Arcane v0.9.0 — Audio, Visual Polish, Iso/Hex, Input Systems

What's New

Phases 20-25 — 6 phases of major features:

Audio Polish (Phase 20)

• Instance-based playback, spatial audio, bus mixing, crossfade, sound pooling

MCP-First DX (Phase 21)

• Zero-config MCP auto-discovery for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code

Visual Polish (Phase 22)

• Screen transitions (fade, wipe, circle iris, diamond, pixelate)
• Nine-slice sprites, trail/ribbon renderer

Juice & Game Feel (Phase 23)

• Impact combinator (hitstop + shake + flash), floating text, typewriter text

Isometric & Hex Grids (Phase 24)

• Iso/hex coordinate systems, tilemaps, depth sorting, hex pathfinding

Input Systems (Phase 25)

• Gamepad support (gilrs), multi-touch, action mapping with remapping & buffering

1920 TS (Node) + 1923 (V8) + 277 Rust tests passing. 27 demo projects.

Full changelog: https://github.com/anthropics/arcane/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md