Tiamat Release Notes

After much internal debate, I've decided to officially discontinue this project. Read here for the explanation why. This page will be left up for anyone curious.

Tiamat 0.3.x Version History

Development Release 0.3.20060830:
- Framework specifications / Java implementation
  - Made the scriptTable property of the GameScript class public read-only to accommodate script editor
- Adventure Studio
  - Created editor for GameScripts, added the following classes for it:
    - com.huguesjohnson.tiamat.tools.scriptTable package
      - ScriptTable
      - ScriptTableCellRenderer
      - ScriptTableEntryDialog
      - ScriptTableMouseAdapter
      - ScriptTablePopupMenu
      - ScriptTableUtilites
      - StringTableValueTable
      - StringTableValuePanel
    - com.huguesjohnson.tiamat.tools package
      - ActionSelectPanel
      - ConditionsPanel
      - ParametersTable
      - EventPanel
      - EventDialog
      - GameScriptEditorFrame
    - Modified existing EventPanel class
      - Replaced existing action label and combobox with ActionSelectPanel
      - Extracted the parameter table into a new class (called ParameterTable)
      - Made the parameter column in ParameterTable a combobox

Development Release 0.3.20060716:
- Adventure Studio
  - Added ConfigKeys for names of default sequences (title, intro, and game over)
  - Fixed potential bug in BaseAdventureGame related to loading the title sequence
  - Re-arranged SequenceEditor so custom buttons are visible when displayed in an EditorInternalFrame
  - Fixed bug in open method of SequenceEditorFrame
  - Auto generate title, introduction, and game-over sequences when new game is created

Development Release 0.3.20060705:
- Adventure Studio
  - Added ConfigKeys enum to BaseAdventureGame
  - Auto-generate BaseAdventureGame implementation class
  - Copy xstream and Tiamat lib onNew()
  - Check for file name as a command-line argument
  - Removed code to load/save configuration/settings file (will be handled by configuration editor instead)
  - Create default configuration file onNew()
  - Added ability to edit configuration file
- Framework Specifications
  - Added redrawImages() method to AdventureFrame
- Fixed bug in ItemDialog where ItemPanel didn't display

Development Release 0.3.20060620:
- Adventure Studio
  - Development on BaseAdventureGame, IAdventureCommands, and AdventureGameUtilities is 90% complete
    - Need to test & document these classes (and resolve a few to dos)
  - Added saveCharacter(), saveItem(), and saveLocation() methods to GameDataManager
  - Added Sequences to GameDataManager
- Framework Specifications
  - Updated GameDataManager with changes noted above

Development Release 0.3.20060613:
- Adventure Studio
  - Continued work on BaseAdventureGame and IAdventureCommands, 50%-60% complete with these
    - Added all actions and parameters as enums
    - Added AdventureGameUtility class to handle many functions contained in BaseAdventureGame
    - Made AdventureFrame.redrawImages public so it can be accessed by BaseAdventureGame
    - Implemented LoadLocation (roughly derived from CamineetDemo loadArea)

Development Release 0.3.20060606:
- Adventure Studio
  - Added code to onNew to generate custom frame and gamestate source code
  - Started implementing BaseAdventureGame and IAdventureCommands (based off code from Camineet demo), ~40-50% done with these two classes
    - Added code to allow for custom menu items & events
    - Added AdventureGame template

Development Release 0.3.20060506:
- Adventure Studio
  - Added a main AdventureStudio class to launch AdventureStudioFrame
  - Added called to addRecentFile() from onOpen()
  - Fixed bug in onNew() where it fails if a project is open
  - Added a dialog at startup to prompt to create a new project or open an existing one
  - Added template GameState and AdventureFrame files which will be used for automatic code generation

Development Release 0.3.20060326:
- General clean-up
  - Resolved "to do" items in framework specifications, updated diagrams with 0.3.x changes
  - Fixed javadoc warnings introduced in the previous release
  - Moved Selection, Sequence, and SequenceFrame to the graphics package (this was right in the specifications but wrong in the Java implementation)
  - Removed GameData from specifications, deprecated the Java class
- Adventure Studio
  - Implemented save as
  - Implemented open
  - Implemented view XML
  - Added StringTable to store project settings, added saving this to the save method (nothing stored in yet though..)

Development Release 0.3.20060319:
- Framework Specifications / Java implementation
  - Added BaseGameState
  - Added AdventureFrame
  - Added ImageData
- Added a bunch of "to do" comments to the specifications that need to be cleaned-up before 0.3 is finalized (which is still a while off)

Development Release 0.3.20060304:
- Framework Specifications / Java implementation
  - Added LocationObjectData
  - Added LocationExit
  - Added Location
  - Added GameDataManager (which will probably deprecate GameData)
Adventure Studio
- Continued development of Adventure Studio, not 100% functional yet
  - Integrated Location editing
  - Navigation ~80% done
  - UI event handling ~60% done
  - Editing ~50% done

Development Release 0.3.20060219:
- Framework Specifications
  - Started work on preliminary section to describe practical applications of the framework
    - Began documenting what components would be used in an "adventure style" game
Adventure Studio
- Continued development of Adventure Studio, not 100% functional yet
  - Implemented save()
  - Integrated Item editing
    - Refactoring of ItemDialog and creation of ItemEditorFrame for use in Adventure Studio
    - Added blank constructor to Item
  - Navigation ~80% done
  - UI event handling ~60% done
  - Editing ~30% done

Development Release 0.3.20060205:
- Fixed numerous errors loading/saving an empty Character (one with no items, attributes, or skills set)
- Adventure Studio
  - Continued development of Adventure Studio, not 100% functional yet
    - Changed main UI from JSplitPane to JDesktopPane
    - Added getContentPanel() method to BaseEditorFrame
    - Changed BaseEditor.onSave() to be public
    - Created a Sequence editor (complete, needs a tad more testing)
    - Integrated Sequence editing
    - Integrated Theme editing
    - Integrated Character editing
    - Navigation ~80% done
    - UI event handling ~60% done
    - Editing ~30% done

Development Release 0.3.20060115:
- Adventure Studio
  - Initial development of Adventure Studio, not functional yet
    - Added file filters for midi and fonts files(in com.huguesjohnson.fileFilter package)
    - Navigation ~80% done
    - UI event handling ~50% done

Development Release 0.3.20051219:
- Javadoc
  - Added overrides of stylesheet
  - Removed deprecated list
  - Overrode default title and footer