- Wire up the previously-unused menu/character-creation classes into an
actual start menu -> character creation -> world creation -> pause/
controls flow in main.py, instead of dropping straight into a fixed
world. Adds a minimal screen-space UI layer (bitmap font + panels)
since the engine had no text/menu rendering at all before this.
- Fix ship interiors rendering when the player is off-ship, add helm
zoom-out, wire the character card and ability bar (both existed as
unused pure-state classes with no rendering or input hooked up).
- Add a configure-controls menu with live keybind rebinding, and a
dev-mode config toggle with an item-spawn cheat.
- Full gamepad support for every menu (previously gameplay-only), with
a stale-button-state fix across pause transitions.
- Procedural world generation: seeded Perlin noise heightmap, terrain
types (water/sand/dirt/mud/stone) with speed effects, slopes and
occasional caves between elevations, and a swim up/down mechanic in
water - selectable as a new world template alongside the existing
test map.
- Add gravity (fall to the first floor below when there's none underfoot)
and Dwarf-Fortress-style depth shading (only the player's own z-level
renders at full brightness; lower ground seen through a gap darkens
with depth) - both fix a real gap the terrain generator left open
(walking off a steep cliff previously just floated in empty air).
- Add scripts/export_blank_textures.py and reimport_textures.py for a
blank-template/re-import art workflow.
215 new tests across the above; full suite (676 tests) passing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FyY5qQB6XHRoBFNbsgdRQn
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki