Resolves#4250
## Description:
Huge update for the map categories:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b7dc6344-efdc-4073-b15a-92b6dccdcc19
**New Categories**
- Re-adds Continental category, with the 7 traditional continents
- Re-adds the category of Arcade along all its maps.
- Renames "Other" to "Fictional", so that tag is more specific and feels
more in-theme with the others. The info.json's of the maps that had the
Other category got changed to Fictional
**Map Category changes**
- **achiran**: adds Europe (while the map is fictional, it is made up of
real islands from ireland. (Since world includes Dyslexdria and
Antarctica has Deglaciated Antarctica, both fictional , i figured for
consistency we could include these mash-up maps too)
- **aegean**: adds Asia category (Turkey is in Asia)
- **arctic**: adds Asia category
- **choppingblock**: updated "other" to "fictional", added to "new"
- **deglaciatedantarctica**: updated "other" to "fictional"
- **didier**: re-added to Arcade
- **didierfrance**: re-added to Arcade
- **dyslexdria**: updated "other" to "fictional"
- **fourislands**: updated "other" to "fictional"
- **hawaii**: remove north_america tag (while part of the US, hawaii is
geographically only in Oceania)
- **labyrinth**: added to new, re-added to Arcade
- **marenostrum**: added africa and asia tags, the continents which the
mediterranean borders
- **onion**: re-added to Arcade
- **pangaea**: updated "other" to "fictional"
- **passage**: updated "other" to "fictional"
- **sierpinski** re-added to Arcade
- **surrounded**: updated "other" to "fictional"
- **svalmel**: updated "other" to "fictional", added to europe and
north_america (same logic as achiran)
- **thebox**: re-added to Arcade
- **tradersdream**: updated "other" to "fictional"
- **worldinverted**: updated "other" to "fictional", added to "new"
- **africa**: added to Continental
- **antarctica**: added to Continental
- **asia**: added to Continental
- **europe**: added to Continental
- **northamerica**: added to Continental
- **southamerica**: added to Continental
- **oceania**: added to Continental
- **mississippiriver**: added to "new"
- **korea**: added to "new"
- **middleeast**: added to "new"
- **balkans**: added to "new"
- **indiansubcontinent**: added to "new"
- **taiwanstrait**: added to "new"
- **northwestpassage**: added to "new"
- **southeastasia**: added to "new"
- **venice**: added to "new"
- **yellowsea**: added to "new"
- **hongkong**: added to "new"
- **titan**: added to "new"
- **caribbean**: added to "new"
- **juandefucastrait**: added to "new"
- **danishstraits**: added to "new"
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
tri.star1011
**Add approved & assigned issue number here:**
N/A — maintainer refactor.
## Description:
Makes each map's `info.json` the single source of truth for map metadata
— adding a map is now a folder with `image.png` + `info.json`, a
`gen-maps` run, and an en.json display name.
**info.json / manifest.json carry full map metadata.** Every
`map-generator/assets/maps/<map>/info.json` declares `id` (the
`GameMapType` enum key), `name` (the enum value — wire format, unchanged
for all 94 maps), `translation_key`, `categories`, and
`multiplayer_frequency` (the public-playlist weight that used to be the
`FREQUENCY` record in MapPlaylist.ts). The generator validates
everything and mirrors it into `resources/maps/<map>/manifest.json`. 23
stale info.json `name` values were normalized to the canonical enum
value; enum values are byte-identical, so replays and stored game
configs are unaffected.
**The generator emits the TypeScript and discovers maps itself.** New
`map-generator/codegen.go` generates `src/core/game/Maps.gen.ts`
(`GameMapType`, `GameMapName`, `mapCategories`, `mapTranslationKeys`,
`multiplayerFrequency` — now a full `Record<GameMapName, number>`,
killing the old `Partial`) on every run; `Game.ts` re-exports it. The
hardcoded map registry in `main.go` is gone — maps are auto-discovered
from the `assets/maps` / `assets/test_maps` directories. MapConsistency
tests fail with a "run `npm run gen-maps`" message if info.json,
manifest.json, and Maps.gen.ts drift. The tracked
`map-generator/map-generator` binary is rebuilt to match.
**New categories: continents + world/cosmic/tournament/other,
multi-category support.** `continental`/`regional`/`fantasy`/`arcade`
are replaced by `featured`, `world`, `europe`, `asia`, `north_america`,
`africa`, `south_america`, `oceania`, `antarctica`, `cosmic`,
`tournament`, and `other`. Maps can list multiple categories, so
straddlers (Black Sea, Bosphorus, Caucasus, Between Two Seas, Bering
Sea/Strait, Mena, Strait of Gibraltar, Hawaii, Arctic) appear under both
regions. Featured is itself a category (same 7 maps as before).
MapPlaylist keeps its arcade exclusion via an explicit set.
**Map picker UI.** Two tabs: **Featured** (default — featured maps plus
a Favorites section when maps are starred) and **All** (one prominent
collapsible bar per category with a map count, collapsed by default).
The selected map is prepended to the featured grid when it lives
elsewhere. `getMapName()` resolves through the generated
`mapTranslationKeys`, which also fixes tourney maps never resolving a
valid translation key.
## Please complete the following:
- [ ] I have added screenshots for all UI updates (maintainer change —
picker described above)
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evanpelle
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Description:
The generated map data was out of date
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
<img width="1670" height="200" alt="banner"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b6561231-71dc-46dd-a521-453d4e97931f"
/>
## Description:
This proposal adds a new, completely flat map called "The Box," where
players will find themselves on a completely flat landmass and will only
be able to trade by land using trains and factories.
- Map size: 2048×2048 pixels
- Binaries generated with MapGenerator (map.bin, map4x.bin, map16x.bin)
- Integrated into arcade category and multiplayer playlist
- English and Spanish translations added
- 13 nations/bots with unique and thematic names:
> - **Middle Defender (located in the center)**
> - **King of the Corner (located in the top-left corner)**
> - Suspicious Ally
> - Punch Merchant
> - Nuke Thrower
> - Fullsender
> - Factory Builder
> - Front Manager
> - Box Fighter
> - Cage Liberator
> - Train Trader
> - Non-peaceful Bot
> - **Evan The Dev** (special mention)
All other bots are distributed to cover the map evenly.
<img width="838" height="835" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-28 at 17 39 45"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4665088d-cb94-4db3-8602-8a22b63bfee2"
/>
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
sardidefcon
RickD004