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Task Log

version alpha/beta

  • Initial version...

version 1: Set Whale Free

  • Reduce size and center location of collision box of whale
  • Ensure sea life cannot be 0px in size... in fact, tiny fonts are invisible too (min of 4 pixels, maybe more)
  • Whale drag picks appropriate rotation to align with direction
  • Add shift key to make whale move faster when using keys
  • Add game help text
  • Use known external font
    • Update Twemoji to unicode 13 to bring in seal
  • Add mermaid and merman, and oysters
  • Allow any key to restart game
  • Ensure further input events will not try to reload next level after the first event has started
  • Have it automatically reload when the whale vanishes
  • (Aaron) Larger drag-hit box for whale, esp. for phones

Potential tasks for later versions...

...This is a bit like a product backlog.

  • Add indication that it is loading, some of the later rounds take a while to create the sea life atm
    • Improve performance by not reloading page, but start a new round and add in just the new creatures?
    • Can a font be drawn once then cloned? So cache images in advance
  • More fluid sea life motion
    • Different movement for each type?
    • Do things in a more Phaser way – animations, velocities, etc.
    • (Aaron) Sea life can swim away from whale
  • (Andi/Aaron) Spawn more sea life over the game? Currently, more spawned each round
  • (Carles) Does whale die if it doesn't eat? Not in the game, but when all things are eaten it is ambiguous until the next round starts... however, in a game if the player deliberately starves the whale it stays alive atm
  • Use custom font file with only glyphs needed to reduce size of it
  • Fix sea life hiding in border when small? or is it just small grey sea life that match background an hard to see...
  • Use multiple fonts in Phaser text so whale in help text is the same as the one in the game
  • Only display title and help for first invocation of the game
  • In later rounds introduce 'plastics' that 'harm' the whale in some way
    • (Tania) should the mild eco message [at the end of a round] be made stronger, linked to websites in this space?
    • Dark outcome: have the level of plastics increase, and food decrease, such that eventually you can no longer win th game :'( ... is this too much?
  • Keep a record for how long each round took and maybe hold onto the best one (or best three...)
  • (Jess) have different sea life 'worth' more, and a time limit so the skill aim is to eat higher value things
    • Related to Carles' comment, maybe the 'time' is more about the whale essentially starving
  • Add music and sound effects to increase engagement (trialed successfully with my child and my voice – early proto)
  • scale game for size of viewport