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TODO

Alpha Launch Minimum Checklist

  • Open Source Licenses
  • Doodad Scripts: an "end level" function for a level goalpost.

Blocker Bugs:

  • Sometimes the red Azulians don't interact with other doodads properly, but sometimes they do. (i.e. they phase thru doors, don't interact with buttons or keys).

UI Cleanup:

  • Doodads Palette:
    • Hide some doodads like the player character.
    • Pagination or scrolling UI for long lists of doodads.

Nice to haves:

Release Launch Checklist

Features:

  • Single-player "campaign mode" of built-in levels.
    • campaign.json file format configuring the level order
  • Level Editor Improvements
    • Undo/Redo Function
    • Lines and Boxes
    • Eraser Tool
    • Brush size and/or shape
  • Doodad CLI Tool Features
    • doodad show to display information about a level or doodad.
    • doodad init or some such to generate a default JS script.
    • Options to toggle various states (hidden, hasInventory?)

Shareware Version:

  • Can't draw or edit doodads.
  • Can only create Bounded maps, not infinite ones.
  • Can play custom maps but only ones using built-in doodads.
  • Can not place custom doodads in maps.

Built-in Doodads:

  • Buttons
    • Press Button
    • Sticky Button
  • Switches (4 varieties)
  • Doors
    • Locked Doors and Keys
    • Electric Doors
    • Trapdoors (all 4 directions)

Doodad Ideas

In addition to those listed above:

  • Crumbly floor: Tomb Raider inspired cracked stone floor that crumbles under the player a moment after being touched.
  • Firepit: decorative, painful
  • Gravity Boots: flip player's gravity upside down.
  • Warp Doors that lead to other linked maps.
    • For campaign levels only. If used in a normal player level, acts as a level goal and ends the level.
    • Doodads "Warp Door A" through "Warp Door D"
    • The campaign.json would link levels together.
  • Conveyor Belt

New Ideas

  • New Doodad struct fields:
    • Hidden bool: skip showing this doodad in the palette UI.
    • HasInventory bool: for player characters and maybe thieves. This way keys only get picked up by player characters and not "any doodad that touches them"
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Path to Multiplayer

  • Add a Player abstraction between events and player characters.
    • Keyboard keys would update PlayerOne's state with actions (move left, right, jump, etc)
    • Possible to have multiple local players (i.e. bound to different keyboard keys, bound to joypads, etc.)
  • A NetworkPlayer provides a Player's inputs from over a network.
  • Client/server negotiation, protocol
    • Client can request chunks from server for local rendering.
    • Players send inputs over network sockets.

Far Off Ideas

Level Styles (Top-down vs Side Scrolling)

It might be cool to support multiple "styles" of level, apart from the current 2D platforming-with-gravity style.

For example a top-down perspective level would let the player freely walk in both axes and would probably have a full set of unique Doodads drawn in that perspective.

Migration path: a GameStyle enum would be added to Levels and Doodads as an integer type, default 0 is the current 2D platformer style, 1 for top-down, etc. -- so existing levels and doodads would default to 0 on upgrade and new levels/doodads would use the new value.