maximforever / bossfight

A PHP-backend game I built with James Mayr

Hi there 👋

bossfight's Issues

Weather / Environment

The back-end currently does not have a mechanism for changing the weather, and it currently does nothing to affect the game. Various weather states should have an impact on lots of things!

Front-end / Back-end Communication

We need to pass parameters from the front-end (such as url parameters, like the game id) to the back-end (to determine which game to display for observers). A very important example is button-presses; right now, pressing the attack/dodge/rest buttons does nothing, but it needs to send a value to the server, which executes the player's move.

Heal vs. Rest

For game balance, I think heal is a better option than rest (and makes dodge much more important). Heal would mean increasing the health, strength, and speed of teammates only, instead of rest, which increases those stats only for that player.

In a game that includes rest, it is always better to rest than to dodge - one can increase your stats, while the other can only slow the decrease. However, a game with heal means you can never directly increase your stats, and must depend on others to cooperate, so dodging is a viable strategy if your health is low enough that you need to be healed.

tl;dr: heal adds a little more depth of strategy.

Redirect to Win/Lose screens

Currently, when you win or lose, your screen would just display "0 health" for you or the boss, depending on the scenario. I need to create a redirect to the win and lose screens when this is the case.

Form Validation

On the index.html page, we need form validation to ensure the "Join" and "Create" buttons cannot submit a form unless the "name" field is filled in with a string of text - letters & numbers only, and perhaps 4-16 characters. Similarly, hitting the "Join" button should not be an option unless the "game-id" text box contains a number.