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