v0.19.0

Added

• Multiplayer
  • Separated game into client and server components, each of which can be run independently
  • Multiple clients can connect to a single server
• Created "Logger" logging management framework
  • There are multiple log levels; ALL, DEBUG, VERBOSE, ERRROR, etc
• Created static class for constants that are shared between the client and the server
• Added startup GUI for selection of client or server role, port, client name
• Added chat overlay, through which a client can send arbitrary chat messages to other clients
• Added commands and parsing of command messages
  • /me, speaks a chat message in third person
  • /tp, teleports issuing playing to given postion
  • /give, gives issuing player the given item
  • several more
• Added integration tests of client/server features
• Added mock interfaces for client/server

Changed

• The client now scans for keys each tick rather than listening for key presses and releases
• Manual print statements have been replaced with Logger.log statements
• IDs are now assigned to every entity
• IDs are now generated by an incremental value, rather than being randomly generated
• Map, entity position, and all randomly generated features are now based off of a seed

v0.18.0

Added

• Added two more water tiles, identical in behavior, with slight visual changes
  • The GameBoardOverlay now increments a "tileAnimStage" counter each call to draw
  • The Tiles class now contains additional BufferedImage arrays for animated tiles
• Added new "Particle" entity type; doesn't interact with other entities at all, purely for effect
  • Added new BulletSplash particles; they are released when a bullet collides with something
• Added new RPG weapon
  • Fires rockets in direction of facing
  • Rockets do 5 damage, plus 0.15 damage for each tick within their blast radius
  • Rockets release puffs of smoke as they fly
  • Explosions destroy all trees within their blast radius
• Added new stone tile, can be mined (drops nothing)
• Added new iron ore tile, can be mined to get iron ore
• Added new copper ore tile, can be mined to get copper ore
• Added RPG crafting recipe: 100 gems -> 1 RPG
• Added new "tick" command
  • Ticks the game a given number of times (without re-rendering each time)
• Added a new "tile interaction" highlight
  • Highlights whatever tile the mouse is over within three tiles of the player
• Added ambient blockchanges; done by helper method that executes during QuestMap's update()
• Added new setblock command:
  • Syntax: setblock x y type
• Added magnetic item effect: items are now drawn towards all players within a certain radius
• Added item pickup delay: items can only be picked up after a certain number of ticks (500) of being on the ground
• Added a 'held' item: this refers to an item that is held by the mouse pointer this feature will be more useful once more/better crafting GUIs are implemented
• Added a subtype of grass: grass_flower
• Added preliminary "winter mode" - purely aesthetic so far
• Added new GameWeatherOverlay
  • functions as a visual filter applied overtop of the board
  • currently adds a blue tint to the board and projects snowflakes
  • drawback: adding this overlay considerably drops framerate

Changed

• Each entity now contains a "map" property holding the map that it is in
• Bullets now disappear when they hit trees or rocks
• Eliminated old AstralRune effect, replaced it with bullets radiating outward from player
• Bullets can now be given a custom speed
• Redid cave system; now generates much like the upper world generates, but with closed-off spaces and minable spaces
• Overhauled the item system
  • Items no longer have their own classes and are now generic
  • Items have an "itemType" property which determines what effects and properties they have
  • Much like the tile system now
• Redid the crafting GUI
  • It's a bit hackish
  • A display window is added within the crafting window
  • The display window displays the inputs of whichever recipe is selected
• Minimap now updates immediately once a tile is changed
• MapLink has been generalized to ActiveTile
• QuestMap now contains a grid of "ActiveTile"s (most of which are null) that will contain the locations on-grid of MapLinks, Chests, Furnaces, and all interactive tiles
• Changed magnetic pickup to have a range specific to each player
• Redid tile display system
  • Tile images are now stored in a 3d array: [type][subtype][animStage]
  • "Type" is the overall type of the tile; all tiles of a type have the same collision properties
  • "Subtype" affects the appearance of a tile, and what items it drops
  • "animStage" represents all the frames
• Moved the render ticker back to having a delay of 5ms between renders

Fixed

• Fixed bug causing the game to crash when digging into a cave
• Fixed a bug that allowed two players to pick up the same one item

v0.17.0

Added

• Added a second Player entity
  • Enabled switching between the original player and the backup player by hitting 'p'
  • Each player has independent inventory
  • Players now have an associated current map, and maps now contain a list of players
  • Projectiles now remember their source, and damage any mob other than their source
  • The client will only control whichever player is selected
• Added "Rogue" mob
  • Copied largely from player
  • Given a shotgun, a pistol, and an SMG; chooses a different one each time it stops
  • Attacks in the same manner as cyclops, but is a bit faster
  • 3Has a chance of spawning in caves

Changed

• Gave hunger and mana fields to all mobs
• All items can now be (theoretically) used by all mobs
• Gave cyclopses a shotgun. Because why not
  • The cyclops fires the shotgun when it is 10u away from the current player and it has a line of sight
• Cyclops now spawns in caves
• Cooldowns are now managed within items themselves
  • Inventory no longer has to manage item cooldowns

v0.16.0

Added

• Added three methods to entity:
  • distanceTo(e): gets the direct distance from this entity to entity e
  • angleTo(e): gets the angle from this entity to entity e
  • hasClearPathTo(e): computes whether this entity has a direct path to entity e
• Added two methods to mob:
  • tileCoordsAtDistance(d): returns the coords of the tile 'd' away from the center of this mob in the direction it is facing
  • tileTypeAtDistance(d): returns the type of the tile 'd' away from the center of this mob in the direction it is facing
• Added several new items:
  • Added log item
  • Added hatchet item
    • When hatchet is used, if the tile one unit in front of the player is a tree, the tree is removed and a log is dropped
  • Added stone item
  • Added pickaxe item
    • When pickaxe is used, if the tile one unit in front of the player is a boulder, the boulder is removed and stone is dropped
  • Added shovel item
    • When shovel is used, if the tile under the player is grass, it becomes dirt, with a 5% chance of a hole being generated
• Added new "hole" and "dirtboulder" tiles
• Inter-map link system created
  • Each map now stores a hashmap of links to other maps
  • When holes are created, "cave" maps are generated; each hole links to a unique cave map
• Added shotgun weapon
  • Has cooldown of 400t
  • Shoots 15-20 bullets in a single direction
• Added LawRune item
  • Using law rune teleports the player back to their home coordinates on a given map
  • Very long cooldown (1000t - maybe should be longer)
  • Stackable
• Added item durability for Shovels, Pickaxes, and Hatchets
• Added rendering of miniature "durability bar" to inventory slots with durability items
• Added cosmic rune
  • When used, spawns a chicken at the user's position
  • 1000t cooldown (same as law rune)
  • Stackable
• Added mana mechanics
  • Cosmic rune use drains mana by 5.0
  • Law rune use drains mana by 30.0
  • Mana regenerates automatically, 0.1 per 200t
• Added a Camera class, which wraps a mob
  • It is now possible to attach the camera to a mob, which it will follow
• Added a CameraMob (essentially just a dummy mob to attach a camera to)
• Added grenade item and projectile
  • Short(ish) cooldown
  • Has 1000t long fuse
  • Explodes, creating 20 bullets which spray in all directions
• Added astral rune
  • 1000t cooldown
  • Disconnects the camera from the player for 1000t
  • The camera remains stationary while the player can move
  • Added appropriate functions in QuestGame, as there was no other reasonable place to put these methods
  • Costs 50.0 mana to use
• Added an AttackRoutine class in which the attacking enemy goes directly toward the player
  • Set cyclops to have AttackRoutine by default
• Added a CraftingOverlay
  • Items (such as tools) can be crafted using the crafting overlay
  • The user must have enough of the required items to craft an item
• Added an InventoryEntry class, a generalized display for items
• Added crafting system
  • Default key: c
  • Opens CraftingOverlay GUIContainer
  • Contains CraftingRecipies
  • CraftingRecipies contain lists of input items and output items
  • When a CraftingRecipie is clicked, the player finds out if the appropriate items are available. If they are, the required items are removed, and the product items are added
  • Added recipe for Hatchet and Pickaxe

Changed

• Increased accuracy of pistol and smg from (+- 10 degrees) to (+- 5 degrees)
• Merged InventoryEntry and Item classes
  • Items now have all the properties and functions that InventoryEntries used to have
• Slowed down rendering clock (every 5ms to every 10ms)
• Player now spawns with a toolkit (Pickaxe, Shovel, Hatchet)
• In caves, when mining, the loot chances are as such:
  • 2% to get SMG
  • 2% to get Shotgun
  • 6% to get Pistol
  • 10% to get Law Rune
  • 80% to get Stone
  • Anyplace besides caves, only stone is dropped
• Weapons no longer generate on surface map; only Gems and Cheese
• Cave maps now have their center tile set as home coords
• Separated the camera completely from the player entity
• Renamed "Particle" class to "Bullet"
• Runes now generate in slightly higher frequency under rocks in caves
• Turned InventoryBar into a GUIContainer
  • InventoryBar now holds ten InventoryEntries
  • Replicates previous behavior, but differently

Fixed

• Minimap is now generated properly; if the map is smaller than the minimap display window, the minimap is centered in the window
• Fixed potential concurrency issue with adding new items, mobs, and projectiles.
  • New items, mobs, and projectiles are now added after all processing of current entites is done

Removed

• Removed the "Overlay" class, replaced it with generalized GUIContainer class
  • GUIContainers are GUIObjects that hold other GUIObjects
  • Setting a GUIContainer to have a null parent makes it behave as an overlay (covering the whole screen)

v0.15.1

Added

• Added a stackable "ChickenLeg" item dropped by chickens on death 50% of the time
• Added a "fullnessBar" object to GameStatusOverlay, which displays hunger
• Player now contains a hunger counter with default size of 1000, drains hunger by one point per 1000 ticks
  • Health drains by one point per 1000 ticks once fullness is empty
  • Eating chicken legs increases fullness by 5, cheese increases fullness to max

v0.15.0

Added

• Addition of rudimentary AI system
  • Added MobAction abstract class and MoveAction and IdleAction classes
  • Added MobRoutine abstract class and IdleRoutine and FleeRoutine
    • Within each entity class's update() method, the current scenario is evaluated whenever the Mob's think() method is called
    • The think() method determines which routine will be used, and the routine assembles a (possibly random) order of actions
    • The mob then moves according to the mob's current routine's current action
  • Added AI for chicken; idles until the player is within 5 blocks, then runs away from the player until 5+ blocks away
• Added a "build mode" to QuestGame; if buildmode is activated, the player's mouse highlights the current block
• Added helper methods in QuestPanel to convert screen coordinates to game coordinates, and vice versa (some are broken)
• Added a fullscreen toggle which generates a new JFrame and JPanel when called
• Added class "Keybindings", a container for keybindings to toggle in-game functions
• Added keybinding GUI, which allows the user to bind keys to all functions
• Created another timer; one to tick the game, and one to render everything (surprise: speedup due to multithreading)

Changed

• Rebuild of entire GUI system
  • Each GUIelement is now passed its relative anchor point (each corner, or the screen center)
  • Moved status bars into their own class extending GUIObject
  • Moved minimap into its own class extending GUIObject
  • Moved inventory bar into its own class extending GUIObject
  • Converted QuestGame into an overlay
  • Minimap can now be toggled off completely
  • Added rendering of the board's grid itself when debug is on
  • Added vertical and horizontal lines to indicate where the mouse is when it is over a GUIObject
• Moved the gameboard into its own overlay
• Moved the gui (map, statusbars, inventorybar) into their own overlay
• The QuestGame is now solely a container for the logic of the game
• StatusBar GUIObject must now be instantiated with an anonymous getPercentage() method in order to display information
• Moved the full map view into its own overlay, MapViewOverlay
• When debugging, clicking on a minimap will tp the player to the point clicked
• Clicking or dragging while in build mode puts a grass tile down on the spot clicked
• Decreased bullet size from .2 to .15
• Bullets now spawn from the center of the player sprite

Full Changelog: v0.14.0...v0.15.0

v0.14.0

Added

• Added boulder variants of grass, sand, and water tiles
• Added map-specific "home coordinates", initialized as the location of the spawn area
• Added Bone item, dropped by cyclops on death
• Added death behavior for mobs
• Added full map view (opened by pressing M while ingame)

Changed

• Map terrain is now generated by three simplex noise maps instead of just one
  • A distortion map (essentially just another smaller-factored terrain map) is mixed into the base terrain map
  • A further distortion distribution map can limit the range of the distortion map
• Spawn area now guaranteed to be on land and not generate in the middle of a lake
• Console can now be opened by holding CTRL+F and then pressing P (even when not in debug mode)

Notes

• NEW NUMBERING SYSTEM:
  • majorelease.update.bugfix_checkpoint
  • This was necessary due to the size of the next update.
  • The checkpoint is to ensure I don't break the code and not know how to fix it.

v0.13.0

Added

• Added "tp" command (teleports player to absolute position)
• Added "tprel" command (moves player by an offset)
• Added tile collision for mobs, in the same way that it is implemented for the player
• Added "use()" method to item, delegated pistol and smg's bullet-firing to it
• Added cooldown functionality to items, using inventory slots
• Added health functionality to mobs, and health bars that render and fade automatically
• Added sand tile (walkable and penetrable)

Changed

• Modified player class (and all mobs, by default) to use a degree-based direction system instead of a hardcoded one

Removed

• Removed the "getType()" entity method and replaced it with "instanceof" in all applicable cases

Notes

• Loader has been broken since v0.11.0

v0.12.1

Added

• Added 'mob' class as superclass of player and chicken
• Added "Cyclops" mob, moves more slowly than chicken, but in the same pattern
• Added rudimentary console, accessible by pressing F1 when debug mode is on

Changed

• Cleaned up graphics initialization of entities, tiles, player, etc
• The tree tile is now initialized as a single bufferedimage; it no longer has to be drawn with two images

v0.12.0

Added

• Added new chicken entity
• Added entities (other than the player) minimap location indicator
• Added very elementary movement for the chicken
• Added new "particle" entity type
• Added SMG weapon item
• Added ability to shoot guns (SMG and pistol); bullets currently go in random directions

Changed

• Modified game rendering so that only entities and items within 30 blocks of the player are rendered (speedup)
• Changed keybindings; space now uses items, Q now drops items
• Pistol shoots one bullet per keypress of space, SMG shoots bullets constantly
• Changed mapbuilding method privacy settings, rewrote QuestMap constructor for cleaner code
• Debug display now indicated number of items, entities, and particles currently on the map