New Name, New Look & Reworked Resources

Gameplay

• Both players now have their own resource pools and keep unspent resources between turns.
• Playing a card now costs zeal equal play.
• Buildings cost no zeal to play and now produce 1 zeal per turn.
• The board no longer has to be cleared before attacking the opposing player directly.
• Events no longer trigger the moment they are revealed. They now resolve on the revealing player's next turn, which also stops their abilities from triggering twice.
• Forced discards are no longer random. The affected player chooses which card to discard when entering their main phase.
• The starting player is now chosen at random.
• Added a basic tutorial that walks new players through a turn.
• Deck and discard pile now track their cards correctly.
• Fixed buildings not being attackable while a foe was present.
• Fixed cards in hand not being lockable when no zeal was left to play them.
• Fixed event cards not being removed from their slot after finishing.

Cards & Content

• Added the Sacrifice ability. Sacrifice a card in your own discard pile to destroy a card of equal or lower cost in the enemy discard pile. It replaces the Witch's draw card ability.
• Added the Scout, a card that grants one zeal, and added it to the starter deck.
• Ability amounts can now be derived from the current game state instead of always being fixed numbers.

Balancing

• Acid Pond can now ban up to two cards.
• Pyromaniac lost its ban card ability, its destroy enemy building ability now requires a culture, and its might increased from 6 to 8.
• Tollkeeper's gain supplies ability now requires a culture, and its supply gain increased from 2 to 3.
• Shaman now gives 2 supplies instead of 1.
• Hidden Library gained a draw card ability as its culture ability.
• Replaced one Scout in the starter deck with a Pioneer.

Opponent AI

• Fixed the AI trying to recall cards from the player's discard pile.

Quality of Life

• Added a card library, reachable from the main menu, for inspecting every card in the game.
• Selecting a target now shows an attack arrow, so an attack is clearly distinct from a normal card selection.
• Trading resources now works by clicking the arrow instead of the resource pile.
• Resource piles show their count and name on hover, and hide the count when empty.
• Player card piles have a hover effect that makes them easier to recognise as interactive.
• Overlays during a match are handled consistently, and the camera zooms out while one is open.
• Some selection requests are now shown as a card grid for easier reading.
• An info message now appears when cards will have to be discarded on the next turn.
• Added a button to the card grid overlay to show and hide the board.
• Fixed disabled cards still being interactable.
• Fixed the hover effect persisting after the mouse left a card.
• Fixed the selection indicator on card controls not rendering correctly.

Art & Interface

The biggest visual pass so far. New art, new tokens, new animations, and a board that finally reads the way it should.

• The game is no longer called Tiny Thrones. It is now Fang, Feather & Crown, with a new title and placeholder logo in the main menu.
• New zeal, health, prestige, supplies and might tokens, plus a new event card frame.
• New main menu prototype with a new background.
• New intro animation, an updated intro reveal, and a real transition from commander selection into the match.
• Reorganised the board for a cleaner, less cluttered layout.
• Removed player faction tokens. The board was cluttered, and players can keep track of their covered cultures themselves.
• Cards move more smoothly between piles and containers.
• Visual sequences are choreographed so effects play in a readable order.
• Cards flash subtly when their abilities trigger.
• New spawn and despawn animations for market cards, and smoother card animations overall.
• Resource tokens now have a despawn animation.
• Resource icons leave visual trails, and pile labels pulse when they update.
• Added UI entry animations.
• The card detail overlay has an intro animation, and the card flyover, card detail and card pile overlay are cleaner.
• The camera pans up and down depending on the current player.
• Commander selection uses the card detail view instead of the flyover.
• Market cards are displayed in their own tab rather than alongside the board cards, since they are not in play.
• Card culture and card type moved into the header of the card info panel.
• Card tooltips show icons for cost, zeal, time and health.
• Abilities that have already been used are struck through.
• Settings buttons now sit left of the content instead of above it.
• Default resolution changed to 2560 x 1440.
• Fixed a visual bug with the Godot logo in the splash screens.
• Fixed a doubled counter label on the prestige token pile.
• Fixed the card flyover jittering.
• Fixed newly drawn cards showing struck-through abilities.

Audio

• Added card play sounds.
• Background music now crossfades for smoother transitions.

Text & Naming

• Factions are now called cultures.
• Leaders are now called commanders.
• The factions have been renamed: the Bogbounds are now the Bogs, the Open Hand Guild are now the Strays, the Sonant Court are now the Twigs, and the Steadfast are now the Roots.
• Descriptions of manual abilities now begin with "You may".
• Resource abilities use "gain" and "lose" instead of plus and minus signs.

Performance

• Added a max FPS setting.