adil192 / ricochlime

Satisfying slime shooter

Ricochlime

Ricochlime is a game where you attack the advancing monsters with your ricocheting projectiles. The game is made with the Flame game engine and Flutter.

           

ricochlime's Issues

accessibility: differentiate green slimes by more than color

When you turn your screen black-and-white, it's impossible to tell the difference between green and blue slimes

No Music/SFX

I've noticed there is no music/soundeffects yet and I would like to offer to either take a track that I have already made or making some music and soundeffects for the game - let me know if you are interested!

Bullet speed isn't constant

From observation, the faster the device, the more constant the speed.

Colorblind people can not see the difference between trees

Last update changed slimes for trees. I can not differenciate them now because I am colorblind.

It is kind of related to an other accessibility issue except I don't have my screen turned in black and white so I can never see the difserence, hence the ticket.

Quickly boring

The game is fun for a few rounds, but quickly gets boring… Here is a bunch of vague ideas you might want to play with:

• More content: bigger slimes, slimes with different shapes which bounce off balls in other directions, special bullets, special terrain etc…
• More difficulty: obstacles that move between throws, slimes that are protected on some of their sides…
• More player input: add one-time use items before each throw or during a throw, allow to slightly alter the bullet's course once launched…

How to build?

Read the title.

Invisible enemies

Imagine orange enemies that you can see for the top three rows but once they enter the fourth row and below they go invisible unless hit, this will force you to try and remember their positions

add a restart button

At the Moment if you're playing a run, there Is no way to restart
This Is also if you close the app and restart

(Almost) exponential game speed

Game speed increases by 0.5 times every time you tap the screen. I'd suggest increating that time by bigger factors once you hit 2.0 times speed.
Then increase by 1.0 times, then 2.0 times etc…

Let user collect more bullets

User should be able to pickup bullets rather than having score bullets at all times.

feat: allow user to continue after game over by watching an ad

feat: add pictures to tutorial

Also add something like "Tap the screen to speed up the bullets" to the tutorial

Use Non-Linear Speedup Multiplier Values

Currently the speedup multiplier goes up by +0.5 every time you tap the screen. This is really annoying when a bullet is stuck in a nearly perfect horizontal trajectory and you need to tap ~20 times to make it come back. This is because the percent speed increase decreases as time goes on, it is a known design principle that in such situations there should be significantly finer control at lower values, and a decrease in control at higher values. I think it would be better to use a non-linear function for the speedups in this case.

I suggest the following multiplier pattern as a replacement:

As a function of n taps (in python syntax):

[1, 1.5, 2, 3, 5, 7][n%6] * (10**(n//6))

Where %6 is the remainder of division by 6 and acts as an index for the list, ** is exponentiation (^) and n//6 is devision by 6 without remainder. (6 is the length of the list and there should probably be some rounding around it)

The reason this pattern should be relatively intuitive is because it produces a fibonacci like sequence generated using currency values. In the real world all bills and coins appear in as 1, 2, 5 multiplied by 10 to some power. The sequence I suggest consists of those 3 base values and the sums of 2 adjacent values.

A problem with this pattern is that it removes the precise multiplier control that is present in the current version, nearly immediately right after the 2. I have tried thinking of alternative patterns such as 1.3^n but there is always the same problem of to fine control in beginning and an even faster loss of control right after that.

Realistically a multiplier greater than 20x shouldn't be necessary and it is best to just instantly finish the round if that happens because something went wrong. Hence it might be a better solution to just hardcode reasonable made up multipliers between 1 and 20. (eg. 1,1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20)

Thanks for making the game, might be one of the best "simple / io" Open Source games for mobile.

PS: and yes I am a highschool student who had a bit to many functions thrown at him.

bug: fix soil glitching at level 49-50

When switching from score 49 to 50, the soil's height goes from 2 tiles to 1 and back to 2 tiles

feat: record high scores

ads: Use a neutral age screen

• Ask user for their age/birthyear
• Delay ad initialisation until we know the user's age
• Pass underage flag to google_mobile_ads
• Allow user to change their birthyear in settings

bug: "Restart game" doesn't work after game over then going home

how the bug appeared:

1. lose in the game
2. pressed "<- Home"
3. on the main page of the game i'm clicking on the button "Play"
4. the game tells me again that i'm "game over" and offers to restart the game

i press on the restart button, but nothing happens.

video: https://filetransfer.io/data-package/GyLgIFgM#link

game version: 1.1.0, f-droid
device: realme 10, android 12

Game music blocks other sounds

Hi there ✌️
I like the background music feature in v1.1.2.

But I noticed that the game seems to "block" other sound streams. 🤔

Try playing some music in another app then open the game. For me, the music app pauses playback even if the game music is turned off.

Cheers

Game Over Bypass

Hi @adil192.

First of all, thank you for a great FOSS Android game.

I noticed a bug in v1.1.0 where if you close the game after reaching the GAME OVER-screen, you will be able to replay your last shot when reopening it. This permits the user to have unlimited retries.

Not really a big deal unless you plan to implement global scoreboard :-)

Hyperlegible font

Currently we are using a display font which can be difficult to read for users with vision issues.
Add a setting (in a settings page) to use the Atkinson hyperlegible font for these users.

FOSS Version precompiled for Android

Prebuilts on F-Droid with no ads.

Power-ups?

Maybe have blue tree things that give power-ups? I'd recommend looking through RPGs like the Binding of Isaac, Vampire Survivor, and Noita for power-up ideas?

Explosive barrels

Maybe a red enemy or an explosive barrel that blows up and kills everything beside it

Crossbow

Players should be able to choose to fire a single, one-shot bolt that kills everything it passes through or the regular balls

This could also be a power-up idea

Side throws are over-powered

Angling your throw at such an angle that it hits the walls almost horizontally probably makes for the most underwhelming, yet overpowered throws in the game.

I'd suggest you nerf this possibility, by either limiting the number of bounces a bullet can make, or prevent throwing angles that are too horizontal.

Moving enemies

Imagine blue enemies that will randomly move up down left and right (for one adjacent position, like a king in chess) or stay still

Add a game over screen

FOSS Android version has the age dialog

Just downloaded the foss apk from the previous post.
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It has no ads, but the age dialog still appears on first run.

Retheme the home page

Make game icon

Assets license violation

You can not redistribute or resale, even if modified. in the license file... Github is a redistribution...

F-Droid build failed

https://monitor.f-droid.org/builds/log/com.adilhanney.ricochlime/1010201#site-footer

Could you please take a look? Thanks!

Sentries

Again, could be an idea, but imagine a plants vs zombies type spin where you could make sentries and defenders and battle the enemies with your own stuff

Dark mode error on Android

On android the dark mode looks like this:

The background tiles are not dark but the game's backgroundColor is.