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# Specific projects
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## Now:
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- clean up content
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- Clean up state api
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- Clean up & document UI api
- Persistent variables in ui scripts
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- Better planet icons
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- Clean up scripting errors
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- Mouse colliders
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- Fade sprites and text in scrollbox
- Selection while flying
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- outfitter
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- fps textbox positioning
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## Small jobs
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- Clean up sprite content (and content in general)
- Check game version in config
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- Fix window resizing
- Debug: show mouse position
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- 🌟 Better planet desc formatting
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- Procedural suns
- 🌟 Back arrow -> reverse
- No wobble for ai ships & autopilot
- 🌟 User-configurable outfit space types
- 🌟 Sticky radar
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- 🌟 Ship damage events
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- Better landing animation (slow down)
- Land from farther away
- Ship collapse: damage + force events
- Background haze: 3d perlin?
- nova dust parallax
- Motion blur
- 🌟 Generate outlines and colliders
- Then: outline self in status
- Reverse engines + flares
- Turn flares (physics by location?)
- Angled engines & guns
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- Unified content dir
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## Misc fixes & Optimizations
- 🌟 Better errors when content/asset dirs don't exist
- Clear `// TODO:` comments
- Correct drawing order (player on top, landing ships)
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- Better physshiphandle
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- Clean up & faster frame timings (average)
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- 🌟 Handle lost focus
- User config file
- 🌟 Document content
- 🌟 Clean up content: one ship per file, autodetect
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- CLI: specify dirs, content location, logs, etc
- Starfield clusters, less flicker
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- Collider groups for factions? (projectile optimization)
## 🌟 Player selection
- Planet name, ring, and distance
- Selection UI (around game object)
- Selection UI (radar arrow)
- Selection keys
- Select ships
- Selection UI (HUD)
- attack selected ship, even if friendly
## 🌟 Planet outfitter
- UI, show ship on land
- Money
- Display name != key
- then: non-removable outfits
- then: cargo space
- then: collectible flotsam
- then: mass from cargo and outfits
- then: space conversion
- then: heat + energy stats
- then: damage type (heat, energy, disrupt, etc)
- then: debuffs
- then: assign guns to points
- then: guns with consumable ammunition
- then: enable/disable weapons
## Ship Spawning
- requires: Basic ship AI (disable collision for now?)
- requires: Fleets
- Spawn ships from planets
- Land ships on planets (destroy)
- Start with player on planet, respawn
## Debris (requires: flotsam)
- Destroyed ships leave debris
- Destructible & floatingdebris
- Orbiting debris: asteroids
- ES-style asteroid field (how should we do this?)
## Camera physics
- lookahead
- damping
- Don't jump when landing/taking off
- wobble / ship thrown when hit?
- UI/effects when damaged?
- Focus important objects
## Sprite reels
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- Random start frame
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- Trigger sprite reel during collapse sequence
- Trigger sprite reel when firing (requires: non-removable outfits)
- then: ship tint
- then: frame timing randomness
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- then: leaks during collapse (needs effect physics)
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- Sprite color variation
## Texture loading
- loading screen & menu
- GPU limits?
- Cache direcory
- How to pack?
## Sound effects
- Sound effects
- User-configurable music (?, game config or user config?)
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# Ideas and long-term goals
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## Features (not soon)
- Multiplayer
- Configure key bindings, controller support
- Save game state
- Dynamic relationships (get angry when attacked)
- Jump between systems
- Story: how?
- Conversations, trade, missions
- Lightweight whole-universe simulation
- Documentation site & front page
- Dynamic lighting (planets & ships)
- Lens flare?
- Active abilities
- Galaxy date system, slowly orbiting planets
- Parallelize frame computations
- Advanced AI: avoid collisions
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- Land and unland effects
- Muzzle effect
- Effect / sprite color variation
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- UI Animations
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- in-game console?
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## Game & Story
- How to keep player in system bounds, what to do if they fly far away
- Max chase distance, physics-enforced area?
- (Soft limits, you shouldn't go too far unless you decide to.)
- Enforce: silently teleport to the other end
- How to handle death -- save scum should not be the norm (hollow knight?)
- Locks and keys -> variation?
- Hard to get outfits you've lost (hollow knight's charms do this very well)
- Missions: hunt scary targets
- The world exists outside of the system you're in
- (large-scale dynamics)
- How does information travel?
- Communication timer: destroy a ship fast, nobody needs to know
- Do we want to pay crew?
- How should ship capturing work?
- Enemy motivations
- Where does money come from?
- Changing map paths? How?
- Actions against one faction affect another, dynamic relationships
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## Write and Document
- Parallax
- Starfield & tiling
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- How the game is drawn
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- transforming game coordinates to screen
- how angles work
- Computation flow
- Physics pipeline
- Outfit pipeline
- Collision detection
- Ship AI
- Content specification and pipeline
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- How packer and optimizations work, and why
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- How big should sprite resolutions be? How about frame rate?
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- Naming: atlas, sprite, image, frame, texture
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- Outfits may not change unless you've landed. They might not change ever for CC ships!
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- All angle adjustments happen in content & shaders
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- Reserved texture: index zero
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- Errors: lowercase, no punctuation
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- When to use what logging level
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## Ideas
- Improvements over ES
- Better visuals
- More interesting combat
- More interesting missions
- Big fleets shouldn't be broken (should the player even have a fleet?)
- ES Enemies don't have a real motivation.
- Death matters - save-scumming shouldn't be normal
- More interesting trading?
- Death penalty
- Find your wreckage when you die (dark souls/HK)
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- Lose some outfits, lose ship? Real risk for going out! (HK does this well)
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- Damage to ship subsystems
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- Soft and highly armored ship points
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- Repair your own ship