DRAFT.md

QA

How many tiles are on screen
How many tiles are on a level

Diary

Day 0

  - Planning done

Day 1
  - Placeholder done

Day 2
  - Beginning Level done

Day 3
  - Level, collision, fall floor, bounce floor, player
  - camera following player within world bounds
  - player wall jump needs work, haven't started on dash, animations

Day 4
  - Challenge beginning level done
  - spike smoke shake die done
  - level transition WIP

Day 5
  - Development Level design +

  - Previous level +
  - solid floor colors on level1 and 2 +
  - player
    - die on fall on level1+
    - animation
      - wall climb~
      - land+
  - color change floors+

Day 6
  - collectible +
    - collect animation ?

Day 7
  - spider -
  - background X
  - Decals+

Day 8
    - Menu X
    - Intro +
    - Transition X
    - Endgame +
      - Collectibles +

Day 9
    - guides+
    - Hud ?X
    - ending ?
    - spider
      - animation
        - move+
        - attack X
        - retreat X
      - Spider throwing web before attack X

Day 10
   - atmosphere+
     - sfx+
   - level 4-5+

Day 11
    - hud+
      - death
      - time

Day 12
    - endgame all clear
      - sfx X
      - animation
    - refinement-
      - art
      - level
        - level 4 nerf beginning spikes
      - mechanics

TO DO

- Start at level 2

- Transition on death X

- Endgame+
  - 3 Achievement Medals X
    - 2 separate categories
      Die stats
      Time stats
          %1 Gold
          %30 Silver
          %60 Bronze
          %60+ Rainbow
    - Show other medals behind
  - Different Progress colors X

- Screen sparkle animation 8x8 ?
    covers whole square screen

- Go to endgame after last collectible
  - freeze 4 frames before transition

- Fall block vanish sprite?

- Grass tiles

8 guides
  right arrow
  "x" jump

smoke smaller+

camera shake bleeds tile on the edges X

checkpoint X
player bumping on the wall messes the animation +

player
    animations
        - die?X
        - dash?X
        - wall climbX
        - land?+
    dash? x
    wall jump fix? x

    scale on jump+
    die on fall+
        blue floors safe
        red floors die on level1
5   level
      end level+
      next level+
      previous level+

Misc Ideas

Moving background X

Spider throwing web before attack ?

Stats hud bar+
    die
    time
    collectibles X

Decals+

Extra Hard levels X

Basic Sound Synthesis +

Schedule

20 days

Misc planning 1 day
Buffer 1 days
Mechanics 6 days
3     1 day
        level load+
        player+
        solid tiles+
        collision+
        empty space+
        fall floor+
        bounce floor+
6     1 day
        balloon?
        spikes +
        colors switch floor+
7     1 day
        checkpoint x
        one way floor x
        spider
        collectible
10      1 day
        hud ?
        progress save+
8     1 day
          menu X
          transition ?
          end game +
14-13     1 day
        hud ?
    Level Design 5 days
2       1 day
          Beginning
4       1 day
          challenge beginning
5       1 day
          development
9       1 day
          challenge development
        1 day
          cooldown X
    Art 4 days
1     1 day
        Placeholder art
        Hud
11    1 day
        Collectibles 
        Tileset
        Player
12    1 day
        Background
        Hud
        Logo
16    1 day
        Refine animation
        Refine levels
    Intro End Menu  3 days
14      1 day
            Menu
15      1 day
            End
17      1 day
            Intro

Exploration Platformer

Scenes, Menu

Intro
    Background
    Logo
    Play -> Play
    Reset
    Codes
Play
    Board -> Intro
    Bar Hud
    Collectibles -> End Game
End Game
    Dark Background
    Thanks -> Intro
Transition
    Background

Art

player 3 frames
    - idle
    - move
    - jump
    - fall
    - dash
    - wall-jump X
    - corpse
empty space
    - empty
    - decoration 1
    - decoration 2
    - decoration 3
solid floor
    - solid corner grid 1
    - solid corner grid 2
fall floor
    - breaking 3 frames
bounce floor
    - bounce 3 frames
one way floor
    - up
    - down
colors switch floor
    - color a on
    - color a off
    - color b on
    - color b off
spikes
    - spike 1
    - spike 2
spider
    - move 3 frames
    - attack 3 frames
    - withdraw 3 frames
fx
    - die splash 3 frames
    - move dust 3 frames
    - dash dust 3 frames
checkpoint
    - wave 3 frames
    - saved 3 frames
balloon
    - idle 3 frames
collectible
    - 0 2 3 4 5 - empty
    - 0 2 3 4 5 - full 3 frames
hud
    - Bar
      - empty
      - half
      - full
    - Play
    - Reset
    - Codes
    - Thanks
    - Intro background
    - Endgame Dark background X 
    - Transition background 3 frames
    - Logo

Mechanics

player -> move jump jump-grace fall dash wall-jump
empty space -> fall excessive die
solid floor -> land stop, land fast die
fall floor -> land delay empty
bounce floor -> land jump boost
one way floor -> allow one direction vertical only move
colors switch floor -> colors swap on delay
spikes -> collide die
spider -> follow player from ceiling attack collide die
checkpoint -> save world re-spawn on die
    -> area name
balloon -> replenish dash
fruit -> collectible, on collide follow player, on land collect

draft idea

moving-platform -> 
wall climb ->

areas

beginning
    player
    empty space
    solid floor
    bounce floor
    fruit

challenge beginning
    spikes
    balloon

development
    one way floor?
    spider
    colors switch floor

challenge development


no font
  collectible bar
  height bar
  death bar
bar
  progress between 0-1
  0 ---
  0.5 +~-
  1   +++

Theme Mechanics

collectibles are the digits of status codes
    collect them all to complete 404
    200
    300
    500
    404

Theme Idea

 client-browser --request--> server-website --> response

 web cache
 authentication
 session

 request methods -> get,head,post,put
 response -> 200 OK,404 Not Found,500 Server Error,300 Redirect

 latency