Current implementation:

• Fuse ignition sound on bomb placed
• Bomb explosion sound played on explosion
• Explosion sound played on player death

TODO

• [x] experiment with volume
• [x] cleanup implementation

Open request for feedback

Will close #11

TODO:

• [x] Rotational camera shake
• [x] Translational camera shake
• [ ] Playtesting for good default values

Feedback is appreciated on the camera shake effect!

Implemented based on this GDC talk.

This will close #5.

We should try adding having some camera shake when the bombs go off.

• Consider having the shake be additive with multiple explosions.
• Consider using something like bevy_camera_shake.

In future, I would like a system wherein the player may go to a settings menu to enable/disable certain music tracks which will then be chosen from randomly when the game starts.

For now, we should have a simpler system where there is only one track which is always played when the game starts, and also a track for the home screen.

The Fish Folk OST is available in the asset pack and has tracks to choose from.

bevy_kira_audio is preferred.

The players should be sorted such that a lower Y position results in their being closer to the camera.

I.e., this should not happen:

Should also experiment with sorting the bombs relative to the players as well, but my concern is that this could hurt readability so it may be best to keep the bombs always on top.

@erlend-sh making a PR for this since licensing requires accuracy and I thought you might have an opinion.

You said to potentially expect PRs in the nearish future so it makes sense to me to slap a license on the code to avoid complications down the line.

I used MIT and Apache-2.0 as those were being used in the other Rust projects

A difference is that the other games' licenses referred to "Fish Fight" - which it's my understanding that this name is no longer used

Explosion animations are needed for when a bomb goes off! Will look great in Kickstarter video if can be done in time!

Specification:

• 32x32px tiles
• 100ms between frames for consistency
• To make the bombs feel really impactful it would look good for the explosion to expand almost instantly and fizzle out more slowly,
  • Seems like around 600ms is a good length of time
• Explosions go outwards orthogonally
  • Right now the bombs have a reach of one adjacent tile in each direction so would need 5 tiles to cover this
  • In future, will likely implement powerups, for example maybe bombs that have a longer reach, so that would require two extra tiles (one vertical and one horizontal as intermediate between the center tile and the extremity tiles)
• The explosions take effect instantly once the bomb goes off so the animation may have to break physicals slightly as the whole cross must have some explosion from the first frame as opposed to spreading out from the central tile

Inspiration: https://youtu.be/61KWtRiqaYw

Let me know if you want to work on this or have any ideas/thoughts!

Keep user configurations in some kind of config file that's loaded at startup

Probably makes sense to keep this in a consistent configuration directory (e.g. ~/.config on Linux - see dirs or directories)

For now it might make sense to just put it in the project root since that might be easier for testing/development process, but I'm not sure yet.

EDIT: just occurred to me that perhaps this is a bad idea as we don't particularly want the in-use settings file to be under source control

Maybe check ./ first before checking config file? Or, check ./ with --features dev or some other flag? Or on cfg!(dbg_assertions)

Eventually this file will be editable in-game via settings menu.

We are currently depending on a particular rev for noise-rs as we are using an unreleased feature that was just merged in https://github.com/Razaekel/noise-rs/pull/281.

TODO use crates.io release when it supports 1D perlin noise.

There should be an end screen that appears when only one player is remaining. I'm not sure exactly what this should look like so please write below if you have any ideas.

One really simple idea could just be a "Rematch!" button that starts the game again and a "Main Menu" button.

One thing I think would be cool would be the remaining player doing a victory dance animation when this screen comes up. There isn't currently any sprites in the asset pack for this. TODO discuss on Discord as I think these sprites could potentially be useful to other fish folk games too.