Added a new level property: Difficulty
* An enum ranging from -1, 0, 1 (Peaceful, Normal, Hard)
* Default difficulty is Normal; pre-existing levels are Normal by
default per the zero value.
Doodad scripts can read the difficulty via the new global variable
`Level.Difficulty` and some doodads have been updated:
* Azulians: on Peaceful they ignore all player characters, and on Hard
they are in "hunt mode": infinite aggro radius and they're aggressive
to all characters.
* Bird: on Peaceful they will not dive and attack any player character.
Other spit and polish:
* New Level/Level Properties UI reworked into a magicform.
* New "PromptPre(question, answer, func)" function for prompting the
user with the developer shell, but pre-filling in an answer for them
to either post or edit.
* magicform has a PromptUser field option for simple Text/Int fields
which present as buttons, so magicform can prompt and update the
variable itself.
* Don't show the _autosave.doodad in the Doodad Dropper window.
* When playing as the Bird, the dive attack is able to destroy other
mobile doodads such as Azulians and Thieves.
* The Box has been made invulnerable so it can't be destroyed by Anvils
or player-controlled Birds.
* Bugfixes with pop-up modals:
* The quit game confirm modal doesn't appear if another modal is
already active on screen.
* The Escape key can dismiss Alert and Confirm modals.
* Add "Level" menu items to Play Mode to restart the level or retry from
the last checkpoint (in case of softlocks, etc.)
If the Azulians aren't hostile to the player character (e.g. you are
playing as a Thief or Azulian or you are invulnerable because you're the
Anvil), the Azulians won't aggro and pathfind to you either.
* Add methods `Invulnerable() bool` and `SetInvulnerable(bool)` to the
Actor API accessible in JavaScript (e.g. `Self.SetInvulnerable(true)`)
* The Anvil is invulnerable - when played as, it can crush other mobs by
jumping on them but is not defeated by those mobs at the same time.
* Anvils don't destroy invulnerable mobs, such as other Anvils.
* Bugfix: the Electric Door is considered to be opened from the first
frame of animation when the door begins opening, and remains opened
until the final frame of animation when it is closing.
* New cheat code: `megaton weight` to play as the Anvil by default.
Link a Doodad to a Checkpoint Flag (like you would a Start Flag) and
crossing the flag will replace the player with that doodad. Multiple
checkpoint flags like this can toggle you between characters.
* Azulians are now friendly to player characters who have the word
"Azulian" in their title.
* Improve Bird as the playable character:
* Dive animation if the player flies diagonally downwards
* Animation loop while hovering in the air instead of pausing
* Checkpoint flags don't spam each other on PubSub so much which could
sometimes lead to deadlocks!
SetPlayerCharacter added to the JavaScript API. The Checkpoint Flag
(not the region) can link to a doodad and replace the player character
with that linked doodad when you activate the checkpoint:
Actors.SetPlayerCharacter(filename string): like "boy.doodad"
Add various panic catchers to make JavaScript safer and log issues
to console.
* Respawning from a checkpoint grants 3 seconds of immunity in case
enemies are spawn camping.
* Add the white Azulian as an even faster and harder enemy than the red
Azulian: twice as fast, jumps higher, and can detect the player from
further away.
New functions are available on the JavaScript API for doodads:
* Actors.At(Point) []*Actor: returns actors intersecting a point
* Actors.FindPlayer() *Actor: returns the nearest player character
* Actors.New(filename string): create a new actor (NOT TESTED YET!)
* Self.Grounded() bool: query the grounded status of current actor
With this the game's built-in doodads have been revised:
* Bird: will now scan 240 pixels diagonally searching for the player
character and will dive if seen. The Bird is dangerous while
diving. It will return to its original altitude once it touches
the ground.
* Azulians: the Azulians are now dangerous to player characters but
not to the Thief. Azulians will begin to follow the player when
they are within the aggro range and will hop if the player is
above them to try and overcome obstacles.
* Blue Azulian: aggro is (250, 100) jump speed 12 movement 2
* Red Azulian: aggro is (250, 200) jump speed 14 movement 4
* Switch from otto to goja for JavaScript engine.
* goja supports many ES6 syntax features like arrow functions,
const/let, for-of with more coming soon.
* Same great features as otto, more modern environment for doodads!
* New doodad: Invisible Warp Door
* All warp doors require the player to be grounded (if affected by
gravity) to open them. No jumping or falling thru and opening
a warp door mid-air!
* Title Screen now randomly selects from a couple of levels.
* Title Screen: if it fails to load a level it sets up a basic
blank level with a wallpaper instead.
* New developer shell command: titlescreen <level>
Opens the MainScene with a custom user level as the background.
* Add Auto-save to the Editor to save your drawing every 5 minutes
* Add a MenuBar to the Play Scene for easier navigation to other
features of the game.
* Doodad JS API: time.Since() now available.
* The Red Bird now records its original altitude on the level and will
try and return there should it accidentally climb up or down a wall.
Sometimes goes into a wavy pattern surrounding its original altitude.
* Editor UI: in the default (vertical) toolbar, the Palette now has a
two column view to show more color choices on screen at once.
* User setting added: hide the touch control hints.
- Fix a memory sharing bug in the Giant Screenshot feature.
- Main Menu to eagerload chunks in the background to make scrolling less
jittery. No time for a loadscreen!
- Extra script debugging: names/IDs of doodads are shown when they send
messages to one another.
- Level Properties: you can edit the Bounded max width/height values for
the level.
Doodad changes:
- Buttons: fix a timing bug and keep better track of who is stepping on it,
only popping up when all colliders have left. The effect: they pop up
immediately (not after 200ms) and are more reliable.
- Keys: zero-qty keys will no longer put themselves into the inventory of
characters who already have one except for the player character. So
the Thief will not steal them if she already has the key.
Added to the JavaScript API:
* time.Hour, time.Minute, time.Second, time.Millisecond, time.Microsecond
* Recolor some of the region doodads
* Add command: `doodad edit-level --remove-actor` to remove actors from
your level.
* Tweak the player jump velocity from playtesting levels.
* Tweak max gravity speed to match player max velocity.
* Boy's script watches for his velocity to flip suddenly and stops
animations, limiting the moonwalking a bit.
* JS API: Self.GetVelocity() added.
The Checkpoint Region acts as an invisible checkpoint flag, remembering
the player's location should they need to respawn there.
New cheat: `show all actors` during Play Mode will make every hidden
actor visible. Useful to see your technical doodads during gameplay!
Developer shell: `Execute(command string)` is available to the
JavaScript interpreter. It simulates another command being run on the
developer console.
New category for the Doodad Dropper: "Technical"
Technical doodads have a dashed outline and label for now, and they
turn invisible on level start, and are for hidden technical effects on
your level.
The doodads include:
* Goal Region: acts like an invisible Exit Flag (128x128), the level is
won when the player character touches this region.
* Fire Region: acts like a death barrier (128x128), kills the player
when a generic "You have died!" message.
* Power Source: on level start, acts like a switch and emits a
power(true) signal to all linked doodads. Link it to your Electric
Door for it to be open by default in your level!
* Stall Player (250ms): The player is paused for a moment the first time
it touches this region. Useful to work around timing issues, e.g.
help prevent the player from winning a race against another character.
There are some UI improvements to the Doodad Dropper window:
* If the first page of doodads is short, extra spacers are added so the
alignment and size shows correctly.
* Added a 'background pattern' to the window: any unoccupied icon space
has an inset rectangle slot.
* "Last pages" which are short still render weirdly without reserving
the correct height in the TabFrame.
Doodad scripting engine updates:
* Self.Hide() and Self.Show() available.
* Subscribe to "broadcast:ready" to know when the level is ready, so you
can safely Publish messages without deadlocks!
* Adds walking animations for the Thief.
* Mobile doodads no longer moonwalk: their A.I. used to wait for the
animation to finish before setting the appropriate animation, so when
it changed directions it would "moonwalk" for a time. Their A.I. is
now updated to cancel the animation if they change directions so to
immediately play the correct animation.
The Doodad Properties window brings many features that used to be
available only in the `doodad` CLI tool into the Doodad Editor.
* In the Doodad Editor there is a new menubar item: "Doodad" which
corresponds to the "Level" menu when you're editing a level.
* The "Doodad" menu has two items:
- "Doodad Properties" (NEW)
- "Layers" (moved here from the Tools menu)
* The Doodad Properties window lets you edit the Title and Author values
of the doodad, as well as modify its Tags and manage its Script.
* Its script can be attached (browse for .js file on disk), its existing
script saved back to disk (dev shell prompt) or deleted altogether
from the doodad.
* You can create, modify, and delete Tags on the doodad.
Other changes:
* In the Level Editor, the "Level->Page Settings" menu is renamed to
"Level->Level Properties" to match with "Doodad->Doodad Properties"
and the pop-up window is retitled accordingly.
* The Exit Flag only exits if the Player touches it - not just any
mobile doodad!
* New Doodad: Checkpoint Flag. They update the player's spawn point
whenever the player passes one. The most recently activated
checkpoint is rendered brighter than the others.
* End Level Modal: the fake alert box window drawn by the Play Mode
is replaced with a fancy modal widget (similar to Alert and Confirm).
It handles level victory or failure conditions and can show or hide
all the buttons as needed.
* Gameplay: There is a "Retry from Checkpoint" option added, which
appears in the level failure modal. It will teleport you back to
the Start Flag or the last Checkpoint Flag you had touched, without
resetting the level -- your keys, unlocked doors, etc. will be
preserved so you can retry.
* Set a maximum speed on the "Camera Follows Actor" logic of 64
pixels per tick. This results in a smoother scrolling transition
when the player jumps to a new location on the map, such as by
a Warp Door.
* Update the default color palettes:
* All: Add a "hint" magenta color.
* Colored Pencil: Add a "darkstone" solid color.
Updates to the Doodads JavaScript API:
* SetCheckpoint(Point(x, y)): set the player character's spawn
position. Giving it Self.Position() is an easy way to set the
player spawn to your doodad's location.
* The Thief's ability is now available to the player character in levels
where you'll play as the Thief.
* The Thief is able to steal items from all characters it contacts,
including Azulians and other Thieves.
* A.I. Thieves will not steal items from each other, to prevent loops.
Only a Thief controlled by the player will steal items from a Thief.
New feature: link a Start Flag to another doodad in your level
and you will play as that doodad instead of Boy. All Creatures
are designed to be playable. Playing as "other" doodads leads
to interesting effects, like not being able to activate buttons,
switches, or warp doors and not having an inventory to pick up
keys. The Anvil is fun: it can destroy other mobile doodads by
jumping on them.
If the actor does not specify that it has gravity, the gameplay
starts in antigravity mode. This will be the vast majority of
non-mobile doodads and the Bird.
Other changes:
* The Blue and Red Azulians now share a doodad script.
* The Azulians AI is still to walk back and forth, pickup keys and
press buttons. The Blue Azulian walks slower than the red one.
* The Blue Azulian is no longer hidden from the doodads list.
* Actor UUID values in levels are now V1 UUIDs (time-ordered).
This will help to reliably resolve conflicts in draw order
of overlapping doodads (newest added to level wins).
* Link Tool: clicking on a pair of already-linked doodads will
now unlink them, so you don't have to delete one to delete
the link.
* Actor Tool: deleting an actor immediately calls PruneLinks()
to clean up any links that the deleted doodad might have.
This commit adds the Thief character with starter graphics
(no animations).
The Thief walks back and forth and will steal items from other
doodads, including the player. For singleton items that have no
quantity, like the Colored Keys, the Thief will only steal one
if he does not already have it. Quantitied items like the
Small Key are always stolen.
Flexibility in the playable character is introduced: Boy,
Azulian, Bird, and Thief all respond to playable controls.
There is not currently a method to enable these apart from
modifying balance.PlayerCharacterDoodad at compile time.
New and Changed Doodads
* Thief: new doodad that walks back and forth and will steal
items from other characters inventory.
* Bird: has no inventory and cannot pick up items, unless player
controlled. Its hitbox has also been fixed so it collides with
floors correctly - not something normally seen in the Bird.
* Boy: opts in to have inventory.
* Keys (all): only gives themselves to actors having inventories.
JavaScript API - New functions available
* Self.IsPlayer() - returns if the current actor IS the player.
* Self.SetInventory(bool) - doodads must opt-in to having an
inventory. Keys should only give themselves to doodads having
an inventory.
* Self.HasInventory() bool
* Self.AddItem(filename, qty)
* Self.RemoveItem(filename, qty)
* Self.HasItem(filename)
* Self.Inventory() - returns map[string]int
* Self.ClearInventory()
* Self.OnLeave(func(e)) now receives a CollideEvent as parameter
instead of the useless actor ID. Notably, e.Actor is the
leaving actor and e.Settled is always true.
Other Changes
* Play Mode: if playing as a character which doesn't obey gravity,
such as the bird, antigravity controls are enabled by default.
If you `import antigravity` you can turn gravity back on.
* Doodad collision scripts are no longer run in parallel
goroutines. It made the Thief's job difficult trying to steal
items in many threads simultaneously!
* The Anvil doodad is affected by gravity and becomes dangerous when
falling. If it lands on the player character, you die! If it lands on
any other mobile doodad, it destroys it! It can land on solid doodads
such as the Electric Trapdoor and the Crumbly Floor. It will activate
a Crumbly Floor if it lands on one, and can activate buttons and
switches that it passes.
* JavaScript API: FailLevel(message) can be called from a doodad to kill
the player character. The Anvil does this if it collides with the
player while it's been falling.
* New doodad: Electric Trapdoor. It is a horizontal version of the
Electric Door. Opens while powered by a button or a switch and closes
when it loses power.
* The Box doodad will reset to its original location if it receives a
power signal from a linked Button or Switch. So for box pushing
puzzles you can add a reset button in case the boxes get stuck.
* Refactored the Doodad build scripts into many Makefiles for easier
iteration (don't need to compile ALL doodads to test one).
Updates to the JavaScript API for doodads:
* Self.MoveTo(Point) is now available to set the actor's position in
world coordinates.
* Install the new ui.TabFrame widget into the Settings and Doodad
Dropper windows to give them properly tabbed interfaces.
* Doodad Dropper's new tabs divide the list of doodads into categories
to make them easier to find.
* The officially defined categories so far are:
- Objects (Start/End Flags and Box)
- Doors (All locked doors and keys, Warp Doors, and Electric Door)
- Gizmos (All buttons, switches, state blocks/doors, Electric Door)
- Creatures (Blue/Red Azulian, Bird, Boy)
* The "All" tab of the Doodad Dropper will show every doodad regardless
of its category or whether it fit one of the official categories.
* How doodads are assigned categories is by a special "category" tag in
their metadata, e.g. "category=doors,gizmos" - multiple supported.
The Box can be pushed around by the player or other mobile doodads.
It is affected by gravity and can be pushed off ledges.
If the player gets under a box they can bump it up with their head.
* The F4 key to draw collision boxes works reliably again: it draws the
player's hitbox in world-space using the canvas.DrawStrokes()
function, rather than in screen-space so it follows the player
reliably.
* The F4 key also draws hitboxes for ALL other actors in the level:
buttons, enemies, doors, etc.
* The level geometry collision function is updated to respect a doodad's
declared Hitbox from their script, which may result in a smaller box
than their raw Canvas size. The result is tighter collision between
doodads, and Boy's sprite is rather narrow for its square Canvas so
collision on rightward geometry is tighter for the player character.
* Collision checks between actors also respect the actor's declared
hitboxes now, allowing for Boy to get even closer to a locked door
before being blocked.
New doodad interactions:
* Sticky Buttons will emit a "sticky:down" event to linked doodads, with
a boolean value showing the Sticky Button's state.
* Normal Buttons will listen for "sticky:down" -- when a linked Sticky
Button is pressed, the normal Button presses in as well, and stays
pressed while the sticky:down signal is true.
* When the Sticky Button is released (e.g. because it received power
from another doodad), any linked buttons which were sticky:down
release as well.
* Switch doodads emit a new "switch:toggle" event JUST BEFORE sending
the "power" event. Sensitive Doodads can listen for switches in
particular this way.
* The Electric Door listens for switch:toggle; if a Switch is activated,
the Electric Door always flips its current state (open to close, or
vice versa) and ignores the immediately following power event. This
allows doors to toggle on/off regardless of sync with a Switch.
Other changes:
* When the player character dies by fire, instead of the message saying
"Watch out for fire!" it will use the name of the fire swatch that
hurt the player. This way levels could make it say "Watch out for
spikes!" or "lava" or whatever they want. The "Fire" attribute now
just means "instantly kills the player."
* Level Editor: You can now edit the Title and Author name of your level
in the Page Settings window.
* Bugfix: only the player character ends the game by dying in fire.
Other mobile doodads just turn dark but don't end the game.
* Increase the size of Trapdoor doodad sprites by 150% as they were a
bit small for the player character.
* Rename the game from "Project: Doodle" to "Sketchy Maze"
* The crumbly floor doodad was made 50% larger.
* New doodad: Small Key and Small Key Door. These work like the colored
doors and locks except each Small Key is consumed when it unlocks a
door. The door's appearance is of iron bars.
* The inventory HUD displays a small quantity label in the lower-right
corner of items that have a quantity, such as the Small Key. This is
done as a Canvas.CornerLabel string attribute on uix.Canvas.
* The "give all keys" cheat adds 99 Small Keys to your inventory.
* The "Use Key" (Q or Spacebar) now activates the Warp Door instead of a
collision event doing so.
* Warp Doors are now functional: the player opens a door, disappears,
the door closes; player is teleported to the linked door which opens,
appears the player and closes.
* If the player exits thru a Blue or Orange door which is disabled
(dotted outline), the door still opens and drops the player off but
returns to a Disabled state, acting as a one-way door.
* Clean up several debug log lines from Doodle and doodad scripts.
* The blue and orange ON/OFF state blocks have all been increased in
size to better match the player character (42x42 up from 33x33)
* Added a new mob: the Red Bird. It flies back and forth while
maintaining its altitude, similar to the Red Azulian. Planned AI
behavior is to divebomb the player when it gets close. Dive sprites
are included but not yet hooked up in JavaScript.
* Warp Doors! (WIP). They have a golden "W" on them and come in three
varieties: Brown, Blue and Orange. The blue and orange ones are
sensitive to the State Block and will become dotted outlines when
inactive (and can not be entered in this state). The door opens for
the player character, makes him disappear, then closes again. The plan
is it will then warp you to the location of a linked Warp Door
elsewhere on the level, but for now it will just make the player
re-appear after completing the Close Door animation.
* The colored locked doors and the Electric Door are increased in size
to better match Boy's sprite size.
* Colored doors now have a "locked" and "unlocked" state when closed;
when locked, a gold padlock hangs on the door with a keyhole shaped to
match the corresponding Colored Key.
* Added initial walking sprites for the player character, "Boy."
* Player doodad filename and title screen level are now configurable in
the balance/numbers.go package.
Adds support for sound effects in Doodle and configures some for various
doodads to start out with:
* Buttons and Switches: "Clicked down" and "clicked up" sounds.
* Colored Doors: an "unlocked" sound and a "door opened" sound.
* Electric Door: sci-fi sounds when opening and closing.
* Keys: sound effect for collecting keys.
JavaScript API for Doodads adds a global function `Sound.Play(filename)`
to play sounds. All sounds in the `rtp/sfx/` folder are pre-loaded on
startup for efficient use in the app. Otherwise sounds are lazy-loaded
on first playback.
* Tightens up the surface area of API methods available to the
JavaScript VMs for doodads. Variables and functions are carefully
passed in one-by-one so the doodad script can only access intended
functions and not snoop on undocumented APIs.
* Wrote tons of user documentation for Doodad Scripts: documented the
full surface area of the exposed JavaScript API now that the surface
area is known and limited.
* Early WIP code for the Campaign JSON
* Player character now experiences acceleration and friction when
walking around the map!
* Actor position and movement had to be converted from int's
(render.Point) to float64's to support fine-grained acceleration
steps.
* Added "physics" package and physics.Vector to be a float64 counterpart
for render.Point. Vector is used for uix.Actor.Position() for the sake
of movement math. Vector is flattened back to a render.Point for
collision purposes, since the levels and hitboxes are pixel-bound.
* Refactor the uix.Actor to no longer extend the doodads.Drawing (so it
can have a Position that's a Vector instead of a Point). This broke
some code that expected `.Doodad` to directly reference the
Drawing.Doodad: now you had to refer to it as `a.Drawing.Doodad` which
was ugly. Added convenience method .Doodad() for a shortcut.
* Moved functions like GetBoundingRect() from doodads package to
collision, where it uses its own slimmer Actor interface for just the
relevant methods it needs.
* Added an inventory system for actors as a replacement to the arbitrary
key/value data store. Colored keys now add themselves to the player's
inventory, and colored doors check the inventory.
* Inventory is a map[string]int between doodad filenames
(red-key.doodad) and quantity (0 for key items/unlimited qty).
* API methods to add and remove inventory.
* Items HUD appears in Play Mode in lower-left corner showing doodad
sprites of all the items in the Player's inventory.
* Revamped the sprites for the four colored locked doors. They now have
a side-view profile perspective rather than a front view.
* Doors open facing the left or the right based on what direction the
colliding actor approached it from.
* The `doodad edit-doodad` command now allows setting custom key/value
tags in doodad files, for extra data storage useful to their scripts.
* Colored keys and doors now store a `color` tag with the appropriate
color so that their scripts don't have to parse their Title to find
that information.
* Trapdoors now store a `direction` tag to hold the direction the door
is facing.
* Recent collision update caused a regression where the player would get
"stuck" while standing on top of a solid doodad, unable to walk left
or right.
* When deciding if the actor is on top of a doodad, use the doodad's
Hitbox (if available) instead of the bounding box. This fixes the
upside-down trapdoor acting solid when landed on from the top, since
its Hitbox Y coordinate is not the same as the top of its sprite.
* Cheats: when using the noclip cheat in Play Mode, you can hold down
the Shift key while moving to only move one pixel at a time.
* Two-state Buttons now also subscribe to the state change message, so
other on/off buttons in the same level update to match the state of
the button that was hit.
* Add lock mutexes around the scripting engine to protect from
concurrent event handlers.
Add new doodads:
* Start Flag: place this in a level to set the spawn point of the player
character. If no flag is found, the player spawns at 0,0 in the top
corner of the map. Only use one Start Flag per level, otherwise the
player will randomly spawn at one of them.
* Crumbly Floor: a solid floor that begins to shake and then fall apart
after a moment when a mobile character steps on it. The floor respawns
after 5 seconds.
* State Blocks: blue and orange blocks that toggle between solid and
pass-thru whenever a State Button is activated.
* State Button: a solid "ON/OFF" block that toggles State Blocks back
and forth when touched. Only activates if touched on the side or bottom;
acts as a solid floor when walked on from the top.
New features for doodad scripts:
* Actor scripts: call SetMobile(true) to mark an actor as a mobile mob
(i.e. player character or enemy). Other doodads can check if the actor
colliding with them IsMobile so they don't activate if placed too close
to other (non-mobile) doodads in a level. The Blue and Red Azulians
are the only mobile characters so far.
* Message.Broadcast allows sending a pub/sub message out to ALL doodads
in the level, instead of only to linked doodads as Message.Publish does.
This is used for the State Blocks to globally communicate on/off status
without needing to link them all together manually.
* Discovered a bug where if you hit the Undo key to erase pixels and an
entire chunk became empty by it, the chunk would have rendering errors
and show as a solid black square instead of the level wallpaper
showing through.
* Chunks that have no pixels in them are culled from the chunker
immediately when you call a Delete() operation.
* The level file saver also calls a maintenance function to prune all
empty chunks upon saving the file. So existing levels with broken
chunks need only be re-saved to fix them.
