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* Cleaner gold fonts! (Poor AA in bigfont3, and goldfont
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is just a scaled and colorized version of icefont2.)
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* Sort the video modes!
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* Nodes and cores should have some sort of "spawn"
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effect when firing.
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* Logic object pool optimization: Use LIFO pool + lists!
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* Graphics scaling:
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* Remove or hide the advanced graphics options!
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* Graphics quality:
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* Fastest
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* Medium
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* Best (Default)
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* Custom (show old detailed settings)
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* At first startup, quality would be
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"Unknown". The game will start by
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testing the intro with no logo. The game
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picks a quality setting based on frame
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rate. If "Medium" or "Fastest" is picked,
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the game should warn and ask the user.
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* Specify in the loader what scaling methods should
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be used for each quality setting. (What about
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Custom?)
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* Disable alpha in Fastest quality. Medium...?
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* Better scaling!
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* Try SDL_resize!!!
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* Combine Scale2x and Diamond2x?
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* S-spline style enhancement filters?
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* Detail textures?
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* Indirectly changing the video mode (by changing one
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of the "Show" options) will not trigger a video
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restart.
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* Death sequence UI timing should not be governed by
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game logic time! Throw in a "state time" feature in
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the gamestate manager or something. Or perhaps just
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switch to a fixed logic frame rate when not
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actually in-game? (It does actually make sense to
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scale in-game effects with game speed!)
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* Quicker menu navigation with PgUp/Dn, Home, End etc.
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* 3D "rockfield" for highscore and/or credits? (2D
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parallax rocks + stars without glSDL.) glSDL should
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support texture filtering for nice scaling.
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* There should be some feedback from the sound engine,
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perhaps... As it is, you can't even see what sample
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rate it's actually using.
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Bugs:
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* Y scale factor f*cked up when switching to 2560x1600!
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Apparently happens only after "escape hammering"...
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* In-game music volume affects intro music!
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* Mouse crosshair can stick around after disabling mouse
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control!
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* Multiple keys and buttons bound to the same
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function results in up/down state confusion; if
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you release one of the keys, the "target" gets a
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release event, despite other keys with the same
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target being held down.
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* Nibble effect still doesn't like double buffering.
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* The sound engine is mixing up PAN events!!!
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* glSDL surface leak when taking screenshots!
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* Do we *really* wait for all bases to stop exploding
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after the player lost a ship...?
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* Noise fx glitches in some resolutions.
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* If a ctrl+enter fullscreen/windowed switch is made
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while the menu is shown, the text goes away!
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* Any playing game aborts after toggling windowed/
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fullscreen!
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* VSync settings doesn't change as it should! Doesn't seem
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to be much I can do about this...
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* Leaving the game running for a few hours results in
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"hickups" at around 2 Hz, until the graphics is reloaded
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or similar. (Logic re-init?)
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* Downscaling (sub 320x240) breaks the radar and
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causes various other issues. (Pretty much expected...)
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* SIGSTOP kills the main thread... SDL/AMD64 bug...?
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* SIGSTOP/SIGCONT seems to confuse the game logic.
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(Already fixed...?)
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* SDL_GetAppState()! (Fixed...?)
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Internals:
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* Try to create a scoredir if missing!
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* Add doc() method to the config manager, for longer
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explanations of the options.
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* Structured documentation for values...?
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* Try reading back from the display buffer to autodetect
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how page flipping is handled! Mark pages with a few
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pixels in the corner (binary page numbers), and see
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if/when they come back.
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* Pause mode should not consume CPU or GPU power,
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at least not if the window is passive.
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* Multiple priority groups for sound effects!
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* glSDL and EEL should output errors to the logger.
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* Switch to PhysicsFS!?
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* WAV writer? (Just for "cache sounds on disk.")
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* Don't overwrite other windows when refreshing the
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in-game framework.
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* Convert text files to Win32 format in the Win32
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install target!
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* Add source info to "key" codes, to tell joystick
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input from keyboard and the like, when desired.
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* Use custom keyboard repeat code. Should be used
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for joystick events as well.
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* Show a system dialog of some sort, instead of
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printing to stderr. (Critical errors only.)
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* Range checking on command line args and config.
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* Remove either gamecontrol or gsm event pushing
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calls from skobo_gfxengine_t::frame(). Don't know
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which one, but it can't be right the way it is
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now...
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* Rearrange the source tree so that all source is
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in an src subdir.
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* Put README, COPYING etc in binary distros. (Done
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for Win32 "simple bundles".)
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* Add CRC or simple "checksum" to score files, to
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prevent too easy modification. You must at least
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download the game source and hack it if you
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*really* want to cheat! ;-)
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Features:
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* Proper start-of-map savegames!
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* Instructions! (In the radar window...?)
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* Input configurator!!!
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* Game statistics!
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* Shots fired
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* Hits
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* Accuracy
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* Kills
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* Deaths
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* Damage
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* Adrenaline Mode:
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* Health/damage accounting
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* Powerups
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* Indestructible labyrinths
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* N bases or objects to destroy
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* Loads of aggressive enemies
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* "Forced speedrun" style gameplay
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* Throw in some *real* music. (The demo songs don't
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really have anything to do with Kobo Deluxe. I
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was basically just testing things when developing
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the audio engine.)
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* Implement "world snapshot" feature, to use for
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save game option, as well as internal temporary
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save game for changing video options in the
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middle of the game and the like. Needs to save
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score, lives etc, the current map, all objects,
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random number seed etc.
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* Implement multiplayer modes. (Deathmatch and
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Cooperative, for starters.)
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* Separate personal and global highscores. Where
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applicable, one could keep score for player/user,
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system local, local network and the internet,
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and/or maybe some kind user defined groups.
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* New "Instructions" solution. (New state...?)
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* "Sloppy Refresh" hack to improve frame rate for
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sprites and base tiles, while reducing it for
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the starry background tiles.
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* On targets with sync'ed flips, accept "close
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enough" refresh rates as time base, so that the
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video frame rate becomes an integer multiple of
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the engine frame rate. (Smoother scrolling.)
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Gameplay:
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* Elite and God modes should make enemies smarter
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(aim-ahead, at least). We want "tough" - not
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"stupid fast"!
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Radar:
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* Radar markings for death + respawn points when
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getting killed?
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* Show map borders in radar, for orientation?
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Base layout:
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* Prevent the map generator from building
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impossible bases! Possibly build a list of
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tested and approved random seeds for each
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level...
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* Don't make bases where you have to navigate
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into the base on the first few levels.
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* Simulation based base verification method:
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1. Destroy all destructible nodes.
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2. Figure out how many turns one would
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have to navigate into the base in
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order to get a shot at the core.
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* Provide a fixed set of maps for fair highscore,
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speedruns and the like! As it is, every game
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is truly unique, so scores cannot really be
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compared. (Well, that *could* be considered
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part of the game, of course...)
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* Import some extra maps from xkobo-1.11+w01?
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* Bonus levels...?
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* "Smooth chase" scroll in non Classic modes? Maybe
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even filtered player movement?
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* Fire to push rocks around?
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* "Milking" cores that fire enemies is a potential
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way of cheating for a higher score. Throw in an
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enemy_m* after some time as assassin to prevent
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this? (How to detect whether the player is doing
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something "sensible" or not...?)
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Trick suggested a nice and simple solution: Just
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lower the "price tag" on enemies spawned from
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nodes over time. No effect on gameplay, but if
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you fly around shooting defenseless enemies for
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too long, they'll eventually stop counting
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towards your score. The only remaining problem
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is figuring out when to start decreasing enemy
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scores, and how fast.
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Features:
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* Instant restart button? (Shouldn't really be needed
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if the "impossible base" bugs are fixed...)
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* Should be able to skip the death explosion sequence,
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if there are more ships! Maybe an option to remove
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it (and other effects) altogether?
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* Separate highscores for different skills.
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* Help texts (in the radar window?) for config options!
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* Add native OpenGL support with sub-pixel accurate
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rendering for ultra smooth animation.
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* Nice health bar flash effects.
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* Fine rotation adjustment when using OpenGL. (Needs
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a generic high resolution rotation field.)
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* Screen pixel accurate map scrolling.
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* "Stage cleared" screens with stats and stuff!
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* Demo recording and playback! (Nice feature and
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debugging tool.)
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* Implement waveshaper AGW command!
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* New master output processor:
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* Three bands with separate "boost" controls.
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* Non-linear audio output for high boost!
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* New limiter that programs a waveshaper based
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on input level?
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* Interesting soundscape while loading?
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* "Center Playfield" (as opposed to "center framework")
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video option
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* Default/Changed status indicators in the options.
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Web site and other stuff:
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* Find binary packages and maintainers!
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* Links to unrelated games sites.
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* Write a design paper!
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