Release Checklist: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - make sure all important strings are translatable - run ./extract-po.sh && ./update-po.sh - update ChangeLog: svn2cl --break-before-msg - make sure that the game still runs after install.sh - check NEWS, README, INSTALL.* Stuff to do at all times: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - grep for all the FIXME's and '#if 0' and find those that might be important, add what you find to this TODO Roadmap for Pingus 0.8.0: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - pingu explosions are rects, should be circles (Vel(rand()%10, rand()%10) vs Vel(angle, length)) - add VCR like effect for fast forward - add slow motion button (dead, turtle, pingu, rabbit) - move time into pingus counter - make option menu accessible from in-game (top/left corner) - proper waiter animation - repaint pause and fast-forward button - use transparent action buttons unless fast-mode is used - add round corners to the minimap - allow sprites as background - add a proper option menu - redesign main menu - animate the exit flag - a new worlds - UTF8 support with MES-1 characters (http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?comp1=MES-1&comp2=) - split screen multiplayer - rework the UI, either go glas-like or use the blackbord style - Font::draw() origin only works properly for left, right and center, breaks with multiline text - file parsing easily crashes or asserts on incorrect files - GroundMap tiles are currently RGBA, while in reality they are just RGB with a colorkey, room for optimization - implement xschema-like language to check for syntax errors in the level files - keep highscores for levels (number saved and stuff like that) - digger follows down slopes - trap in one tutorial level with two exits is in background, should be foreground - worldmap pingu walks right over locked levels - Wiimote support (libcwiid) - Translation issues: * The suffix showing which extra skill a Pingus has (e.g. [f] for Floater or [c] for Climber). * b) The big sign on the 'Tutorial Island' image - do we need z-pos for anything or does implicit object position serve the same purpose? Problem: Groundpieces all have the same z-level, the editor doesn't handle that and allows insertions inbetween - StringFormat does line breaking TeX-style, but that isn't useful with the current s-expr format, which can handle explicit line breaks just fine Roadmap for Pingus 0.7.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Important: ========== - Levels: All levels lack description halloween1-grumbel.pingus - circle save - finished - needs testing (easy) - demonstrates a Faller bug halloween2-grumbel.pingus - rescue by jump - finished - needs testing (easy) halloween3-grumbel.pingus - digg tunnel - finished - needs testing (medium) halloween4-grumbel.pingus - wall bomb - finished - needs testing (easy/medium) halloween5-grumbel.pingus - join-jump - finished - needs testing (hard++) halloween6-grumbel.pingus - jump high - finished - needs testing (easy) halloween7-grumbel.pingus - rescue - finished - needs testing - number of pingus wrong (hard--) halloween8-plouj.pingus - bridge broken - (hard+) Meduim Important: ================= - resource system needs a review/rewrite - "core/misc/404sprite" should be returned for missing graphics - The goal should be to provide fullscreen support for most common monitors: Monitor Resolutions: -------------------- 1920×1200 (WUXGA) 1920x1080 (HD-TV) 1680x1050 1600x1200 1400x1050 (Widescreen LCD) 1440x900 1280x1024 (19" LCD) 1152x864 1024x768 -> 1920x1200 means fullscreen for almost anything today and would work for all halloween levels, not so much for tutorial levels Level Resolutions: ------------------ Minimal-Horizantal: 1000 Maximal-Horizantal: 2500 Minimal-Veritcal: 600 Maximal-Veritcal: 1200 data/levels/halloween/halloween1-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1400 950) data/levels/halloween/halloween2-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1700 1000) data/levels/halloween/halloween3-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1600 800) data/levels/halloween/halloween4-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1900 1000) data/levels/halloween/halloween5-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1700 1000) data/levels/halloween/halloween6-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 2000 1000) data/levels/halloween/halloween7-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 2500 1000) data/levels/halloween/halloween8-plouj.pingus: (levelsize 1500 900) data/levels/tutorial/basher-tutorial-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1900 700) data/levels/tutorial/bomber-tutorial2-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1200 1000) data/levels/tutorial/digger-tutorial2-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1400 700) data/levels/tutorial/floater-tutorial-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1230 900) data/levels/tutorial/jumper-tutorial-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1200 600) data/levels/tutorial/miner-tutorial2-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1000 1100) data/levels/tutorial/snow10-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1400 1200) data/levels/tutorial/snow11-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1200 600) data/levels/tutorial/snow12-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1300 800) data/levels/tutorial/snow14-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1200 1000) data/levels/tutorial/snow15-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1400 600) data/levels/tutorial/snow16-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1270 600) data/levels/tutorial/snow17-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1700 600) data/levels/tutorial/snow19-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 2100 1000) data/levels/tutorial/snow20-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 2000 600) data/levels/tutorial/snow21-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1400 600) data/levels/tutorial/snow22-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1400 1200) data/levels/tutorial/snow7-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1824 600) data/levels/tutorial/snow8-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1216 1000) data/levels/tutorial/snow9-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1500 600) data/levels/tutorial/solid-tutorial-grumbel.pingus: (levelsize 1000 700) - start_pos is missing in editor (worked around by centering the view on the entrances) - implement option menu - Regenerate Courier fonts for latin-1/2/9 ### Loading font file: system://data/images/fonts/courier_small-iso-8859-9.font Font: datadir://images/fonts/courier_small-iso-8859-9.png Error: glyphs found: 188, expected 189 Format: bpp: 32 - integrate install command into scons (maybe), use 'install' instead of 'cp' - FPS: issues: - Editor: 27fps - 20% - Main Menu: 30fps - 50% - Worldmap: 50fps - 22% - Starscreen: 19fps - 14% - Game: 32fps - 14% - EndScreen: 50fps - 19% - Loading data/levels/playable/chouser02.pingus in Editor and saving it again causes the background to be at the wrong position (caused by level lacking position and editor setting a different fallback then in-game) [Currently worked around in editor code, should be fixed in the converter] - frameskip seems broken - remove verbose - add dynamic resize for the game - main menu crashes when you click a little wildely: decide whether to ignore cached_action != CA_NONE in ScreenManager::pop_screen. This causes the game to crash if [ESC] is quickly pressed repeatedly currently worked around by: assert (cached_action == CA_NONE || cached_action == CA_POP); but the menu still acts funky if one clicks heavily (i.e. two screens get added instead of one or stuff like that) - rewrite Config file support, make game automatically write a default config file, use s-expr - level converter has a bug that causes some object types to be ignored (startpos and likely the other more excotic worldobj things) - level converter writes 0/1 instead of #t/#f - bridging gets more complicated has graphical error (background?!) surface background doesn't handle larger res due to the Playfield being offsetted (might be solvable with new DrawingContext that features Rect) - rework command line parsing so that it actually works properly and doesn't depend so much on the order (setting datadir causes trouble with translation, since translation need datadir to work) - parallax scrolling is funky where background tiles are small. When scrolling right, the leftmost column of tiles gets overlapped by the next column a little bit. See the last tutorial level for an example. (likely rounding error float/int) - CollisionMask can't handle RGBA images and likely shouldn't (due to them being animated and stuff like that), we however don't have seperate colmask for those images - convert all levels and check all classic levels for issues (run branches/pingus_sdl/contribl/levelconvert.sh from SVN toplevel dir) Less Important: =============== - implemented ComboButton for Shift+Tab combinations - add something like FileReader::must_read_int() for cases where a value isn't optional, something that can figure out values that havn't be used would be nice as well - fix verdana11 for latin2 and latin9 or go UTF-8 - Liquids/water is 32, others are 64, this is causing trouble with the collision map - some people like auto-scrolling in window mode, in 0.6.0 it worked even when completly out of the window, in SDL the mouse coords don't get updated when the mouse isn't in the window (need to switch from event to polling?!) - action-axis doesn't handle analog (do we even need this or could we do with axis-button?) - remove SceneContext from Credits, replace with DrawingContext - sv.po, Swedish is incomplete, lacks level and story text - story graphics have a missing vertical line (due to age old gimp scaling bug) - add drag&drop scrolling - nuke button is unclean, other buttons not so great either -> repaint - walker speed looks wrong, other actions might need fine tuning as well - hurry-up should be removed and replaced by something less heavy (isn't used in tutorial island, since those levels don't have time) (have a blinking clock and tick sound or so) - write a README.input - LANG=sr ./pingus|grep language shows "English" but ingame text is not English - using some languages (sr, cs, tr) causes some kind of font mapping errors - replace "magic" numbers such as default screen size (800 and 600) with macros/globals or whatever is good programming practice Roadmap for Pingus Editor 0.7.3: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Important: ========== Medium Important: ================= - shrinking the editor window to much causes a crash (limit size as temporary fix) - implement proper tmpfile Support (save tmp levels to ~/.pingus/tmp/ for backup purpose in case of editor crash or so) - add yes/no question when creating a new level - add overwrite warning to file dialog - add pixel perfect object selection - add icons to filedialog - Dialogs: Editor Properties: user name and email - show an error message if save fails Less Important: =============== - make inputbox handle text longer then the rect size as well as multiline text - keyboard shortcuts need to be implemented with input framework, but how without support for keymaps? - ObjectSelector need to support more object types, missing types: all kinds of traps, weather, special objects - add type conversion (important to convert groundpieces in hotspots and visa verse) - add options to show/hide hidden files and filter stuff - could/should rotate around object center - write a color select widget (Hue, Saturation.Value) - object raising doesn't work for group Older Stuff: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - hint system via herring or flower (it should show the path to walk) - smasher doesn't correctly check the y-coordinate - all working actions in default level - seperate colmap and gfx remover surfaces for digger, miner, etc. would be nice the current ones don't work very good since the remove path is too smooth - keep_trans,alpha blitters would also be very nice (darken the border of a digging path or something like that) - diggers leave a small pixel barier when finished with there digging, which can be abused as a step - replace all '9000' time levels with '-1' time or correct time - fix author in all levels - update email addrs and missing author fields in level files - floater and jumper don't work together - hint system via herring or flower (it should show the path to walk) - smasher doesn't correctly check the y-coordinate - console is bound to the wrong keys and keys for it are not documented - music and sound should be up and running and included in the game [important - release critical] - playable and non-playable levels should be sorted - add better load-from-file support for hotspots, backgrounds, etc. - pingus doesn't die when out-of-screen - result screens - html like behaviour for level descriptions - description screen and result screen must be reworked - thumbnail handling should be reviewed - Floaters shouldn't float until they've fallen the minimum distance it'd take for a regular Pingu to splat. That way, you wouldn't have to worry about floaters moving so slowly a lot of the time, when unnecessary - Bashers cut in circles, so their last two or three swipes should be square when breaking through to an open space, since they currently can trap Pingu in, requiring another one or two bashes. This is especially obvious when bashing through wells. They can also bash through metal, which they shouldn't be able to. - All entrances should have graphics and be animated - Bridgers seem to move backwards when they first start stacking (I think that their graphic may be more to the left in its square than the walker graphic, and also a little smaller than the walker graphic - probably because it's confined to a square of the same size - maybe give special workers slightly larger graphic sizes, so they can appear to be the same size as walkers) - Sometimes diggers can't be changed into miners. - If enough Pingu are saved and all that are left are blockers, end level before time runs out, with a win - "Hurry up!" wayyy too late. Maybe at 1 minute left, or so. - At least one kind of water (the kind in Evil in the Dark) doesn't kill Pingu - In space levels, Pingu that fall off of a cliff into space don't die, though they should just like in water or lava. Missing Groundpieces ==================== Desert Theme: - all bocks need to be available as solid in addition to the non-solid blocks, some level already abuse the non-solid blocks as solid. Sortie Theme: - this theme needs 'normal' groundpieces which can be used to dig throught and things like that, it currently only has horizontal and vertical bars, which make building levels quite difficult Wishlist ======== 0.3.0 ~~~~~ * ColMaps for hotspot objects (see the objects in the water in level9) * A better MessageBox * caching for level prviews * more ground gfx's * Better music support * colmap manipulation for liquid * right/left/random/left'n'right for entrances * Support for animated exits and entrances * More Backgrounds (tileable/fullscreen/resized) * Creating some sound effects * Integrading Demo recording/playing to the menu * snow particles * A ground smashing animation 0.4.0 ~~~~~ * Collisions between water/lava and particles * Parallax scrolling backgrounds * All standard actions fine tuned working actions 1.0.0 ~~~~~ * Full Animated backgrounds, like Plasma and Fire effects * Dynamic loadable backgrounds, actions and traps * All memory leaks fixed Other Wishes: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Water, Lava, Snake, Spike, Electric pits - Cursor follow mode - Pingus able to swim > Man koennte Tueren, Treppen, Bruecken, Lifte, Teleporter... > einbauen ("Extra pingu actions"), die sich auf konventionelle > Weise nicht oeffnen/begehen/ausfahren/aktivieren lassen, sondern > erst durch einen "Hacker-Pingu" freigeschaltet werden muessen, > der sich an einem nahegelegenen Terminal an die Arbeit macht. Um > ihn da wegzubekommen, muesste man ihn natuerlich sprengen (wie im > echten Leben *grins*). # EOF #