mattblock

Changelog

• 2022-10-15:
  • Broadcast level edits
• 2022-09-28:
  • Add builder mode
• 2022-09-27:
  • Refactor (create userInterface.js, draw.js, network.js)
  • Add favicon
  • Use ES6 modules instead of globals
• 2022-09-24:
  • Prevent form fields from zooming out
  • Back up world daily
• 2022-09-23:
  • Refactor game server (Single Responsibility Principle)
• 2022-09-22:
  • Draw 💤 next to offline players
• 2022-09-17:
  • Refactor (Single Responsibility Principle)
  • Simplify the collision detection
  • Detect high-velocity collisions (collision but no overlap)
  • Add test server
• 2022-09-16: Add changelog and intro gif
• 2022-09-15: Switch to HTTPS
• 2022-09-13: Add minimap
• 2022-09-08: Recalibrate game upon zoom
• 2022-09-07: Add high score and altitude indicators
• 2022-09-02:
  • Scroll screen only when near an edge
  • Add player-player collision
• 2022-09-01: Add player-platform collision
• 2022-08-31:
  • Right click to change name
  • Assign player's old character when they join again
  • Save world to disk
• 2022-08-30:
  • Keep player centered on screen
  • Add jump
• 2022-08-29:
  • Sync player positions over the Internet
  • Right click to change color
  • Add gravity and ground
• 2022-08-28:
  • Create game loop
  • Draw a square

Unorganized (don't look) (okay you can look)

Critical

• Show tutorial
• Quest to the upper left
• Quest to the upper right

Information

• 💤 if logged off. Tiny. In bottom right of character. Part of profile object.
• Right click shows player list, with coordinates
• Show controls upon right click
• Help players find each other, e.g. via a compass or minimap.

Mechanics

• Make a more precise jump, via holding.
• Let players push other players

Bugs

• Players fall through each other if they have the same x-position. Could solve spawn area problem by having players stack
  • Consider adding a random tiny value after each movement, to avoid exact x-coordinate
• Keep spawn area clear for new people. If someone logs out from the spawn area, move them somewhere.

Zooming

• Maybe have a min and max zoom. Or just make sure the important icons scale, to avoid limiting players.
• Press "M" to bring up the full map

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• Create a command to spawn a second character from the spawn machine, to make testing easier.

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• Make world space y point up. Flip to get to screen space.

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• Teamwork example: Double jump off each other.

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Maybe

• Spawn platforms from the server. Press a button to randomize them. Can sync with refreshing
• Interpolate remote player character positions
• Splitscreen
• Randomly place emojis in the world. Players unlock by touching them. Right click to show unlocked emojis.
• The more emojis you have, the higher you can jump. Hold space to use full jump. Tap to use standard minimum jump.
• Can give people some of your emojis. Emojis are currency.
• Push an object together
  • Go underneath a big object together and jump to push it up
• Make minimap resizable
• Bounce players proportionally to their velocity. This will help with recovery during the climbing game
• Slowly zoom the view out for new players. Zoomed in is nice for focus for learning, but zoomed out is better once the player has the hang of it.
• Fully zoom out minimap. Adaptively keep it the same zoom level, despite browser zoom changes.
• 2D visibility in caves underground: https://www.redblobgames.com/articles/visibility/