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