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

v0.4.101.1, aka 'Officially fun'

• the game is now officially fun to play, with a seal of the Galactic Council
• introduce unique boss monsters and unique artifact items
• add robots that heal the player, in particular as a mid-game reset for HP
• move spaceship airlock to level 10 and beef up spaceship crew
• let AI gang up, attempt stealth and react to player aggressiveness
• spawn actors fast, close to the enemy and in large numbers
• 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
• make actor domination yet less common and deadly
• 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
• update vs the naughtily changed v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API

v0.4.100.0, aka 'The last interstellar thaw'

• update vs the unexpectedly thawed v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API
• unexpectedly add items with timeouts and temporary effects
• start campaign on level 3 and don't spawn aliens until level 4
• rebalance campaign (probably still too hard)
• tweak skills of some factions and actors
• rename tablets to chips to make their vanishing easier to understand
• 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
• improve keyboard handling on Windows
• add i386 Linux and Windows compilation targets to Makefile

v0.4.99.0, aka 'Player escapes through airlock'

• balance game content a bit (campaign still unbalanced)
• fix a bug where doors can't be closed
• assign AI tactics to players, in particular use follow-the-leader in safari
• specify monster spawn rate per-cave
• generally update content to the new v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API

v0.4.14, aka 'Out of cosmic balance'

• add tons of new (unbalanced) items, actors and descriptions
• add a simple cabal test in addition to make-test and travis-test
• add items of Wonder and of Marvel
• add game mechanics, items and places to enable stealthy tactics
• add lots of shrapnel (explosions) and organs (body parts)
• expose a bit of the plot via new game modes and their order

v0.4.12

• make walls lit by default to simplify exploration
• 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

v0.4.10

• screensaver game modes (AI vs AI)
• improved AI (can now climbs stairs, etc.)
• multiple, multi-floor staircases
• multiple savefiles
• configurable framerate and combat animations

v0.4.8

• experimental multiplayer modes
• a lot of gameplay changes induced by the engine overhaul and in particular the client-server rewrite

v0.4.6.5

• this is a minor release, primarily intended to fix the broken compilation on Hackage
• changes since 0.4.6 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

v0.4.6

• the Main Menu
• improved and configurable mode of squad combat

v0.4.4

• missiles flying for three turns (by an old kosmikus' idea)
• visual feedback for targeting
• animations of combat and individual monster moves

v0.4.3

• the Allure of the Stars game depends on the LambdaHack engine library