This thread lists and documents changes to the engine. 

March 19, 2025 Update:
- Fixed a bug that crashes the program when trying to set unimplemented Effect Tags in the Card Editor.

Version 0.1.1 Update

Starting today I will be tracking the software version.

•  Fixed Story Editor Card Blocks. It is no longer possible to accidentally delete Card Data there.
• Added Template Infrastructure for editable Game UI
• Table input is now blocked during the opening
• Added a clickable menu button from in-game
• Fixed bug where it initially requires pressing Escape twice before opening the pause menu

Version 0.1.2 Update

• Refactored the CardUI architecture to account for editability
• Made the Skill Check UI 
• Created a cleaner implementation to remove orphaned Cards in the demo project
• Saving objects to projects no longer automatically saves the project to the filesystem (for performance reasons)
• Closing the program automatically saves the project to the filesystem
• Attributes and Keywords now display properly in the game

Demo Project File

• Added flavor text to relevant cards in the Tutorial scenario
• Cleaned up orphaned files

v0.2 Update, State Machines and Scripting

Note: Previous versions of demo projects are no longer supported. Download the new one.

Major News

• Starting this update I will be publicly developing this to whoever's interested, it beats having to work on this alone w/ little to no informed feedback, hopefully.
• Scripting simple card AI is now possible through card effects

Editor Changes

• Behavior Flags are now implemented on card effects
• The effects Capture, Release Card, Modify Attribute, and Modify Keyword is scriptable in the editor. In addition to the Create Card and Read Event effect.
• Card-Based Subbranch Dialogue now has a custom text preview for react to players placing valid cards.

Gameplay Changes

• Effects Capture, Release Card and Read Event are implemented. (With the exception of Player Targetted behavior)
• Implemented the 'Repeatable' Behavior Flag for card effects ('Reactable' still causes issues)
• Card UI State Machines and Gameplay Effect Event State Machines are implemented
• Implemented history logging for many gameplay events
• QoL update for dragging cards to panels
• Implemented gameplay logic for event cards
• Implemented the architecture for different activation timings
• QoL UI update for rolling dice for skill checks.
• Fixed a bug where finishing a Scenario does not open the 'Exit Game' menu.
• Added an AudioVisual Reference viewer to see image refs and audio refs and their details in-game

Miscellaneous

• QoL Change of using a window panel for choosing characters in the main menu.
• Fixed a bug where exiting to main menu from game can delete a dialogue event from the opening scene
• and many small changes I forgot to note

Project Changes

• For performance reasons, I removed the educational game that I am developing within Cardology. It can now be found in the educ sp project file, but no changes are made to it.
• The Demo project file now will contain a simple base template of known game genres that can be made in Cardology. Some card sets are available, but no actual gameplay of them is available yet.
• Created 5 new cards for the tutorial, the tutorial now showcases cards of every type:
  • Scene Card - Opening Tutorial
  • Action Card - Tutor
  • Item Card - Data Cards and others
  • Event Cards - Playable from hand
  • Opposition Card - The Data Thief, who steals a Data Card every turn
  • Upkeep Card - Anon, who provides you an item every turn
  • Encounter Card - The skill test

v0.2.1 Update: States, Scores, and Card Targetting Systems and More

Gameplay Feature Changes:

• Effects
  • The Effects 'Modify Attribute', 'Modify Keyword', and 'Modify State' is now fully implemented
    • Attributes and Keywords are attached to cards.
    • Keywords that contain effects activate properly now.
    • States are variables that is tracked globally. It informs the Game State
  • The flag 'Hide Log'  is implemented for effect logs
  • Implemented scores. Scores are States that are displayed prominently in the UI
  • Player Targeting is now implemented.
    • When targeting cards on the table or hand, the game enters a Targeting state which allow you to aim with your mouse and select valid cards.
    • When targeting cards globally or in a deck, it opens an item list to select the target from
• Bugfixes
  
  • bbcode is now working in the flavor text panel
  • On critically failing a skill test, the critical fail sound effect is now properly working

Editor Changes:

• Added the 'Modify State' effect and it's editor block
• Implemented States in various resource editing windows
• Added Score to the Story Editor, allowing you to designate certain game States as more important than others

v0.2.1 Update: Hotfixed

The previous update broke some existing features. It's fixed now.

v0.3 Housekeeping Update: Performance and Avoiding Technical Debt

An incredibly big update with over 320+ files changed. Not much has changed from the end user perspective, but a lot of changes were made on how data is stored and handled in the engine. 

• Files are reorganized to more easily be exported to Godot
• Major Performance upgrade in the Card Editor. The editor no longer reloads the Card Data when it saving.
• The Demo file is decluttered and removed unnecessary data, making it more lightweight.
• Refactored many game data files, therefore previous versions of the demo are no longer supported
• Fixed multiple bugs from existing features
• Created the base infrastructure for many future features such as VN-style Dialogue System, TTRPG-Style Skill System, Dialogue Translations, Game Template Editor, etc.