[WIP] v1.1.0

[12joan]

• Create the Unity scene for level 3, using an arbitrary background image in place of a level design
• On scene load, pan the camera up to the top of the level
• And then pan out to show the entire level (and a lot of background) all at once
• The camera does not follow the player on this level

Waiting for official level mockup from Mike

[12joan]

• Add placeholder laser sprite
• Every three seconds, the laser fires a beam in a sweeping arc
• The beam sweeps from 190 to 260 deg (measured anticlockwise from the right), which takes 1 second
• The laser beam is stopped by any solid body, including the walls and the player
• When the laser collides with the player, it deals 17 points of damage
• Rolling through the laser prevents any damage
• Two consecutive hits are enough to kill the player
• Due to regeneration, the player can barely survive a hit, followed by a miss, and then another hit

Todo:

• At the moment, the laser is drawn using Unity's Debug.DrawRay method, which works for development but will not work in the final build; I need to write the code that renders the laser beam properly

[12joan]

• Increased arc from 70 deg to 110 deg to reduce blind spot

[12joan]

• Render laser beams properly using LineRenderer
• A generator appears beside each laser
• The player can shoot the generator to damage and eventually destroy it
• It takes three shots to destroy a generator
• When a generator is destroyed, the nearby laser stops firing
• Generators oscillate until they are destroyed (to draw the player's attention)

[12joan]

• Create a pair of hidden rooms that spawn gremlins
• After the generators are destroyed, each spawner spawns a single gremlin
• When the gremlin is killed (or after 10 seconds), a second gremlin is spawned from each room

[12joan]

• Lasers are now interrupted when their generators are destroyed
• A turret turns to face the player
• Shooting the turret during its phase damages it
• The turret stops rotating to face the player after it is destroyed
• The hit points of all generators and the turret are combined in a single boss progress bar

Todo:

• Turrets do not fire at the player
• The style and positioning of the boss progress bar need to be improved

[12joan]

• Turret rapidly fires bullets in a 60 deg cone until it is destroyed
• Turret bullets take off 1/6 of total player hit points
• Bullets no longer collide with each other or entities affiliated with the shooter (such as oneself and other enemies)
• (Side effect of the above) Fix bug where player can shoot outside the bounds of the level

Todo:

• Add a second turret and adjust the difficulty accordingly

[12joan]

• Re-implement saving and loading
• Auto-save at the end of each phase
• Load most recently started phase on death
• Preserve all relevant information: generator hit points, player hit points, number of bullets, etc.
• Skip past dialogue after death (on all levels)

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• There are two save files: save and autosave
• Autosave saves every five seconds while the game is in the playing state (not in a cutscene or dialogue)
• You can resume your autosave through the main menu
• The main save file saves at the start of each level, and at checkpoints like the boss fight phases
• The game over screen loads your main save file, not the autosave
• When you die, the autosave is overwritten by the main save to preclude exploits

[12joan]

• Level 3 now has a finalised background image, which includes an elevator
• Once the boss is defeated, interacting with the elevator takes the player to a redesigned end of game screen
• The dialogue box, lore windows and other popups now have a solid border, replacing the old gradient border
• A shoot sound now plays every time a weapon is fired
• The player sprite flips horizontally to face the same direction as the weapon aim
• The gremlin sprite flips to always face the Pixie
• A walking animation plays when the player moves
• The player now has a roll animation

[12joan]

• Gremlins now have a walking animation similar to the player's
• The currently equipped weapon appears in the Pixie's hand