[Super-tux-devel] Todo

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

Here again a little todo on what I want to have finished till
milestone1 release, since I would really like to get this out real
soon, we should cut everything that isn't doable in a short time frame
(ie. a few days):

- an additional background layer that scrolls with half the speed, ie.
  paralax scrolling, this is needed for the cave, graphics pretty much
  done, it just needs code, this is needed for the cave level and for
  the boss level (even so no gfx here yet, but shouldn't be hard to
  create)

- instead a flat background color I would prefer to have a background
  gradient from one color to another, workaround if this can't be done
  would be a simple bitmap, instead of a custom gradient (needed for
  the snow levels)
 
- reset points in the levels, these should be configurable via the
  level file, needed especially in the boss level, if possible reset
  points should get a player visible graphic, but not a must have

- a boss as proposed at:
  http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/supertux-boss.jpg this however
  will require some serious cleanup of tux current grab and throw
  behaviour first, including some new graphics for grabbing an item

- laptop (now mriceblock) fixes, laptop still acts pretty weird in a
  lot of situations and doesn't feel very natural, it also gets stucky
  in some situations

- fish should turn around when falling done and should only be
  vulurable when falling done, since it doesn't make much sense to
  jump on his mouth and kill him, while not getting harmed oneself

- flyingsnowball could accelerate and slowdown, instead of just having
  a constant velocity, some very little (as in a few pixels) sin-wave
  like swinging on the x axis might also be good

- new items (well, just new gfx):

  http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/iceflower.png
  http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/1up.png
  http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/1up2.png
  http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/grow.png

  these are not perfect, but should be useable, if somebody comes up
  with better ideas I can create gfx for them
  
- levels, we currently have enough levels, but neither of them are
  polished and tweaking for gameplay, extras and enemies, this area
  still needs a lot of work

- joystick buttons need to be configurable

- keyboard keys should be configurable

- menu needs a bit reordering:

  - 'Load Game' should be renamed to 'Start Game', old 'Start Game'
    thus gets replaced and can be removed

  - worldmap needs an exit/option menu, together with a way to save
    the current state

  - there should be a 'Quick Play/Custom Game' menu that lets one play
    custom levelsets, this would require to save the game-state in
    some way for levelsets, since already played/finished levels
    should be marked and unplayed levels should be locked

- worldmap needs scrolling

- level end sequence, I commited gfx for the end-iglo in cvs, however
  there still needs to be code to handle this, ie:

  - once tux walked over a given line at the end of the level, say 960
    pixels before the level end, the game should switch to the level
    end sequence, which simply means holding down 'right' button, the
    rest will need to be handled by the level itself, ie. placement of
    the iglo in the foreground/background layers. Since iglo is to
    complicated for custom levels, levelfile should get a flag if
    iglo-mode should be used or not

  - in addition to the iglo it would be nice to have a rotating
    star-elpise as shown in:
    http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/supertux-endscreen.jpg this
    should collapse or expand (whatever looks better) and start the
    main endsequence

Comments or additional items that need to be done? If level creators
need more/special tiles, write me a mail or visit IRC please.

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