LambdaHack changelog

Changelog History

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• v0.4.101.0 Changes

  • 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
  • 0️⃣ 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
  • 0️⃣ 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 Changes

  • 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 Changes

  • 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 Changes

  • 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 Changes

  • 👌 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 Changes

  • 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 Changes

  • 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 Changes

  • the Main Menu
  • 👌 improved and configurable mode of squad combat

• v0.2.6.5 Changes

  • 📚 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

• v0.2.1 Changes

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

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