anarch/TODO.txt

general:

- make enemies not move through items
- try to remove the debug flag (-g1) from compiler and see if it decreases size
- port to GB Meta
- more level prop items
- sounds (music?)
- level 2D map (with revealing, bitmap), special key for quick displaying map
- save/load (optional)
- more levels
- disable transparency for walls for performance (setting)?
- replace textures in distace with constant color for performance (setting)?
- add time slowdown constant
- if space left, try blurring (lerp) the level background, see how it looks
- some monsters could reflect plasma, i.e. not be hurt by it, but reflect it
  back towards the player
- compile with different compilers (gcc, clang, musl, ...) and settings, make
  a build script that creates multiple binaries (with different combinations of
  compilers and settings)
- run on raspbery pi
- add jump pads?
- add robot deactivator item? (encourages "stealth" gameplay)
- add "pletivo" transparent wall texture?
- add universal corpse sprite?
- easter egg(s)

level ideas:

- wall made of elevators (or squeezers), serving as a big auto-opening gate
- a key spot to which the player can only get by jumping from a distant high
  elevated place
- player has to jump from one elevator to another, which can only be done when
  they're both moving down
- multiple doors in a row (can look interesting)
- narrow (1 square wide) corridor filled with enemies blocking it
- narrow (1 square wide) corridor blocked by barrels that have to be exploded
- teleport on elevator?
- narrow corridor with elevator
- maze from walls and/or props
- narrow bridge with platformer elements over a hole full of enemies
- server room
- window (low unpassable ceiling) through which finish can be seen from the
  start location of the level
- three locked doors in a row at the beginning of the level, the player has
  to go to three different locations for each key -- a "hub" level
- office building
- plasma bots guarding a big stock (store) of plasma ammo
- warrior (enemy) right before the player at the start of the level
- T-shaped corridor in which two rocket-firing enemies stand facing each other
  so that the player can kill them by stepping between them, letting them fire,
  then stepping back, making them kill each other
- enemy trapped between barrels
- teleport that leads to another teleport which is on a single high elevated
  square from which the player has to jump down and won't be able to return,
  making it a de-facto one-way teleport
- teleports placed so that the player can shoot himself with a rocket or plasma
  (for fun)  
- exploders in a maze, hiding behind corners
- teleport leading to a center of big room full of enemies
- easter egg -- a level that looks funny on the map, e.g. forms a text or a
  picture
- squeezers with low-elevated base (a hole), on a side of a corridor -- if the
  player is curious and jumps in, he's doomed to die -- perhaps there can be
  many of them while one is in fact an elevator, which the player has to spot
  and take in order to advance
- bullet-shooting enemies behing windows (low ceilings) in rooms that can't be
  reached

bugs:

done:

- add headbob
- make zBuffer 8bit only?
- texture coords of floor walls should start from the floor? NO, CAUSES ISSUES
- vertical visual noise when standing on elevator
- sprite positioning inccuracy
- try to compress images: store images as 4 bits per pixel + 16 color palette
  (subset of the 256 color palette), check if performance stays ok
- custom font
- make barrels explode.
- enemies
- weapons
- create tables for monster and weapon stats in constants.h and read from that
  instead of cheking with ifs
- check if monsters are hit by bullets from completely up close
- menu
- GUI