Tasks and Defs 2.0

[kettek]

This list is a remaster of #2 with more concrete tasks now that we are more than half-way through the jam and have a better understanding of life and the universe around us.

• Physics
  • Player movement blocking based on filled cell (is this necessary?) At least should prevent moving out of valid game tiles.
• Music
  • Menu music
  • Wave music
  • Build music
  • Victory music
  • Loss music
• Sounds
  • Turret fire
  • Turret acquire target (maybe)
  • Player fire
  • Player walk (? maybe, might be cute)
  • Build/place wall/turret
  • Spawn sound
  • Enemy die (maybe)
  • Enemy walk (maybe, might also be cute)
  • Enemy hit core
  • Core explode
  • Wave start (powerup sound, like the spawners gettin juiced)
  • Wave end (powerdown sound, dejuicing)
  • Victory hit
• Enemies
  • Walker
  • Runner
  • Flier -- does a direct path to the end and does not use pathfinding.
  • Trundler (? Some sort of opposite of Runner)
  • Boss types? Like maybe can walk thru/destroy turrets? Would need a sound cue and probably a preview of its destructive path.
• Player gfx
  • Player 1/Player 2 polarity -- I would be inclined to invert their colors.
• Net
  • Projectile spawing/destruction
  • Health updating
  • Placing and destruction of walls/turrets
  • Wave state updating (spawner done)
  • Loss/Victory state synchronization
• Game Logic
  • Win/Loss conditions
  • Game progress state machine: wave -> build -> wave -> build -> loss/victory -> state_travel
• Other
  • Energy orbs/currency for building. Also dropped by enemies. Should probably be an entity
  • Limiting building using currency.
  • Returning half currency of wall/turret destruction...?
• Menu State
  • Main Menu (has start/lobby, quit, and credits...?)
  • Lobby (allows map picking, maybe? And light rules?)
    • Join by IP:Port, Host by IP:Port, Join by magservice name, Host by magservice name -- MAYBE allow some simple matchmaking with player count shown?
  • Controls/Tutorial
    • Maybe "F1" toggled and initially shown on start overlay graphics showing text for controls and arrows pointing to the diff. UI elements says how to use them?

[kettek]

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