Chalk Talk v1.4.0 — CHALK TALK 1.4.0 PATCH NOTES

CHALK TALK 1.4.0 PATCH NOTES
Released: 2026-10-12 (UTC)

YOUR COACHING STAFF
- Mara Ellis, offensive coordinator: Balanced, Ground game or Spread passing.
- Grant Mercer, defensive coordinator: Read & react, Pressure or Coverage first.
- June Park, special teams coordinator: Pragmatic or Aggressive; fourth downs, late kicks and point-after tries.
- Eli Brooks, clock manager: Game control or Up-tempo; timeout and hurry-up decisions on staff-controlled actions.
- Schemes change actual choices without giving hidden team-rating bonuses or seeing the opponent's call.

DELEGATE THE DECISIONS
- Staff: next decision commits one action. Run assigned phases advances through delegated decisions with a pause between snaps.
- Every role can be assigned to Staff or You. Automatic coaching hands back control at your assigned decisions.
- All coaches start assigned, with the automatic loop OFF. Delegate all and Take full control provide quick assignment changes.
- Manual calls and clock controls retain your decisions and pause the staff. Staff actions commit directly even when manual previews are enabled.
- Pause staff / Escape, assignment changes, replay, menu exit and a hidden browser tab stop automatic coaching. An already-resolved snap finishes its animation.
- Resuming a save never restarts the loop. The final whistle stops it; season result recording stays manual.

EXPLANATIONS AND SAVES
- A left-sidebar staff report keeps the last 20 decisions with coach, call, reason, quarter and clock. The play-by-play also records decisions.
- Assignments and philosophies save with exhibition/weekly games and carry into the franchise's later weeks.
- Existing saves work without a staff migration. No new storage keys, network calls or runtime dependencies.

VALIDATION
- 450 pure decision checks confirm planning does not mutate game or random state.
- 120 full staff-versus-computer games cover both sidelines, weather and staff philosophies; existing 1,000-game engine regressions remain.
- UI harness covers one-action commits, automatic play, cancellation, manual ownership, possession handoff, background/replay pause, point-after choices, clock management, save/resume, franchise carryover and failed season writes.
- A complete animated game through the UI harness ends with no pending automatic timer.
- Native Canvas renders and manual pages visually inspected. Live browser layout testing remains unavailable; package screenshots are composed previews, not browser captures.


CHALK TALK 1.3.0 PATCH NOTES
Released: 2026-10-12

CALL IT, THEN SNAP IT
- Optional Preview before snap mode stages manual, recommended and repeated calls.
- Cyan offensive routes and defensive assignment guides show the plan without rolling the outcome or revealing the computer's call.
- Snap ball commits the call. Cancel or Escape clears it. One-click play remains the default.
- Special plays show their summary; field goals include a probability taken directly from the game model.

FILM ROOM
- Replay the last run or pass without changing game state, random sequence or saved progress.
- Slow (0.5x), normal (1x) and fast (2x) playback apply to the next animation or replay.
- Replays hold their final frame until Return to live or Escape. Reduced-motion uses a still frame.
- Special plays and penalty snaps do not offer a replay.

DRIVE AND CLOCK INFORMATION
- Current-drive progress plus completed-drive history, newest first: team, starting spot, plays, net yards, outcome and end time.
- Repairs duplicate end-of-game touchdown drives, period labels, penalty yardage in drive totals, and interception return starting spots.
- Drive yards stop at the goal line and exclude interception air yards and returns.
- Clock warnings expose the 38-second normal or 14-second hurry-up runoff before you commit.
- The computer manages its own hurry-up and timeouts late in the game, considers early-down last-second field goals, avoids unsafe kneel-outs and plays for a touchdown when a field goal is insufficient.
- Coaching recommendations reflect late kicks, safe kneeling and must-score fourth downs.

COMPATIBILITY AND CHECKS
- Existing exhibition and season save slots remain supported. Older drives without an end clock still display.
- Keyboard shortcuts ignore text inputs, selectors and modified key presses.
- Regression checks cover preview/replay state isolation, cancellation, reduced motion, save preservation, clock decisions, drive accounting, season progression and 1,000 simulated games.
- Native Canvas rendering checked at desktop and phone widths. Live browser/mobile layout testing was unavailable.
- Package screenshots are composed previews using the live field renderer, not browser captures.


CHALK TALK 1.2.0 PATCH NOTES
Released: 2026-10-11

FIELD AND SIDEBARS
- Left sidebar: team information, possession, weather, drive statistics, drive log and scouting.
- Center: green football field with five-yard stripes, hash marks, numbers, team end zones, goal posts and a football marker.
- Right sidebar: formations, fronts, play calls, coaching recommendations, timeouts, hurry-up, save/menu and field-view controls.
- Both desktop sidebars scroll independently. Tablet layouts put the field above the panels; phone layouts stack controls and information underneath.

ON-FIELD ACTION
- All 22 player markers appear on the field, with team-color offense and white-jersey defense.
- The football and players animate through the snap at actual yard distances, including sacks, catches, runs and interception returns.
- Full field shows both end zones. Follow play provides a closer moving camera. Routes can be toggled during the snap.
- Formation/front selections update the pre-snap alignment; the last result appears beneath the field.

COMPATIBILITY AND CHECKS
- Retains the clock, safety, separate-save and repeat-call repairs from v1.1.1.
- Adds tests for yard-accurate endpoints and camera controls that leave game state unchanged.
- Field rendering checked using a native Canvas implementation at desktop and phone widths. Browser installation was unavailable, so live browser/mobile layout testing is not claimed.
- Package screenshots are composed previews using the live field renderer, not browser captures.

CHALK TALK 1.1.1 PATCH NOTES
Released: 2026-10-11

GAMEPLAY REPAIRS
- Huddle time now runs before the snap. A period that expires during the huddle ends without resolving the call, awarding points, or adding play statistics.
- Sacks reaching the offense's goal line now award a safety and change possession.
- All offensive calls, including Repeat and the R shortcut, use the same play-availability rules. Unavailable repeats are disabled.
- The AI no longer attempts a disallowed fourth-down spike.

SAVE PROTECTION
- Exhibition games and weekly league games now have separate autosave slots.
- Existing mixed-slot season saves move intact to the dedicated week slot when the game opens in the same browser and origin. Failed migration writes keep the original save.
- Quit to menu preserves progress in both modes. Each snap saves before its animation finishes.
- Starting another season asks before replacing the campaign; exhibition progress is kept.
- Failed league writes retain the old season or final score for retry.

PACKAGING AND DOCUMENTATION
- Corrected the version-specific patch-notes path and regenerated all SHA-256 checksums.
- Updated the manual, tutorial, README and manifest for version 1.1.1.
- Added clock, safety, invalid-call, save-isolation, legacy-migration and failed-write regression checks, plus 1,000 complete AI games.

This remains a single-player game. Live browser/mobile layout testing was not available in the build environment.

CHALK TALK — CHANGELOG

1.1.0 (2026-09-04)
- Added a persistent seven-week round-robin season for all eight clubs.
- Added a responsive league hub with the next fixture, complete schedule, results, standings, recent form and champion.
- Added situation-aware coaching reads with three one-click recommendations on offense and defense.
- Added visible 1–9 call labels and R-to-repeat for faster play calling.
- Polished the scoreboard, panels, play cards and mobile layouts.
- Added league-schedule, standings, save round-trip, coaching-validity and season-interface regression tests.

1.0.3 (2026-09-03)
- Unified route lines, player markers and football movement under one play-geometry model.
- Corrected Counter direction and Shotgun/Trips running-back selection.
- Added distinct animation outcomes for sacks, incompletions, interceptions and fumbles.
- Fixed quitting during a snap so the next game's controls cannot remain locked.
- Added automated animation, cancellation, formation and reduced-motion regression tests.

1.0.2 (2026-09-03)
- Animated offensive and defensive player markers during each standard snap.
- Routes now draw progressively while the ball travels along the play path.
- The field-position marker and gain arrow move with the result of the play.
- Added a subtle chalkboard highlight during animation and preserved reduced-motion support.

1.0.1 (2026-09-03)
- Rebuilt the opening cover page around the game's coaching and chalkboard identity.
- Added a cinematic stadium background, clearer game setup, matchup preview and visible version label.
- Refreshed the portal cover artwork.

1.0.0 (2026-09-03)
- Initial Tronsoft Games release. Packaged to Specification v1.6.2.