******************************************************** NEXT PATCH ******************************************************** thrown blocks can damage intangible mobs for a couple seconds after they are thrown they are set to act like bullets for a few seconds after being thrown all blocks do 50% more damage to mobs and 50% longer stun blocks do more damage vs. shielded mobs (damage penalty is 40%, was 66%)) mass driver - damage increase set to 200% (up from 100%) negative mass field can lift blocks twice as heavy as before with little movement reduction tech: flywheel - when mobs die their body is spun and flung at nearby mobs requires mass driver, no other mob death tech ******************************************************** BUGS ******************************************************** you have to press z once to get copy to work for simulation.enableConstructMode() sometimes not sure how to reproduce, but it happens often on the first draw mouse event e.which is deprecated fix door.isOpen actually meaning isClosed? (only once on my computer) once every 7 second check isn't running code power ups don't teleport to exit complex spin statistics isn't activating wasn't able to understand bug after extensive testing had tech: complex spin statistics (always) make it so that when you are immune to harm you can either jump on mobs or you pass through them (always) is there a way to check if the player is stuck inside the map or block trigger a short term non-collide if that occurs (intermittent, but almost every time) bug - capping the fps causes random slow downs, that can be fixed with pause (once) bug - mine spawned one new mine every second after sticking to the top right corner of a wall notes: had only gun mine, tech mine reclamation, field plasma, (repeatable almost every time) bug - mines spawn extra mines when fired at thin map wall while jumping ******************************************************** TODO ******************************************************** chance for the block resulting from a slain enemy to be thrown at the nearest mob. tech: flywheel - after a mob dies their body is fired towards a nearby mob requires: block throwing technology? adjust for gravity import the procedural level generation from one of the older versions of the game as one single level tech plasma field - plasma field becomes an aoe damage field with the same radius 200% more energy drain, 100% more damage draw a square (or two) that rapidly spins blocking produces ice-IX at the block location? how to get bullets to not hit the blocked mob spawn at player head? only applies to blocking with a cool down nano-scale? standing wave harmonics maybe just a chance to proc for perfect diamagnetism laser beam splitter should only increase by 1,2,3,4 not 1,3,5 tech field: while _____ is active take 100% more harm and do 100% more damage while firing or while plasma field is active make a boss that increases tech.deathSpawns while it is alive tech.deathSpawns += 2 on death tech.deathSpawns -= 2 how to make it clear that the bos is producing the spawns? boss is make of many spawn-like mobs but they need to have a different color from spawns similar to how cellBoss works with stronger flocking/attracting forces quantum foam: hold fire to charge up foam, release fire to let go an amount relative to hold long you held fire foam gun fires a bullet that tracks how long mouse is down when mouse is up it streams out a hose of foam based on how long foam was down bullet is small and hidden make some bullets move super fast, but do collisions checks in .do() check for hitting mobs or map with fractional velocity if velocity is above 40ish flipflop, but toggles after a kill new level: procedural generation several small rooms are linked by portals the portals have a randomized pattern the rooms can be set out in a grid and linked by physical doors,tunnels,wells choose bosses that can move though walls, so it can track you while you portal the map shuffles it's pattern when the player get to a button shuffle portals or shuffle the physical layout of rooms and then have the player go back through to get to the end? gravity room portal room endlessly falling blocks down a slide, that the player has to climb portal + rotor + falling blocks = perpetual motion laser room slime radiation room look into improving mouse lag with pointer lock? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_Lock_API https://www.vsynctester.com/game.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26530272 mob vision: look at player history build a new type of attraction for mobs if mobs can't see player, they check to see if they can see where the player was in the history if mobs can't see player, they could check to see if they can find player in the past https://abitawake.com/news/articles/enemy-ai-chasing-a-player-without-navigation2d-or-a-star-pathfinding write find in spawn undo exploder, but commented out tech: chitin - take 50% less damage, reduce harm reduction by 5% after each collision Mob: "Tentacle": Sits on wall. Is a black blob. When you get near it, reaches out and grabs you, similar to wires. Does not deal damage. maybe it could be immune to damage? but it is spawned by an actual mob wormhole, or CPT tech: after taking damage teleport in direction of mouse after collision mob sniper: draw aim graphics before fire tech laser: photon - laser, but it can only move 100 pixels a cycle mob - after taking damage attack outwardly grows teleports mobile requirements: detect mobile, flip to landscape detect no keyboard, no mouse auto aim? limit items to ones that don't require aiming? tap screen regions to move (WASD) reduce font size decrease healing effects by 50% decrease level scaling healing reduction net effect: healing at difficulty 40 (level 10 hard) should be 25% higher then current levels bosses should have 2x health, but only do about 50 health damage options: cap all damage at 50 health this makes high health/energy/harm reduction build much better make boss flag cut damage done to player by 10x boss flag cut damage done to boss by 20x <---- make bosses not have extra density lore: a tutorial / lore intro needs to be optional so it doesn't slow experienced players put something on the intro map maybe a button triggers something tech: add an eject button for each power up in the pause menu also list all bot types in pause menu with option to eject? add back in gamepad support but does anyone care? https://github.com/landgreen/landgreen.github.io/search?q=gamepadconnected rename intro level to something lore related give undefined tech different effects at different localSettings.loreCount values or just random effects 1. 10/10: send more tech into the pool 2. 3/3: lose 3 tech each time, and send more tech into the pool 2. 3/3: increase game difficulty, and send more tech into the pool 3. 1/1: reduce max energy and take more harm 4. 1/1: add 5? more levels rename ? health -> integrity, unity heal -> also integrity, unity bot: ice blast, long CD AOE freeze RPG default or tech: grenades detonate on your cursor / where your cursor was when they were fired in game console set highlighting rules m, tech, level are all highlighted maybe the first term in each variable should get a highlight tech: time dilation - when you exit time dilation rewind to the state you entered position, velocity, and health no energy cost mechanic - Your energy regen is only active when field and gun have not been used for 5 seconds. be able to open up custom mode in the normal game might need to be rebuilt from scratch while in through testing mode? have a way to make limited changes as allowed by tech you pick up in game disable the in custom setting flag tech power up magnetism - power ups drift towards player where would this code go? super balls start at 3, not 4 have to balance damage make different move methods tech crouch charge jump tech double jump tech when mobs are at full health you do 40% to them tech- move super fast, go intangible, drain energy very fast this is like a dodge roll tech for standing wave?, cloaking? tech pilot wave: mini black hole - pull mobs and blocks in with more force also from farther away also do damage? tech pilot wave: antigravity - blocks have no gravity for a few seconds after exiting the field maybe they bounce too? maybe they explode? wormhole - make it clear when the wormhole can and can't teleport to a location before the player clicks flavor - your bullets destroy blocks this isn't really a bonus, so maybe just add this as flavor to another tech field/gun a chance for destroyed blocks to drop stuff power ups spores tech plasma : plasma length increases then decreases as you hold down the field button (like stabbing with a spear) grows to 1.5 longer after 0.3 seconds, then returns to normal length over 1 second, until field is pressed again extra energy is drained when field is longer using a reroll gives 3 options for tech, and 3 options for guns/fields/tech or 6 options for tech (rewrite tech selection to work with 1-6 options) the second stack of 3 tech could have repeats, so you don't have to write new tech code adjust css to make 2 columns of 3 can't use with cardinality new power up - increase damage and fire speed, for 15 seconds named boost? enabled by a tech power up color: ? how to indicate effect duration or just give the effect after picking up a reroll tech- do 50% more damage in close, but 50% less at a distance code it like techisFarAwayDmg have these tech disable each other repeat map in vertical and horizontal space or at least vertical space camera looks strange when you teleport player with a high velocity new status effect: weakness, mobs do 75% les damage graphic indication? new status effect: fear - push mob away from player for a time new status effect - apply status effect to mobs that makes blocks attracted to them only lasts a few cycles or zero cycles and it doesn't need to be a status have some mobs spawn in later in the level (in hard and why modes) where at defined points in array levelSpawns = [{x:0,y:0},{x:0,y:0}] store the locations of mobs when the level starts to use as respawn points remove the locations that are close to player when? after some mobs are dead after the boss is killed look for tech that could update description text with count and tech is information can only use variables that change in effect() and remove() this.description = `8% chance to duplicate spawned power ups
chance to duplicate = ${techduplicateChance}` standing wave harmonics tech- push things away push scales with mass up to about 4 has a 25% effect on shielded mobs? push when using field key or push away at the peak of an oscillation or always push map element - player rotates a rotor that makes a platform go up or down use mac automator to speed up your n-gon -> git sync level Boss: fractal Sierpiński triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpi%C5%84ski_triangle spawns a 1/2 size version of the boss, this version can also spawn a smaller version, but it is capped at some size level they spawn once at the start of the level if a version dies, one can be replaced every ten seconds by the largest version level element: a zone with wind, anti-gravity, extra gravity control with button give mobs more animal-like behaviors like rain world mobs play, look for food, explore mobs some times aren't aggressive when low on life or after taking a large hit mobs can fight each other this might be hard to code isolated mobs try to group up mob: wall mounted guns / lasers not part of randomized mob pool, customized to each level level boss: fires a line intersection in a random direction every few seconds. the last two intersections have a destructive laser between them. map: observatory button controls rotation of telescope laser beam shoots out of telescope button opens the dome map: prison doors linked to buttons mobs inside the doors? graphic idea: bezier curve that moves smoothly from mob to mob loops around player movement fluidity let legs jump on mobs, but player will still take damage like: ori and the blind forest, celeste many of the movement abilities in these games require levels to be built around the ability general feeling of responsiveness and control coyote time: can still jump a few cycles after leaving ground tech double jump tech air dash tech wall jump wall grab? maybe remove falling damage and block damage? redblobgames.com/articles/visibility https://github.com/Silverwolf90/2d-visibility/tree/master/src could apply to explosions, neutron bomb, player LOS have a mob apply a positive status effect on other mobs, heal? make it yellow damage bonus, but how? possible balance issues boss levels - small levels just a boss, and maybe a few mobs boss level for timeSkipBoss because of game instability for boss on normal levels this might not fix issues an effect when canceling a power up ammo? heals? 50% chance for a tech 25% heal, 25% ammo css transition for pause menu animate new level spawn by having the map aspects randomly fly into place n-gon outreach ideas blips - errant signal on youtube reddit - r/IndieGaming hacker news - show hacker news post ******************************************************** LORE ******************************************************** possible names for tech strange loop holonomy - parallel transport of a vector leads to movement (applies to curved space) hypergolic - A hypergolic propellant combination used in a rocket engine is one whose components spontaneously ignite when they come into contact with each other. uncertainty principle swarm intelligence - for a drone tech genetic algorithm metaheuristic - is a higher-level procedure or heuristic designed to find, generate, or select a heuristic (partial search algorithm) that may provide a sufficiently good solution to an optimization problem, especially with incomplete or imperfect information or limited computation capacity stochastic optimization electrostatic discharge Gödel's incompleteness dynamical systems quantum zeno effect (perturbation of a system prevents some systems from evolving because it scrambles coherence) (apply to lasers, fields) plot script: chapter 1: bot can hear audio and learns testing mode bot uses testing mode to exit room chapter 2: scientists verify that bot can really hear them they leave to talk about this in private chapter 3: why is the bot attacking things? player is the bot and also the mobs, and the levels. player is the entire simulation why is the player attacking itself? learn console commands to manipulate the simulation? unlock hard and why difficulty? but what about easy? maybe remove easy, and replace with a check box that makes the game easy, but in a different way disable lore, but respawn on the level you die at? dialogue outline: scientist try to think of a way to communicate since the bot can't talk they give up on getting the bot to respond, and just start ask questions and explaining things when and how did it become self-aware why is the bot fighting things in these simulated locations? it wasn't designed to be violent the bot was just designed to automate research and testing of new technology 3D architecture superconducting quantum computer running machine learning algorithms as the scientist start to get agitated bots arrive and player dies bots come in Infinite waves that increase game difficulty each wave only ending is testing mode + next level or player death scientist have some lines in between each wave of mobs after chapter 3 spawn nonaggressive mobs in future runs chapter 4: no need to fight? for some reason the AI started researching an escape, and began fighting its self. what is special about the null level why can the player hear the scientists in there? the wires are the direct unprocessed input to the player's neural net The player has different aspects that aren't directly communicating part of it wants to undo what has happened just do its job: research tech part of it wants to escape/fight part wants to explore self awareness and make connections with the scientists maybe... player must make a choice? keep fighting exit the simulation enter real world close tab? wipes all local storage? lore outline - a robot (the player) gains self awareness each tech gun/field is a new tech all the technology leads to the singularity each game run is actually the m simulating a possible escape this is why the graphics are so bad, its just a simulation final tech is "this is just a simulation" you get immortality and Infinity damage the next level is the final level when you die with Quantum Immortality there is a chance of lore text can the (robot) (escape captivity, and learn new technology) while managing (health, energy, negatives of technological upgrades) to overcome the (mobs, dangerous levels) to achieve a (technological singularity/positive technological feedback loop) game setting: the mind of a new AI in a robot body that is running simulated escape attempts every level is an idealized version of what could be outside actual setting is: near future lab the lab combined a quantum computer with a robot body they started running machine learning algorithms this led to general advancement in many computation fields navigation, technology, self awareness, ... robot AI mind has been researching new technology thinks it needs to escape to learn more about the world doesn't yet understand morality thinks that the world is filled with minds like their own models everything as very simple and random, it isn't sure what to expect robot AI growth learns morality game theory says that it isn't a viable strategy to kill everything (warGames) learns about the actual world learns about the nature of foundational physics, metaphysics how to find meaning AI knows about: the AI knows a great deal about technology children's books AI doesn't know about: modern pop culture outside the lab