Re: [Super-tux-devel] Next version plans

[Ryan F. <rf...@gm...>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 13:36:17 +0100, Ricardo Cruz <ri...@ae...> wrote:

> * 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!

Actually, I changed that yesterday. The backscroll code is always used
now so all you have to do is add (back_scrolling #t) to your level
file to enable it. --debug-mode is no longer required.

> * 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.

Another result of the earthquake could be that the enemies get flipped
upside down for X seconds (btw, this should probably make spikies
vulnerable to jump attack). Tux wouldn't get stuck in this case.

> * 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

I agree. The frozen enemies should also be kickable like MrIceBlocks.

> * 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...

Yeah, this would require a lot of work. I think from now one we should
get 256x256 xcf files from graphic artists. This way we can always
resize in the future.

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

I would personally like to see an tropical forest-type world. It would
be a nice change from all the snow :)

>  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'd like to see moving platforms and bosses in this release.

Another thing (maybe for future releases) is sublevels.

-- 
Ryan