v0.14.1-alpha

Features

• Community page just showing top players for now (#1365, #1372)
• Support for passive win conditions (e.g. "When this object has 20 or more health, you win the game”) (#1376)
• New vocabulary items:
  • actions['winGame'] (#1376)
  • targets['union'] (e.g. "Deal 3 damage to a robot and all adjacent robots") (#1363)

Improvements

• Error message is now displayed when card execution fails in-game (#1319)
• Higher-contrast event card images (part of #1356)

Bug fixes

• Many bugs related to exiting sandbox mode (#1366, #1367, #1379)
• Favorite Opponent and Recent Games sections of the profile page were broken (#1373, #1383)
• Game would crash when an object that was just destroyed was referenced again as part of a single action (#1362)

Stability

• Drastically reduce slug size, memory footprint, and startup time by switching to a text-only Discord bot and disabling api/card.png endpoint (#1388)
• Remove unused dependencies and reduce bundle size (#1356, #1357, #1392)

v0.14.0-alpha

(See also https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-parser/releases/tag/v0.14.0-alpha).

Features

• Redesigned storage and metadata system for cards:
  • Cards now track their provenance (creator, creation time, updated time) (#1196, #1197, #1292).
  • Card provenance is displayed in the card creator and recent cards carousel (#1200, #1208, #1295).
  • Cards that aren't yours can be edited only by making a copy of them (#1198).
  • All cards and decks for all users are now stored in a single Firebase collection, greatly simplifying Firebase-adjacent code (#1275, #1279, #1281).
  • Card import from JSON is now handled more robustly, fixing a number of issues (#1287, #1288, #1289, #1290, #1291, #1292).
• Ability to create private (unlisted) cards (#1268).
• "New Here?" dialog on the home page that offers advice and tracks achievements (#1271, #1272, #1300, #1302).
• Card behavior:
  • actions.returnToHand can now take a player as an optional second parameter (e.g. "return X to Y's hand") (#1241).

Improvements

• Set creation improvements:
  • Group cards by type by default when creating a set (#1181).
  • Display number of cards of each type when creating a deck or set (#1182).
  • Explanation text that sets should have 30+ cards (#1180).
  • Better usability at smaller resolutions (#1193).
• Wait for Firebase connection before loading the game, for consistency (#1213, #1285, #1298).
• Forfeit button is now more clear, and exiting the tutorial is easier (#1318, #1337).
• The game is now playable on a 1024x768 screen (#1238, #1253).
• Keep left menu collapsed when screen width <1280px (#1217, #1256, #1267).
• All usernames are now links to profile pages (#1219).
• Indicator when creating or editing a deck belonging to a set (#1191).
• Hide cards without text from the Recently Created Cards carousel (#1146).
• Better profile page rendering (#1222).

Bugs

• Game-breaking bugs:
  • Sets were not being saved correctly (#1173, #1188, #1283, #1284).
  • Cards were not being saved correctly for older users (#1178) .
  • Websockets didn't work over HTTPS (#1174).
  • Tutorial was broken (#1202, #1203, #1210).
  • Sometimes the wrong deck would be used when starting a game (#1187).
• Card behavior bugs:
  • Objects that were destroyed by certain triggers and abilities remained alive until end of turn. (#1254, #1315).
  • getAttribute('cost') didn't work for objects on the board (#1175).
  • targets.they didn't work correctly for things like "Activate: Spawn a copy of this structure on each adjacent tile" (#1207).
  • Various card behavior edge-case bugs discovered in unit tests: #1225, #1229, #1232, #1236 .
• Erroneous cards were displayed while creating/editing a deck in a set format (#1190, #1194).
• Sandbox and practice-mode URLs didn't load the game correctly (#1239, #1338).
• “Entering the lobby …” message was displaying more than once on game end (#1344).
• Card tooltips were cut off in some situations (#1171, #1176).
• Card Creator didn't remember card metadata correctly (#1206, #1310).
• Various bugs with card carousel behavior (#1205, #1220, #1255, #1296).
• Profile pages wouldn’t load for players without any games played (#1301).
• Logged-out users couldn't view profile pages (#1211).
• Set-format games weren't tracked correctly on profile pages (#1201).
• Create Another checkbox in the card creator didn't remember its state (#1177).

Stability

• Convert all remaining Javascript code (with small exceptions) to TypeScript.
• Raise max-old-space-size to 4GB to avoid OOMing on Heroku (#1355).
• Upgrade to Node 12 and TypeScript 4. (#1326, 1353).
• Migrate linting configuration from eslint+tslint to eslint alone. (#1354).
• Use a separate Firebase instance on staging and localhost (#1322).
• Make parser and Firebase endpoints configurable on the command line, display them on the homepage on localhost, and use better defaults (#1346, #1347).
• Replace callbacks with promises for all Firebase DB lookups (#1297).
• Integration test to verify that all built-in cards parse correctly (#1244, #1354).
• New unit tests for:
  • tutorial (#1204).
  • vocabulary (now enforcing 100% coverage) (#1223, #1224, #1226, #1228, #1230, #1231, #1233, #1235, #1237).
  • firebase, using a mock Firebase DB (#1282).
• Major dependency upgrades: firebase, repng, tsnode, yarn.
• Major devDependency upgrades: eslint*, jest, ts-jest.

v0.13.1-alpha

(See also https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-parser/releases/tag/v0.13.1-alpha).

Features

• New vocabulary terms:
  • actions.forEach (#1149)
  • targets.theyP (#1150)
  • triggers.afterCardDraw (#1160)
  • maximumEnergyAmount (#1159)
• New features for existing vocabulary terms:
  • cardsInHand and cardsInDiscardPile can optionally take a list of conditions (#1158)
• Cards now track their creator's user ID and username (#1169)

Improvements

• Card collection view improvements:
  • Show each card's creator and timestamp in card collection view (#1167)
  • Sort by Timestamp in card collection view (#1156, #1172)

Bugs

• Card Creator button was broken on homepage (#1147)
• Create Another? checkbox unchecked after clicking Test Card (#1161)

Stability

• Use HTTPS (#673)
• Test to ensure that randomly created cards can be executed without crashing (#1155)
• Better handling of actions.they that is less likely to cause bugs (#1151)

v0.13.0-alpha

(See also https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-parser/releases/tag/v0.13.0-alpha).

Features

• New vocabulary terms:
  • cardsInDiscardPile collection (#1116, #1117)
  • actions.moveCardsToHand (#1112)
  • actions.shuffleCardsIntoDeck (#1113, #1125)
  • globalConditions.collectionCountComparison (#1114)
  • targets.conditionOn (#1129)
  • triggers.afterCardEntersDiscardPile (#1115)
  • triggers.afterDestroysOtherObject (#1118)
  • New effects: cannotmove (#1110) and cannotactivate (#1111)
• Improvements to existing vocabulary terms:
  • Ability to spawn enemy robots (#1104)
  • setAttribute and multipleAttribute can affect multiple attributes (#1099)
• Duplicate Set button (#1103)
• Game statistics by format displayed in profile page (#1018, #1094, #1095)

Improvements

• Set list page improvements
  • Description of what sets are (#1106)
  • Sort published sets by num decks created (#1140)
  • Sort cards in set by cost (#1105)
  • Auto-expand card list for a set in permalink view (#1108)
• Robot spawn hexes for each player indicated with a light tint (#1035)
• "Create Another?" option in card creator (#1134)
• Card creator URL now shows the ID of the card being edited, if any (#1093)
• "Normal" game format renamed to "Anything Goes" (#1073)
• Load card images asynchronously (#1137)
• "Did You Mean?" messages auto-contract keywords (#1097)
• Better access to New and Edit buttons on collection page (#1133, #1145)
• Sandbox card selector now draws cards instead of moving them to the top of a deck (#1122, #1120)
• More responsive buttons in card creator (#833)
• Better discard pile button positioning (#1119, #1123)
• Hide text select cursor in game board (#1134)

Bug fixes

• Sandbox mode didn't work (#1077, #1082, #1083, #1092)
• Clicking an empty tile would sometimes crash the game (#1127)
• Profile page navigation was broken (#1087, #1088)
• Activated abilities didn't display (#1078)
• Randomize button was broken in card creator (#1135)
• spawnObjects would sometimes spawn objects belonging to the wrong player (#1090)
• Search bar text didn't persist in the Dictionary dialog (#1085)

Stability

• Converted game/ components to Typescript (#1022, #1076)
• New TSLint rule: prefer-object-spread (#1101)

v0.12.1-alpha

Improvements

• Singleplayer game modes are now accessed from the Play page rather than a separate page. (#1069)

Bug fixes

• Starting casual games was broken. (#1067)

Stability

• Converted /components/hexgrid to Typescript. (#1064)

v0.12.0-alpha

(See also https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-parser/releases/tag/v0.12.0-alpha).

Features

• Sets. (#893, #904, #941)
  • Sets are player-created collections of cards that can be used to set up game formats with only those cards allowed in decks.
  • Sets page that lists published sets and all of your sets. (#908, #943, #937, #994, #1015)
  • Set creation and editing. (#912, #938, #1005)
  • Ability to share, delete, and publish sets. (#939, #969, #970, #940, #967, #984, #1004)
  • Deck creation from sets. (#942, #968)
  • Set game format that only allows decks built out of cards in a given set. (#893, #977, #1020, #1052)
• The decks page now shows detailed information about what formats each deck is valid in. (#731)
• Search bar in sandbox sidebar. (#957)
• Robots' current speed and available movement tiles are now indicated by dots on the bottom of their hexes. (#862, #1054)
  • As a consequence, structures are no longer greyed out in-game, because it's clear from their lack of movement dots that they are structures. (#1051)

Improvements

• Nav bar now indicates the currently selected page. (#910)
• Player names in the multiplayer lobby now link to their profile pages. (#884)
• The in-game timer is now colored with the current player color to indicate whose turn it is. (#925)
• Sound effect improvements:
  • Volume knob. (#674, #1003, #1040)
  • Sound enabled by default. (#683)
  • Better game-over SFX. (#1033)
• The deck picker now sorts decks by last-modified date. (#924)
• Game timestamps are now stored correctly in firebase. (#883)
• Discard pile was sometimes misaligned. (#885)
• Game mode buttons scaled badly on small screens. (#832)

Bug fixes

• The shared-deck format didn't synchronize game actions correctly between players, breaking the game. (#922)
• Newly created user accounts didn't receive usernames. (#917)
• Guests were unable to start casual games. (#1039)
• Delete Deck button was broken. (#916)
• The "Energy Well" card's triggered ability didn't work. (#923)
• Sandbox mode was impossible to leave through the nav bar. (#886)
• Clicking the victory screen would also close it for your opponent. (#1032)
• Games created from the matchmaking queue were always treated as "normal"-format games, regardless of their actual format. (#1061)

Stability

• Conversion of JavaScript code to Typescript:
  • common components (#1024)
  • /components/card (#945)
  • /components/cards (#1021)
  • /components/play (#976)
  • /components/users (combined with /components/profile) (#1023)
  • /containers (#1017)
• tslint
  • Now works on Windows. (#933)
  • Enabled for TSX (as well as TS) files. (#1007)
  • tslint-react rules.
  • tslint-eslint-rules rules. (#1006)
  • tslint-microsoft-contrib rules. (#1013)
• Shim Object.values().
• Unit tests for game format validation. (#735)
• Reorganized test scripts.
• Faster startup on Heroku.
• Resolve most peerDependencies issues. (#900)
• Standardize z-index constants. (#651)
• Store firebase permissions in git repo.
• Updated major packages: @babel/core, @material-ui/core, react, ts-node, jest, mocha, typescript.

v0.11.1-alpha

(See also https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-parsers/releases/tag/v0.11.1-alpha).

Features

• actions.spawnObject. (#872)

Improvements

• Sort games on profile page by date. (#874)

Bug fixes

• Tutorial was broken. (#875)
• "The Bomb"'s activated ability didn't work. (#863)

Stability

• Enforce Node v8.
• Major package updates: react-redux, eslint-plugin-jest, eslint-plugin-lodash.

v0.11.0-alpha

(See also https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-parsers/releases/tag/v0.11.0-alpha).

Features

• Completely new Multiplayer interface. (#741, #604, #825, #855)
  • Separation of the existing Play page into Singleplayer and Multiplayer pages.
  • Unranked matchmaking. (#609, #730, #736)
  • Dialogs for selecting deck and format. (#742, #746)
  • Better queuing interface. (#755, #764, #762)
  • Better handling of "guests" (not-logged-in players). (#784, #783, #809)
• Profile page with statistics and created cards. (#608, #795, #821, #801)
• "Built-in cards only" game format. (#702)
• Ability to create custom games without a turn timer. (#777)
• Ability to create password-protected custom games. (#778)
• Almost-working card obfuscation on server. (#807, #838, #837, #836 – but, see #856, #850 for why it's currently disabled).

Improvements

• Notification when logged in or out. (#681)
• Confirm password field in Register dialog. (#681)
• Register button in top bar. (#684)
• UI improvements to chat controls. (#676, #677)
• Add " - Wordbots" to all page titles. (#686)
• Make event images fill up all available space. (#859)

Bug fixes

• Server request caching sometimes gave the client bad initial redux state. (#834).
• The Play page crashed the server for non-logged-in players. (#722)
• Leaving a game wasn't handled correctly on the server. (#806)
• Test button in card creator was broken. (#759)
• Chat was broken in the multiplayer lobby. (#785)
• Deck validation wasn't working correctly on the server. (#738)

Stability

• Converted most non-Component JS code into TypeScript. (#705, #751, #752, #814, #815, #842, #846, #835)
• Unit test for MultiplayerServerState. (#782)

v0.10.0-alpha

Features

• Support for multiple game formats. (#688, #707)
• Shared-deck game format. (#668)
• conditions['exactDistanceFrom'] (e.g. "Activate: Destroy all robots 2 spaces away.") (wordbots/wordbots-parser#74)
• targets['generateCard'] (e.g. "Each object in play becomes a 0/2/1 robot.") (#619)

Improvements

• Bigger game board display. (#671)
• Side navigation in sandbox mode. (#599)
• Display player name in all game modes when possible. (#678)
• Get rid of time limit for practice games. (#680)
• Save button text in card creator was sometimes misleading. (#661)
• Remove unnecessary scrollbar and get rid of custom scrollbar styling. (#679, #685)
• Recent-cards carousel improvements.

Bug fixes

• Spectators could forfeit games they were spectating. (#666)
• "Shutdown: return this object to its owner's hand" crashed the game. (#704)
• Resizing the game window caused console errors. (#682)

Stability

• Install material-ui-next as a separate dependency alongside material-ui. (#642)
• Upgrade to CircleCI 2.0.
• Receive parser version information for all parsed cards, to allow migrations when necessary in the future. (#697, #698)
• Multiplayer code reorganization. (#613)
• Update packages: firebase, react, react-dom, react-sound, style-loader.

v0.9.3-alpha

Features

• Objects now deselect automatically after move/attack/activation (#644).
• "Report" button in card creator to report failed parses to us via firebase (#598).

Improvements

• Tooltip explaining sandbox mode (#587).
• Reposition Discard Pile button to fit better on small screens (#649).
• Hover effect on End Turn button.
• Flip draw pile for top player in sandbox mode (#648).

Bug fixes

• Forfeiting tutorial mode resulted in an invalid state (#653).
• "Until end of turn" effects sometimes lasted into the next turn (#596).
• Activated abilities sometimes didn't update the game board immediately.
• Video tutorial covered up help text.
• Leaving Sandbox mode sometimes redirected away from Wordbots (#652).
• End Turn button overlapped badly with other elements.

Stability

• Tests now work correctly on Windows.
• Updated packages: react-slick.