Fixme list

“Don’t Repeat Yourself” supported.

The few feedback I got for the “upgraded” school zone level provide some fairly interesting hint: some gameplay features will not be properly managed by players unless they’re sufficiently pure. Give any reason for the player to believe that holding B could let him run and he’ll fail to discover that he’s got to hold R for that to work. So to get pure gameplay in Bilou, I still need:

• [blador:ok] Introduce monsters/ink interaction
• [MEDS] Dedicated animation when Bilou picks up something
• [done] Never “randomly start running”, no longer run-on-turn-back, only run-on-land when one had running speed in the air.
• [done] no invisible ceiling to kill your jumps.
• [done] visual clue to tell whether you’ll bounce or not.
• [done] visual clue that chalk may break when sufficiently stressed.
• [wish, D.I.P] bouncy-idle-sponge vs. low-bounce-swinging-bops.
• [patch] HUD with life meter. (and speed meter ?)
• [wish, adventure] visual hint for dead ends (?)

(old) non-symbolic gobscript

All this (and further introduction of power-up with more conditional state

(new) symbolic gobscript

transitions) will require more work on the state machine for Bilou which is already fairly complex (32 states, 170 transitions 0_0). I don’t want to make the parser smarter on the DS side (e.g. I still don’t want symbol tables or function definitions) but it’s truly time I adapt the Makefiles so that e.g. GCC’s pre-processor can be used to produce the “compiled” state machine out of more symbolic description.