0.19a (1230993) - July 5. 2022


Gameplay
  + New WASD keyboard input as default input mode
  + New attack system
  + Rework modifier system
  + Add modifiers for damage reduction, block and dodge
  + Add modifiers for chain and homing attacks
  + All modifiers for monsters will show up on monster label
  + Player now gains a power up modifier on finishing an area
  + Game summary module on death
  + Add button to go to summary on death
  + Add transition to select level when all monsters are dead
  + New weapons can now drop

Graphical
  + Improved settings menu (press ESCAPE)
  + Add attack impact animation
  + Power up GUI graphics
  + System for pointing to reminding enemies
  + Death Animation
  + Rework weapon drawing system with colored modifiers and damage summary
  + Weapon DPS comparison
  + Ensure drawing of weapon is inside camera view

Technical
  + Refactor game files, split ECS files to core and features
  + Area of effect collision handling
  + Implement engine speed variable
  + Add engine speed settings (press P during gameplay)
  + Add cheat system (press left-alt during gameplay)
  + Add better support for binding UI components with LibGDX
  + Migrate to new attack collision resolve system
  + Rework modifier system, now much easier to generate base types

Bugfix
  + Fix render bug when transitioning between modules on Mac

Other
  + Add system for sound
  + Add cap system for sound effects, effect of same type wont overlap




0.18a (0ba7269) - April 17. 2022


Gameplay
  + Add a main menu screen
  + Selection of areas you can now pick is based on your progression
  + Add invulnerability frames for dodge animation
  + Add controller support
  + The game now has a way to track progress, check out save.json
  + World generation is now smarter when picking areas to place

Graphical
  + Add smooth transition between scenes
  + Add parallax effect to the main menu

Technical
  + Add config file (config.json)
  + Add save file (save.json)
  + Add output logfile (game.log) and option to toggle it
  + Split lightning in to two render passes. One for shadows cast by box2d
    objects and one for light up items and the area around the character
  + Add metadata for spawn rate and max occurrences to area editor
  + Use area editor metadata for world generation
  + Migrate to libGDX 1.10, and Kotlin 1.6.20
  + Improve performance with render passes
  + Save config on quit
  + Improvements to the logfile
  + Refactor core game modules, remove setup step in favour of using init { }
    as this solves issues with setup being called twice in some cases

Bugfix
  + Fix scaling when resizing after light and shadow framebuffers has rendered,
    you can now resize the game and maintain the correct aspect ratio

Other
  + Main menu soundtrack
  + Update damage taken sound
  + Add presentation module (PowerPoint)




0.17a (e6833f3) - January 20. 2022


Gameplay
  + Add grace area for monster spawning (player will spawn outside aggro range)

Graphical
  + Add box2dlights for shadows and lighting effects
  + You can click [L] to toggle lighting effects
  + Removed all old pre generated areas and made new ones
  + Update key binding info (bottom left screen)

Technical
  + Created a typesafe asset manager
  + Migrated all assets over to the asset manager
  + Improved the area editor with a new tag system that works with the new asset manager
  + General refactoring

Bugfix
  + Fixed some issues with assets not being loaded correctly




0.16a (badf60a) - January 9. 2022


Gameplay
  + You can now dodge through monsters
  + Reduce loading time when generating an area (its now 20-30 times faster)
  + Add music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio to the game
  + Add sounds for attack, dodge, zombies, footsteps and explosions
  + Increase dodge animation length

Graphical

Technical
  + System for lazy loading sounds and music
  + Directional sounds based on camera position for mono audio
  + Change when the screen clears when drawing gfx
  + Clean up logging and add a profiler to aggregate timed calls

Bugfix
  + Fix bug in animation system that caused initial movement
  + Fix bug that cause state to be triggered twice in animation system





0.15a (1a192c6) - January 3. 2022


Gameplay
  + Rework camera. Camera now follows the player smoothly.
  + Add boss fight with screen-wide health bar.
  + Numbers of monsters / mini bosses displayed in the level select screen now
    corresponds with monsters in the game world.
  + Add bounds for game world.

Graphical
  + Add new graphic for hexagon tiles.
  + Add bleak forest tileset.
  + Add fire based boss tileset.
  + Rework shadows (now circles instead of mirroring sprite shape).
  + New graphics for trees.
  + New graphics for road tiles.

Technical
  + Detach game loop from render speed. Use frame delta for all logic instead
    of fixed frames per second. Game now runs at the same speed independent of
    FPS.
  + Add virtual camera system to keep track of camera movements and
    calculations. Allows for multiple camera styles.
  + Remove unused forrest tiles from editor. Add bleak background to editor.
  + Better tile visualization. Scales with size.
  + Update visualization of worldgen.
  + Bezier implementation.
  + Delta for graphic velocity.

Bugfix
  + Fix scaling of mouse pointer when changing the camera zoom.
  + Update movement speed for loot pickup.