scunningham777/goldulf-dustpunch

Ooh! Ah! Clean up those dungeons! No one's been through these archaeological sites in years, so there's plenty of detritus to keep you busy. The more cobwebs you punch, the more points to earn. Oof!

goldulf-dustpunch

Ooh! Ah! Clean up those dungeons! No one's been through these archaeological sites in years, so there's plenty of detritus to keep you busy. The more cobwebs you punch, the more points you earn. Oof!

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Roadmap

Expect the following updates at some point in your lifetime. Note the order here does not necessarily reflect the order in which these will be completed.

1. Music.
2. Ability to restart the game, though I don't know why you'd want to.
3. 4 total Site types (not including the overworld), each with its own color scheme, tileset, and set of Stuff to find.
4. A custom Ancestor Spirit type for each Site type, which will be encountered less frequently than the basic kind.
5. Relics to be acquired from the special Ancestor Spirit types mentioned above.
6. Randomized messages from Ancestor Spirits.
7. Special variations of the Site types, unlocked by acquiring special combinations of Relics.
8. Special variations of the Ancestor Spitits, found in yhe Special Sute types, and handing out Artifacts!
9. And nicer-looking menus

Development Terminology

1. Player: person playing the game.
2. Hero: the in-game character controlled by the Player.
3. Site: a section of the overworld that the Hero traverses between archaeological site cleanups, or one of said archaeological sites. Can be multiple levels.
4. Level: a single map section of a Site. Some Sites can be a single Level, but many are made up of multiple Levels.

goldulf-dustpunch's Issues

Fix flipx/flipy when entering new scene

Show points on screen when Stuff is revealed

When new Stuff gets revealed and points are scored, show the points scored in some kind of animation, like a "rise and fade alpha" situation.

Entrance can appear with no pathway

Experienced single instance so far of appearing at the entrance of a dungeon where there was no pathway carved away from the door. The door tile was correctly placed, so the Area seems to have been located correctly. Didn't do any more troubleshooting at the time.

Remove redundant "new_game" map config

This really isn't different enough to require its own config - or is it? Will the first overworld map be random then? How will it be selected? Need an elegant way to indicate that there shouldn't be an entrance for the first one.

Simplify coloring for maps

Maybe have default wall and default floor colors defined in a MapConfig. These will be used to color everything based on location (wall vs. floor), rather than doing things by tile index or whatever. That would effectively kill #25

Remove duplicate code in overworld.ts and dungeon.ts

Not at all DRY, and it's constantly causing problems.

Stuff config

May need to break out config for other objects into its own list, a la original Goldulf. Start with Stuff? Maps could then designate which Stuff was available, and give each a weight.

MVP music

Create some songs:

• Theme song for title and overworld
• Nother song for sites
• Some kind of music for ancestor unleashing

Wrap instruction text on title screen

Set max width to screen width, and center the text if it wraps.

Change how Dust is generated

Only Dust is generated when a level is created. Each open floor tile has a chance of generating Dust. SiteConfig needs to add properties "percentProbabilityOfDust", which determines the chance each tile has of generating Dust, and "dustTypeWeights", which determines the possible DustTypes and relative probabilities of each Type being generated.

Persist game data between sessions

Probably use localforage. Definitely save inventory; maybe save current site/overworld too?

Clean up scene attributes when switching scenes.

Currently everything gets overwritten (I think) when a scene gets re-used, but it would probably be safer to clean up after each scene.

MVP Sound fx

Remaining requirements:

• Play something when Stuff is revealed - perhaps a less epic version of the "glory" sound.
• Also need something for when an ancestor appears.

Title screen

Extrude stuff.png file

Also rename to "dustnstuff.png"

Rethink tweens and transparency

I'm currently using a fair amount of fading and transparency when transitioning scenes and in the "siteComplete" scene. Technically I don't believe Intellivision supported transparency at all. Do I need this? Do I care if things are anachronistic? Need to decide which direction to go.

Tint tiles based on override color if it is designated

I have a field for "tileTintOverrides" on MapConfig interface, but this isn't currently being used to tint tiles. Use it or lose it.

Random Text Generator

Create a RTG. Currently it would just be for ancestor spirit speeches

Random dust

I think we want some dust to appear that isn't covering Stuff.

Megastuff

Every dungeon has one. Or maybe not even one. Have to think about that.

Procedurally generate dungeon map

Restart title scene after some time

Dust sometimes appears where Hero spawns

dust should not be able to appear in the Entrance Area

Make collision for exits require more overlap

Again this may require changing exits to sprites or something so we have more control over the size of the hit box, or simply come up with another way to require more overlap between the hero and the exit icon.

Direction issue with pointer movement

If a pointer or gamepad stick movement registers up or down movement to any extent, the frame for that direction is used. So for example, even if movement is 90% right and only 10% down, the down-facing frame will be shown.

Create "Menu" button

Probably in upper right - toggling it will rotate the UI scene around the origin of the button itself, 180 degrees. The menu will offer a "quit game" button, as well as some kind of record of accomplishments. Maybe this will be a list of all Stuff collected, or perhaps a subset of all Stuff ("Megastuff"?)

Screen shake happens when loading game, even if mid-level.

Now that the game can save progress, it's possible to load the SiteScene while the Site is in-progress. The screen shake still occurs in this scenario however.

Change how movement/punching works

Hero should always be animating for movement. Clicking/tapping anywhere on the map will simply set the movement direction/velocity, and hero will continue to try to move that way until player clicks on screen again. Once moving, hero will punch continuously (?). This last part would create a need for alternating side punching probably. Maybe we could just mirror it somehow? Will this require additional frames or just adjustment of the existing animations?

Can open/close menu during site completion scene

To reproduce:

1. clear the final Dust from a site, triggering the site complete scene.
2. While the scene is playing, press shift or click the eye icon to toggle the inventory menu

expected: this button is disabled during the site complete scene.
actual: you can open and close the menu.

Should probably even hide the icon entirely during the site complete scene.

Points

Need mechanisms to store points, as well as display them.

Dust!

Need dust to punch.

Areas can appear on top of each other

Have definitely seen the entrance and exit Areas appear right next to each other, or even on top of each other. Need to test the "isAreaCollision" function.

Show users "origin" of on-screen directional pad

Don't seem to be many options out of the box, maybe just show a semi-transparent circle.

Still seeing pathfinding bug

Didn't write down the exact error, but at some point the code for create paths between Areas errors out because the end target of the pathfinding algo is undefined. I've seen this at least three times recently, probably since removing "exit" areas from dungeons, though I have seen it when generating the overworld map too (even the first time).

Moving diagonally increases linear speed

Because movement is handled by changing velocity, and we allow diagonal movement that increases horizontal and vertical velocity, we're getting some Pythagorean action. Drop some maths and make it so the same linear speed is maintained during orthogonal and diagonal movement.

Ability to have multiple floors in a dungeon

Show Cleaning progress on screen

Show some kind of bar that fills as you clear the dust from a site, so the player knows if they are getting close. Not sure how to handle this with multiple floors, perhaps this could help a player determine whether remaining dust is on this floor. Maybe the size of the bar is based on the whole site, but then have "x / n" for the current floor, and show "floor clean" or something if all Dust is cleared on the current floor.

Walk/punch sound effects sound goofy if you change directions a lot

Either just have the sfx run on a timer that starts when you enter the walking/punching state, or try to get it so that when you change directions the frame stays where it is relative to the animation, so eg if you are punching up and you switch to right while the third "up" animation frame is showing, it will switch to the 3rd (or 4th?) "right" animation frame right away

Procedurally generate overworld map

Tutorial/intro

Some sort of scrolling text on title scene a couple seconds after the current content

Ability to punch Dust!

Need controls for this (prob. space bar, double tap on touch), animations, and collision detection as well as effects of what punching actually does.

Will different types of dust have different numbers of hit points? Reward different amounts of points?

Walking over dust slows movement speed

Create generic mechanism for things to impact movement speed, almost like some kind of pubsub model

Tie dungeon icons on overworld map to dungeon category

Will entail turning exits into some entity with more state than just a Tile (maybe? Unless MapTiles can have custom data?), or at least retaining Area data that can be matched up.

Ability to designate MapConfig

Need to be able to tell the new scene which MapConfig to use. And there should be a “category” and “name” field, with the name field being checked first.

Ability to have multiple exits from a dungeon

Each exit should be tied to a MapConfigCategory or whatever - therefore users should be able to pick the dungeon type based on the entrances they see on the overworld map.

Transition in/out of scenes

Idea is to do a "stepped" fade out/in when transitioning between scenes. I think this is used in a number of NES games, and I seem to recall a slight tinting of the screen during the transition, maybe in Simon's Quest. Try things out. Not sure how this would jive with the "progressive graphics styles" concept.

Settle on colors

Figure out list of colors needed, then decide on them:

• Bg
• 4 site types
• Overworld
• Hero
• Dust
• Stuff
• Ancestor spirits (all same, or all different?)
• Relics
• artifacts
• Menu bg
• Menu text
• Title/tutorial text
• Special site types?

Animation when dust is punched

Probably some kind of particle effect.