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• Fresh repo to build a working version of my old first year programming project

• Using SFML 2.6.1 as a 2D renderer

• Developing in Visual Studio Community 2022 CLion

  • Build system = CMake
  • Compiler = Ninja
  • x64

Plan

Game states

• main menu,
• gameplay,
• pause,
• settings,
• highscores etc

Next up 2024

• Modernise code to c++20 (ranges etc)
• Greater control over weapons (weapon selection? multiple weapons controlled via number keys?)
• Visualise weapon cooldowns and enabled states
• Configuration based entities (build entities from json configs)
• Configuration based levels (enemy waves, level background etc)
• smarter enemy motion
• Buffs, Debuffs, and weapon upgrades
• perhaps play with play rotation
• Buy Aseprite and build some own sprites

Gameplay

• Create base entity class so players and enemies may implement / derive
• Create enemies and enemy movement
• Player weapons
• Flesh out player
• Player enemy interactions
• Stage background for fun (base space stage in place)
• Skin player and enemies using previous assets before new ones are made
• Spatial partitioning for better collision detection performance, WE ARE USING A QUAD TREE
  • Player -> enemy collisions
  • bullet -> bullet collisions?
• implement debug renderer that can be turned on with key press
• Buff / Debuff / Power up / Helper system
  • player to collide with power ups and entity object is attached to the player
• Improve player control scheme
  • Demo mode (AI controlled player)
  • Weapon selection
• Finite state logic
  • Generic state machine functionality that can be dropped in to simplify logic for movement, weapons etc
• Better weapons: (now able to add new weapon types easily)
  • beam weapons
  • homing projectiles
  • mines.
  • barriers
  • bolas's
  • EMP's - or other debuff weapons

Visuals

• Visualise player stats, as in weapon temp, weapon energy, ammo, current weapon etc.
  • Visualise damage
• Debug visualisation (both current and time series data)
  • total bullets on screen
  • total enemies
  • total memory usage
  • total cpu usage
• Level design: missions, bosses, enemy squadrons, mission select screen?
• Better player and enemy graphics
• Procedural planets / asteroids / other celestial objects - https://deep-fold.itch.io/pixel-planet-generator

Nice to haves / Ideas:

• Intelligent enemies: track and shoot towards player
  • Bosses, multiple firing patterns, interesting mechanics, weak points? youtube.com/watch?v=V4ctJETN-mg?
  • Enemy waves, Sqaudrons?
• Buff - Can be encountered mid level, will attach themselves to the player
  • Helpers: have own health, add buffs, ammo can fire autonmously or on player action (dies on timeout, ammo depletion and health loss)
  • Stat buffs - shield regen, health regen, invincibility, damage multiplier
• Debuff - can be encountered mid level, will attach themselves to the player
  • stat debuffs or damage over time.
• Highscores?
• online coop - Boost ASIO, SFML network?