[Super-tux-devel] Next version plans

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

Hey there,

 I would like to discuss with you guys the plans for a future version. Here 
goes my suggestions (highly influenced by those that Ingo described over the 
webpage: http://super-tux.sourceforge.net/milestone2/index.html ).

* Vertical scrolling

 Already made, there can be a bug here and there, but it is pretty good.
 Now, we only need to make the built-in level editor supporting it... Does 
FlexLay already supports it?

* Auto horizontal scrolling

 I believe this is pretty stable by now.
 To enable it, just add the line to the level:
  (hor_autoscroll_speed 0.5)
 Being 0.5 the speed you wish. The velocity is in pixels per the number of 
frames at defines.h.

* Back scrolling

 The camera stills needs work. It moves too fast in the beginning what is 
really annoying and distracting.
 Anyway, you can already make levels supporting it by adding the following 
line:
  (back_scrolling #t)
#t means true and #f false.
 Note that you also need to be in debug mode (supertux --debug-mode), in order 
to enable it!

* Smart camera

 When the camera movement is improved, we can implement it to show more stuff 
ahead Tux when he is running.
 It should also be possible for Tux to be stuff below and upper when pressing 
in the Up and Down keys. This would also mean the use of another key for 
jumping.

* Butt jump

 Ryan already made a simple implementation of this. Currently it destroys the 
brick in the bottom after a jump and pressing both the Up and Down keys.
 We still need graphics for it, and also to decide how it will be. I think it 
should be enabled by keep down pressing after a full jump and it would also 
create a small earthquake in the ground killing enemies in a short distance. 
Tux would also get stuck for 1.5 second.

* Ice flower

 In the end of the first world, Tux got the availability of the ice 
flower...So, we should implement it.
 IMHO, it should be a straight fire and the enemy would froze for 3 seconds or 
so, Tux could then kill them or just run away.
 I think this should not affect ice enemies... I mean, they are already 
frozen :D

 The hard work will be the creation of graphics for the enemies... 

* 800x600 resolution

 I really would like to go for it, but it would mean a lot of artwork.
 We could also just make use of a higher visible area...

* Another world

 I would go for an industrial world, as Marek suggested.

* More bad guys

 This is mostly artist work. Coding is pretty simple for this kinda of stuff, 
graphics are the worse part.
 

Other nice stuff, not really necessary:
* Internationalization
* Info boxes, as those on Yoshi's and SM World.


 Harder work that should go for another release:
* sliding, this would be great;
* swimming;
* bosses;
* moving platforms;
* certainly there are thousands of other cool stuff.

 I would like to see a few flamming about this :)
 At least, send a replay to say if you agree or don't.

Ricardo Cruz


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