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

1.11.1 - 2023-01-10

Changed

Update some architecture details.

1.11.0 - 2022-11-16

Changed

Rebrand "Rewards" as "Register".
Remove responsivity and hardcode sizes to bound load on old devices.

1.10.6 - 2022-10-04

Fixed

Delegate word API requests to scene in order to avoid scrambled events after game over.
Spawner scene activity gates.
Game over cleanup procedure.

1.10.5 - 2022-09-28

Added

Implement improved logging.

Fixed

Change hud check from activity to visibility.
Clean up timers and tweens on game over.

1.10.4 - 2022-09-28

Fixed

Ensure beDevice is initialized before flashing rewards button.

1.10.3 - 2022-09-28

Fixed

Extend HUD inactivity checks.

1.10.2 - 2022-09-27

Fixed

Implement fallback storage for users disabling cookies.
Switch (gradually) from sessionStorage to localStorage.

1.10.1 - 2022-09-27

Fixed

Crash occurring when changing/submitting input concurrently to game over.

1.10.0 - 2022-09-21

Added

Rewards: rephrase to improve clarity.
Rewards: button flashes if email is missing
Rewards: added links to forms.

1.9.1 - 2022-09-20

Fixed

Clean up TS checking in frontend.

1.9.0 - 2022-09-14

Added

Whip up competition dashboard.

1.8.1 - 2022-09-05

Fixed

Repair sample link in workshop leaderboard.

1.8.0 - 2022-09-05

Added

Add a leaderboard view to backoffice for usage in workshops.

1.7.0 - 2022-08-30

Added

Add status markers on dashboard distributions list.
Add OCR confidence on dashboard distributions list.

1.6.0 - 2022-07-18

Added

Improved statisticts on dashboard (including entropy scores).

1.5.0 - 2022-06-21

Added

Implemented scraping/seeding script to fill database with transcriptions from Quack.
Implemented scraping/seeding script to fill storage with images from Quack.
MinIO setup for object storage in local development environment and k8s manifests.

Changed

Images are now fetched from object storage instead of database (via API).
Clean up tag generation in CI/CD.
Improve setup for local development.
word_id is now a padded string instead of a number.

1.4.1 - 2022-05-30

Fixed

FE Always install all deps in CI.

1.4.0 - 2022-05-30

Added

FE Caps lock now works properly on desktop.
FE Track best level.
FE Best (and last) level, score, time and word count are all tracked in Record component.

Changed

BE Migrations now run in an initContainer automatically upon deployment.
BE/FE Improved tagging and deployment strategies.

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.