v0.5.0-alpha

What's Changed

Other

• Make night the money shot: bloom, headlights, street lamps, city glow by @Egg3901 in #68
• ci: parallelize release builds for ~10-12 min faster releases by @Egg3901 in #69
• Add collapsible HUD minimap (N toggle, cached layers, click-to-pan) by @Egg3901 in #70
• Procedural building facade detail (windows, night glow, rooftops, LOD) by @Egg3901 in #64
• Stylized water shader (quality-tiered, Mirror's Edge-clean) by @Egg3901 in #65
• Harden save/load: versioned schema, atomic IO, autosave ring by @Egg3901 in #67
• Surface sim-depth fields in the native client (sidecar PR #31) by @Egg3901 in #74
• Fix Potato/Low title-screen horizon (paper-map terrain + black scribbles) by @Egg3901 in #76
• Release v0.5.0: version bump + sidecar pin by @Egg3901 in #81

Full Changelog: v0.4.4-alpha...v0.5.0-alpha