost deck a little more hectic
Hint that shields require empty space behind enemies to push them
Make buckler a weapon
Make the fancy shield weaker but more common
Give a fair warning about the rhino boss
Reorder crafting recipes to make them yet a tad safer
Avoid lit or filled rooms (except barrels) in exit level
Balance arena cave and scroll of pushing
Move keybinding content definitions to match display order
Make signboards less common in arena cave and more in casino
Ensure small caves have one or few stairs to prevent bloating them
Adjust cave content specifications to the engine tweaks
Make empty flasks less common deeper down
Clean up comments in tile definitions
Try to make the terrain transformation specs more readable
Mark steel file with red, since it's double-purpose
Make blankets more common to help with light crafting
Start with some empty flasks, some of the time
Update the manual and keybindings printout
Explain why the farm is freshly abandoned
Reduce numbers of consumables now that some levels have more of them
Add extra items to crawl levels based on their name/description
Add ANY_FLASK group
Introduce vials via the brawl scenario
Customize the raid cave shape and places
Make sure tools are not needed and stimpack not obtainable in raid scenario
Introduce chips usage in the raid scenario
Fix a bushy patch that can block starting actors
Remove misleading comment about tiles being explorable
Comment why a tile is not explorable
Make impressing items easier to get
Fix missing terrain in TREE_SHADE_WALKABLE_DARK
Have lit bushes and dark floor in some dark places
Permit auto-generated tiles to be lit in dark groups
Comment tiles that are lit, dark or both
Add greenery to shallow levels and more rooms
Sometimes leave smoke after barrel explodes
Prevent the visual senser being misinterpreted as food
Prevent AI from wielding staves
Make gardening tools slighly more durable, but rarer
Set the main groups of items to equal weights and compensate
Let all actors chase enemies from a longer distance
Ensure few garden weapons in raid scenario and similar
Tweak assignment of items to the rare item groups
Rename or eliminate CURIOUS_ITEM
Generate less survival items in short scenarios
Add hints to crafting components' descriptions
Tweak weapons slightly, mostly ranged damage
Clean up throwing stats of items
Make edible bushes possible in one more room kind
Make permanent weapons less common initially due to clubs and torches
Add craftable clubs
Make torch a destructible melee weapon
Make torch and lamp even less common now that they are crafted
Craft flasks of water, etc.
Fix crafting in oil and fire
Add missing content group definitions
Craft torches and oil lamps
Make harpoons better in melee than ranged
Rebalance weak weapons
Slightly simplify organ definitions
Add variety to armor deducting rings
Make boots auto-equip less disastrous for newbies
Make the echolocator ping periodically
Change the order of ordinary items for better display in menus
Reassign colours and symbols to embedded items
Make some actors deal low damage but with high hurt
Add negative armor to one boss and some conditions
Let some rings weaken armor
Tone down items that grant armor
Mark in dashboard where to find crafting recipes
Make it harder to obtain long poles from loot
Let the net drop more kinds of armor-like equipment
Fix broken content validation
Don't confusingly refuse to display the pushing effect for shields
Balance piercing missiles
Make Rhino less of a pushover
Update manual wrt damage calculation changes
Avoid AI-unreachable spaces on the outermost level
Make it cheaper to dissect a torn spacesuit, for early game
Comment that transformations won't generate warnings due to their position
Make tools even more common
Undo partially scaling down special terrain features at outermost level
Craft torch in fire, not workshop
Tweak terrain and items on the outermost level
Make the order of caves slightly more random
Make edible plants less common since they appear on bushes now
Make the starting enemy groups larger to favour throwing flasks
Generate flasks in bunches even at lowest levels to make throwing more fun
Make sure throwing flasks, etc., have limited radius, for safety
Make icy floor less annoying and escape puzzles harder to hack
Avoid generating 2-stacks of early projectiles
Don't create equippable items in a stash
Make the crafted and doubly crafted weapons rarer
Fix lvl 2 description showing at game start instead of lvl 3
Prevent heroe's foes in crawl from camping stairs on lvl 2
Dedicate flasks to throwing and vials to medicine
Add fixed enemies at the start of crawl, but don't spawn often
Improve wording of a cave description
Reduce randomness of effects to make them exploitable
Prevent inability of taking off items that drain calm
Update wrt macro key changes in the engine
Disable brew audit that fails because line is too long
Vary the number of gardening tools in the bunches
Make craftable weapons less common
(Almost) guarantee a fire axe, but (almost) only one
Spawn friendlies and foes in deposit boxes
Make the airlock supplies more random
Create gardening tools in varied pairs
Convey more of the shuttle story via unique embedded item, not other content
Fix wrong game mode started due to only the first word inspected
Prevent meleeing electric fence forever
Port tests to tasty
Make weapons used for crafting less common later on
Prevent 'you are more foo' and immediately 'you are no longer foo'
Don't let faucents slow and flash themselves
Rename S_NITROGEN_MIST and S_FOCUSED_FLASH
Have less particles in large oil explosions
Make blindness less common, because it pervents player from seeing fun stuff
Let Welded Robot establish a stash to make sure heroes be the blowtorch
Use local gifsicle, with the assertion failure fixed
Ensure unidentified hammers are equipped
Tone down ranged damage of some durable items
Replace permanent weapons with crafting even at low levels
Make needles a bit less deadly
Fix some Burn and RefillHP weapons becoming overpowered at range
Simplify sharpeningAssocs
Fix inaccessible fenceless dormitories
Help AI replace the armor that decreases melee skill
make cleaver weaker but more common
Make billiard balls more common initially, less so later on
Permit melee with gloves and helm in addition to boots
Refactor and tweak garden weapons
Fix gardening tools not fracturing
Fix mixed up resistance conditions
Describe how colours correspond to tile properties
Prevent curing of genetic flaw via any condition removal
Recolour transparent walls; cyan means inert, apparently
Recolour barrels; not burning; no collision with trees
Make the power node place more varied
Fix AI not eating to remove hunger
Recolour armors
Ensure enough weak weapons at the start
Add dormitories to the residential area cave definition
Don't spam decent weapons at low leves now that weak weapons abound
Make projectiles more common so that shooter aliens are not overpowered
Craft torches out of staves
Add a rag tangle and obtain it from torn spacesuits
Give cleanerRobot excessive armor to make hammers useful
Clarify that chosen weapon needs not be optimal for a foe
Make hammers much different from all other weapons
Make a particular barrel yard place as common as others, not much more
Fix some terrain not alterable with projectiles
Mention that stats menu summarizes the organ menu
Add sample cabal.project.local files
Make the secret walls less boring
Use VerbMsgFail effect to ensure failed crafting doesn't change terrain
Don't report that an animal fondles its own meat
Add alterable floor to more rooms
Add alterable floor to more caves and trails
Rework frequency of immobile robots
Desynchronise vents a bit more
On outermost level let some faucets ignite fuel spread by other faucets
Make hammers a bit more common
Make frozen trail less common now that geysers produce floor ice
Make burning oil clear, as the symbol indicates
Adjust small fire description to match also burning oil
Adjust crafting embedded items to the new OnCombine semantics
Tweak timeouts of mostly harmless large sticks
Fix wrong use of AndEffect
Update crafting recipes to used tools and destroyed components
Safeguard some alien ammo and treasure against stash ransacking
Re-add perfumes; AI heroes were being slaughtered without them
Add a torn spacesuit for crafting
Make electric fences a less lucrative source of weapon upgrades
Make it more likely that armor and some other items appear before lvl 12
Generate more items now that a lot of crafting components appeared in the game
Make barrel stacks more varied and more frequent
Make barrel stack places more common
Recolour faucets to match the colour of terrain they create
Disable pathfinding through barrels and burning rubble
Give the same on-screen colour to items with similar function
Make the newly introduced items more common
Make the workshop terrain more common
Ensure item definitions are valid by having enough slots
Don't generate ready spacesuits and avoid hard to see BrBlack items
Make most weapons less common now that they can be crafted
Harvest long poles from dead electric fences
Add two useless tools to harvest long poles from
Require a tool to but the pipe diagonally before sharpening
Avoid the exploit of turning staffs into pipes via crafting
Improve some weapon descriptions and comments
Make each water a sharpening workshop to avoid scrolling recipes
Correct some item group patterns to be singletons
Clean up and redefine patterns from ItemKindEmbed.hs
Let hammers be sharpened and elongated
Require identification for all hammers
Comment why axes and hammers are not tools
Avoid the no-brainer of durable tool use
Rename POLE and LONG_POLE
Add fire axe and craft poll axe from it
Craft long polearms and flesh out related descriptions
Don't suggest that crowbar and cat's paw can be sharpened or blunted
Doubly sharpen pole cleavers to ox tongues
Doubly sharpen cleavers to get daggers
Rename the knife item definition to avoid confusion with the new dagger
Reorder Allure item definitions
Sharpen halberds
Sharpen rapiers
Sharpen shields
Get pipes from garden tools and sharpen them
Enable sharpening harpoons
Add sharpening tools
Resking honing steel to barebones exoskeleton
Foretell future levels accessible with spacesuits
Add some tools
Rename BONDING_SOURCE to BONDING_TOOL
Fix, partially, pluralization of spacesuit trousers group
Update to the unified tile transformation syntax
Fix redundant Equipable or Meleeable
Switch to the simplied ConsumeItems definition
Eliminate the exploit of throwing durable tools at the workshop
Define the spacestuit
Assemble full spacesuit from the set of all its parts
Add a spacesuit boot
Make Autozoom Contact Lens appear in a larger percentage of games
Let workshop work from an adjacent tile as well
Use the new parameter of CreateItem to dilute perfume and create rose water
Use the new parameter of CreateItem in workshop crafting engine
Add the first workshop item crafting recipe
Add a workshop terrain
Remove an obsolete way of putting oil tile on fire
Add Discharge effect to content
Open doors with concussion blast
Avoid renewing terrain embeds, to avoid slowdown with faucets
Make vents terrain transforming
Keep underbrush fluorescent also inside places
Clean up non-essential talter attributes
Create frozen and water tiles from damp floor
Let underbrush grow randomly inside some places
Let oil float over water, etc.
Add explosive barrels
Extend and move terrain transformation abilities within content
Use less stuck doors while AI remains stubborn
Don't create harpoons in bunches now that they are durable
Revert "Make better projectiles out of weapons now that they break"
Mark terrain transformations that are permitted with projectiles
Make better projectiles out of weapons now that they break
Make harpoon a weapon, but not auto-equipped
Fix signboards requiring extra keystroke to activate
Fix stuck doors often leaving AI helpless
Add stuck doors to be opened by tools
Fix unidentified embedded items impossible to trigger
Describe the less obvious tile-altering item properties
Add messages to dilluted OneOf effects
Make the new tools and weapons twice more common
Let strongest explosions breach stuff
Describe the properties of the tools to help the player connect the dots
Rename terrain patterns that denote possibly depleted resource
Add tool items for altering terrain and improvised combat
Make it possible to disarm jewelry traps
Make edible plants grow on bushes
Move extinguishers from walls to signboards to avoid uncovering all walls
Make looting rubble worthwhile if weapons urgently needed
Let actors trap down stairs with oil
Wipe oil with a cloth
Transform some tiles by pouring oil on them
Make it harder to quench burning oil
Separate singleton kind group names
Rename HideAs to PresentAs for item kinds
Switch texts to patterns for referring to content kind groups
Make plants slightly less common and cleavers slightly more
Make hunger twice as fast
Permit PatternSynonyms
Add a few sources of oil and fire
Let oil spill burn
Let signboards and pulpit burn
Make the area of nitrogen mist smaller, but dense
Let food thrown at lightly burning bushes get cooked
Make meat a less perfect projectile
Make the coil necklace not precious to freely use it
Make underbrush more common now that it has no embed
Get blakets and nitrogen out of walls
Make nitrogen flask a separate item now that its explosions freeze water
Quench fire with water and azbestos blanket
Bring back Alter skill requirement for weld to help AI open it
Make the spark necklace a source of cold
Reverse order of weld modification items to help newbies understand
Make weld durable to repeatedly depict sparking attempts to break the barrier
Let ice be transformed into water and back
Overcome weld with items instead of skill
Simplify igniting greenery
Update wrt addition of tiles altered by items
Make sword-class weapons and exotic hammers more common
Hint that the small fire is fine for cooking
Make burning trees and rubble even less common on the outermost level
Make it possible to cook plants
Add cooked plants
Update to binary AndEffect
Give player more hints to start cooking
Make burning bushes less common in crawl
Move underbrushBurning to the right section
Make it possible to also set bush and tree on fire
In crawl get torches from burning trees more often
Cook meat using a burning bush
Let burning bush turn into burning underbrush
Make it possible to set underbrush on fire and cook meat
Explain away only pointman moving
Bring hunger removal back in two places
Fix hunger removed by some melee weapons
Fix mercenaries using cutlery to fight
Explain lack of tools, food and maps in crawl scenario
Mention that all factions and actors are equal
Reverse stars and underscores in HP bar in HUD
Stress suvival in the game manual
Let animals drop chunks of raw meat, for player consumption
Mention clues and survival in backstory
Fix medbot fissure not marked as benign
Remove duplicated smell boost from walls (subtleFresco)
Add a hidden wall reminding about the need to find food upstairs
Pay for medbot healing with hunger
Add pumpkin and let other plants remove hunger, too
Add a hunger clock for humans and animals
Mention leap frog in game manual
Hint about leapfrog in brawl scenario note
Make it easier to understand trying to go below the bottommost level is futile
Handle the meta note about scenario separately
Make sure tutorial scenarios have enough melee weapons
Fix short scenario levels mistakenly thought to be relative to depth 15 not 10
Update wrt door closing changes in the engine
Reiterate win conditions in scenario descriptions
Improve the descriptions for the reaction fire rings
Mention in the manual that HP starts at half max
Reformat game peculiarities list in the manual
Overhaul the order and blurbs of game modes
Make raid scenario squad-based
Rework new game start menus
Fix a corruption of backstory text
Copy the list of distinguishing features from Allure homepage
Restructure chronologically the game manual with verbs as section titles
Get rid of 'x-hair'
Mark some text files as out of date
Add a couple more paragraph breaks in content descriptions
Reformat backstory for display in main menu
Remove text data files
Replace old OFL-licensed font with new ones
Re-indent the backstory
Comment about why animals rarely eat food
Rename tactics to doctrine
Get rid of the henchman notion
Rename leader to pointman
Update decontaminator now that personal inventories are gone
Mention the ! key whenever KP_* is mentioned
Fix countless typos
Start using cabal-plan
Fix and improve Makefile, cabal file and CI scripts
Improve and update game manual and help texts wrt game changes
Countless changes in the LambdaHack engine and the induced changes in Allure

v0.9.5.0

Fix NumLock disabled in the browser
In screen reader frontend, highlight active menu line with the cursor
Fix commited debug value of rwriteSaveClips
Clone the main main menu commands as map mode commands
Add C-RMB and C-S-LMB as alternatives of MMB
Announce prominently MMB binding for describing map positions
Break the misleading alignment of movement key help paragraphs and pictures
Clean up the default config file, keeping compatibility
Make scenario names longer and slighlty more informative
Make Vi movement keys the default in addition to keypad and mouse
Fix a bug where death prompt when autoplaying was capturing a keypress
Let ESC from main menu return to insert coin mode, if applicable
Make various small UI tweaks, especially to main menu and its submenu
Let main menu lines have 35, not 30, characters
Make the main menu ASCII art less intrusive (and easier for screen readers)
Don't invalidate the score file due to game minor (only) version bump

v0.9.4.0

Tweak razor organs
In vty frontend highlight actors more
Clean up actor highlighting
Add yell/yawn to minimal command set, remove swerving the aiming line
Invoke yell/yawn exclusively with '%', due tor Windows and terminal woes
Move C-c command to C, not to mask C-c on console frontends
Tweak and fix vty console frontends, for screen-readers
React specially at gameover under certain special circumstances
Simpliy assignSlot now that slots are auto-sorted
Get rid of explicit item sorting; let lore and menu slots agree
Make DetectExit non-modal
Mark in a game end confirmation message that more treasure can be found
Add a description to the escape embedded item
Reword gameover text for raid scenario
Be more verbose when confirming escape from the game
Don't claim to summon, when not possible on this level
Fix missing 'no longer poisoned' when applying antidote
Don't ask confirmation for neutral (e.g., not IDed) items
Fix 'you fall down; you stand on a sword'
Prevent selecting regions via mouse down in web frontend
Deselect item if player declines to apply or fling
Hand-hold the player, warning if flung item is beneficial
Hand-hold the player, warning if applied item is harmful
Rewrite the condition in UI applyItem check
Improve the lobable item skill failure message
Let mouse buttons describe tiles, etc.
Unblock S-MouseButton in SDL2 frontend
Always describe things under mouse button
Make the message when hitting dead foe more varied

v0.9.3.0, aka 'Double of everything'

Make maximal level size twice higher
Extend the spaceship to 15 decks
Expand game content to fill the more numerous and often twice larger levels
Vary size and position of levels
Adjust help screens to twice higher display size
Introduce message classes with configurable behaviour
Create a new 16x16 font and use it everywhere; tweak smaller fonts
Lock some levels or otherwise make ascending tricky
Add cooldown to most melee weapons, display that in HUD, adjust AI
Add per-scenario and per-outcome gameover messages in content
Add duplicate and reroll item effects in preparation for crafting
Add actor and item analytics as a preparation for XP gain quests
Implement piercing projectiles that may share a tile with a big actor
Increase the spawn speed now that monsters sleep a lot
Introduce actors falling asleep and yelling
Allow any level size and position
Mention places when looking at tiles and add place lore menu
Expand all kinds of content and rebalance
Create and rework all item, cave and plot prose (Dan Keefe @Peritract)
Make explosives in cramped spaces twice weaker
Tweak player fling command
Tweak equipping when equipment overfull
Start cycling stores at equipment since that's the one mentioned in help
Overhaul CI scripts
Restructure and clean up codebase
Extend balance debugging tools, using item and actor analytics, places, etc.
Drop the gameplay option that first death means defeat
Avoid idle-GC between slow keystrokes
Put content data into a compact region to limit GC
Remove the border around web frontend game screen; seems unneeded now
Don't draw aiming line nor path in vty frontend
Highlight xhair by cursor in vty frontend
Highlight player by cursor in vty frontend
Switch the default FPS to 24 for tradition's sake
Highlight current high score
Remove most stopPlayBack, now spurious, because message classes used
Overhaul cabal file: define common options, split into internal libraries
Fix confusion of nub and uniq
Rename short wait to lurk and many lurks to heed
Show a red message when HP or Calm dip too low or when foe appears
Lose Calm and so alert AI even at weakest non-zero HP draining attacks
Enable screenshots while in menus
Rename config options related to fonts
Recolour aiming line not to clash with the red crosshair
Exchange the functions of yellow and red highlight
Tweak all colours, in particular to differentiate blues/cyans
Cap bright colours at 85 CIELAB Lightness at D65
Normalize dark colours to be between 42 and 57 CIELAB Lightness at D65
Get rid of colorIsBold option; KISS
Tint white in alternating lines with different hue for long text readability
Don't split lines at articles
Set xhair to currently meleed foe to see his HP
Display speed on HUD; tweak status lines in other ways
Don't show description of leader target in HUD; TMI
Help AI flee in a consistent direction over many turns
Expose the save backup command, for browser games
Don't display target info when item selected
Let AI actors spawn even quite far from the player
Auto-select all new team members, to help new players
Replace O by zero on the map display; make zero distinct from O in all fonts
Flesh out the initial ? prompt
Add 'I' alias for pack-related commands, unless laptop key-scheme used
Turn off movementLaptopKeys by default not to confuse new players
Make sure AI attacks bosses even if distant and fleeing or non-moving
Lower bonus HP at extreme difficulty
Add a separate frame for each projectiles start
Don't go modal at the frequent and weak hidden tile detection effect
Make AI pick closest stairs more often
Let apply-unskilled actors activate embedded items
Don't boost damage by speed unless actor is projectile
If everything else fails, let AI flee by opening doors
Help AI actor prevent being dominated
Make computing gameplay benefit to items more accurate
Rename, clone and fine-tune effect Temporary
Simplify code and content by getting rid of Recharging effect
Let applying periodic items only produce the first effect
Tweak item detection to help in skipping boring level portions and in stealth
Invoke and display embedded items in the order specified in tile definitions
Let lit trails illuminate colonnades
Prevent an exploit for avoiding self-invoked firecrackers
Don't let AI attempt summoning if not enough Calm
Improve item label bracket codes in menus
Pick randomly destination stairs if teleporting level
Display the number of items in store
Summarize value of player loot in shared stash menu's header
Start history menu at the close-up of the last message
Make fast-dying insects aggressive
Overhaul game score DSL and particular scoring definitions in content
Add and extend messages, e.g., tell if victim blocks and with what armor
Extend and rework menu manipulation keys
Remove specialized quaff, read and throw commands; KISS
Split walls of text into more paragraphs and/or make them narrower
Extend and update help and manual
Don't let AI waste time looting distant lone projectiles
Make Enum instances of Point and Vector contiguous, hackily
Make dominated actor drop all his items, for ID and in case he defects ASAP
Try to find a non-waiting action, if better AI leader can't be found
Prevent summoning OoD actors
Let animals eat food and add several foods
Make Domination effect harder to activate
Let only actors and items with SkOdor property leave smell and add perfumes
Let spawning rate level out after a few dozen spawns
Describe smell, if present in an inspected tile
Let pushed actor fly after crashing a door open
Show passing time and heard events even if no actors in the UI faction
When movement impossible, describe the tile with SHIFT-direction
Catch and steal projectiles when braced instead of when weaponless
Let actors that are pushed perform any action in addition to movement
Improve deduplication of messages
When describing actor on map, tell if it has loot
Represent being braced as having an organ; also add other pseudo-organs
Overhaul hearing to facilitate triangulation based on sound cues
Prefer to spawn aquatic actors on aquatic tiles
Add swimming and flying skills and shallow water tile features
Boost/drain skills via many new items
Rework and extend skills and their effects as a preparation for XP rewards
Enable specifying each side of outer cave fence separately
Make definition of caves of a scenario more precise
Specify more properties of levels in content
Extend content validation
Improve placement and fitting stairs and rooms on levels
Don't hardwire level size
Simplify game rules content
Change the format of game client content
Fix an arbitrary delay in killing dying actors
Fix arbitrary branch of a corridor chosen when running
Fix bush patches blocking off a level's corner
Fix config file ignored at game reinit
Fix running disturbed by flavours of walls
Fix splitting lines one character too early
Fix Calm drain from nearby foes occurring only every other turn
Fix some AI looping movement, in particular when fleeing
Fix running into own periodic explosions, e.g., from necklaces
Fix 'she painfullies collide'
Fix AI with vector targets unwilling to change them
Fix crash when attempting to fling at a target on remote level
Fix wrong timestamps in history
Fix, again, various kinds of frames intruding between fadeout and fadein
Fix wrong pluralization of some item names, compound and exceptions
Fix disabled items benefit recalculation after item kind learned
Fix in many ways too close initial faction and item positions
Fix performance in many ways and places, particularly for JS translation
Fix missing perception updates, causing missed AI actions concerning us
Fix uninitialized sarenas, which was probably causing resume to change state
Fix weak AI actors fleeing even if enemy can't melee
Fix and optimize sifting free tiles for spawn/summon location
Fix various cases of excessive summoning
Fix recording of item first seen level
Fix many problems with item descriptions and other messages
Fix reporting of reduction and elimination of actor conditions
Fix reading and interpreting old format config files
Fix synced initial item timeouts and actor times, leading to artificial feel
Fix actors erratically following their leader
Fix lifts continuing as stars and the other way around
Fix various 32bit overflows
Fix other errors, probably not present or not visible in previous version

v0.8.3.0

Add a hack to run SDL2 on the main thread, fixing the OS X crash
Warn visually when impressed and Calm running low, risking domination
Display actor as red when low Calm and impressed or when low HP
Fix, complete and fine tune UI, AI and server skill and weapon checks
Fix a bug where item aspects look different to clients than to the server
Change the requirements for the main menu ASCII art
Tweak loot and terrain a tiny bit

v0.8.1.2

Fix typos detected by lintian
Fix the code that runs in case of old async (bug introduced in v0.8.1.1)

v0.8.1.1

no player-visible changes
make it possible to compile with old async package
rewrite copyright information according to Debian format
make github display the correct main license

v0.8.1.0

no player-visible changes
significantly reduce RAM usage when compiling library
update and extend CI

v0.8.0.0, aka 'Explosive dashboard'

display initial bits of backstory as a help screen and in-game
rework greying out menu items and permitting item application and projection
rework history collection; merge message repetitions more aggressively
display HP in red when below (configurable) warning threshold
tweak AI: actors remember they are fleeing; better leader choice, etc.
add to content specialized explosive projectiles; tune the effects
calculate loot score component based on fraction of dungeon loot collected
don't hardwire item price, but let it be specified in content
let all valuables glitter in the dark to avoid complete level exploration
teach AI to cure ailments and shake off impressions
rework detection effects; add detection of items embedded in tiles
automatically identify stolen items that only have minor effects
let projectiles hit each other if fragile and substantial enough
rework item kind identification code; change the way it's defined in content
make more item kinds (including some traps) secret
protect paralyzed actors with a stasis condition to avoid infinite paralysis
implement dumping screenshots in SDL2 and create animated GIFs in Makefile
generate most common consumables less often, but in depth-scaled bunches
make pushed actors alter tiles and trigger effects of embedded items
validate and cross-validate more content; reduce content creation boilerplate
make summoning more varied and prevent chain-summoning
add many ways to conditionally sequence effects
create large, merged rooms more often
generalize the terrain altering player command (C-c, mouse)
let RET, SPACE and ESC clear pending messages, if any
add dashboard with links to all menus and info screens
scale some organ and trap power with level depth
simplify level-scaled dice roll semantics
change scaled dice notation 'dl' to 'dL' for readability in-game
rebalance items and decrease dice variety to unclutter backpack
colour-code beneficial and harmful conditions in menu and in HUD
display item lore (also for organs, embedded items, explosions, etc.)
display embedded item descriptions as if they were tile descriptions
tweak blast visuals, lower particle counts, beautify their spread
tweak projectile visuals, e.g., display an extra frame when projectile dies
add intro screen and work on other ways to convey story
simplify a lot of code, including a bit of game rules
fix some bugs, tweak content, speed up some AI bottlenecks

v0.7.1.0, aka 'Ancient troubles'

add amazing cave and item (actor, blast, organ) descriptions
package for Windows as an installer and also as zip archives
fix a crash from SDL frontend under some OpenGL drivers (no thread-safety)
add WWW address to the Main Menu, for other sites that may run our JS blob

v0.7.0.0, aka 'The dice are cast'

decouple tile searching from tile alteration
refrain from identifying items that are not randomized
switch away from incapacitated leader to let others revive him
make rescue easier by not going into negative HP the first time
fix crowd of friends on another level slowing even actors that melee
fix missing report about items underneath an actor when changing levels
API breakage: change the syntax of dice in content
API addition: introduce cave descriptions
keep all client states in the server and optimize communication with clients
improve item choice for identification and item polymorphing
reset embedded items when altering tile
replace atomic command filtering with exception catching
reimplement dice as symbolic expressions inducing multiple RNG calls
switch to optparse-applicative and rewrite cli handling
add stack and cabal new-build project files
improve haddocks across the codebase

v0.6.2.0, aka 'Zoom out'

make fireworks slower and so easier to spot
make rattlesnake deeper but more common
announce no effect of activation
describe original and current faction of an actor
highlight dominated actors
mark organs with comma instead of percent and gems with dollar
make the healing cave dangerous to prevent camping
slightly balance various content
by default move item the same as last time
often spawn between heroes and stairs going deeper
fix totalUsefulness computation for negative effects
fix abandoning distant enemy target despite no alternatives
fix slow pushing of actors
fix a crash when many actors run towards stairs
hotfix: Pass zoom keys through to the browser
help players find the info about changing the font size
depend on GHC >= 8.0 and new vector

v0.6.1.0, aka 'Breaking one rule at a time'

major engine bugfix: fix redrawing after window minimized and restored
major engine bugfix: hack around vanishing texture on Windows
major engine bugfix: hack around SDL backends not thread-safe on Windows
update wrt the only breaking API change: specify font dir in game rules content
let the game use its own fonts, not fonts from the sample game in library
tweak some item creation to occur in character's pack, not on the ground
slightly balance various content
make sure the 'resolution' effect is not a drawback
make artifact weapon rarities more regular
avoid creating lit, open dungeon at the bottom, where foes have ranged weapons
number scenarios in user descriptions

v0.6.0.0, aka 'Too much to tell'

add and modify a lot of content: items, tiles, embedded items, scenarios
improve AI: targeting, stealth, moving in groups, item use, fleeing, etc.
make monsters more aggressive than animals
tie scenarios into a loose, optional storyline
add more level generators and more variety to room placement
make stairs not walkable and use them by bumping
align stair position on the levels they pass through
introduce noctovision
increase human vision to 12 so that normal speed missiles can be sidestepped
tweak and document weapon damage calculation
derive projectile damage mostly from their speed
make heavy projectiles better vs armor but easier to sidestep
improve hearing of unseen actions, actors and missiles impacts
let some missiles lit up on impact
make torches reusable flares and add blankets for dousing dynamic light
add detection effects and use them in items and tiles
make it possible to catch missiles, if not using weapons
make it possible to wait 0.1 of a turn, at the cost of no bracing
improve pathfinding, prefer less unknown, alterable and dark tiles on paths
slow down actors when acting at the same time, for speed with large factions
don't halve Calm at serious damage any more
eliminate alternative FOV modes, for speed
stop actors blocking FOV, for speed
let actor move diagonally to and from doors, for speed
improve blast (explosion) shapes visually and gameplay-wise
add SDL2 frontend and deprecate GTK frontend
add specialized square bitmap fonts and hack a scalable font
use middle dot instead of period on the map (except in teletype frontend)
add a browser frontend based on DOM, using ghcjs
improve targeting UI, e.g., cycle among items on the map
show an animation when actor teleports
add character stats menu and stat description texts
add item lore and organ lore menus
add a command to sort item slots and perform the sort at startup
add a single item manipulation menu and let it mark an item for later
make history display a menu and improve display of individual messages
display highscore dates according to the local timezone
make the help screen a menu, execute actions directly from it
rework the Main Menu
rework special positions highlight in all frontends
mark leader's target on the map (grey highlight)
visually mark currently chosen menu item and grey out impossible items
define mouse commands based on UI mode and screen area
let the game be fully playable only with mouse, use mouse wheel
pick menu items with mouse and with arrow keys
add more sanity checks for content
reorganize content in files to make rebasing on changed content easier
rework keybinding definition machinery
let clients, not the server, start frontends
version savefiles and move them aside if versions don't match
lots of bug fixes internal improvements and minor visual and text tweaks

v0.5.0.0, aka 'Halfway through space'

let AI put excess items in shared stash and use them out of shared stash
let UI multiple items pickup routine put items that don't fit into equipment into shared stash, if possible, not into inventory pack
re-enable the ability to hear close, invisible foes
add a few more AI and autonomous henchmen tactics (CTRL-T)
keep difficulty setting over session restart
change some game start keybindings
replace the Duel game mode with the Raid game mode
various bugfixes, minor improvements and balancing

v0.4.101.1, aka 'Officially fun'

the game is now officially fun to play, with a seal of the Galactic Council
introduce unique boss monsters and unique artifact items
add robots that heal the player, in particular as a mid-game reset for HP
move spaceship airlock to level 10 and beef up spaceship crew
let AI gang up, attempt stealth and react to player aggressiveness
spawn actors fast, close to the enemy and in large numbers
spawn actors less and less often on a given level, but with growing depth
prefer weapons with effects, if recharged
make the bracing melee bonus additive, not multiplicative
let explosions buffet actors around
make braced actors immune to translocation effects
make actor domination yet less common and deadly
use mouse for movement, actor selection, aiming
don't run straight with selected actors, but go-to cross-hair with them
speed up default frame rate, slow down projectiles visually
rework item manipulation UI
you can pick up many items at once and it costs only one turn
allow actors to apply and project from the shared stash
reverse messages shown in player diary
display actor organs and stats
split highscore tables wrt game modes
move score calculation formula to content
don't keep the default/example config file commented out; was misleading
update vs the naughtily changed v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API

v0.4.100.0, aka 'The last interstellar thaw'

update vs the unexpectedly thawed v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API
unexpectedly add items with timeouts and temporary effects
start campaign on level 3 and don't spawn aliens until level 4
rebalance campaign (probably still too hard)
tweak skills of some factions and actors
rename tablets to chips to make their vanishing easier to understand
make colorful characters bold (if it resizes your fonts, turn off via colorIsBold = False in config file or --noColorIsBold on commandline)
start the game with a screensaver safari mode
improve keyboard handling on Windows
add i386 Linux and Windows compilation targets to Makefile

v0.4.99.0, aka 'Player escapes through airlock'

balance game content a bit (campaign still unbalanced)
fix a bug where doors can't be closed
assign AI tactics to players, in particular use follow-the-leader in safari
specify monster spawn rate per-cave
generally update content to the new v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API

v0.4.14, aka 'Out of cosmic balance'

add tons of new (unbalanced) items, actors and descriptions
add a simple cabal test in addition to make-test and travis-test
add items of Wonder and of Marvel
add game mechanics, items and places to enable stealthy tactics
add lots of shrapnel (explosions) and organs (body parts)
expose a bit of the plot via new game modes and their order

v0.4.12

make walls lit by default to simplify exploration
improve and simplify dungeon generation
simplify running and permit multi-actor runs
let items explode and generate shrapnel projectiles
add game difficulty setting (initial HP scaling right now)
allow recording, playing back and looping commands
implement pathfinding via per-actor BFS over the whole level
extend setting targets for actors in UI tremendously
implement autoexplore, go-to-target, etc., as macros
let AI use pathfinding, switch leaders, pick levels to swarm to
force level/leader changes on spawners (even when played by humans)
extend and redesign UI bottom status lines

v0.4.10

screensaver game modes (AI vs AI)
improved AI (can now climbs stairs, etc.)
multiple, multi-floor staircases
multiple savefiles
configurable framerate and combat animations

v0.4.8

experimental multiplayer modes
a lot of gameplay changes induced by the engine overhaul and in particular the client-server rewrite

v0.4.6.5

this is a minor release, primarily intended to fix the broken compilation on Hackage
changes since 0.4.6 are mostly unrelated to gameplay:
- strictly typed config files split into UI and rules
- a switch from Text to String throughout the codebase
- use of the external library miniutter for English sentence generation

v0.4.6

the Main Menu
improved and configurable mode of squad combat

v0.4.4

missiles flying for three turns (by an old kosmikus' idea)
visual feedback for targeting
animations of combat and individual monster moves

v0.4.3

the Allure of the Stars game depends on the LambdaHack engine library