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Untitled P8 space game

An untitled roguelike arcade space shooter, see design for design notes.

TODO

Now

• Refactor shooting into actual weapons so we can add some more

Simple cleanup

• Deduplicate the main _update and _draw code
• Make achievements global instance based rather than numbered
• Refactor some scripts that don't need to be scripts into update hooks
• Fix the bullet rendering!

Game features

• Refactor out the floaty movement from shield guy so other entities can use it
• Think about generic stats/powerup system to make items easier
• Make some item pickups
• Main menu!
• Break level manager down into "waves" that can be generated from some rules
• Dialogue for missions and campaign
• Proper campaign and level system
• Destination select?

Engine features

• Bring in old effects from Find Gold
• Create proper collision query methods e.g. get closest/all within box/range
• Script inheritence? Probably better to provide a table concat(...)
• Simple particle effects?

Fun stuff

• Make an enemy editor and a level editor that save to binary form
  • These guys can use the persistent cart RAM and cartdata to hold over state and provide quick iteration capabilities, allowing you to set up a test level and save it.
  • The code will register all available params and scripts and then the enemy editor lets you define prefabs.