Survivor-style game implemented in Godot 4 with GDScript (following Udemy series from Firebelly)
- Change ability upgrade to use weighting (and min-level)
- Change enemy manager to use enemy weighting via configurable component (vs
WeightedTable)- Consider using
Resourcesfor enemy type configuration (vs inline resources)
- Consider using
- Create static func/singleton for finding random position within arena
- Refactor menu background to a re-usable scene
- Animate progress bars
- Consider moving pickup sound to game events (ie. player healed, etc)?
- Determine how to link between ability upgrades descriptions and actual behaviour (ie. 10% speed increase is hardcoded)
- Consider allowing rerolling upgrades at cost of player health?
- Implement debug/testing system (console?)
- Add XP, add level, drop pickup, etc
- Investigate automatically detecting required child Nodes (like Unity's)
GetComponentInChildren - Investigate using collision area/shape for detecting potential enemies in range (vs loops for range-based attacks)
- Staff weapon that shoots a projectile traveling in a straight line, damaging all enemies in contact
- Bomb drop that will explode and damage enemies in area
None reported
Currently the pickup system is "handled" by the pickup items themselves detecting collisions with player, rather than player having a pickup system component. This feels a bit odd, but perhaps is the easiest way of supporting the pickup/tweening logic 🤷. The system has been drastically improved from the series (no need for individual classes), although it does use a global enum for determining upgrade type (for string safety).
Since all vignettes share the same shader/material, the underlying shader is modified when animating the player's vignette on damage. This can be worked around by ensuring the vignette runs in ALWAYS mode while running the hit animation. However, this feels less than ideal, and maybe could be improved?