The blorp from thomasboyt

added on this branch https://github.com/thomasboyt/blorp/tree/shoot-up but I'm not super in love with it, going to think about it some more

Fuel cans should spawn some minimum distance from player

Open issue on flow repo about circular dep nightmares

blorp/src/entities/Player.js

Lines 19 to 21 in 827d0f7

    
           // TODO: This causes a breaking circular dependency 
        
           // world: World; 
        
           world: any;

easy fix here would be to allow a type def like

class Foo {
  bar: require('./bar')
}

which would get stripped out

idea: arena platformer

make the game some kind of shooty platformer with arena (single-screen) stages

Possible to fall through platforms & elevators when descending at high speed

Easy way to reproduce: fall onto platforms in level 1 from top level

Blats throw an error if they can't reach player when they spawn

since every blat just stores the last known good coordinates for player internally, a newly-spawned that has no previously-stored good coordinates won't be able to figure out where to go :'(

options:

make last known good coordinates global?
add some sort of default behavior if can't find player (maybe wander aimlessly? would have to add collision detection)
figure out how to make this pathfinding get us as close as possible to an unwalkable tile instead of just failing
start using platforms under ladders again, since the only scenario this happens in is if the player is on a ladder in front of a block

Add external tileset support to level parser

Tiled has "external tilesets," which are just tilesets kept in a separate file from the actual level file. The advantage of using this is that all levels have a single, shared tileset, rather than trying to keep all the internal tilesets in sync. It also cuts down on filesize.

The easiest way to do this would be to just use a hardcoded external tileset for all the levels. The external tileset will get loaded and parsed as a string, and all the levels' tiles will be mapped to it. This will require either an enforcement of asset loading order, or deferring parsing the levels until after the initial load (which isn't ideal, as having parsing time represented in the progress bar was nice).