Change Log

Version 3.0.0

• Refactor and break a lot of things:
• Make most modules independent to each other.
• Unit testing with QUnit.
• Add carrying mechanic: now people can carry thing such as meat or fruit.
• Add grunt tasks for testing and distribution.

Version 2.5

• Update trending knowledge UI: use panel group and only show 1 knowledge at the same time.
• Add knowledge priority control to the main screen.

Version 2.3

• Use Bootstrap JS: tab, navbar, carousel.
• Add messages to guide the game when a knowledge is completed or unlocked and on some special events.

Version 2.2

• Game event mechanic: handle multi yearPassedCallback.
• Start game manually and add game introduction to the main screen.
• Remove "unlock" population limit button.
• Change food resource +% mechanic to food resource recovery mechanic.
• Change the project name to World JS: History Simulation.

Version 2.1

• Used drop down list instead of buttons to change knowledge priority.
• Three game display modes:
• Full: draw all seeds
• Dot: draw only one pixel per seed
• None: not draw anything
• Game speed mechanic: be able to make the game progress faster.
• Game guide system: inform game update (knowledge unlocked, knowledge completed).
• Double food resources: removed the high risk of famine because ancient foragers lived a better life than the next part of the history.
• Change game ending: not always end up with famine. Add "unlock" button to remove the population limit.
• Removed God sub module.

Version 2.0

• Completed 1st part of the game: simulated the world from the first appearance of our ancestors to the cognitive revolution.
• Food resources mechanic: People obtain food from limited food resources.
• Population limit mechanic: You have to unlock a specific knowledge to expand the population limit.
• Layout: Separated Statistic box on left column into 2 tabs.

Version 1.3

• New layout: focus on mobile-friendly and responsive design, upgrade to Bootstrap 3.0.
• People standing mechanic: move X steps then stop until Y age then move again.
• Game mechanic: changed death rate and Famine rule.
• Removed Helper sub module: use inline functions instead of call them from Helper sub module.

Version 1.2

• Replaced Front sub module with Interface and Story sub modules.
• Distributed ticks mechanic: prevented a tick that has too many actions to trigger that make the game feels janky.
• Prevented holey tile array: set the reference to false instead of delete it.
• Renamed eachYearCallback to yearPassedCallback.
• Moved most statistic tracking to yearPassedCallback.
• Be able to set age of a seed when it added to a world.
• Removed Seed.prototype.getAge function.
• Added option to make random people come from border instead of randomly appear in the world.
• Seed now move and trigger actions instead of move-or-trigger-actions.
• Prevented having children right after married.
• Edited Famine rule: removed childbirth chance decrease.

Version 1.1

• Separated source code into smaller sub modules.
• Improved Tile management mechanic: used array instead of hash map.