Changelog of @hackage/LambdaHack 0.9.4.0

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

v0.8.3.0

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

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