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Engine

Short Term

  • add grass and trees
    • done: palm trees on sand
    • done: grass as decoration
    • done: make grass thin rather than tile-shaped
    • todo: apple trees onto grass
    • todo: pine trees onto mountains
    • todo: snow
  • clouds in sky
    • smaller and larger clouds
    • make look better with different orientations
  • routines for mouse click to tile
    • first without elevation, then figure out elevation
    • and then figure out decorations
  • make map_x, map_y use Point for consistency
  • fix rotation when zoomed in (stay centered on same tile)
  • error handling if texture type not found
  • break from ideas and do some cleanup and gasp commenting (use ///)
  • make draw_offset_[xy] optional in spritesheet.toml
  • make struct holding information like orientation and stuff rather than dumping in an unattached variable in the event loop
  • add slight border to one side and top of tiles so they don't visually merge together when they shouldn't
  • set an icon

Medium Term

  • better data structure for hex stacks, 'cause the current thing is unreadably ugly
    • investigate not using hashes, or using FnvHashMap
  • make the stuff in interface into a gameloop struct
  • rework pan/scroll key handling to allow more combos
  • move splash screen to its own function
  • make customizable
  • more mouse cursors
  • "control" -- compass, menus, minimap
  • edge scroll
  • interaction-available (hover over active)
  • drag/carry
  • make scale with window size?
  • dynamic decorations:
  • spreading grass
  • growing trees
  • coconuts, apples, pine cones (see below for more)
  • terrain water -- rivers (possibly also lakes, for larger maps)
  • clay next to the rivers
  • lava? obsidian? (obsidian is good for sharp tools?)
  • possibly separate sides and top of hexes, so they can more easily be variable height -- performance optimization
  • move cloud data types out of weather controller -- that way, both weather controller and interface include cloud, but interface does not have to include the controller
  • make wind direction variable, and allow clouds to go "behind the horizon"
  • make a game setup function rather than dumping that at the beginning of the event loop
  • architectural decision re universal event loop with different states or different loops for game menu and game itself
  • moving things: actors!
    • turtles seem like a nice place to start. They're hexagons, after all.
    • movement in one thread
    • decision making in its own thread?
  • game menu
    • exit
    • save/load game
    • game speed
  • describe UI items (compass, menu controls) in toml, including location on screen
  • Optimize map redraw so animations don't require a full-universe redraw. ("Dirty columns?")
  • Add objects (start with turtle eggs?)
  • proper error handling for all of those unwrap()s

Longer Term

  • different sprites for each scale level for prettiness
  • object-interaction menus (decorations, actors, objects)
  • possible terrain-info window (useful for civ or MoM-type games)
  • split engine from game; game starts taking shape as a game
  • more creatures
    • monkeys
    • alpacas
    • jaguars?
    • fish / dolphins / sharks
    • bees! (need flowers. beehives, then, of course)
  • the actual human characters for the game
  • map generator: build up layers of stone and dirt or sand
  • buildings. think I'm going to go for hex-sized huts rather than wall-building. Maybe leave room for both?
  • minimap?
  • animate zoom
  • animate rotation (hard because it needs to be in 3d... or at least pseudo-3d)
  • when zooming in with scroll wheel, center on mouse
  • dynamic terrain
    • "mine" or build tiles
    • ocean water levels -- tides!
      • clear water?
    • spreading rivers
  • make apples, coconuts, and pine cones spread to new trees
  • time passing
    • night day
    • sun, moon in sky
  • make clouds go in different directions
  • weather -- different kinds of clouds
  • separate UI sprites from game-world sprites
  • selectable window sizes other than 960x540
  • save window size/position when going from windowed to fullscreen; restore if needed
  • optimization: dirty rects for clouds rather than repainting whole sky

Far Out but Planned

  • go from island to generic map stuff
  • make the sky optional for non-island maps
  • change generation routine to an embedded script. (rhai? rlua?)
    • un-hardcode terrain types
  • handle multiple aspect ratios correctly
  • move island generation and the specific island terrain types to an add-on
  • target games:
    • island survival (rimworld + sims + minecraft)
    • ai evolution simulation (plant / herbivore / carnivore)
    • civ-like city builder
    • roguelike generative hack-and-slash RPG
  • shadows
  • optimization: dynamic map drawing instead of onto one big texture. I know how to do this from the 1990s. :)
  • add flat-top hex orientation (and six more directions)
  • transition hexes (from one terrain type to another)
  • sound effects
  • music

Game

  • Still working on the engine. :)