szmoore/htr-webgl

Humphrey The Rabbit: WebGL Version (now with 100% less WebGL)

htr-webgl's Issues

Multiplayer support with websockets

This is sort of running in parallel with development of foxbox

Initial goal is just to have two players in the same game. Collaboration!

We need a server to connect two players. First sub-goal is to just have a server capable of keeping track of the state of a single player's game.

Refactoring

I didn't know how to do inheritance properly in Javascript and followed some really terrible advice which worked, but makes the code unmaintainable. The whole thing is one giant singleton. I'm refactoring it so I can add multiplayer. Hopefully this will also fix some of the general bugs.

How to improve?

Multiplayer
Profiles and high scores
Seasonal Themes
Weapons
Menu World

Game is actually malware

There are so many snarky comments to make I can't choose one.

Difficulty Reductions

Game is slightly too hard...

General Suggestions:

• Easier to kill foxes - No; they are easy enough if you practice
• Lives - Could work; have a collectable (carrot), reset position / enemies but not position
• Change win mechanism - I like the current win mechanism
• Fix bugs... Takes effort, but might happen one day
• Decrease frequency of foxes - No; if you are good at killing them it actually gets boring when there aren't any around

Level 2 Suggestions:

• No more sideways boxes - I've tested this, it actually makes it harder
• No Ox - BOO
• Stop foxes from stacking on each others backs - Too hard
• Nothing I am really willing to do to be honest...

Performance Problems

Seems to get really slow especially when using canvas 2d.

Boxes stuck in walls with several pixels on screen

Not supposed to happen.

Sideways boxes spawn with ignoreCollisions = {"LeftWall" : true, "RightWall" : true}
And then there is a setTimeout to allow them to collide with walls again.

This is a horrible hack and the setTimeout seems to trigger early sometimes.

Arrow keys scroll page while playing

Chrome on Windows.

Something like this may help
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8916620/disable-arrow-key-scrolling-in-users-browser

Got squished after stopping a box in mid air

If the box is MovingTowards the player, Above the player, and RelativeSpeed is high enough, you will get squished.

The sideways boxes have a random timeout after which they will fall vertically.

Play testing / more complaints are needed to see whether this is actually a bug, or the cutoff for RelativeSpeed needs to be increased, or sideways boxes need to do something obvious (flash?) before they fall.

Stopping boxes in mid air

This is not a bug.

But if the box moves too fast you can get squished.

Level 3

New music. Demo written. Have found someone who will sing for it (!?)

• Flesh out tracks like level 2 or leave as piano only like level 1?
  New background. Yellow? Actual background image?
  Story line / Cut scene?
• All I got is "Henry the Rabbit appears and a plot line ensues"
  • Scene: Fox and Ox are both beaten up, Henry The Rabbit yells at them, "I am surrounded by fools" etc, says the Roc will do a better job.
  • This requires a lot of drawing (even if it isn't animated) :S
    New enemy: Roc (ie: eagle)
• Flies sideways and kills you
• Drops things? Too hard, leave for later level
• Replace the sideways boxes? Would be annoying
• Replace the Ox?
• Keep the Foxes though. How do Foxes interact with Rocs?
  • Isn't consistent with storyline (hah)

Biggest problem is nearly no one will get to Level 3 at the current difficulty.