OrbitalGa.me

Goals

• Infinite horizontal world
• Constantly scrolling forward
• Server generated enemies, powerups, and events
• Goal is to stay alive and generate the most points
  • Leaderboards

Todo

Features/Bugs

• improve bot logic
• why do things get so jumpy when it lags
• add audio
• add server kill switch to boot everyone out
• server is offline, play with bots locally
• remove leaderboard from spectate
• take interactive video or picture of everyone playing
• add score on death screen
• fix collisions of shots
• add rotate to bounding box
• add client side collisions better
• fix explosion animation
• get rid of explosion and make things light up when hit?
• dying and reviving does weird things, health bar wiggled too
• add arrows to direct you to where the action is
• make game ui better
• hard to go straight left with nipplejs
• add server throttling
• add latency tracking
• refactor entity constructor to make easier entity creation
• cluster size never scales back down after 400 users?
• figure out ghost players
• make keyboard wasd
• better grouping of players and enemies
• optimize server
• only send data for livePlayer vs non
• validate input sequence number, assure they can't send garbage negative, etc
• add ping
• disconnect player for prolonged inactivity
• disconnect player for delayed pingpong
• test server version
• import all assets
• add momentum to rocks
• make collisions work better, faster tick?
• abstract shield better, player keeps taking damage
• make collision more abstracted
• fix shots being tied to entity xy
• revive does not work
• abstract interpolate entities
• better death animation
• moving goes out of sync on mobile, i think its moving faster
• figure out mobile jitter, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1068769
• add death animation
• fix shot offset in shot to be x,y and owner
• add bots to client
• take damage
  • die
• deploy singleplayer support
• connect on login screen
• show game in background of login, add spectator mode to server
• support drawing bounding boxes in debug
• garbageless client tick
• add server version
• add collisionless entities
• add shake screen effects when attack

Game Rules

• watch other shmups
• come up with realtime events
  • big bosses every 5 min
  • countdown to next boss event
• abstract game events into a class
  • register event at tick?
  • puzzles solve together like a maze blow up walls game event?
• need much better enemy variability
• add player upgrades, unlock
• add badges to player
• add leveling like mario maker?
• you level up exp all the time, get stronger, so do enmeis, they chase you
• add score entity
• add laser spray
• add time based weapons
• add laser upgrade
• add fire to rockets
• add fire to player ships
• drop power-ups from enemy
• drop power-ups from debris
• add power-ups
  • two clones fight with you?
• add shield upgrades
• add rocket
• abstract weapons
• add death effect
• add a concept of enemy types, better abstraction
• add shields
  • you always have shield that regens but also upgradable
  • add shield power up
• support for player color
• add multiple enemy colors
• better rock debris
• add rock debris

Infrastructure

• build server montorinng ui, auth endpoints
• checks for servers, spins one up?
• add login, register ui
• add license to repo
• test what happens if server crashes on aws
• add monitoring server to watch things happen
• once the average duration (over 10 ticks) goes above a threshold, take server out of rotation
• If you use this code let me know! it's not required I'm just curious
• write better readme describe architecture
• make sure disconnect and kill work
• server level leaderboard
• global leaderboard
• add lambda for join/etc
• add login, login anon, register api
• add analytics to server to see users connected, enemies, etc

Money

• watch ad to get upgrade, or micro-transaction or donate cup of coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/
  • how do other guys do it itch.io
• let streamers create their own server and send their own waves of enemies until everyone dies?????????
• for huge streamers 500 people play across 10 servers, same script tho
• Add analytics
• buy ads
• watch video ad start at level 5

old

• figure out multiplayer jumpiness on move
• validate buffer so client get send garbage, try catch and boot user
• move byte buffer code into individual entity
• refactor clientGame to be more dynamic and support adding entities easier
• determine screen size
  • scaling
  • cant go off the screen
• better kenney assets
• shot explode effect
• gun shooting offcenter when youre moving
• add momentum to movement
• alternate left right on shot
• better mobile support
  • add mouse movement
  • add full screen rotate code
• binary transfer
• better background
• refactor code
  • better separation
  • proper draw
  • add better bounding box for collisions
• clean up serialize, worldstate, buffer builder
• make it easier to add things add entities and sync fields
• add worldstate filtering
• build bots
• load test
• deploy to beanstalk
• determine how to scale up servers dynamically

Groupings

Ideal grouping is 3 players per screen width, try to force this as much as possible, ai and user placement should always enforce this balance