Changelog of @hackage/LambdaHack 0.11.0.1

v0.11.0.1

Split the long Content.ModeKind texts into lines, #283
In unit tests, re-use values from UnitTestHelpers and Game.LambdaHack.Common.Kind, #286
Rename unsnoc (see #300)
Bump the bound on hsini to handle trailing whitespace properly
Hack around a crash when TABbing during item manipulation
Document better that macros start with Cmd_
Correct a typo in test/Spec.hs
Add the communication overhead explanation proposed by fYnch
Compress detail levels and don't show paths at DetailHigh
Balance speedrunning and explain it better in player docs
Change failed alter message to less confusing; thanks go to Pug
Tweak tutorial hint enums and tests
Make lore menu with all tutorial hints
Don't punish naughty window managers with spammy warning
Try harder to prevent resizing in SDL
Change install from Hackage instructions so that they work outside package dir
Interrupt sleep and running a bit less

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
Extend LH game mode a descriptions since people play it instead of Allure
Make sure every cave has a description
Many fixes, refactorings and tweaks

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
Default to more old-fashioned small fonts in LambdaHack the game
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)
Add hlint to CI
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

Let '?' scroll help
Handle Alt and Shift modifiers together
Advertise the C- Tab command instead of A-
Ignore empty lines in history, just in case
Don't keep trailing endlines in history
Don't include placeholders in history.txt
Retry explosions 10 instead of 100 times
Point crosshair to a modified tile to easily get lore info
Point crosshair to a bumped tile to easily get lore info
Don't spam when reporting that crafting is forbidden
Prevent AI from attempting to fling when challenge forbids it
Hint about absolute paths to fonts
Disable testing ubuntu fonts, because they can't be distributed in Debian
If any savefile corrupted, move aside all
Be more consistent about moving corrupted files aside
Stop running when passing a door, etc.
Make the game over lore headers sound more natual
Do not mention embeds in minimal detail
Tweak detail in one step to minimal
Don't let distant taunts interrupt running
Add a comment about fleeing from stash
Help AI not to leave a scout guarding the stash
Ensure some gems in escape scenario
Don't show embed descriptions by default now that ~ does that easily
Add one more typical organ symbol
Avoid cut off descriptions of conditional effects
Prefer weapons with burn or wound
Pick up bad weapons if decent projectiles
Slightly prefer weapons that have any effects
Permit cycling through pointed-at lore with tilde
Split chooseItemDialogMode into several functions
Permit pointed-at lore display also outside aiming mode
Reset the pointed at lore display sequence
Maintain current state of lore display
Save current state of being-aimed-at lore display
Don't use timeout weapon if non-timeout as strong
Add delay to pushed frames, to notice things shorter than a turn
Pretty-print activationFlag to make it more understandable
Replace the special periodic activation handling with effect conditions
Replace the special effect handling under ranged with effect condition
Set ActivationOnCombine in one case for now
Replace EffOnSmash by ActivationOnSmash
Add effect condition based on activation method
Add Unless effect
Introduce ActivationFlag in place of EffActivation type
Make server check that melee is done with a legal weapon
Add a failure about meleeing with not a weapon
Get rid of a lot of spurious instances
Don't say a hit was amusing if non-piercing damage was high
Vary also the block messages when high armor
Use 'a' and 'the' in dangerous item use confirmations
Prevent safe spots near centres of big explosions
Permit explosions to sometimes go off inside unwalkable terrain
Don't sleep if the only friend on level is guarding the stash
Shorten mreason text for crawl to fit in main menu with square fonts
Don't hint to press '?' when it does nothing yet
Avoid empty manual page at the end with square font
Make sure spot crosshair description fits on the status line
Don't display the aim mode prefix when inside a menu
Experiment with item menu not insisting on selecting an item
Talk about the relevant lore command in manual
Hint about the relevant lore command
Make lore display context sensitive in aiming mode
Signal that lore command is sometimes context-sensitive
Don't add the interruption message unless useful
Don't wipe key status that opens main menu after automation
Permit random flavour assignment with brightCol, etc.
Don't make detection modal if not performed by player's faction
Don't describe the goal tile when performing mouse goto
Simplify turn display code, removing most of the newest additions
Remove another spurious source of frames
Remove spurious sources of frames
Re-add refined interrupted via messages
Ensure all frames when inside macro have one-line report only
Display interrupted also when messages interrupt macros
Factor out oneLineBasicFrame
Declare the codebase lens-free
Avoid distributing test.exe in Windows packages
Use squareToUI for mouse handling in the browser
Introduce game map coordinates: PointSquare
Update wrt PointUI transition in other frontends
Define UI screen coords in a separate file
Silence messages about dead actors activating most embeds
Make it possible to prevent the sleep effect
Remove savefiles if config file too old
Force savegame load result to catch errors ASAP
Wait until browser finalizes Local Storage in the background
Throw a Haskel exception when JS decompression fails on an old savefile
Now that browser compresses savefiles, permit full history size
Limit DOM keyboard focus highjacking, etc.
Tell player when browser can be closed
Use lz-string.js externs for minification
Compress savefiles in GHCJS
Bump base-compat bound to include Data.Semigroup compat
Simplify containers for explosions
Start embedded explosions inside the tile, not inside projectile
Exclude meta game items from combat messages
Move snxtScenario to session
Avoid 'you are less more tidy'
Don't count valuables inside organs to dungeon total
Clarify that normal damage is piercing, as opposed to blunt wounding
Change the misleading 'guards a hoard'
When dropped, destroy any organs, not only conditions
Don't hint to press ? when it would skip some messages
Explain why the fadeout report is rendered in square font
Show each tutorial hint at most once per game
Require keypress when another faction killed off
Don't show question marks in HUD for MinorAspects items
Add MinorAspects flag
Get rid of the mechanism for referring expressions across messages
Commute freely messages about conditions lasting longer
Add NopEffect
Add AtMostOneOf effect constructor
Assign stable faction IDs to teams with continuity
Display also actor initial items, not only organs
Use Condition flag, not group, for speed and simplicity
Keep paragraphs of the same width, unless the first really short
Add the 'stomachs' irregular plural
Don't identify item if PutToSleep applied to sleeping actor
Permit question marks in verb effects
Do not announce item trigger if explicit and so already told
Do not report conditions triggered when they vanish
Inform differently when sleep induced by own organ, etc.
Reflect that item triggering message appears after the fact
Do not spam when backstory can't trigger yet
Give more details in logs when item triggering does not work
Do not spam about water being activated
Prevent server failure when triggering a gold piece
Log item application even from, e.g., periodic activation
Don't announce that a dying actors stopped being hungry
Add a temporary hack that prevents AI from stealing backstories in Allure
Hardwire the player team continuity token
Don't identify meta game items at game end
Implement conditional effects
At death, destroy all organs, not just the trunk
Permit non-unique non-singleton flavours
Render story flavours specially
Announce identification even during melee
Inform about discovering meta game organs
Make sure heroes spawned in safari mode are properly numbered
Add a few more hero names
Improve the descritpion of MetaGame flag
Record meta game gear for future games
Consume current, not persistent team gear
Create gear according to character preferences, if any
Use server-assigned actor numbers in the client
Assign index numbers to actors from continued teams
Add continued team character counter
Generalize hero gear to each team with continuity
Store team continuity in a faction
Add team continuity across scenarios to content
Add persistent sheroGear to server state
Add a comment about why aspects of meta game items are not preserved
Keep flavour of MetaGame items between games
Keep identity of MetaGame items between games
Simplify and speed up serverDiscos
Add a flag to keep item identified between games
Make sure pushed actors never hit before flying away
Use lookupActorTime instead of manually inlining
Only activate the first effect with UnderRanged and UnderMelee
Simplify deflection descriptions given they don't stack in practice, after all
Describe the new challenges in the manual
Implement disabled flinging challenge
Implement disabled crafting challenge
Add two more challenges
Display tutorial hint only for bad temporary conditions
Let AI use items with -1 speed, e.g., shields
Improve valuing of SkDeflectRanged and SkDeflectMelee
Try not to recompile dependencies between cabal-plan and LambdaHack
Try to work around packages not updated for GHC 9.0.1
Add deflection temporary conditions
Add GHC 9.0.1 to travis and .cabal
Implement skills for ranged and melee invulnerability
Add skills for ranged and melee invulnerability
Implement flags for applying when under attack
Add flags for auto-activation when under attack
Let AI with low skill target suspect terrain
Prevent AI from trying to trigger blocked tiles
Explain why we crop surface, not texture, even for prop font
Explain the pointman/leader discrepancy
Gut out the last remain of 'cabal list-bin'
Add some list-bin debug to travis script
Explain away a text rendering artifact
Make sure speaking unique messages are not ignored
Don't interrupt for taunt messages
Move the tutorial hint about hearing taunts to the correct place
Add tutorial hints about taking damage
Only save to log any interruptible messages while in melee
Add some more tutorial hint messages
Write key names as on the keyboard, button names as in the button
When leader stands over an item, say so, not 'notices item'
Unify pluralization of skills and challenges
Add some tutorial hint messages
Add the first tutorial hint
Start with tutorial hints, but not in screensaver mode
Ignore tutorial hints, as needed
Give a more informative message when detecting that AI stuck
Move tutorial hint options from state to session because they are UI-only
Keep the tutorial override option from game to game
Implement the convenience option to override tutorial hint display
Add a convenience option to override tutorial hint display
Set tutorial messages according to game mode
Toggle tutorial messages when starting a game
Mark some game modes as tutorials
Display manual at the end of help
Keep the rest of the manual in content
Split manual into paragraphs aware of some markdown formatting
Simplify an address in manual not to spill over 80 columns
Make duplicate errors more informative (fixes #204)
Factor out movementDefinitions
Hint in config file to disable the special movement keys
Hint that stealth if possible and AI vs player symmetric
Save after game over, to preserve history
Limit mentions of 'playing' not to break immersion
Delimit with colour the known endings section of F1 screen
Change 'scenario' to 'adventure' to be more immersive
Dedupe special item and lore menu overlay handling
Strenghten the types in item and lore menu code
Display scenario lore (fixes #157)
Factor our scenario description code
Mention that scale needs to be configured for high dpi displays, see #164
Shorten some travis tests
Make full map position info mode the default
Refer to the inspected map position as 'here', not 'there'
Use the actor pronoun when describing items at the same position (fixes #215)
Don't switch the subject from enemy actor to self for the same map position
Don't chain dependent sentences when examining map position
Improve the wording of actor blurbs when inspecting map postions
When inspecting map locations, make items subjects (see #215)
Make it more obvious the game outcomes are fixed terms
Compute BFS with Word16, not Word8; slower, but some paths are longs
Be more careful avoiding 32bit overflows in frequencies (for JS)
Don't interpret the common desktop-switching key combinations
Clear the margins also when redrawing after viewpane changed
Specify fullscreen in config file and override on commandline
Implement both kinds of fullscreen
Name variable same as record field
Remove help comment regarding SDL-only
Add fullscreen CLI option for SDL renderer
Indent by 4, not 2, proportional spaces
Disable brew-sdl2-osx in travis that now takes too long
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
Use embedded fonts, unless absolute path is given
Embed game-supplied font files
Try to be more verbose where running cabal test in appveyor
Don't create ~/.test directory when testing
Version config file; fixes #220
Don't error out if the effect-causing item is not seen by strangers
Add assertionz that, normally, items are known by actors affected by them
Hardwire a few less colours
Mention the item responsible for an effect, unless spammy
Get rid of a left over no-repetition message helper
Pass on the item responsible for an effect
Start main menus at the first normal item
Open game homepage when clicked in Main Menu
Write the homepage address in full in Main Menu
Depend on open-browser package
Make the game over messages more colourful; fixes #213
Tweak the display of game over messages
Make one kind of ending message more precise and colourful
Display camped and restarted endings in F1 scenario screen
Save which games are camped or restarted
Add default messages for Restart and Camping; fixes #212
Sort outcome constructors for best display in F1 scenario screen
Colour only outcome name in game over header
Refactor renderSection in preparation of multi-color lines
Avoid 'restart in foggy mode'
Unify rendering of game outcomes; fixes #210
Remove a leftover mention of rmainMenuArt
Improve the colours of the F1 scenario description screen
Expose the meaning of colours for the use in other modules
Specify also defeat endings
Make headers in F1 scenario screen monospace
Factor out attrLinesToFontMap
Render F1 scenario screen better; fixes #208
Add tests for many game modes in one session; fixes #228
Add slowCrawl make target to observe AI in detail
Mention in item description it's unique, because name may not underscore it
Ignore the placeholder messages when displaying one message
Don't overwrite prop with mono overlay even if the latter empty
Add placeholders to history display, fixing #236
Add a comment about historyMax divisible by screenful
Improve message class of HP-affecting effects display
Mark with dots if the show distinct messages different than the longer
Implement distinct messages for becoming more affected by a condition
Implement distinct messages for SfxTimerExtended
Move messages that are hard to scrap to Distinct class, to fix it
Prepare ppSfxMsg for Distinct messages
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
Let MsgRunStopReason suffice for running interruption
Save spam, but don't show
Clean up scraping messages
Don't run if ordered to run into solid tile
Reword the short post-action messages
Don't show both terrain description and a warning about it in yellow
Typeset one line of history view the same as whole history
Make some messages longer to look better on a separate line
Reverse history to match the order of messages shown on screen normally
No longer specify initial repetition of a message
Eliminate not saving and not repeating messages using counts
Use allB in a couple more asserts
Assert message constructors have proper length
Get rid of message class GADT as designed by Alex Byaly, simplifying code
Wrap first line of overlay at half the screen, not earlier
Make indentSplitAttrString more accurate
Tweak unique entities in content, adding 'the' as needed; fixes #214
Don't capitalize and add 'the' to unique entities
Be more verbose when displacing over laying items
Align single high score lines
Copy-paste-hacked enlarging line-wrap treshold if too long headers then fit
Fine-tune display of too long reports
Display message classes aligned
Rename message class constructors for better display
Display message class in grey
Indent wrapped messages
In messages, replace some magenta risks by bright red harms
Be careful measuring length of multi-line texts for wrapping
Use the config option for one message per line on screen
Hide the implementation of Msg, again
Display message class in history if one per line
Don't report HP changes of projectiles
Use the config option for one message per line in history
Pass along the config option for one message per line in history
Add config options for one message per line
Rename the item spotting message
Bring back filtering empty messages, to fix checking if report empty
Add Show instance to history and its components for debugging
Improve removing EOLs when deduplicating messages
Remove MsgItemMoveLog now that one message class suffices for two components
Get rid of isSavedToHistory and isDisplayed encoded now in the GADT
Customize messages more comfortably
Simplify restarting client
Remove the code enabling multiple UI clients
Don't spawn many UI clients, but re-assign a single one
Make MsgClass a GADT
Eliminate Binary instance of MsgClass in preparation of GADT
In config file, specify prefixes of message class names
Change colour of game start message to a nicer one
Issue special messages when actor fall to sleep or wake up
Tweak message class use and colour assignment again
Remove abuse of MsgTileDisco
Recolour enemy spotted animation according to colour meaning table
Redo colour assignment to messages
Update frontends to highlight changes
Change the colour of names of sleeping actors to blue
Reflect changes in highlighting in the manual
Swap blue and green highlights
Highlight dominated actors more distinctly, as proposed by @bulbousBullfrog
Rename confusing message classes
Make sure indented texts are wrapped at earlier position
Make most texts wrap before full screen width
Extend UI.Content.Screen validation
Tweak texts to fit on screen easily with square font
Permit wrapping messages after N columns
Prefer stairs in bottom right corners to leave space for messages
Prefer levels in bottom right corners to leave space for messages
Update documentation to the config changes
Prevent friendly AI from wasting time nosing around our stash
Rename an identifier to a consistent form
Limit the size of monospace prompts when keypress requested
Redo message colours given that some colours get a very thin font, possibly
Use a mixture of fonts in the challenges menu
Comment the config file some more
Render all titles in mono font
Typeset mouse command table in varied font
Gut out Ubuntu Family Fonts from Debian package, because non-free
Beautify CREDITS
Rand the fontsets differently
Make the fontset tests more random
Don't run noopt travis tests on normal length crawl
Test all fontsets
Extend client logging
Make the game reentrant
Prevent mangled newlines in concurrent screen writes
Permit text usage in tests
Refactor mkUIOptions to require less content
Settile on 'auxiliary fonts' instead of 'long text'
Hardwire GTK font size to fix breakage from config format change
Simplify FontSetup
Implement scaling all fonts easily and safely
Add font scaling option to config and commandline
Prevent overspill when prop font is, in fact, mono
Remove the now unused portions of config and commandline
Make getFontSetup more accurate (not used yet)
Eliminate really the last dependency on old config file fields
Add a comment about lack of optimization for duplicated fonts
Eliminate one last dependency on old config file fields
Hardwire the font families to use for GTK frontend
Use the two weights of prop font
Recover old SDL frontend functionality using new config
Move font types to make importing them in ClientOptions legal
Let fontset be chosen on commandline as well
Extend config file with font and fontset definitions
Molify Debian's lintian
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
Add commented out TTF.setHinting directive
Crop too high fonts more at the top than bottom
Get rid of the last traces of 'exploiting' terrain
Simplify and speed up linearInterpolation (not benchmarked)
Change which test is run in -O0 travis
Make final version of integer casts hardening, using the type-level int-cast
Explain the communication overhead concept
Use toIntegralSized to crash when int wrap would occur during conversion
Parse config at compile time
Let foes occupiy exit in escape scenario, etc.
Add missing cskip specifications
If more info in history, end message with three dots
Bump GHC versions for testing
Bring back SPACE as clearning messages
Update the default config wrt changes to RET keybinding
Let ESC cancel the aiming line as well
Keep the order, modulo abs, of factions as in the roster
Don't switch level away from melee when positions not taken yet
Improve valuing AI displace action a bit
Increase expressiveness of initial actor generation
Permit tiny rooms if no stairs variety
Pick the sole actor for cwolf games ignoring empty specs
Remove length that forces the whole psFree, even though most unused
Don't drop initial actors if not enough initial faction positions
Remove a code check that is already in mode content check
Generate initial actors in the order given in content
Prepare types for more faithful initial actor generation
Rename ES.toList
Simplify populateDungeon and catch similar overcomplications
Generate initial actors in per-faction positions, not in alliances
Make the use of integral conversion easier to verify
Reword ESC description again
Settle on apostrophes to denote one-letter keyboard keys
Update command docs to command help changes
Let only ESC clear messages
Show newcomer aim mode help also when pressing ? in non-default detail level
Simplify how the hint prompt works
Align newcomer aiming help with ? help when aiming
Try harder to display errors in appveyor runs
Simplify and slightly fix linearInterpolation
Extend debug information when summoning fails for lack of space
Except for DetailLow, always show any description when examining
Give feedback of detail level also when item selected
Show item symbol in item lore view in square font
Tweak and fix item examination messages one last time
Change display of terrain more gradually as detail level rises
Simplify two cases of sortBy emulating sortOn performance-wise
Improve describing of items with words limit 1
Use partItemWsDetail for item description when examining
Make the second detail level the default
Fine-tune shortest item examination message once more
Move SPACE to CmdAim category
Document that MMB and RMB cycle detail level
Let RMB and MMB cycle detail level
Add aiming help line for newcomers with SPACE hint
Don't warn about our own actors
Reformat lookAtActors
Implement detail level for actor descriptions at position
Show position description components according to detail level
Show detail level in HUD
Redraw after detail level changed
Implement detail level for item descriptions at position
Match the new order of descriptions in a couple more places
Bind SPACE to cycle detail level in aiming mode
Add DetailCycle human command
Record detail level in the aiming mode state
Add and improve headers for scenario endings messages
Change sortBy to sortOn in a couple of places
Optimize truncateOverlay with the best of the sortOn and sortBy worlds
Replace some performance-wise wrong uses of sortOn with sortBy
Mark the last major outcome in F1 scenario screen
Change unique actor names to match the upcoming new convention
Don't show even deafeat messages in F1 if not experienced
Update the '?' hints to the new Tab semantics
Add dumping history to a text file
Advise to replay initial scenarios
Adjust the order of spotting to match the order when exploring
Swap the order of intrusion warning and enemy spotted message
Announce specially foes that have non-trivial items equipped
Clean up Content.Input.makeData
Destroy the trunk when actor dies, for death effects
Make sure embedded item desc stands out from the following activation info
Make unique speech heard regardless of distance
Let uniques taunt in a big way
Add type signatures to AI action picking functions
Reorder consistenly mode kind component definitions in the file
Extend rarity specs to above 10 logical levels
Improve comments and messages about Rarity datatype
Avoid spoiling victory game over messges, until seen
Factor out victoryOutcomes
Display game over messages in F1 scenario screen
Shorten a field name to avoid >80 length lines
Colour header in the F1 scenario screen
Disable a travis test that still panics
Revert the scenario choice font frop prop to mono, for typographic consistency
Shorten a flavour blurb to make it fit when font is square
Extend wrong line break avoidance to colourful texts
Display also flavour in scenario choice screen
Don't attempt to display F1 scenario blurb in square fonts with two columns
Don't display the extra TAB commands in item menu headers
Mention the new TAB commands in manual and keys sheet
Represent a key not appearing in help by empty categories, not CmdNoHelp
Enable pointman cycling key bindings with Control
Factor out the pointman cycling key bindings
Make sure item spotting messages are of proper length
When spotting new items, write short message to screen and long to history
Don't merge messages with different classes
Enable messages that are not displayed unless from history
When spotting items, sort them only once
Don't report each item located in stash in a separate sentence
Add verbosity flag to UpdSpotItemBag and UpdLoseItemBag
Make new Direction type more general so that it can be used in other cases
Add direction type to make cycle function less verbose
Add functionality of back-tabbing both across floors and within single levels
Add bool flag to cyclying so that direction will be possible
Change naming of member cycling in-code to be keypress agnostic
Swap S-Tab for A-Tab as new binding for cycling members on the same level
Swap descriptions in help file so that tab functionality matches description
Swap funcionality of Tab and S-Tab without renaming in-code
Reverse order of S-Tab so that it doesn't first cycle to another level
Add up to two EOLs in tile examination message
Order tile examination message elements by decreasing importance
Make terrain names harder to confuse with items
Improve messages and order of stores when moving items
Make ItemNotCalm message applicable to flinging and triggering, too
Tighten the result type of moveItems
Add a comment to the default config with an example for rebinding a key
Clarify that nominal values of burning and wounding are used
Don't call robots living
Don't display TMI about total condition time if come from explosions
Let AI prefer a buckler over a fist
Nag about the F1 screen when starting or resuming
Display info about scenario in F1 screen
Split mode note into motivation and hints to choose where text is displayed
Restructure text displayed on challenge menu to make it more clear
Add scenario rule notes to be displayed instead of full notes
Don't let crosshair obscure terrain, items and actors
Work around SDL treating tilde as paragraph on some Mac keyboards
Speed up DOM rendering by ignoring highlights if possible
Permit specifying seeds in the config file
Make attacking animation more subtle to distinguish from harm animation
Even in the subtle hit animation indicate who is the victim
Add a missing space between 'modify terrain stat' and '5' with square font
Make Burn as valuable as other damage for consistent UI display
Show very good no-timeouts weapons at the correct position
Partially hash-cons ItemQuant, with very modest effect
Change some occurences of trivial Quant to quantSingle
Simplify skill and place menu code
Don't multiply initialPlaces when preparing place display
Consume places for places menu more eagerly
Eliminate space leak when creating items
Avoid memory leak due to caves used for levels on a list
Fit the short help blurb in 4 lines
Start the game with a confirmation prompt
Sort weapons wrt timeout and item kinds ID as well
Simplify querying skills of the leader
Avoid long animations before the extra burn or wound animations
Change combat animations to easily distinguish attacker from attacked
Let AI displace teammates when no risk of displacing back
Restrict AI use of stash guards less harshly
Add a comment about allies stealing each other's stashes
Let AI keep fleeing if no support gained
Remove a few redundant TypeFamilies pragmas
Explain in a comment why on a level with stash many sleeping may accumulate
Make safari scenario harder now that aliens are buffed up
Let AI displace friends less often
Unify the test for item being damaging
Improve module haddocs for content
Hide unneeded content group name patterns
Add short-caves debug game mode
Display melee damage even if there's no ranged damage
Reduce the number of calls to foeRegularAssocs
Make sure AI actions are not recursive, even shallowly
Reduce the number of calls to currentSkillsClient
Speed up skill arithmetic
Math order of cases in processWatchfulness with the order in type definition
Remove inlines that stopped helping in GHC 8.8 and that obstruct profiling
Compute friendAssocs only once for each actor AI processing
Limit and speed up invalidating BFS
Speed up a few significantly expensive functions
Use the JS splitmix optimization
Tweak random numbers code a bit
Improve haddocks of the dice mechanism
Improve help display a bit
Move ClientOptions.hs to adhere to the convention about module hierarchies
Meld LH and Allure content, continued
Port over oil explosions that harm the targeted actor from Allure
Meld LH and Allure cave and item content
State the number of item in equipment even when removing from it
Explain the goofy handling of recharging in stash
Regenerate tile even if kind not changed, but all embeds gone
Permit altering tiles with items on them
Don't leave stash unguarded if friends may spawn
Add stash detection effect
Cap stat bonuses when assigning AI value to items
Value skill bonuses differently for each skill
Be even more specific when describing what an actor does on a tile
Adjust the SDL test to run without installing fonts, as Debian requires
Don't let projectiles ever cause normal tile transitions
Tweak pushing via an embed
Add Q&A about hearing
Tweak item valuations to make awkward armours wearable by AI
When describing an actor, say if it's pushed
Push towards embed, not in direction of previous movement
Simplify key bindings display code
Clean up naming of column offset in UI
Ensure no missing space between columns of help text
Prevent a trailing space
Don't activate barrels via mist
Don't treat blasts that damage through effects as mists
Don't let on noise distance if nobody can hear it directly
Differentiate the sound of projectile and actor hitting a tile
Emit sound also when an actor hits a tile
Display close and out-of-level noises with special colours
Display noise distance information
Send noise distance information
Refactor hearing
Mock up extended hearing
Give better message when not enough skill to melee
Disturb resting when calm enough again
Don't summon by hitting a projectile
Make actor aggresive if only one is not guarding stash on the level
Ban teleporting immobile foes; they come back and their loot is lost
Validate that item group names are short enough
Cath too long group names
Catch empty group names
Let more actors start sleeping
Consistently create on the ground all items looted from terrain
Mark game modes already won in this difficulty
Clear screen after start ASAP
Use the AttrLine smart constructor or assertions as appropriate
Rename firstParagraph
Tweak types to work with the stricter smart constructor
Move assertion about trailing whitespace to a smart constructor
Eliminate trailing spaces in help and item menus
Replace a momentarily trailing space with nbsp
Don't define special messages with space, they are added automatically
When splitting lines, remove the trailing spaces
Simplify a condition in splitAttrPhrase
Don't add a space when appending a report that starts with newline
Don't produce backdrop on black background
Optimize truncateAttrLine and truncateOverlay
Mark assertions expensive in menus
Make avoiding SDL frame drawing more fine-grained
Simplify SDL frame drawing based on previous frame
Optimize menu scrolling via an extra texture
Don't waste healing items when HP low ceiling
Don't display that foes don't know their weapon when only you don't
Reflect keybindings change in the start scenario menu
Permit hero AI to consume elixirs
Don't flee if can kill a blocking enemy instead
Make fast or hasted actors willing to close in for melee
Compensate for overhead of animals when creating conditions
Mark organs that are ready to expire once applyPeriodicLevel runs
Avoid stating that an organ will last for 0s
Tweak slightly AI item preferences
Get rid of DropBestWeapon
Don't rechare nor discharge projecile payloads
Start dicharging with strongest weapons
Let Discharge add to cooldown, not reset
Discharge only items with a timeout
Consider as support only actors that can harm in melee
Make organs (minimally) accessible from triggering
Let AI trigger items among organs
Relax trigger stat 1 restrictions
Tweak AI item use preferences valuation
Improve the gameover item menu message
Record duplication of items to avoid absurd gameover messages
Discharge not only equipment, but also organs
Don't paralyse the last AI stash guard
Give AI stash guard more freedom if friends adjacent
Make AI keep guarding even if teammates on the level may leave it
Don't let AI leave stash unless foes harm it
Don't abandon stash when teammates temporarily immobile
Prevent displacing a stash guard
Don't abandon stash if temporarily nonmoving
Abandon stash if under heavy fire
Don't abandon stash unless foes seen
Don't use aidTgtToPos unless necessary
If enemy in light, pelt him instead of leaving dark
Don't stop fleeing into hideout after 5 turns even if foes appear
Target dark if fleeing and no foes targetted
Efficiently find closest hideout for AI
Tabulate hideout tiles predicate
Factor out distanceBfs
Don't hog leadership just because weak and enemies close
When fleeing and soon after target only actors that can't melee
Stop fleeing if not hit and possibly friends managed to join
Take into account recent fleeing when taking off light
Simplify hinders
In AI action choice use recent fleeing instead of this and last turn distress
Don't overwrite fleeing record if fled recently
Don't chase foes if fled recently
GC fleeing record when actor lost
Extend fleeing state from 1 to 5 turns
Store not only fleeing position but also fleeing start time
Reorder organs
Make two organs not LH-specific
Don't undervalue weapons with drop condition
Make it possible for animals to mark levels as explored
Make slack tactics AI less erratic when focused or distressed
Add a comment about animals bad at changing levels
Let AI displace any sleeping blockers
Don't let AI actors fall asleep if not relaxed
Don't force animals to change target just before reaching it
Improve condAimCrucialM for vector targets
Flesh out the crawl survival test scenario
Make crafting act as if on bottom level
Move skill checks from pathfinding to targetting and restrict immovable actors
Forbid making missiles hungry, asleep, etc.
Optimize processTileActions
Make sure projectiles can modify terrain even if safe from effects
Don't reset TVector target, because it's set manually
Create a central staircase
Display ranged damage even when limited space in menu line
Shorten the display of weapons if not enough space
Don't consider enemy projectiles for determining if AI is in melee
Make poison less deadly in corridors
Eliminate the stash domination exploit
Make guessing if AI was hit by projectiles more accurate
Prevent wounded animals from closing in agains mutliple enemies
In messages tell discharge from recharge effects
Make smell more important that stairs, again
Clean up vector target code
Melee non-targets if target not worth killing
Don't perform all monadic actions that compute strategies before choosing one
Don't retarget actor if blocked by the very actor and so can melee it
Simplify target shoice for slack doctrine factions
Sort items in lists in normal texts
Help AI unlock the dungeon if stash guard helds the key
Prevent animals from eating their own meat
Prevent creating new items via throwing others, with ikit
Signal specially when an item is located in a stash, as well
Say when an item appears in a stash, etc.
Don't warn if selected missile from stash can't be picked up
Don't flee if back next turn
When fleeing don't remember the last targetted enemy
Move keybinding content definitions to match display order
Prevent, in UI, removing from equipment if not calm
Warn when illegal item movement attempted
Display stash blurb also when switching the leader
Don't let stash guards leave levels
Don't prevent displacing a friend if only half of a loop is present
Don't neglect guarding stash unless no buddies to help
Tweak AI conditions
Don't flee if own stash close unless completely overwhelmed
Easily displace teammates that guard the stash
Mention stash when walking over a tile
Do not flee and be reluctant to chase when guarding stash
Introduce guarding own stash
Make isDoor more accurate
Don't make a rumble when door closes
Tabulate isOpenable and isClosable
Make tall staircases more likely now that they are often broken
Make types a bit more strict in stairs calculation
Simplify stair number computation
Rename cextraStairs
Change the semantics of cextraStairs
Separate stair number computation and level generation
Compute abandoned stairs earlier
Correct the documentation of cextraStairs
Roll extra stairs earlier
Roll cave kinds earlier
Simplify shuffling caves
When transforming walkable tiles, don't insist on embed activations
Ban crafting and terrain transformation in the same action
Try to make the terrain transformation specs more readable
Prevent the exploit of using cover against non-moving shooters
Make makeLine non-monadic
Keep the data invariant of @arenas@ for longer
Make the interrupted running display look less corrupted
Add and tweak comments about item maps
Update the manual and keybindings printout
Tweak the wording of keybidings descriptions
Prevent marking inert items as (charging)
Add ANY_FLASK group
Make sure impression is dropped before other conditions
Handle failed bump-modification without embed activation
Change the key for new game, not to mix up with 'n'o
Remove misleading comment about tiles being explorable
In message fits in one long line, don't wrap it into small lines
Don't make consumables with Ascend effect worthless
Change division by zero into an assertion failure
Comment why 'seen' sometimes gets from 100% to 99%
Validate HideAs in content instead of asserting its property later on
Tweak (speedup the tiniest bit) updAlterTile
Stop leader before leaving dark in a more useful way
Don't equip light even if enemy only remembered
Simplify the interesting target conditions for AI
Flee through dark not only when starting in light
Chase and flee through dark even if not starting from light
Simplify the chasing ambient light condition
Prefer leaders that don't step into light
Detour when chasing, to avoid lit spots
Prefer fleeing into dark spots
Don't flee from projectiles if can't flee into the dark
Prevent AI from vainly chasing fast shooters
Tweak and simplify AI fleeing condition
Help AI sidestep a blocking meleeing friend
Let AI go towards enemy stash even if in melee
Join melee from twice longer distance
Rename CURIOUS_ITEM
Don't display 0 ranged damages
Add missing content group definitions
Simplify content validation
Check that content group names are all listed
Let the draft detector emit noise and sound
Tweak the engine to accomodate a detection device that pings
Prevent non-humans from hogging key items and so blocking progress
Reorder item definition to match those of Allure for diffing
Don't emit server leader change messages if known to client
Comment about the trade-offs of weapon benefit calculation
Mark the lore screen with crafting recipes
Don't confusingly refuse to display the pushing effect for shields
Increase minimal damage taken, regardless of armor, to 5%
Be pendantic when emitting messages about creating items
Don't say that a projectile is wounded
Show enemy HP under the selected item
Simplify strongestMelee
Add an alias for picking up all items, etc.
Sort out naming of item and embed activations
Simplify revCmdMap
Warn when embeds activated, but transformation failed
Check dangerous tools use even when nested in transformations
Don't transform terrain when bumping
Let pathfinding avoid vicinity of enemies
Make it easy to discern an attack on teammate among many messages
Don't display misleading condition drop messages
Visually distinguish embed names and descriptions
Permit fractional FPS, for debugging
Colour-code map position descriptions
Move the run macro to where all other engine macros are defined
Permit unknown command, for testing
Simplify and clarify the mock
Unify repeatHumanTransition 1 and macroHumanTransition
Reflect in types that macro frame stack is never empty
Make more space for explicit import lists
Rename components of the macro data structure
Drive the point home that repeatHumanTransition 1 /= macroHumanTransition
Add tests that illustrate not creating new buffers for in-game macros
Touch up the macro code a bit
Add tests showing lack of referential transparency of named macros
Don't prompt about recording a macro it's part of macro replay
Warn when pick up not to equipment due to low calm
Display how many items in equipment when equipping
Refuse to equip if equipment full
Separate testing harness import from game content import
Add a helper function to shorten tests
Rename the semantics functions
Implement the desired semantics of RepeatLast
Sketch the desired semantics of RepeatLast via tests
Use the same updateLastAction function in test mock
Collect a more precise last action key
Simplify slightly the mock
Grey out more (all?) illegal commands
Add special messages when illegally flinging or applying
Go even through stores that all factions have empty
Revert banning stores for all actors based on the first checked
Add special messages when illegally moving items from or to eqp or ground
Forbid unequipping items when not calm, again
Don't ignore illegal stores if once shown
Display the number of items in equipment even when not calm
Write client RNG seed to UI RNG seed numbers at game restart
Save UI random seed to avoid boring messages if many save/loads
Add a comment about stealth viable for tactics, but not strategy
Reset C-f when x-hair automatically changed
Pick as leaders also the actors that could melee but should not
Make animals unable to catch projectiles
Don't cycle xhair through own stash
Display slideshows normall unless really too long, not just excessively long
Give more time to view a frame when frame level changes
Be more verbose when kicking terrain
Prevent the inability of taking off max calm draining items
Re-assign action repeating keys
Clean up macro command's texts
Place ikit item in a semi-random way
Tweak content group names for display
Avoid 'of gain of gain' in item descriptions
Don't talk about blocking when no kinetic damage dealt
Match the order of game over lore screens with in-game lore menu
Prevent AI from imbibing a potion of panic
Don't call a tile alterable if embeds have no effects
Prefer leaders that target enemy stashes
Don't chase stashes of friends and neutrals
When creating items on the floor during dungeon generation, create ikit items
When embedding items in tiles, optionally generate more items
Redesign so that charging items can be determined even if timeout unknown
Clean up some instance deriving
Factor out two more pure functions about macros to use in unit tests
Permit creation of input content without parsing a config file
Factor out pure function about macros to use in unit tests
Record nested macros on stack
Snatch enemy stash ASAP if adjacent
Port tests to tasty
Undo the attempt to end game when player kills window
Remove a spurious recordHistory
Make sure verifyCaches error doesn't obscure RNG seed of the crashing run
Don't let big actors auto-craft at death
In menus show how long conditions will last
Tell how for long an actor is going to be slowed when first affected
Tell how for long an actor is slowed in total after extra slowness, etc.
Tell how much poisoned actor is in total after extra poison, etc.
Don't display the mandatory turn frame if a frame already displayed this turn
Don't draw (and printscreen) identical frames, even if small fonts used
Don't trigger terrain if projectile has lost its payload
Enable cooking of food thrown into fire
Don't spam when blasts transform terrain
Simplify dieSer
Ensure the last step of projectile flight is shown
Remove a repeated check
Be more verbose when transforming items with scrolls
Display level where the stash is, as a reminder
Don't displace sleeping immobile actors
Simplify checking if an item is identified
Prevent AI from putting most weapons in reserve
Let AI be eager to equip unidentified and good unique items
Don't be too verbose with tile altering when leader stands on it
Don't craft from equipment due to possible involuntary harm
Remove altering via dropping items; too disaster-prone
Refactor handleDir
Permit indicating the zero vector with mouse
Colour and reword the message about consuming items
Be a bit more verbose about tile changes
Don't inform about a projectile's equipment
Avoid hitting 'feebly' with a heavy hammer
Show, e.g., harpoon as an obvious choice for throwing despite usable for melee
Don't summon by hitting a friend
Don't hit delicately just because the weapon was not identified
Prevent AI from wasting time throwing very weak projectiles
Avoid 'chip of scientific explanation turns out to be', when identifying
Improve item destruction messages
Add OnUser effect constructor
Avoid 'the pair turns out to be' when identifying
When short name requested, don't append numbers and parens
Prevent VerbMsgFail being repeated 99 times
Describe how colours correspond to tile properties
Let even unskilled actors take over stash
Take over stash also when actor dominated or created
Target enemy stash in preference even to enemy actors
Add comments about salter and pathfinding
Avoid 'controlled by Controlled foo'
Avoid 'hits delicately' with a 14 HP wounding hammer
Ensure in content that Burn is positive
Mark weapon burning and wounding on HUD, to avoid hammers all look benign
Clarify that chosen weapon needs not be optimal for a foe
Improve display of places lore
Pick up enemy summoning periodic items to deny them to foes
Don't send the SfxTrigger messages to the client
Mention that stats menu summarizes the organ menu
Add sample cabal.project.local files
Introduce VerbMsgFail effect
Let crafting use up terrain, if successful
Don't split tile properties description by description of things on the tile
Avoid crafting via walking into a worshop tile
Introduce SeqEffect to use for crafting creation in place of AndEffect
Let components 'disappear', not 'be removed' during crafting
Improve crafting recipe description
Automatically identify crafted items
When cratfing, use tools but destroy components
Don't create items in equipment if not enough free slots
When crafting, apply as many copies of durable items as required, not just one
Don't crash if crafting fails due to unique already generated
Improve debugging of item creation
Don't display thrown damage for organs
Flesh out projectiles opening terrain and flying through
Require embed activation even for item-fueled terrain transformations
Don't spam if recording is a part of a macro
Make the summary of killed enemies less confusing
Let some explosions destroy terrain
Add black backdrop beneath prop font overlays, for readability
Be even less verbose in descriptions of items with crafting
Validate that item definitions have slots whenever expected
Rename the Macro type
Record also in-game menu navigation keys
Recover macro's recording order invariant
Document Macro, swap types in smacroBuffer's Either type
Wrap the macro buffer into a newtype
Encode recording state in type of macro buffer
Be more precise when reporting OnCombine effects
Format crafting recipes in a more readable way
Gather effects application flags into one record, for redability
Add an assertion that catches ItemQuant data invariant violation
Ignore timeouts when using tools or transforming terrain
Don't apply kinetic damage when using tools or transforming terrain
Generalize printing crafting recipes to many products
Rename the dagger item definition to match Allure
Help parsing recipes with bullets
Avoid spike 2d1 (cooldown 8) of cooldowns at 4
Typeset crafting recipes slightly
Rename the whetstone item definition to match Allure
Don't repeat crafting recipes in OnCombine descriptions
Show full crafting recipes only in lore menu, not when targeting
Speed up and simplify the use of countIidConsumed
Alter ConsumeItems and unify with ChangeWith
Add optional count parameter to effect CreateItem
Validate that item definition parameters in content are positive
Display details of item crafting effects
Add ConsumeItems effect
Let AI ignore potentially unopenable entrances, to avoid AI loops
Improve messages related to Discharge effect
Simplify checking actor presence on a level
Add the Discharge effect
Be more verbose when loot created
Don't complain about failed transformation if embedded item triggered
Revert "Break thrown non-unique items, even if durable"
Let projectiles trigger only easiest embeds and alterings
In tile content specify if projectiles may trigger actions
Display when ending a flight, to make harpoon a sensible weapon
When actor lacks tools to transform a tile, inform him
Break thrown non-unique items, even if durable
Squash repeated terrain transformation tools in descriptions
Confirm that a weapon is to be used for transformation
List tools needed for transformation in terrain description
Factor out client altering conditions
Unify altering by bumping and altering by pointing and server conditions
Don't waste turn when altering fails, but waste when embed triggering fails
Factor out listToolsForAltering and subtractGrpfromBag
Permit the use of tile altering tools with different durabilities
Factor out parseTileAction
Don't count repetitions in OneOf effect description
Prefer non-durable altering tools, even in equipment
Avoid message about triggering a 'way' without any more details
Rename terrain patterns that denote possibly depleted resource
Consider durable tools last for terrain alteration
Process tile features in order to prefer trap disarming to triggering
Prevent embeds triggering each other in a loop
Simplify applying embeds
Display untruncated (and mangled) messages in teletype mode
Make frontendName to avoid losing message in teletype frontend
Clean up the presentation of group name patterns again
Verify that singleton group names are so
Separate singleton kind group names
Validate that some more kind groups are singletons
Rename HideAs to PresentAs for item kinds
Simplify individual content validation due to stronger global validation
Check that group names unique and not void
Supply group names to the content creation and validation function
Improve special gameover messages
Clean up the lists of hardwired patterns
Get rid of OVER in pattern names
Clean up the DEFENSELESS vs VULNERABLE mixup
Remove foldl from prelude to prevent space leaks
Group the patterns yet slightly differently
Catch empty OneOf during item content validation
Group the patterns slightly differently
Be consistent in taking only first word as game mode name
Rename PHD_DEFENSE_QUESTION to VULNERABILITY_BALM for diffing with Allure
Group TileKind patterns
Remove IsString instance of GroupName to catch typos
Reorder code in content files
Make embed content patterns different from tile patterns
Use PatternSynonyms for all content
Permit and use PatternSynonyms in some ItemKind-related code
Don't crash when some items consumed during dropping
Don't warn about untriggered embeds; altering may be the focus
Don't report exploiting if not triggered
Let terrain be changed with items even when embeds not untriggered
Be less verbose when losing items
Be more verbose when losing items due to tile altering
Report which embedded item was exploited so that 'Nothing happens' makes sense
Don't report items appearing under projectiles that are already spent
Reword command category headings
Don't move away staircase inhabitants if projectile is changing levels
Let only visible projectiles discover hidden tiles, etc.
Don't display vacuus menu mode switch symbols
Waste items for altering only if voluntary or released as projectile
Get rid of spam about inability to modify terrain
Identify item lost in order to modify terrain
Let projectiles alter terrain, but not when just flying over it
Don't check alter skill when projectiles do the altering
Improve comments about the 6 tile modifying constructors
Don't modify terrain by just walking over it
Permit the use of equipment for modifying terrain
Warn when no items to modify terrain
Prefer durable items for altering tiles
Don't destroy but apply durable items used to alter tiles
Add tile alteration that demands and consumes items
Improve description of cooking effects
Add OrEffect binary constructor
Replace Composite by a binary constructor
Display failure message when embed not under feet triggered vacuusly
Don't light adjacent tiles for free
Avoid 'you look less hungry' about the pointman
When smashed item exhibits no effect, don't warn
Report tile changes under a big actor
Generally never alter tile if under feet and embed not triggered
Detect when dropping or destroying items is vacuus
Only alter tiles via walking on them if any embed triggered
Don't spam when embed doesn't trigger when walked over
Implement DestroyItem effect
Let embedded items react to items dropped over them
Explain away only pointman moving
Inform about automatic melee in the in-game help
Mention that all factions and actors are equal
Reverse stars and underscores in HP bar in HUD
Stress suvival in the game manual
Make skill check for embedded items on the client consistent with server
Give hints when terrain can't be entered nor modified
Describe hunger removing items, etc., with more detail
Mention leap frog in game manual
When scrapping message repetitions, ignore trailing EOLs
Don't spam about items underfoot at game start, when they are also 'located'
Report moving player's stash on a new line, mostly for starting screen
Bring back scenario notes at game start and resume
Bring back notes in challenges menu
Handle the meta note about scenario separately
Mention challenges in the high score entries
Remove the Show instance of ScoreRecord
Invalidate inMelee when weapons dropped or picked up
Use --assertExplored in makefile tests
Verify the commandline assertion about explored level
Don't assert exploration if another game started in a debug run
Add a debug commandline option to verify explorers are not stuck
Make projectile-less actors randomly more aggressive
Add a bit of histeresis when fleeing
Destroy proportional font textures to avoid freezes when they pile up
Prevent AI from running away from helpless foe
Stop targetting foes once they lose all weapons
Let AI do more vs foe with HP <= 0 to avoid stalemate if foe regenerates fast
Don't spuriously check if TEnemy is a foe
Improve documentation of targeting
Don't attack hapless nonmoving foes at range also
Don't normally target nonmoving actors that can only melee
Use actorWorthMelee in inMelee
Melee a targeted foe even if not worth meleeing otherwise
Don't target hapless uninteresting foes
Don't melee a foe with only benign weapons
Don't consider foes with benign weapons a threat
Only consider actor in melee if adjacent foes worth meleeing
Don't interrupt running if benign melee actor adjacent
Introduce the count of benign weapons of an actor
Make sure tutorial scenarios have enough melee weapons
Avoid checking isModifiable once more, in verifyAlters
Consistently check isModifiable together with embeds
Mark the new request failures as impossible on the server
Add some internal operations, for future easier profiling
Removed TileOpenClosed error message
Further enhancements in tile closing
Removed TriggerTile
Remove commandline default that forced Just that is interpreted as game reset
Bring back the way dungeon generation perturbed random rolls
Make 64bit native and 32bit browser games play the same with the same RNG seed
Keep a separate random seed for UI
Use bitmaskWithRejection form randomR
Add some BENCHOPTS
Use splitmix
Suggest switching to another teammate if movement skill drained
Turned off showing of default --maxFps value
Additional logPriority value and defaultMaxFps
Couple command line options are now clamped or checked before they're set
Only run with selected actors that are not yet at goal
Hint about menus in movement stst too low message
Hint to wake up if movement skill drained by sleep
Display also own asleep actors green on HUD
Make the heading of item menu when inspecting an organ less confusing
Tell that second 'f' projects
Add a comment about the 'exploit' verb
Do not mention 'trunk' in weapon strike messages
Do not mention 'trunk' in armor blocking messages
Suggest in history menu to press RET
Get rid of Server.EndM
Make sure closing window in rage at defeat/win saves game
Mention in the manual that HP starts at half max
Reformat game peculiarities list in the manual
Don't announce pushing that has no effect
Try to make the under AI control prefix less confusing
Let animations be toggled in main menu
Don't display buttons on a separate line unless message is very long
Add a newline after scenario description
Avoid blank lines in history
Overhaul the order and blurbs of game modes
Make raid scenario squad-based
Display scenario descriptions in their submenu
Don't show backstory in submenus of the main menu
Rework new game start menus
Add a visual separator between new games in history
Reverse the order history messages are displayed in
Copy the list of distinguishing features from Allure homepage
Restructure chronologically the game manual with verbs as section titles
Avoid empty paragraphs
Ignore linebreaks when showing the condensed history line
Underline that mouse is optional
Make 'crosshair' on the status line uniform with other headers
Bring back the help prompt that doesn't confusingly mention advancing
Mark overful HP and Calm specially on HUD
Add some blank lines when stacking command lists
Stress that mouse is optional
Move mouse help screens earlier
Don't indent help parts by proportional space width
Clarify the structure of help information
Don't show 'crosshair' when not aiming
Get rid of 'x-hair'
Make collective running less prominent in help; tweak help
Mark some text files as out of date
Add a paragraph break before nearby item summary
Accept longer menu messages
Add a paragraph break before cave description
Warn that over-max HP gain is transient
Mark deaths with paragraphs and display 'Alas' already at incapacitation
Add a line break after gameover identification of items
Add a couple of line-breaks to reports
Rename emptyAttrString, which was misleading
Introduce a newtype of attribute lines with no linebreaks
Prevent backstory overflow in main menu with proportional font
Move O command just after I command in help
When toggling autoplay, as with y/n, not SPACE/ESC
Let left and right arrow keys move between sides of help screen
Fine-tune helps screens for display side-by-side
Naively cram help screens side by side
Merge the two item command help pages
Use proportional font for help, dashboard and item menu
Use square font for movement scheme help paragraph
Make it possible to use many fonts in help
Get rid of MoveKeys.txt
Set up main menu for both proportional and square fonts
Remove backstory from help screens
Add backstory to main menu, set up for square font, for now
With square font, add extra space before item symbol
Represent button width as a datatype
Parameterize all typesetting by the font setup (multi or single)
Pass along information about supported fonts
Let sdl frontend really handle the setup with no prop nor mono font
Gut out ascii art
Add blank space around some lines of overlays
Take all items with *, not !
Update the item removal verb
Switch a single place lore display to mono font
Render skill menu and item lore menu with proper fonts
Display item symbol in item menu in square font
Display label and symbol in items overlay using square fonts
Display at most 3 lines of buttons when too little space for menu
Make a mouse misclick error easier to understand
Don't wrap Mono keys after a prompt
Overlay in square font when basic frame is under animations
Introduce a separate UI coordinate system
Make boxSize even
Don't highlight wrong overlays when buttons highlighted
Avoid proportional font in button-like UI areas
Permit overlays with gaps
Name font kinds consistently
Display some overlays in monospace font
Display history labels in mono font
Specify fonts also in slideshows
Move the definitions of DisplayFont and FontOverlayMap
Propagate the choice of fonts for overlays
Generalize drawOverlay to specify desired font for each overlay
Generalize overlays to let them start at arbitrary X offsets
Eliminate overlayFrameWithLines
Document better the overlay types
Move ColorMode to another module
Specify when to use which kind of main font
Add monospace rectangular font to game configuration
Remove the old woff font
Add new fonts, proportional and monospace
Specify size of the message font separately
Don't cursor highlight break up proportional font message chunks
Don't let space break up prorpotional font message chunks
Render the extra overlays in proportional font
If message font supported, pass overlay over instead of rendering
Initialize also the message font in SDL frontend
Add message overlay font to game configuration
Comment about why animals rarely eat food
Rename tactics to doctrine
Get rid of the henchman notion
Rename leader to pointman
Handle UpdTimeItem when container not visible (CStash), but item visible
Improve command descriptions
Redefine key bindings not to collide with new movement keys
Detect collisions of keybindings with movement keys
Use the keys freed by removing the right hand movement setup
Replace right hand with left hand movement keys
Main inventory the main store in game help and UI
Move total value display to all posessions menu
Identify items at any item move, in case they are thrown at stash
Avoid spam about actors getting braced
Mention in failure messages that hoard accessed when stading over it
Mention in failure messages that too low Calm for Eqp
Attempt to display handling of multiple items more succintly
Bring back UpdMoveItem to have better messages
Properly describe item move actions
Lose access to stash when enemy steps on it
Say who's stash is an item moved to, unless it's ours
Announce that enemy stash found
Make sure to let clients know even the human trinket items at gameover
Let new stash correctly overwrite old, even if old not seen
Introduce PosSightLevels and use for CStash containers
Get rid of seenAtomicGeneralCli
Simplify handleAndBroadcast
Make updTimeItem more loose when enemy CStash is considered
Don't carry item definitions in commands that don't create items
Register on the client the items necessary for commands
Analyze what items client needs to know to process a command
Clean up creation vs spotting of actors and items
Add UpdRegisterItems to be used instead of many ad-hoc calls currently
Be permissive when performing atomic action wrt CStash
Simplify SfxStrike, etc., and don't require access to store's bag
Simplify PosFidAndSight
Remove UpdMoveItem atomic command that is not too common without CInv any more
Simplify handling of CStash action visiblity
Display also enemy stashes in position description
Let actors learn stash positions when they come into view
Mark on the map enemy stashes as well
Refactor UpdStashFaction to let enemies see it sometimes
Add shared stash position to team's perception
Say in position description that stash is there
Mark own shared stash position with white box
Remove gstash handling in atomic commands
Move CStash in server code, not atomic commands
Avoid catch-all in cmdAtomicSemSer
Introduce UpdStashFaction
Do not produce a now unused ItemFull for inventory
When moving items, don't cycle to Ground, when over stash
In UI don't try to use CGround when over CStash
Don't let AI consider floor items at it shared stash location
When scanning a map, don't consider own stash an ordinary pile of items
Update atomic position information for shared stash
Make eqp, not stash, unavailable when low Calm
Make CStash the new implicit default when picking up items
Gut out CInv and CSha and replace it with CStash represented on the map
Remove the unused effect ActivateInv
Bump version, anticipating major inventory logic overhaul
Reword the MOwned item dialog mode blurbs
Simplify the header of the lore menus
Change meny keys / and ? to > and <
Update scenario names in the manual
Mention the ! key whenever KP_* is mentioned
Simplify and fix placement of --more- prompts
Change the AttrString word gluing operation and fix drawFrameStatus
Slightly fix speed calculation to agree with what's on the wiki
Fix a memory leak from tutorial hints repetition avoidance
Fix no frames displayed while resting
Fix missing dot at the end of taunt message
Fix heroes starting on exit in escape scenario
Fix the healing necklace better used from the backpack
Fix which are considered minor effects
Fix spurious double space suffix when rendring on blank
Fix mouse in area help, wrongly typeset with square font
Fix interruption message not appearing on screen, only in history
Fix wrong order of words in the detection effect message
Fix and simplify armor conditions message choice
Fix good conditions displayed in red
Fix broken combat description condition about armor
Fix not updated tutorial switch when game won
Fix a hint wrongly guessing the damage was piercing
Fix failures not stopping macro playback
Fix the lack of 'a' when hearing distant summoning
Fix using the reserved number 0 for faction ID
Fix backing up broken savegames
Fix a spurious space before a sentence ending dot
Fix lack of capitalization in verb messages
Fix genetic flaw activated at death
Fix a typo in identifier names
Fix first lines of message wrapped too late
Fix botched conditions for SfxFizzles, etc.
Fix includeMetaGame computed twice
Fix meta game identification not carrying through to the next game
Fix accumulating meta game item kinds
Fix scenarios with numbered actors but without continued team
Fix an optimization two lines too low in shuffleExcept
Fix a triple copy-pasto with Ability.MetaGame
Fix discoMetaGame for clients with state held by server
Fix displaying deflection when the perpetrator is not seen
Fix tutorial hints disabling
Fix a link to roguebasin
Fix short wrapping of adventure lore
Fix overflowing messages with more than 2 spaces
Fix 4 spaces message indentation with square font
Fix trash on fullscreen borders
Fix not showing aiming line when changing epsilon
Fix trying to describe an item that is not seen by the actor hit with it
Fix whitespace in displayRespSfxAtomicUI
Fix display of message log aligned to newest message
Fix extra SPACE needed to see history after game save command
Fix running broken due to vacuus MsgAtFeetMajor messages
Fix MsgStopPlayback not stopping running
Fix usage of two different widths in splitAttrString
Fix history lines starting with EOL
Fix monospace overlay whitespace spilling onto proportional
Fix wrongly enabled display of MsgRunStop message class
Fix deduplicating shown and saved messages separately
Fix, again, leftover UI clients killing frontend after already killed
Fix the numeric display of HP gain/loss
Fix wrong SDL wrapping markers when using mono fonts only
Fix a missing mouse command description
Fix Tasty tests broken by frontend fixes
Fix screensavers broken by UI faction not being the first
Fix a bug with two UI clients interspersing frames
Fix 'open main menu' command of Dashboard
Fix the GTK frontend again
Fix a syntax error in travis script
Fix license name
Fix linearInterpolation for inflated dungeon depths once more
Fix running disturbed by many boring tiles at open levels
Fix MsgItemMove messages not saved to history
Fix unintentional cap on actor generation level
Fix calling gameover and 'endgame'
Fix lack of EOL before initial separation line of history
Fix mouse coordinates in the browser
Fix assigning number symbols to hero faction projectiles
Fix and improve how deflections are displayed
Fix a 32bit system bug that intCast detected
Fix damage not displayed when other attributes are
Fix flinging from item menu cancelling item selection
Fix the comment about users able to overwrite keys
Fix a crash when impossible command chosen
Fix bitrot that corrupted curses frontend
Fix 'the fallen falling' projectiles
Fix wrong alignment of level percent seen
Fix autoexplore with changing crosshair
Fix goto not interrupted change of crosshair
Fix the valuation of OnUser effect
Fix the lack of the last backdrop line in the game greeting blurb
Fix memory leak in placesFromState
Fix double braced due the hack for skill-less yelling
Fix order of using weapons inconsistent with HUD
Fix actor that can't wait not ignored as a pointman even when inactive
Fix stash guard preferred as pointman
Fix AI leader choice to really prefer old leader and to avoid light more
Fix raid scenario starting with two faction close to escape
Fix random number out of range on 32bit JS
Fix teleport effect from stash item not identifying it
Fix warnings in gtk frontend
Fix the extra blank menu line starting too late
Fix section links in the game manual
Fix and simplify rules for disabling tile transformation
Fix missed blank prefixes of empty lines inside text
Fix and simplify projectiles activating and transforming terrain, again
Fix projectiles not able to lit up oil
Fix padded empty string overwriting UI elements
Fix the position of second column with square font
Fix trailing spaces in dashboard
Fix a trailing space in a message
Fix disable extra empty shadow line at the bottom of menus
Fix determining if item identified in permittedPrecious
Fix an actor pulling himself
Fix desynchronized copy-pasted actorVulnerable code
Fix history message display header
Fix Calm measurement code to match code documentation
Fix sleeping stash guard not considered a guard
Fix reaching escape from below when all levels explored
Fix hero AI sometimes not exploring levels fully
Fix weapon order of Smithhammer
Fix messages about melee-only armor deflecting missiles
Fix wrong condition, wrongly reducing fleeing behaviour
Fix comments about slack doctrine targets
Fix assertion failure when targetting a tile under oneself
Fix code documentation about inventory stores
Fix the unequipping failure message condition
Fix wrong cave reversal when generating dungeon
Fix non-pointman heroes meleeing healing geysers
Fix poisons never activating and never running out
Fix registering if altering failed due to bumping
Fix a bushy patch that can block starting actors
Fix diverging definitions of foes worth killing
Fix barrels not destroyed by bumping
Fix inability to open doors due to no embeds
Fix projectiles not to bump off, but to transform terrain
Fix the display of level in stash menu header
Fix alliance placing to put heroes over stairs
Fix a wrong message when displacing a waking foe
Fix AI not eating and not removing other bad conditions
Fix nested macros
Fix wrong game mode started due to only the first word inspected
Fix the result of AndEffect
Fix the warning when flinging benign items
Fix a loop when actor pushed to another level via stairs
Fix melee disrupting pushed flight
Fix unidentified weapons marked in HUD as without timeout
Fix modelling wear and tear with DestroyItem
Fix mixed up resistance conditions
Fix item dropping crashes when OnSmash effects remove them while dropped
Fix an AI loop when applying a recharging item
Fix some no-fence places not appearing in statistics
Fix display of empty lists of tools for terrain transformations
Fix referring in the server code to definitions from the client internals
Fix embedded items activated twice
Fix an attempt to consume more items than there exist
Fix broken running macro
Fix activating embeds
Fix repeating predefined macros
Fix unsafe recording
Fix in-game macro system
Fix discharging an item that is not recharged
Fix consumeItems missing in an export list
Fix missing spaces in describeToolsAlternative
Fix display of tool alternatives
Fix random results of sortEmbeds
Fix checks if actors in combat
Fix the semantics of Discharge effect
Fix a crash when updating invisible item timer
Fix altering skill check in the client
Fix omission of OpenWith when OpenTo is considered
Fix unidentified embedded items impossible to trigger
Fix usage of outdated state component when altering tiles
Fix an attempt to apply a used up embedded item
Fix the direction of < and > scrolling in ending screens
Fix rubble tile definition wrt order of activated features
Fix old actor body used after altering caused by collision with terrain
Fix wrong condition for alien captured at victory message
Fix moving only all or none items between containers
Fix crash when actor not visible after triggering an item
Fix crash when dopping previous may destroy next items
Fix projectile altering a tile too many times at once
Fix DropItem reporting no activation due to item vanishing earlier
Fix off-by-one when picking projectiles with enough range
Fix trying to destroy an empty item bag when modifying terrain with it
Fix assumption that if last actor is alien, game is won
Fix no identification message sometimes in the first turn
Fix compilation without EXPOSE_INTERNAL
Fix the trap of drain Calm item in equipment that can't be removed
Fix tiles never altered via walking on them
Fix articles incorrectly recognized in words that end similarly
Fix wrong calculation of number of non-durable weapons
Fix incorrect conjugation
Fix a corruption of backstory text
Fix first character of buttons sometimes overwritten by space
Fix wrongly displaying a special ending for small scenarios
Fix other frontends wrt engine and sdl2 frontend changes
Fix proportional overlay overwriting first character of mono one
Fix help setup for large screens
Fix broken item menu with square font
Fix wrong button initial position with square font
Fix distant overlays wrongly getting a highlighted line
Fix SDL frontend truncating proportional font lines
Fix and tweak measuring texts in various fonts
Fix empty menus in single font mode
Fix spurious ending prompt in single-font setup
Fix padding of line chunks overwriting subsequent chunks
Fix display of history
Fix buttons holding other locations of an item
Fix not shown highlight of prop font lines
Fix spurious empty line between header and menu
Fix use of fromAscList where fromDistinctAscList would do
Fix spacing in history display
Fix off-by-one crash in history
Fix mouse clicks on buttons in small font areas
Fix updateLine for the case of multiple overlays
Fix overrun in mouse help table
Fix history highlight restricted to 80 columns
Fix menu highlight splitting proportional text chunks
Fix proportional texts never wiped out
Fix horizontal starting points of message chunks
Fix a syntax error stemming from wrong CPP
Fix illegal containers creeping into item choice
Fix cmdAtomicSemSer for UpdMoveItem
Fix AI not sidestepping explosive tiles, even if it could
Fix AI not sidestepping nearby actors
Fix cmdAtomicSemSer in the presense of CStash that acts like CFloor
Fix broken atomic commands assigned wrong LevelId
Fix visible enemy stash position not updated, because foes not seen
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
Tweak travis scripts and building docs in README

v0.9.5.0

Fix NumLock disabled in the browser
In screen reader frontend, highlight active menu line with the cursor
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
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

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 'Velvet smoking jacket'

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

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'

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
specialize client code already in SampleMonadClient.hs
enable StrictData in all modules
replace 'failure' with 'error' that now shows call stack

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

fix redrawing after window minimized and restored
hack around vanishing texture on Windows
hack around SDL backends not thread-safe on Windows
the only breaking API change: specify font directory 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
correct, add and modify some in-game messages
let player hear unseen summonings performed by other actors
don't let actors hear blasts hitting walls, as opposed to hitting actors
when moving item out of shared stash, reset its timeouts
when ascending, shift timeouts of inventory as well
when creating item not on the ground, discover it
when dominating, auto-discover only if the item can't be discovered by use
let henchmen take into account their targets, as described in PLAYING.md
let only walkable tiles be explorable, for clear walls inside solid blocks
move to API 2.0.0 of sdl2-ttf and depend on corrected sdl2 (builds on Windows)
simplify code thanks to the new sdl2-ttf API
tweak travis scripts and building docs in README

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

v0.4.101.0, aka 'Officially fun'

the game is now officially fun to play
introduce unique boss monsters and unique artifact items
add animals that heal the player
let AI gang up, attempt stealth and react to player aggressiveness
spawn actors fast and close to the enemy
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
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
I was naughty again and changed v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API slightly one last time

v0.4.100.0, aka 'The last thaw'

unexpectedly thaw and freeze again v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API
unexpectedly implement timeouts and temporary effects easily without FRP
make a couple of skill levels meaningful and tweak skills of some actors
make AI prefer exploration of easier levels
permit overfull HP and Calm
let non-projectile actors block view
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
add i386 Linux and Windows compilation targets to Makefile

v0.4.99.0, aka 'Player escapes'

balance the example game content a bit (campaign still unbalanced)
various code and documentation tweaks and fixes
add cabal flag expose_internal that reveals internal library operations
merge FactionKind into ModeKind and rework completely the semantics
compatibility tweaks for Nixpkgs
define AI tactics, expose them to UI and add one more: follow-the-leader
share leader target between the UI and AI client of each faction
specify monster spawn rate per-cave
extend content validation and make it more user friendly
freeze v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API

v0.2.14, aka 'Out of balance'

tons of new (unbalanced) content, content fields, effects and descriptions
add a simple cabal test in addition to make-test and travis-test
generate items and actors according to their rarities at various depths
redo weapon choice, combat bonuses and introduce armor
introduce skill levels for abilities (boolean for now, WIP)
remove regeneration, re-add through periodically activating items
ensure passable areas of randomly filled caves are well connected
make secondary factions leaderless
auto-tweak digital line epsilon to let projectiles evade obstacles
add shrapnel (explosions) and organs (body parts)
express actor kinds as item kinds (their trunk)
add dynamic lights through items, actors, projectiles
fix and improve item kind and item stats identification
make aspects additive from all equipment and organ items
split item effects into aspects, effects and item features
rework AI and structure it according to the Ability type
define Num instance for Dice to make writing it in content easier
remove the shared screen multiplayer mode and all support code, for now
rename all modules and nearly all other code entities
check and consume HP when calling friends and Calm when summoning
determine sight radius from items and cap it at current Calm/5
introduce Calm; use to hear nearby enemies and limit item abuse before death
let AI actors manage items and share them with party members
completely revamp item manipulation UI
add a command to cede control to AI
separate actor inventory, 10-item actor equipment and shared party stash
vi movement keys (hjklyubn) are now disabled by default
new movement keyset: laptop movement keys (uk8o79jl)

v0.2.12

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
get rid of CPS style monads, aborts and WriterT
benchmark and optimize the code, in particular using Data.Vector
split off and use the external library assert-failure
simplify config files and limit the number of external dependencies

v0.2.10

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

v0.2.8

cooperative and competitive multiplayer (shared-screen only in this version)
overhauled searching
rewritten engine code to have a single server that sends restricted game state updates to many fat clients, while a thin frontend layer multiplexes visuals from a subset of the clients

v0.2.6.5

this is a minor release, primarily intended to fix the broken haddock documentation on Hackage
changes since 0.2.6 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

v0.2.6

the Main Menu
improved and configurable mode of squad combat

v0.2.1

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

v0.2.0

the LambdaHack engine becomes a Haskell library
the LambdaHack game depends on the engine library