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Game Engine Tasks

Todo

  • [] - Proper hit detection with weapons and bodies.
  • [] - Support for impassable directions in the new collision response for tiles.
  • [] - Support for avoiding collidable entities in Astar. Use some approximation heuristic.
  • [] - Support for directions in Astar algorithm (Top, Bottom, Left, Right)
  • [] - Add Trim funciton to .anim files. This will automatically trim out excess pixels from the frame - this will provide optimal effeciency during runtime. - In the future this will all be performed at compile time due to porting loading code to the content pipeline.
  • [] - Skeleton warrior creature.
  • [] - Bow and arrow animation / attack move.
  • [IP] - Add some new monsters to the map.
  • [] - GUI controls: - Take a look at behindcurtain3 ui code. - NuclexFramework: http://nuclexframework.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Nuclex.UserInterface&referringTitle=Home - NeoForce: http://neoforce.codeplex.com/
  • [] - Refactor naming in LPC content.
  • [] - Implement Content Importer, Processor and Writer for: animation files, tileset files and tiled map files. (Supposed to be much faster).
  • [] - Allow Specification of Repeat '1', '2', '3' etc... apart from the standard True or False.
  • [] - Provide queuing option in GetKeyboardownState in KeyboardExtensions.
  • [] - Refactoring of the way drawables are loaded from .anim files
    • [] - Make IGameDrawable Files require to provide a XmlToDrawable static method which allows it to be loaded from an xml file.
    • [Done] - Refactoring of the xsd. Animations->Drawables. ... etc..
    • [Done] - Change all .anim file extensions to .draw extension.
  • [] - Allow overriding of some Entity value DefaultOrigin which allows the automatic loader to determine how much displacement to apply.
  • [] - Develop an animation creator/editor so that it doesnt have to be manually specified. Probably best to create this in a seperate repository. Either use QT in order to learn it or some form of WPF.
  • [] - (Bug) Entities at certain zoom levels show pixels from outside their source frame (example Bat and Tree2)

Must Have

  • [Done] - The ability to draw and render a 2D top down game world
  • [Done] - an entity framework
  • [Done] - an animation framework
  • [Done] - a post-rendering shader framework
  • [Done] - the ability to load from tiled maps (prevents from having to develop a map creation application)

Should Have

Nice to Have

  • [] - Support for loading Image layers specified in tiled files.
  • [] - zlib compression support in tmx files
  • [] - the ability to pause and resume the state of the world from within the engine itself
  • [] - the ability to run on MonoGame

Done

  • [Done] - Allow diagonals, but not allow in the case wherea a corner could prevent movement.
  • [Done] - Create branch for trying out a HashList implementation which could possibly be superior and less buggy than the current QuadTree implementation.
  • [Done] - Consider converting BoundingBox back to normal Rectangle and making the QuadTree using those instead. Faster.
  • [Done] - Download the daily build of Tiled to improve map editing.
  • [Done] - Collision detection between entities.
  • [Done] - Refactoring of PathFinding code (small nauinces). External IsValid Specification for tiles in pathfinding.
  • [Done] - State based AI
  • [Done] - Hero movement code (and a lot others) should be based on RPGEntity code. Move code from Hero and NPC to RPGEntity.
  • [Done] - Specify Interaction Region for the chest (in front of it).
  • [Done] - Change boundingbox back to a Rectangle - the slight loss in data should not be a huge deal and should increase performance by a lot.
  • [Done] - Fix bug in Animation class related to 'IsFinshed()'.
  • [Done] - IGameDrawables should perform Draw operations themselves? (Check Speed). This will allow for things like text to be drawn using TextDrawable class.
  • [Done] - Pull in latest animation changes.
  • [Done] - Things like trees should be a special StaticEntity. StaticEntities should be allowed to specify Update routines within the designated MapScript.
  • [Done] - Things like trees should be a special StaticEntity. StaticEntities should be allowed to specify Update routines within the designated MapScript.
  • [Done] - Add ability to run methods in the order specified in the <> in Tiled. Example QuickEquip<2> should be run AFTER QuickEquip<1>
  • [Done] - Refactoring of DebugInfo. Watches should be contained within DebugInfo and should be stored as a Dictionary rather than using HardCoded properties which can be very unwiedly and hard to mantain.
  • [Done] - Loading of Items from storage. JSON is probably the nicest format in this case, but XML should also be considered.
  • [Done] - LoadAnimationXML should be moved to the DrawableSet class and changed to something like LoadDrawableSetXML().
  • [Done] - Improve HashList DrawDebugInfo drawing code in terms of performance (currently very ineffecient).
  • [Done] - Add DrawCenteredString method to SpriteBatchExtensions.
  • [Done] - Continue working on DrawDebugInfo code for HashList. Rectangles should be color coded according to how many entities reside in them. It should also should its index and the count of its entities.
  • [Done] - Add ability to add 'meta-properties' to Maps by placing a . in front. Example '.MyRandomProperty'. Which WONT be reflected to the Entity conversion.
  • [Done] - Fix on Map Zone Hit.
  • [Done] - Create PulseLightSource which derives from LightSource. Or allow a specification of a Pulse value in LightSource.
  • [Done] - Add Initialise(TeeEngine engine) method.
  • [Done] - Automatic conversion of TiledObjects to Entities by TeeEngine. Started work in LoadEntities in TeeEngine.cs
  • [Done] - Automatic loading of Entities based on the specified Type. Reflection can then set the properties.
  • [Done] - Create some Model View Controller paradigm for controlling Maps with backend code. Specify some 'Model' class to handle a Map in its Property metadata.
  • [Done] - Rename 'Objects' Property in TiledObjectLayer to 'TiledObjects'
  • [Done] - Add some notes in the wiki about requirements in TiledMaps such as specifying the Content property for each tileset added.
  • [Done] - Find a way to place tmx files and tsx files in seperate folders. Problem currently is that they need to reference Content.
  • [Done] - Remove EntityLoadCallback from LoadMap. Instead specify a MapLoaded event in TeeEngine that is called everytime a map is loaded using LoadMap.
  • [Done] - Investigate imported tileset support (trx files) so that properties etc can be shared amognst multiple maps.
  • [Done] - AI for bats. Bats do not really need to make use of A*.
  • [Done] - better entity integration in map loading. Finished with LoadEntityCallback in LoadMap method (?)
  • [Done] - Add transition capabilities in maps. Example_Map->Cave_Example
  • [Done] - Bug when adding more tilesets after the custom sized treetop tileset. This is because the tilewidths do not exceed the images width and height perfectly as expected.
  • [Done] - Change KeyboardExtensions class to make use of a Dictionary<string, HashSet<Keys>> which should be much faster and scalable.
  • [Done] - Implement extended IntersetsWith function. IntersectsWith(Entity entity, GameTime gameTime, string thisGroup=null, string entityGroup=null)
  • [Done] - Refactoring of TiledMap namespace to support ILoadable and gracefully transition between Map changes.
  • [Done] - Change SpriteBatchExtension 'DrawMultiLineString' to automatically convert strings to mutltiple lines given some maxline length
  • [Done] - Create virtual Entity method. ShowDebugInfo (or something like that) that is shown by the TeeEngine when required.
  • [Done] - Add support for specifying tile layer 'Color'. For example, the cliff layer could be set to some light gray to give the feeling of distance.