Changelog of @hackage/Allure 0.9.4.0

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 end-game 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