tinywhalecloud/ld49-unstable

Entry for the Ludum Dare 49 game jam with the topic "unstable". - A space taxi driver simulator, or something like that.

ld49-unstable's Issues

Friendliness system

Planets can be hostile, neutral or friendly

Hostile planets will shoot the player down if they enter the atmosphere without a passenger who wants to go there
Neutral planets will sell stuff and not shoot the player down
Friendly planets will sell stuff cheaper

Increase friendliness by transporting passengers from planets and by spending capitalism units
Decrease friendliness when passengers die

Fuel

Consumption and purchasing

Fix Rotation after teleport

Ships that have been teleported are sometimes rotated incorrectly afterwards.
This should not happen.

Planet atmosphere visibility

Add a transparent color to a planet's atmosphere.
Red for hostile, Blue for neutral, Green for friendly

Pause/ Map screen

Stop game while active
Show world map
Show current money, parts needed etc

Moar Planets

Currently there are only 4 different Planets/ Bases

That gets dull quickly and makes the game either too boring or too easy.

Web Build

Exporting game for web, testing that everything works correctly

Better fonts

Font sizes etc.

Better pause screen

Add more info (e.g. parts needed) as well as controls to pause screen

Asteroid types

Different types of asteroids with different speeds, shapes and spawn chance

Game name

The game needs a name that's more creative than "ld49-unstable"

-> "Hunk o' Junk"

Now rename stuff.

Settings

Simple settings screen.

• SFX/ Music on/off
• Parallax on/off
• Camera rotation on/off
• ???

Music

Passengers

Pick up passengers

Cannons

Some sort of weapons (projectiles, lasers?) to destroy asteroids (and enemy ships?)

Rocket targeting

Planetary defense rocket targeting is not very good and wastes a lot of rockets.

Improve it to account for asteroid distance

var body_distance = body.global_position - rocket_position

Fix rotating away from planet after leaving menu

Ship Repairments

Planets can repair destroyed ship modules

Background

More interesting background with stars and stuff

Possibly parallax

Ship movement with engines

Currently the ship as a whole is accelerated, independent from the engines.

Put physics stuff into the Engine module.

Planets and Bases

Boilerplate
Interaction
Menus

Game saving

Allow saving and loading of game state

Ship Damage

Ship modules break on impact

Ship Upgrades

Buying upgrades

• More stability/health for modules
• Engine redundancy
• Speed
• Fuel storage
• ???

Force Field Shields

Buyable upgrade: Force fields that protect the ship for a short time (or for a specific amount of damage), needs to recharge after that.

Improve asteroid spawner

Currently the asteroid spawner is completely random: if ship in area, spawn asteroid at a random position in the area.

Problem: Sometimes asteroids spawn inside the ship and instantly destroy multiple modules...

Don't open planet menu immediately after leaving

Sometimes this happens when the player is too deep into the planet's atmosphere.

Add a timer or something stopping the menu from being opened in quick succession.

Game Over

When the cockpit is destroyed, the player is dead.

• Detect destruction of (last) cockpit
• Show game over screen
• Offer way to continue playing ...
  • New Game? (or load, when save games are implemented)
  • Let the player continue with a new ship (without upgrades)?

Self hosted website for the game

Only after the jam is finished.

Host the game on our own website in addition to itch.io

Tutorial

Short introduction to how the game is played

Asteroid fields

Areas where a lot of asteroids spawn, visible in the map view

Ship modules

Title screen / main menu

Simple menu showing scores(?) and play button (and maybe load game)

Capitalism units

Ship movement

Rotation based movement

Dead passengers decrease planet friendliness

Economic stability

How much prices vary by planet

World map

Place planets and stuff

SFX

Wayfinder

Arrow to show user where they should be going

Waypoint marker in menu and passenger destination