Changelog of @hackage/LambdaHack 0.6.1.0

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