CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

• FE Caps lock now works properly on desktop.

Fixed

• FE Removed music jumps at scene changes.

[1.3.0] - 2022-05-18

Added

• BE Leaderboard endpoint (ensure no device id escept the user's is publicly circulating).
• FE Leaderboard scene with top players (everyone's id is hashed and anonymized, names are generated deterministically).
• BE Added email to devices.
• FE Added reward scene to input email.
• BE Top weekly players in dashboard.
• BE Dashboard is now password protected.
• FE Track personal best words/time/score.
• FE Notify when personal best is beaten upon game over.
• FE Link to privacy policy in rewards scene, abiding to GDPR.

Changed

• FE Wrong casing is now accepted, halving the points of the wrong letters.
• FE Device handling is simplified and bubbled up to the Game instance itself.
• FE Refactor text style handling.
• FE Refactor button interaction handling.

Fixed

• FE Fix english in tutorial.
• FE Fix text alignment in tutorial.
• FE Fix arrows emoji for mobile in tutorial.
• FE Fix wonky clue positioning in tutorial.
• FE Fix pause overlay when in game over screen.
• FE Disable focus pausing in reward scene, as prompts are tricky.

1.2.0 - 2022-05-11

Added

• FE Now there is an in-game thorough tutorial.

Changed

• FE Huge refactor of internals, mostly to allow for tutorial creation.
• FE Mobile now pauses with double tap.

1.1.0 - 2022-05-05

Added

• FE Add fox and rabbit critters.
• FE Critter size is now proportional to word length.
• FE Implement asset preloading.
• FE Implement haptic feedback for mobile devices.
• FE Allow key stroke repetition on hold.
• FE Implement loading screen.
• FE Expiring clues flash red before disappearing.
• FE Health pulses red when low.
• FE Implement webfont preloading.
• FE Switch to using only webfonts.
• FE Implement text clues (as opposed to image clues). Propedeutic to tutorial mode.
• FE Implement buttons on welcome screen. Propedeutic to tutorial mode.

Changed

• FE Removed redundant clock icon from HUD.
• FE Remove SHIFT keys; replace SPACE with SHIFT.
• FE Make input preview smaller to improve clue overlaps for slow typers on mobile.
• FE Rename "wave" to "level".
• FE Lower max length to 3 at game start.

Fixed

• FE Avoid text overlap on mobile in game over screen.

1.0.0 - 2022-04-21

Added

• BE Favicon.
• BE Automatic DB triggers on timestamps.
• FE/BE Rollbar.

Changed

• Official game name is "Ötzit!" (oetzit for machines).

Removed

• BE Deprecated seeds.

0.7.0 - 2022-04-13

Added

• FE Sound effects.
• FE Background music.
• FE Critters flash when hit.
• FE Player flashes when hit.
• FE HUD flashes on change.
• BE API for precise word choice.
• FE Use exponential distribution for delay between foes (i.e. their arrival is a Poisson process).
• FE Use parametric Pareto distribution for word length coice (i.e. we're bending the Zipfian law to control difficulty).
• FE Modulate difficulty ramp up in waves.
• FE Announce waves visually.
• FE Change atmospheric color to tenser tones as difficulty increases.
• FE Change music faster pace as difficulty increases.
• FE Implement scoring system (accounting for length, accuracy and speed).
• FE/BE Track score and similarity of every shot.
• FE Make game over screen more informative.
• BE Plot device behaviour in dashboard.
• BE Plot word performance in dashboard.

Changed

• FE Failing a word does damage proportional to length.

Fixed

• FE Increase minimum clue size for small screens.
• FE Deactivate typewriter at gameover.
• FE Deactivate spawner at gameover.

0.6.0 - 2022-04-06

Added

• FE added game clock.
• FE/BE added ingame time tracking.
• FE clues are placed in bounded area
• FE clues are placed in a smart way, seeking free spaces and avoiding piles.
• FE the whole HUD is scaled responsively.
• FE all game entities are scaled responsively.
• FE pause shortcut for desktop and mobile.
• FE make game more discoverable w/ better hints.

Changed

• FE general rehaul of UI/HUD and aesthetics.

Fixed

• FE fixed pause handling in ingame time.
• BE improve shot graph readability in dashboard.
• FE clues don't overlap anymore.

0.5.0 - 2022-04-04

Added

• FE/BE complete tracking of essential game events.
• BE sketch dashboard with some data.
• FE/BE display release tag/sha.
• FE shift key for virtual and physical keyboards.
• FE pause/resume on focus loss/gain.
• FE conceal/reveal clues on focus loss/gain.
• FE enemy spawn based on internal timer (to account for pauses).
• FE critter speed is parametric.
• FE foe duration is parametric (and adjusted to screen width).

Changed

• FE match making is now case sensitive.

0.4.0 - 2022-03-29

Added

• FE Nice parallax background.
• FE Rudimentary score/health system.
• FE Game over and splash screens.

Changed

• FE input is centered on screen.
• FE submit feedback is now always given and way snappier.

Fixed

• FE player doesn't fall through ground on big screens.
• FE animals don't fall through ground on big screens.

0.3.0 - 2022-03-24

Added

• FE Let clues fall w/ gravity to improve overlap situation.
• FE Make word size more uniform by guesstimating ascenders/descenders presence.
• FE Track input timing and keystrokes.
• FE Add virtual keyboard for mobile (which becomes input handler for desktop too).
• BE Swagger for API.

Changed

• FE Move success/failure messages to improve readability.
• FE Rework background scaling.
• FE Circumvent texture key hashing to avoid collisions.
• BE Completely rework API (shallow RESTlike w/ Typebox).

Fixed

• FE Immediately remove clue on failure.
• FE Solve difficulties in typing "öäüß" (w/ hidden virtual keyboard).

0.2.0 - 2022-03-15

Added

• FE Clues appear and fade on top of forest.
• FE Spears have physics, and either scare animals away or stab the ground.
• FE The player can just type; no clicking, no modals.
• FE Typed words are matched with onscreen ones by Levenshtein distance.
• BE Seed procedure from Quack.
• BE/FE Revise DB schema and API to handle words.

Changed

• FE Complete rewrite in TypeScript.

0.1.0 - 2022-03-02

Added

• Dockerization for development and deployment.
• Kubernetes architecture for deployment.
• Solid CI pipeline.
• DB seeding script.
• Various QOL improvements for developers.

Changed

• Backend rewritten in Node.

0.0.1 - 2022-02-21

Added

• POC by Giovanni Moretti.