todo.md

MVP

• Finish very basic high score

• Add combo ending widget

• Gameplay balance

• Basic options

• Make a tutorial

• Open to more playtesters

  • Bennett
  • Laura
  • Frank
  • Dylan
  • Winnie

• Improve tutorial after playtest

• Finish basic effects

• Fix Continue (?)

• Improve high score after playtest feedback

• Add achievements, see (Achievements)

• Music / Sound(?)

• More Game Options

• Improve game icon

• Credits

Credits

• Link to twitter

After MVP

• Better server security
• Online stats
• Fixed seed games

Effects:

• Ball being dropped (similar particle fx to exit?)
• Balls dissapearing particle effects
• Screen shake after clearing whites
• Next balls changing animation (AFTER MVP)

High score Improvements

• Make it async so there are no stupid delays
• Make it more arcade like
• Add scores close to player (AFTER MVP)
• Save name after each new high score (?)
• Backup player scores locally and send when connecting again
• Save local games
• Constrain username for highscore
• Pretty names for stats

Gameplay

• Balance combo system (make it more predictable and harder)
• Test chaining balls adding more to combo
• Make having a lot of whites not so bad (?)
  • Test making a better progression of combo objectives
  • Test making more white balls in the tutorial -- LATER
  • Test making white balls add to combo
• Switch combo bar with side fill
  • Fix this in tutorial
• Remove fast motion when throwing ball in always slo

Options

Basic:

• Choose how you want your slow motion to work
• Save options to local file

Advanced:

Tutorial

• Make tutorial a stack so it is less prone to errors
• Make tutorial more spaced
• Make the clears at text show when over new cleart at value
• Combo tutorial is very bad if first good combo happens after game ends

DEBUG STUFF / TOOLS

• Make debug print tell file (just rename print function to print('filename:', ...)
• Make ui loader load entire folder
• Submit crash report to server

MISC

• Close game with ESC