brotatotes / gamedevelopmentstudio

EECS 395 with Robert Zubek

Hi, I'm brotatotes!

gamedevelopmentstudio's Issues

scale cursor size

cursor size needs to scale relative to screen size

Player Animations are Bugged

Player one slides around instead of running.

Fan can only blow left

Ethan: "I can't change the direction of my fan" when Austin was heading left into the endZone. In such cases, a left-only blowing fan is pretty useless

Get Sprite Animation Working

Look at the tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK_NzdVSxaQ

Basic Enemies

Create a simple enemy and the framework to create more enemies.

apples should be thrown into air like cupcakes

Health and Energy bars are too big in maximize mode.

Make a Simple Controls Menu That Shows the Controls for the Game

Make respawning module

I could not figure out a good way to make obstacles (not placed by cursor player but native to stage i.e mines, blocks) respawn after being destroyed.

Platforms can sometimes block Energy/Health bars on-screen

Display Text!

Player 1 died message instead of Player 2 wins?

Weird to have Player 2 wins without the game actually ending

Display cost of powers

Ethan: "it'd probably useful to see how much energy my things cost"

Trampoline shouldn't blend in with other platforms.

skip feature to skip "tutorial"

It's not really a tutorial but there should be a way to skip the first 20 seconds.

Bouncing on bomb explosions shouldn't be possible

It is possible to jump on a bomb's explosion and bounce on it, as it doesn't push the player as hard when the player falls on the explosion. Also, the player take multiple instances of the bomb damage if it touches the explosion multiple times.

Probably fix this by only allowing each bomb to hit the player once, and adjust force of explosion to ignore gravity.

Visual notifier for <not enough energy>

A lot of players spammed as P2 when they played. The game should tell them when they don't have enough energy.

Either gray out options that P2 can't afford, or have a visual notifier that rejects their request, like highlighting the energy bar or something along those lines. (could add audible notifiers later)

Energy Notifier for P1

P1's energy bar should be red (or something) indicating he doesn't have enough energy to use any abilities atm

Give User Some Indication/Feedback That They Don't Have Enough Energy

i.e. the bar flashes red

closed as duplicate of issue #15

Can't tell which way P1 is facing.

Based on feedback today. Important for attacking and movement in general. Immediately fixed with the introduction of sprite graphics.

trampoline disappears

trampoline disappears for whatever reason...

Land mine?

One of the players today suggested a land mine as a power. We may or may not want to eventually implement this or some version of this.

Player progression ideas

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u_1PReg6tA5wxenJ81Z-RRpx95BbKCCzxElsUyZp9jE/edit

Things get stuck to ceilings.

Jumping will correctly bounce off ceilings, but getting blown or pushed up will get P1 temporarily stuck to a ceiling; enemies who get attacked can also get stuck to ceilings.

Separate player infos

Ethan: "why is player 1's health right next to player 2's other stuff?"

"Game Start" Text Could be an opportunity

We could make the "Game Start" Text a means of telling a basic simple 1 Sentence story.

Something along the lines of "Will the Dark God Fall?" or something like that.

It could add some context to the game and make it seem pretty cool.

Booster Platform Collision Detection is Wierd

It is not letting the player landing on it in some scenarios.

More Stage Obstacles

i.e. ladders and spikes n shit

esc = pause

Trampoline Physics are Wack.

Find some sprites

Graphics seem to be really important. Let's find some sprites.

Fan animation/sprite/look

Need to be able to see the hitbox that it blows in, but without blocking everything else. Best case would be some sort of windy sprite/animation.

Make New Stages

Zubeck suggested that our game may be better if we hand tuned all of the stages instead of having them procedurely generated.

Either way most people said we should have more stages

beautifully show cost of powers

Get rid of number texts.
Hovering over powers should display a gray bar in the energy bar that shows how much it would cost.

Enemies fall through platforms...

For some reason, spawning multiple enemies on a platform underneath P1 causes them to fall through the ground to their deaths for no apparent reason. Very odd.

wtf mines? also trampoline is still wierd

Make shift the dash button

double tapping was unpopular with playtesters

Make delay before enemies can start attacking after spawn

Need a name for our game eventually.

Comment with suggestions

Bombs **maybe** should always fall from above off-screen

A player today suggested that bombs should always fall from above off-screen instead of appearing where P2 clicks.

Audio

Music & sound effects

Hard to click and manage powers as P2

A complete solution includes:

• visual feedback for what's selected
• visual feedback for successful clicks OR assign hotkeys instead

Display power level and health as bars.

Get Aesthetic Sprites For Game

Textures:
Character --> make a qt girl looking at the momodora reference
Bomb/Nuke → cupcake (with a fuse)
Fan → maybe make the particle effects look like sprinkles?
Block → a block that matches the background a bit (maybe make thinner)
Enemies → pizza monsters (pizza with a face and legs)
I need to find a fucking background

Will add more if I think of more

Powerups for player 1

Perhaps dropped by enemies

People want this

tutorial should explain the moon...

Blocks shouldn't be allowed to be placed directly on top of P1

I think the best way to fix this is to correct P2's clicks if their click would place a block that intercepts with P1, and move it left/right/down/up (whichever is closest)

end goal looks like crap

Reset() should clear all items and kill all enemies

Jump height should reflect button down time