| 1 | Features that block the 1.0 release: |
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| 3 | - invisible ships on Mac OS X (I think this is fixed now) |
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| 5 | Features that would be nice for 1.0, but that I could live without: |
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| 7 | - some sort of warp-in effect when the ships respawn |
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| 8 | - frag limit: once reached, a player becomes victorious and both players |
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| 9 | are warped to a new planet system |
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| 10 | - optimize: I'd like it to work reasonably well on 600 MHz machines |
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| 11 | - customizable video features (turn off alpha blending of HUD items or the |
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| 12 | background image, to speed things up, etc.) |
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| 14 | Smaller wishlist items: |
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| 16 | - when the game is paused, don't keep redrawing the same things every frame |
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| 17 | (especially in the help screen) |
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| 18 | - say 'Paused' somewhere when you press the Pause key (though I want it not to |
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| 19 | interfere with screenshots; maybe put it in the title bar if not |
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| 20 | in fullscreen mode?) |
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| 21 | - preserve aspect ratio for the background image (scale & crop) |
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| 22 | - three modes for debug panels, cycled with F12: no debug; show fps/#objects, |
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| 23 | show fps/#objects + detailed timings |
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| 24 | - automatically pause the game when you lose window focus |
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| 25 | - use pygame.time.get_ticks() instead of time.time() for timings |
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| 27 | Larger wishlist items: |
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| 29 | - some music/sound effects |
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| 30 | - nice sprites for the ships (I have code in a branch that draws sprites, but |
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| 31 | my drawings are ugly) |
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| 32 | - customizable key bindings |
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| 33 | - game recording/playback (this can be a prototype for multiplayer) |
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| 34 | - multiplayer mode |
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| 36 | Planned refactorings and cleanups: |
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| 38 | - use Rects to simplify a lot of layout code |
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| 39 | - keep track of dirty rectangles; pygame.display.flip() may take more than |
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| 40 | 50 ms on some machines |
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| 41 | - split ui.py into smaller modules (spin off hud.py, viewport.py) |
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| 42 | - unit tests for ai.py |
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| 43 | - refactor ai.py |
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| 44 | - move Vector into a new module vector.py |
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| 45 | - adjust other constants so that I could set Game.DELTA_TIME == 1.0 |
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| 46 | - get rid of Game.DELTA_TIME and the dt argument to World.update |
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| 48 | Hints for optimization: |
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| 50 | - what are those 10 ms spent on "other" outside update/draw/wait? |
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| 51 | - what exactly takes 6 ms to draw outside page flipping and missile trails? |
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| 52 | - when the game is too slow and starts dropping frames, debug timing |
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| 53 | shows that it still spends 7 to 30 ms idling. Why? |
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