lostdecade/onslaught_arena

Fight off hordes of classic medieval monsters in this fast paced arcade shooter!

onslaught_arena's Issues

New How To Play screen

Current one only reflects keyboard controls, doesn't include mouse. I think we're supporting both for v1, so we'll need something else for this.

Increase the health of enemy projectiles

The hero can sit in one spot spamming shoot and destroy most incoming projectiles. At least for the cyclops/superclops we should make their projectiles nearly invulnerable. (Forcing the player to move around a bit)

Allow keyboard and mouse to work for controls.

Both controls schemes should work. If the user fires with the keyboard then the projectile fires the direction they are facing. If they use the mouse, the projectile fires toward the targeting reticle.

Improved superclops behavior

Make him more "bossy"!

Better pause screen

Paused screen should look like this:

Paused.

• Resume game.
• How to play.
• Stats.
• Exit game.

Perhaps??

Clouds

Need to make the game more interesting. Low hanging fruit is have some scrolling clouds overlayed on top of the action!

(Or fog or whatever looks awesome and is easy.)

Sometimes the hero takes damage for no reason (invisible objects?)

Hard to repo.

New enemy: Beholder boss

BEHOLD!!

Should have eye stalks which are separate enemies that have TBD behavior.

Proper title screen

I'm thinking of a sword cursor with options like:

• Play
• Controls and/or How to Play
• Credits
• Exit (non-web platforms only)

New enemy: Skeleton

Needs graphics.

Throws bones. (We have graphics for this).

Charges around and pauses between each charge to toss bones at the player.

Demo version

The version we push to lostdecadegamesapp.appspot.com will be the demo. You can play up until the nth wave (maybe 5th or 10th), then you're shown the "buy the game!" screen and you're done playing.

Credits screen

Add in the flow and an image.

Separate arena graphics into arena floor and walls

Please?

Weapons collide with walls when firing from the upper shadowy areas

When you stand at the top near the upper shadows, weapons don't fire because they are i...

Pause when window loses focus

Might be good to show a screen like "click here to play" if the window ever needs focus, like even from the title screen.

Sometimes enemies get stuck in the upper/left corner

Seen it several times, mostly bats and goblins. Could be the reason the gates stop opening sometimes.

Goblins behavior

Goblins should wander aimlessly, but if you're near the same axis they throw a projectile at you.

i18n support

Seems kind of silly to add it to a game with such little text but I'd much rather tackle it here than in a bigger, more important project.

Also I'm pretty sure there are places out there where you can get translations crowd-sourced. We should probably support whatever we can get kind people to translate for us.

Gameplay Stat Tweaks

We came up with the following tweaks to the gameplay stats. These values will probably be editied later as well.

Hero: 100 hp
Meat: 15 hp

Rock damage: 5
Rock health:

Knife damage: 5
Knife health:

Spear damage: 5
Spear health: 50

Sword damage: 15
Sword health:

Fireball damage: 25
Fireball health: 25

Trident damage: 50
Trident health: 25

Bat damage: 2
Bat health: 5

Dire bats damage: 5
Dire bat health: 10

Goblin damage: 10
Goblin health: 10
Projectile damage: 5
Projectile health: 1

Demoblin damage: 15
Demoblin health: 20
Projectile damage: 10
Projectile health: 1

Cyclops damage: 25
Cyclops health: 75
Projectile damage: 20
Projectile health:

Superclops damage: 35
Superclops health: 200
Projectile damage: 30
Projectile health:

Dragon damage: 50
Dragon health: 500
Projectile damage: 35
Projectile health:

Decrease bounding box for enemy/hero/projectile collisions

Collisions are very unforgiving at the moment.

Arrows sometimes move incredibly slowly

This will be really hard to duplicate but thought it would be worth mentioning anyway: sometimes I've noticed arrows moving really slowly across the screen, like as slow as 1px/second.

I've only ever seen it happen to arrows and only after playing quite a few waves.

Constrain reticle to walkable tiles

For great justice!

Death Animations

Add death animations for hero and monsters.

Allow projectiles to be rotated at any angle (not just N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W)

Currently, enemies can face any direction. Weapons they throw face the direction the enemy was facing. Since the current rotation "snaps" to the nearest cardinal direction this looks wonky. Need to fix the rotation/angle code so that it allows for finer angles.

Create Imp enemy

We have the sprites, need the behavior and stats.

Test and debug on Linux

Need to make sure Onslaught works on Linux. Geoff to provide build.

Gameplay balancing

We need to sit down and really play through the game, find the fun, tweak the numbers, etc.

Pain Animations

Add pain animations for hero and monsters when they get hit by projectiles other hostil...

Weapon arrays are referenced to the object type when creating new objects

This is bad because then adding weapons to an object actually adds them to the object d...

Exit option on title screen should exit app on Titanium

title says it allolz

Change color of enemy fireball

Blue, yellow? Something else?

Icon for desktop Titanium build

We need a sweet icon for the Titanium desktop version of Onslaught!

Key states can get stuck if you change focus

You can get in a locked key state by changing focus from the browser or something

Add mouse support for aim/shooting; change movement keys to WASD

From talking with various people it's clear that the current control scheme isn't ideal. Here's what we should change:

Add targeting reticle which follows the mouse. Left mouse button fires weapon (can be held down for repeat)

Change movement keys to WASD.

Cycle weapons using 1,2,3,4,5,etc. (ala Doom)
1 = Sword, 2 = Daggers, 3 = Spears, and so on.

Using numbers for weapons works well because your fingers are already close due to using WASD.

Enemies not using all animations

Enemies, especially large ones, don't really use the directions left/right or up/down animations, they just use up+left or up+right, etc.

Dragon sprite tweaks

• he needs a shadow
• his head doesn't bob going down+left

New enemy: Spike Sentry

Graphics done.

Sits in the corners and charges the player when he's aligned on the X or Y axis.

Moves back into position once charge is complete.

Goblins firing in the wrong direction

When you get near a goblin, he will fire in whatever direction he's facing. He should face you and fire at you instead.

Create a dragon boss!

OMGDRAGON

Audio looping isn't working in Titanium

:(

New enemy: Snake

Needs graphics.

Wanders around and charges the player when they're aligned along the X or Y axis.

Tweak/Fix new title so it's consistent with other graphics

I made a new title for the game but it's probably not using the same palette or whatever. Also it's not created using the half size/blow up method.

New enemy: Flaming Skull

Needs graphics.

Should "bounce" around the screen breakout-style leaving a trail of fire.

Take out pain animation for big enemies

Cuz it looks lame right now lolz.

Retain high score

I want to tackle localStorage in Onslaught! so it's a solved problem in other projects. We'll also probably need this for the i18n and/or keyboard mapping issues.

Demoblins behavior

Demoblins should get near you, keep their distance and throw tridents at you.

Make dragon behave more boss-like

Phases, multiple attack types.

New enemy: Gelatinous Cube

Needs graphics. (+ spawns)

Should wiggle around the screen slowly. Spawns small jelly enemies which are fast and low hit points every time it's wounded. This makes it more effective to use higher damage weapons against it.

It could also have a phase where it stops, shudders and spawns a bunch of jelly enemies.

Obfuscate the code

Otherwise if we're like "hey we will open source it at 1,000 sales!" people will be like "or I can just view source, you douches."

Game runs very badly on Titanium/Windows

Super bad experience. Very choppy.