Half Busted Games

Changelog

[0.0.21] - 2026-10-23

New Biomes

Added

• Various new shrubs (#280)
• Spruce Biome (#281)
• Poplar Biome (#282)
• Waterless style for some biomes (#283)
• Feathermoss underlay (#284)
• Badlands Biome (#297)
• The Tick enemy (#299)
• Key bindings display for game menu (#279)
• Colored question staleness bar (#278)

Changed

• Start in full screen mode (#293)
• Limiting discovery quests to 1 at a time (#296)
• Physically separate squad members colliding (#295)
• Quest log scroll bars (#294)
• Smaller hud for larger teams (#288)
• Missile impact animation (#277)
• Removal of fog of war by teammates (#289)
• Players start with a lvl 1 dog (#292)
• Trainers tell which weapon is required (#286)
• Full-inventory message (#300)
• Spell bar button glyphs (#276)

Fixed

• pathing starting near a collision shape (#298)
• dog hiring while out of money (#291)
• quest icons refresh on vendor activity (#287)
• dogs hired in multiplayer persisting (#290)

[0.0.20] - 2026-09-28

BUG FIX

Fixed

• re-align center-of-tile for entrances and exits

[0.0.19] - 2026-09-28

Walking in Squad Formation

Added

• Squad movement (#275)
• UI Follow buttons (#264)
• Pre-missile animations (#266)
• food for dogs (#272)
• warning before entering dungeon (#249)
• threat display for tanks (#267)

Changed

• Cascase pulse behavior (#265)
• Upgrader can now take items from inventory (#268)
• triangulating space around collision shapes (#269)

Fixed

• redundant despawns on questions (#271)
• shield slam cancelling on incorrect distance limit (#273)
• not dispelling fog of war when entering from the south (#274)
• refactor npc memory/actor status (#270)

[0.0.18] - 2026-08-11

Raised Level Cap to 3

Added

• question generator for level 3 fencing (#261)
• question generator for level 3 barricade (#262)
• question generator for level 3 moonlight (#263)
• question generator for level 3 arcane (#260)
• downranking option at schools (#259)

Changed

• class/lvl shown at character selection (#258)
• fog-of-war extended 2 extra tiles to cover edge (#246)
• update to Bevy 0.19 (#255)

Fixed

• Esc key cancels spells and clears target lists (#247)
• Chase only occurs on single targets (#250)
• player sprite not disappearing at logout (#257)
• color not updating on multiplyer (#254)
• delete dungeon on success (#253)
• questions auto-cancelling on dead targets (#256)
• aggros stays on dead players (#252)
• refresh hud on client connect (#245)
• health showing 0 on dungeon entrance (#248)
• targeted towns update on client connect (#244)
• resorting bags post-precious item deletion (#251)

[0.0.17] - 2026-06-22

Network Optimizations

Fixed

• further optimizing network traffic (#243)

[0.0.16] - 2026-06-22

Network Optimizations

Fixed

• optimizing to stay within bandwidth cap (#243)

[0.0.15] - 2026-06-22

Copper Dungeon

Added

• Minerologist UI (#202, #201)
• Copper dungeon underground (#218)
• Copper dungeon entrance (#217)
• Tileset sheets for underground caverns (#221)
• Roach Animations (#208)
• Roaches in underground (#219)
• Extra wild exit in core (#230)
• Kabob as food item (#229)
• Tier 2 weapons (#236)
• Tier 2 armor sets (#232,#233,#234,#235)
• Dog SFX (#215)
• Eliteness icons (#240)

Changed

• Stray dogs recalled at distance limit (#226)
• Precious items destroyed on death (#222)
• Remove scouted locations on full party wipe (#220)

Fixed

• Stats recalculated incorrectly when unequipping (#242)
• Followers showing non-zero health post-death (#241)
• Healers auto-following enemies (#237)
• y-sorting on followers (#238)
• moonlight pulse logging incorrect target (#231)
• update_status tick not effecting followers (#239)
• pathing failures close to walls (#228)
• blunder damage ignoring armor (#225)
• tab targeting through walls (#224)
• fog-of-war revealed through walls (#227)

[0.0.14] - 2026-05-31

bug fixes

Fixed

• BUG: Dogs Spawning as Geese (#216)

[0.0.13] - 2026-05-31

Adding Guard Dogs

Added

• Kennel Keeper NPC in the Core (#211)
• Malachite, Copper, RoachMeat, Carapace added as items (#209)
• Follow NPC behavior, for dogs (#213)
• Follower's health displayed in HUD (#214)
• Dog Animation (#210)

Changed

• Optimize network traffic, fog-of-war tracked client-side (#207)
• Optimize network traffic, ground tile compression (#205)
• Moonlight level cap raised to 2 (#204)
• Barricade level cap raised to 2 (#203)

[0.0.12] - 2026-05-07

Bug Fixes

Fixed

• client-side crash on loading tutorial (#200)

[0.0.11] - 2026-05-06

Happiness and population

Added

• Basic tutorial structure (#188)
• UI: added in-game exit option (#187)
• UI: Happiness summary for each town (#190)
• population increase on timer (#191)
• starvation check on timer (#192)
• Caravan NPC job type (#196)
• UI: Active jobs and construction shown in summary (#199)

Fixed

• Animation: walking and threat simultaneously (#183)
• saving while busy persists busy status (#182)
• unequipping a bag does not reduce slot number (#186)
• failing to load in offline mode (#189)
• dead players in hud showing non-zero health (#185)
• forage quests completing outside the start town (#194)
• workers avoid jobs that would lead to starvation (#197)

[0.0.10] - 2026-04-06

More bug fixes

Fixed

• visuals update on upgrade purchase (#178)
• multiplayer bug, postcard-related (#179)
• failures persisting across trials (#180)
• trade counterbalance now integer (#181)

[0.0.9] - 2026-03-31

bug fix

Fixed

• un-upgraded equipment invisible (#177)

[0.0.8] - 2026-03-30

Character Customizations

Added

• Graphics for Cryptic armor set (#172)
• Graphics for Twilight armor set (#174)
• Graphics for Padded armor set (#173)
• Graphics for Bone armor set (#171)
• Graphics for weapon upgrades (#175)
• Custom colors for base clothing (#170)
• Added belt/bracer armor slots (#168)
• Plain items for Hat/Shoulders/Belt/Bracers (#169)

Changed

• Hide collision debug mode on release

Fixed

• Radius animation propagates to clients (#167)
• Limit minimum zoom on geography questions (#176)

[0.0.7] - 2026-03-16

Adding the Tank Class

Added

• Geography diagrams for Barricade questions (#160)
• The Barricade School (#161)
• Threat and Threat tables for NPCs (#162)
• Life steal spell for healers (#164)
• Slam spell for tank (#163)
• Healer Armor Upgrades (#159)
• Bean salad, food item (#153)

Changed

• scroll bars now on steam friends list (#157)
• Map shows reasons in text when rejecting fast travel (#152)
• Counter balance strongly favors coinage as commodity (#158)

Fixed

• Healer blunder does damage (#156)
• Animation resets propagate to clients (#148)
• No scene changes when menus are opent (#150)

[0.0.6] - 2026-03-09

Adding the Healer Class

Added

• Added Moonlight as a school (healing, with music questions)
• Generating musical scores as dynamic raster image (#12)
• False life as an in-game concept (#155)
• In-game name tags on player sprites (#147)
• Inventory Drop-All action on items (#149)

Fixed

• Road bug when players do not have weapon (#144)
• Trial failures no longer grant new levels (#145)
• Equipment change animations propagate to client (#149)
• Money counterbalance calculations now far more reliable (#146)

[0.0.5] - 2026-03-02

Adding the Skill Trainer System

Added

• Added skill trainers as interacables in the Core (#140)
• Practice mode in the trainer UI (#142)
• Trial mode in the trainer UI (#142)
• Add question generators and increase lvl cap to 2 for Arcane/Fencing (#139)
• Decorative brass fitting sprites for Core (#136)

Changed

• Adjust NPC response times based on real player data (#141)
• NPCs can now spawn at lvl 2 (#143)

Fixed

• Better compression for tile data on scene transition (#138)
• Display floating damage numbers in multiplayer (#137)
• Correction for status bars not updating until zone change (#134)
• Correcting fencing dash threshold (#133)
• Price and counterbalance now calcualted in f64 instead of f32 (#135)

[0.0.4] - 2026-02-18

Adding the Weapon/Armor Upgrade System

Added

• Added the Storm NPC type
• Added Ectoplasm as an item
• Iteractable NPC upgrade in the Core
• Stats modifiers based on upgrades to equipped weapons

[0.0.3] - 2026-02-09

First Multiplayer Ready Build

Changed

• Refactor: separate server-vs-client code
• Migrate to Bevy 0.18

Added

• Implement bevy_replicon_renet
• Implement Steam Datagram Relay

[0.0.2] - 2025-12-12

Thrid Demo Version

Fixed

• Inventory and trade should not open at the same time (#104)
• Inventory item action click passthrough (#99)
• create directories for control mapping (#100)
• prevent auto-save at loading screen (#102)

Changed

• clear forage items around crow and exit points (#106)
• reset accuracy every morning (#107)
• Switch "no work today" msg to speach bubble (#108)
• disable forage quests until a weapon is found (#105)

[0.0.1] - 2025-12-12

Second Demo Vesion

Added

• Accept answers by arrow keys (#92)
• People in the Core (#95)
• Death screen, shows penalty (#85)
• Melee players do charge if out of range (#80)
• Control mapping menu (#86)
• New player name entry on creation (#78)
• New bag tiers (#89)
• Throw numbers on hit (#76)
• Accuracy star buffs (#79)
• Redistribute wild money (#83)

Fixed

• improved (not fixed) goose stuckness (#88)
• case sensitive word lookup issue (#88)
• remove temporary spawn point markers (#84)
• Re-add missing shift-key-icon on interrupt ui (#97)
• 1.4x walk speed on diagonals (#91)

Changed

• warning if attempting to forage without a weapon (#93)
• controls displayed on loading screen (#86)
• Trade UI quality of life changes (#96)
• better goose sound effects (#98)
• tool tips on cast bar (#77)
• well-fed display on food tooltips (#82)

[0.0.0] - 2025-11-21

Initial Demo Version

Added

• Starting with 2 classes (Arcane/Fencing), level cap 1
• Starting with 8 Towns
• Single player only so far