******************************************************** NEXT PATCH ************************************************** added 5 cycles of "coyote time" this means you can still jump for 5/60 = 0.1 seconds after leaving the ground let me know if you like the feel this might cause some unexpected bugs, or reduce the difficulty of some platforming levels JUNK tech: NFT - buy your current game seed no one is allow to use your seeds if they use them they are gonna get in trouble removed the pavilion/ruins map to see if it's causing bugs ******************************************************** TODO ******************************************************** tech smoke grenades - mobs inside a cloud can't see player draw on the region so it's hard for player to see as well you'd have to make something similar to MACHO that exists after an explosion goes off maybe just keep it simple: stun mobs for a long time, and draw a 99& alpha grey circle for the same time don't worry about mobs seeing you inside the circle, the circle is kinda small so it doesn't matter tech mines: mines fire _____ instead of nails needles super balls? foam? plasma ball gently scale damage with circleRadius balance corona discharge delay on returning to player is annoying scale float effect with ball size tech upgrades greatly improve floating effects while holding black hole: gives the plasma ball gravity stun on expansion plasma orb increases in size and power as it eats enemies while attached? tech: frozen mobs die at 10% life tech: harpoons stick into enemies detonate after a short delay attaches mob to wall if possible firing while harpoon is stuck into an enemy rips it out of them, inflicting damage and stun and pulling them towards you bug: often game puts player position at NaN try: cloaking/harpoon grapple on normal, continue past beating the final boss clues: maybe with vanish or other special blocks and grapple hook very high level for tech, duplication happened once with only 13 tech ?&seed=7269&gun0=drones&gun1=matter%20wave&gun2=shotgun&tech0=arsenal&tech1=dead%20reckoning&tech2=regression&tech3=unified%20field%20theory&tech4=rivet%20gun&tech5=phonon&tech6=affine%20connection&field=wormhole&difficulty=2 maybe not about JUNK though maybe on tons of bullets maybe grappling hook, Bulk modulus solution: just kill the player if they go NaN vanish elements shouldn't collide with mobs maybe they don't return if mobs are in the way? maybe they kill mobs in the way maybe they should go non-collide with mobs bug: harpoon attack gave a mob really high levels of health recent events: had 3 harpoons at a time tech: immune with grappling hook, Bulk modulus cancel true colors with pure science attack with harpoon at slasher mobs they didn't die, but they should in one hit instead they got a huge health bar, then I just died for no reason after touching one bug: maybe I can put in an event listener to reset inputs to false when you tab out to prevent key sticking enemies stuck with foam receive upward force over time only form aerogel tech? Tech: superglue Requires: foam + another gun or plasma torch or molecular assembler Foam bubbles decay 50% slower Enemies stuck with foam cannot move Foam does 0 damage Enemies stuck with foam take 25% more damage should foam bots gets this also or is that too strong const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d', {‘willReadFrequently': true}); //deal with game crashes? canvas.addEventListener("contextlost", onContextLost); canvas.addEventListener("contextrestored", redraw); ctx.reset(); a mine tech that makes mines you can stand on works similar to the field block throwing system but you don't need to find a block to throw blocks explode after mobs touch them or 3 seconds after you touch them benefits from all block tech setting to remove UI, except health bar except active gun? to see ammo checkbox in pause and in settings pause time like invariant for other things... throwing blocks charging railgun charging anything? bug - url sharing still broken sometimes maybe? timing QTE for charging effects, if you fire right before the charge gets full it's better +damage for each different bot type you have disables bot upgrades? tech: doing damage to mobs refunds up to 50% of damage taken in last 10 seconds use history[] to manage this? make a seed/hash system that controls only the tech/guns/fields shown URL sharing could include a seed seed controls: seeded random at start - random level boss, mob types list, level order, horizontal flip seeded random during run - tech, gun, field choices not seeded random - mob spawns, mob size, minor level differences, custom level boss choices, ammo rewards, tech effect randomness better to only seed things at the start of the run so it doesn't mess with power up choices make option for a daily seed: seed = day+year give 1 extra tech for doing the daily seeded run make the option for the daily run, a secret exit in the intro level? tech upgrade to anthropic principle to make it trigger at 50% life and 0% once per map tech: spontaneous collapse - very low chance of something to occur JUNK tech https://bindingofisaacrebirth.fandom.com/wiki/Damocles bug? cloaking field doesn't show energy over max run more profiles of n-gon to fix performance issues reactor life-like cellular automata boss https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/77724260/ night/day? boss on far right produces more "on" cells tailBoss story the last 5 seconds of position, draw damage circles over those positions, like a tail limit mantis boss to only reactor? laserBoss? swoopBoss: hides in top center take a lap around the map that you have to dodge spawn mobs fire sniper bullets? remove center map element? add some blocks to the reactor level add ammo? boss speeds up as time goes on? slow bullet speed? foam hits all the bullets and makes this fight easy give map some background graphics it's a little short add alternate boss add a boss that spawns after the first one dies balance boss damage reduction bullet size bullet spawn number bounce speed add horizontal flip mode bug: possibly clearing away all bullets causes a problem bullet.js 255 (.do() is missing) I died and quantum immortality triggered (I had needles and ice-IX) game crashed but recovered go non-collide with mobs when immune to damage? mobs that are invulnerable from the front vertical reversed version of reservoir level, start at top and press buttons to lower slime mechanic: push a very large block into slime in order to stand on it and avoid slime add anticipation to more mob attacks stabber striker can mob bullets damage other mob? maybe if they switch collisions and classType === "body" or obj.classType === "bullet" path finding system figure out how to get friction effects on map/body to apply to player also horizontal moving platform? growBoss and cellBoss are too similar variant of Occam's razor - remove 50% of your tech for each removed get: 2 bots? 50 energy max tech immune to harm after mob kill require no other mob kill tech? cloaking field tech? final boss invulnerability until mobs are cleared? in between phases for all of one phase JUNK tech - do something fun to the mob display health method new platform element, spring toggle to on when player touches platform platform extends in any direction boss that gives nearby mobs invulnerability invulnerability needs to toggle off and on boss is only mildly aggressive repulsed by player up to a point attracted to mobs training save training level progress as local variable reset progress to zero if you clear all training levels maybe only save progress if you made if past the trainingHeal level make the training button more obvious if the account has only played 1-2 times larger? position? animated text? uses the lore voice/text code? replace all mob clear triggers with button triggers? tutorial rooms: look around with your mouse? easier deflecting level, with 1-2 attacking mobs gun rooms: (different mobs type in each room) different mobs in each room how to introduce mob shields? "hopper" "slasher" "shooter "grenadier" "striker" "laser" "stabber" "springer" "pulsar" "launcher" "launcherOne" "exploder" "sneaker" "sucker" "sniper" "spinner" "grower" "beamer" "focuser" "spawner" "ghoster" spores - use 1 ammo to take out several mobs at once, you have to block with your shield until the mobs die drones - use mouse to bring drones around a couple corners foam - slow boss mob, and run away laser - reflect off walls to hit mobs field rooms: standing wave - bullets come from every direction perfect diamagnetism - drop field to rapid stream of bullets and fire gun at them negative mass - fly over a bunch of ground based mobs , hoppers molecular assembler - guide drones around the corner plasma torch - nothing fancy, just kill mobs time dilation - get past some mobs cloaking - sneak past mobs to collect some heals pilot wave - toss blocks at mobs worm hole - teleport past lasers puzzle/platforming rooms: use the double constrained platforms stealth room probably should make 2+ combat rooms: boss gauntlet, spawn with nothing but a few power ups and fight 10 bosses use no gun, just bots to kil stuff balance time dilation with bose einstein (you can freeze everything and take no damage) code is still there, need to balance balance with energy drain? overflowing energy does harm? or just reduces harm reduction? make a line of constrained mobs move like a snake apply forces with directions determined by time and position on the snake tech: basic research - heal power ups spawn as research power ups instead, and using research heals you (needs to be pretty low, like 3% health) tech: maintenance - heals no longer spawn, but using research heals you 100% foam tech - make it move slower, last much longer, and push away other foam bullets not sure about bouncing off walls, but that might be fun too tech extend fracture analysis to give bonus damage to frozen also, but reduce the 400%->300%? pulsar mobs retarget too easily also they drift around too much convert blocked mobs into bullets only for the very small bullets that move fast after being blocked delete bulletmob and spawn a nail-like bullet with the same properties as the bulletmob electric motors: increases movement speed and jump height, but jumping and moving costs energy overwrite the key event listeners? JUNK tech? mob that fires bullets in 4,5,6,7 different directions at once, no aiming grow a bit before it fires to indicate state bug once: switching from shotgun to harpoon somehow set b.activeGun to not defined https://discord.com/channels/645222059647172618/646505973610971165/919116288008290324 quasarBoss: inverted pulsar boss that hits everything except where its aiming intro map: diegeticly draw a mouse with field highlighted also indicate space? dynamically adjust drawing after picking up a gun increase mass and movement speed at the same time increase jump differently because it scales extra with mass m.defaultMass = 4.5 m.definePlayerMass() give history boss legs? field tech - disable blocking, but does high damage to mobs inside field and maybe slows mobs it damages mob/boss that fires a laser at player, but give player time to avoid laser isn't always on they target where player was 1 second ago they turn to face player? bug - death while paused crashes game? tech rocket jump - jumping produces an explosion at your feet that lets you jump extra high, but does some damage require electric reactive armor? Plasma Burner: upgrade for plasma torch, basically just a jet engine. does high damage, but short range, mostly for player movement. maybe reduce gravity to really low then apply a vector away from mouse direction auto-gon - auto battler with n-gon mob AI and tech you build a group of mobs and bosses from n-gon they fight other mobs and bosses similar research and tech system to n-gon some mobs can fire player weapons harpoon grappling hook - basic effect is working, but needs work before it becomes fun tech: relativistic jets: small particles that shot out from front and back poles and end up in a wide variety of spirals slow trickle when charging and several more when firing Tech: Make player smol adapt the cloaking graphics to make a flashlight cone visual effect put code in level.do? be nice if block throwing had a projected path JUNK tech: planetesimals game inside n-gon https://codepen.io/lilgreenland/pen/jrMvaB?editors=0010 Pilot wave tech Energy use is increased, but you can now shape blocks using pressure Grouping blocks will merge them into a massive ball Size, density is determined by total mass look into 360 matter wave lag aoe effect pushes mobs away, then rapidly pulls them in for mines? mob: spawning seekers on death drones can combine with other drones to get bigger? drones that grab powers ups can grab more then one and get even bigger each time it would be helpful if there was a mechanism to recover mobs that fly off the map add a ceiling system and a left/right walls system similar to the floor checks but only for mobs make non moving bosses not move after getting hit shooter, shielding, scrolling console history in pause menu? pause should at least show the last in game console message in testing mode console log the body you click on tech: Standing Wave: Shockwave. Use FIELD button to shrink your shield and charge up, release to unleash a Shockwave. tech: quantized shields - harmonic standing wave field can only lose 33 energy per hit draw 1,2,3 levels of the field based on energy? the blocked value only scales up to 2x or 4x (33 energy) blocked doesn't stack with spherical tech make a tech that improves all charge guns for: pulse, foam, railgun effect: faster charge rate? fire speed already does that... harm reduction while charging less ammo/energy used while charging? 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 energy conservation 6% damage recovered as energy there is space for a negative effect in the text... tech: use the ability for power ups to have custom code (note: this code is half way done, it just needs to be completed) attracted to player attracted to other power ups explode if they touch? apply the new gun.do functions to other guns railgun crouching missile? works similar to foam performance issues? 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 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 add back in gamepad support? but does anyone care? https://github.com/landgreen/landgreen.github.io/search?q=gamepadconnected tech: time dilation - when you exit time dilation rewind to the state you entered position, velocity, and health no energy cost 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 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? 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 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}` use mac automator to speed up your n-gon -> git sync 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? have a mob apply a positive status effect on other mobs, heal? make it yellow damage bonus, but how? possible balance issues 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 twitch - lets play ******************************************************** BUGS ******************************************************** vanish element bug, crashes on touching element, happens for 1 person maybe with junk tech? safari issues once: can't pick up blocks fixed on new map cloaking field once: after damage, locked into slow time mode fixed on damage 3 times player head graphics not rotating left/right leg flip broke walk leg direction, legs are walking backwards happened maybe after power up selection menu?? cloaking field(at least once) aiming still works fixed on new map, although flip still broken (is flip a separate issue?) flip fixed on new game sharing builds as html doesn't work for long lists... it shouldn't be sharing undefined at all probably some other problems too (this might be fixed...) blocks on buttons teleport into the button endlessly if they are being slowly floated away maybe add a cooldown? can't reproduce ants marching outline doesn't sync right on safari anymore. door to exit in level: vats does nothing did I do that? death while in power up selection menu doesn't reset properly of course it's not possible to die in this menu unless you use testing and shift+X player can become crouched while not touching the ground if they exit the ground while crouched a couple times people have reported the final boss dropping extra bodies on death blue triangle boss can move backwards and aim away from you if set up properly issues with dot product probably, but might not be worth fixing mouse event e.which is deprecated fix door.isClosing actually meaning isClosed? make it so that when you are immune to harm you can either jump on mobs or you pass through them 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 ******************************************************** LEVELS ******************************************************** map: observatory button controls rotation of telescope laser beam shoots out of telescope button opens the dome level with mobs that follow a genetic algorithm mobs have genes the last mob that did damage saves it's genes to local storage new mobs have the saved genes, but with some random mutations mutations need to be balanced to prevent a gene from moving towards infinity total genome must equal 1 (100%) binary genes have a flat cost example: phasing through walls might cost 0.2 spectrum genes have a rate example: acceleration cost 0.01 per 0.001 possible genes genes should only effect it's ability to touch the player so not damage? genome: spectrum acceleration top speed / air friction damageReduction duration? health decreases naturally? or they just go away like bullets? spawn rate look frequency / memory? genome: binary go through walls blink/teleport (like striker) grow when near target split into two shielded occurs in a specialized level named: gene lab, gene factory, genetic lab, genome facility in the level sequence after lab and before gauntlet? level ends after a period of time exit is hidden until time is up and it appears the level tests player durability/evasion this is a nice contrast to the final level that tests damage output, and the gauntlet which tests AoE damage rename intro level to something lore related buttons can now on/off boosts repeat map in vertical when you fall teleport to above the mab, as if the map repeats camera looks strange when you teleport player with a high velocity map element - player rotates a rotor that makes a platform go up or down level element: a zone with wind, anti-gravity, extra gravity control with button ******************************************************** MOBS ******************************************************** mob that charges up and then fires many bullets at once in a connect mob that draws a lin from it to the player, and past. then it charges across that line mob that spawns eggs after they die eggs don't attack but grow back into a mob after about 10s mob mechanics use the force at a location effect, like the plasma field Matter.Body.applyForce(who, path[1], force) mob - after taking damage release seekers teleports hop boss: AoE damage when landing pull in player? and blocks? extra gravity on falling? immune to damage while falling? mob: molecule shapes - 2 separate mobs joined by a bond use constraints: just spawn 2x or 3x groupings low friction so they can spin around spin when attacking player? increase constraint length when attacking 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 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 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. ******************************************************** LORE ******************************************************** possible names for tech strange loop homeostasis 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. 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 quantum zeno effect (perturbation of a system prevents some systems from evolving because it scrambles coherence) (apply to lasers, fields) counterfactual - something false Pigeonhole principle - if there are several things that are matched up regression to the mean phlogiston theory is a superseded scientific theory that postulated the existence of a fire-like element called phlogiston Laplace's demon was a notable published articulation of causal determinism on a scientific basis by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814.[1] According to determinism, if someone (the demon) knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, their past and future values for any given time are entailed; they can be calculated from the laws of classical mechanics. evolutionary cosmology eternal inflation hypergraph SQUID (for superconducting quantum interference device) is a very sensitive magnetometer used to measure extremely subtle magnetic fields, based on superconducting loops containing Josephson junctions. nuclear pasta - hard matter in neutron star nonlocal fine-tuned universe eternalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time) axial motor hall effect thrusters spaghettification particle accelerator superluminal signalling NP-complete 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 rename ? health -> integrity, unity heal -> also integrity, unity 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 thinking of explanations with each other 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 ******************************************************** SOUND ******************************************************** add sounds https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OscillatorNode https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_API/Advanced_techniques style interesting chords, like music, mixolyd can fade into the background chords gradual rise and fall in volume shouldn't be traditional effects adjust volume with distance mute option to settings end all sounds with each new level write some functions to produce sounds will this effect performance? https://padenot.github.io/web-audio-perf/ "Web Audio API implementation use two threads", so it probably isn't much of an issue when to make sounds? if near some strange thing in the level after grabbing a power up, in the selection menu from mobs, damage,inside field when activating fields: time, negative mass, //setup audio context function tone(frequency) { const audioCtx = new(window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)(); const oscillator = audioCtx.createOscillator(); const gainNode = audioCtx.createGain(); gainNode.gain.value = 0.25; //controls volume oscillator.connect(gainNode); gainNode.connect(audioCtx.destination); oscillator.type = "sine"; // 'sine' 'square', 'sawtooth', 'triangle' and 'custom' oscillator.frequency.value = frequency; // value in hertz oscillator.start(); return { oscillator: oscillator, audioCtx: audioCtx } } // https://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/Olson/JUSTINT.HTM // mixolyd. C D E F+ G A+ B // key=G 264 297 330 356.40 396* 445.50 495 // const t264 = tone(264) // t264.oscillator.stop(t264.audioCtx.currentTime + 2) //in seconds, not milliseconds for some reason // tone(297) // tone(330) // tone(356.40) // tone(396) // tone(445.50) // tone(495)