(Corresponding wordbots-parser release: https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-parser/releases/tag/v0.18.0-alpha )

Features

• Card rewrite effects – Cards can now rewrite the text of other cards in either player's hand, which then gets re-parsed (i.e. "Replace Startup with Shutdown on all cards in your opponent's hand"): #1243, #1585
• New vocabulary support:
  • afterAttackedBy(target, attackingObjectType) (i.e. "Whenever a robot attacks this structure, that robot gains +1 attack"): #1600
  • optional 2nd parameter (objectType) to triggers.afterDamageReceived (i.e. "Whenever a robot deals damage to this kernel, that robot takes that much damage"): #1599
• Major UX improvements for visual clarity of game state:
  • Object effects (including "Taunt") now have visual icon indicators on the board: #376
  • When an object has been given new abilities within a game, these abilities are now visible on its card tooltip: #1588
  • The End Turn button flashes when there is nothing left to do on your turn: #1477
• Ability to draft unpublished sets (if the set's owner hosts the game) in Set Draft mode: #1553
• New "How It Works" page describing the technical background of Wordbots: #1421

Improvements

• More art by Chris Wooten: #1034, #1074, #1619
• Visual countdown when games start: #1414, #1563, #1636
• UX improvements for collection/deck/set pages: #1586, #1591
• Better UX for hosting and joining games: #1576, #1637, #1617
• SFX when drafting cards in Set Draft mode: #1533
• Scroll to bottom of game log / chat when new messages appear: #1343
• Sandbox mode UX improvements and fixes: #1584, #1629
• Fixed many UX inconsistencies and glitches: #1556, #1560, #1562, #1575, #1578, #1592, #1631

Bug fixes

• Critical bug fixes:
  • Spectators could accidentally end a game they are spectating: #1572
  • Games would stay on the active game list even after they have ended: #1573, #1577
  • Set page crashed when there were any sets with no cards in them: #1590
• Bug fixes pertaining to card behavior and vocabulary:
  • actions['swapPositions'] would crash the game when requiring target selection: #1583
  • Passive abilities wouldn't unapply correctly when their targets moved out of range: #1628
  • Passive abilities wouldn't get re-enabled correctly after previously being disabled: #1632
  • Activated abilities didn't trigger state.callbackAfterExecution() correctly: #1596
  • cardsInHand() and cardsInDiscardPile() didn't work correctly when referring to both players: #1564
  • "all cards" and "any object" types weren't treated correctly by the afterDamageReceived trigger: #1615
  • Duplicate copies of the same triggered ability applied on the same object wouldn't "stack" correctly: #1605
  • Keywords weren't handled properly when the same keyword appeared multiple times in the same sentence: #1597
• Audio pandemonium would ensue when re-enabling sound mid-game or when joining a game as a spectator: #1566, #1571
• Bug fixes pertaining to Workshop features: #1589, #1609, #1610, #1611, #1613
• Bug fixes pertaining to chat / game log: #1568, #1557
• Modern versions of Edge were incorrectly reported as "unsupported browser versions": #1621

Stability

• Performance improvements:
  • Only re-execute abilities on the board when their targets have changed (in practice, this results in >10x less ability executions): #1633
  • Improved page loading (caching images, preloading fonts with fallbacks, etc): #1555, #1606, #1607
  • Remove the heavy D3 dependency by switching to our own bar chart implementation instead of using react-bar-chart: #1643
• Enforce stable serialization/deserialization of game state by ensuring that the state is never a circular structure: #1638
• Docstrings for all methods in /common/util: #1624