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Lovely World

TODO

  • Bugs

    • land sound spam when standing on item on descending platform
    • player can get moving platform stuck inside them
    • set xforce to 0 when on ground? (prevent skidding after jumping off sideways moving platform)
    • should player be able to push solid items?
    • make most holdables (jars) thinner than 1 tile so they can fit in gaps
    • drop item on enemy shouldn't defeat it
    • enemies get stuck walking against items- turn around? or push? or ignore? (cant because then they couldnt carry items)
    • enemies standing on top of items is weird
    • enemy drop off corner- is this the wrong drop check issue?
    • don't animate enemy if turnaround on both sides
    • give a little up vel when exiting teleport jar? (need to move player rb assignment from start to awake)
    • fix check for free area when throwing/dropping
      • push out of collision if possible?
    • thrown solids will slide along nonsolid items- should all items just be solid?
    • thrown item landing on head is weird
      • gets stuck in midair
    • make sure soul gateway spawns fully out of terrain

  • enemies

    • player damage when hitting side/bottom
      • hurt trigger box (bigger than hold box)
      • no damage when holding! what about falling?
    • place down: face away from you so you don't take damage?
    • bugs- worm, grasshopper
    • some can't be picked up (spiky back)
    • defeat enemy that hurt you to guaranteed drop a heart
    • some can use items (even on player)

  • health

    • collectible heart fragments to increase health
    • heal with hearts
    • checkpoints
      • activate somehow?
    • if you're inside door or movable solid item after reset/recall, it squishes you and you respawn
      • squishzone inside player
      • make sure this doesn't apply to moving 1 way platforms

  • items

    • magic wand
      • magic particles when thrown
      • animate/deanimate fruits and veggies
        • collide with Animatable: switch it with its stored prefab
      • other weird uses
      • E or Z to use? or up? or just throw?
    • keys & locked doors
    • backpack
      • stand on & press down while holding- put item in backpack
      • can hold multiple items at once
      • extract by stand on & press down? or up? or use while holding?
      • enter urn while its partner is in the backpack- paradox if backpack held, enter backpack zone if not
        • theres a goblin npc inside who sorts all the items
    • ladders
    • torches- melt ice above you, light in darkness
      • throw and slide along ice puzzle
    • parachute- slow fall to cross gaps
      • throw across gap puzzle
      • glide back to wall for multiple walljumps
    • frog with sticky tongue- grapple on ceiling
      • activated by jump key? or up/down? or on timer?
    • bridge that lets you go through blocks

  • one way terrain

  • decoration objects

    • grass
    • clover
    • flowers
    • snails
    • worms
    • grasshoppers
    • butterflies

  • background art

  • collectible petals

    • emit particles
    • animate up/down
    • collect animation

  • bosses

  • down + jump to fall through one ways?

  • up key: look up?

  • scene transition fx

  • screen scroll

  • palettes are unlockable items

    • silhouette palette like playerfall
    • gameboy green palette

  • saving/loading

  • particles

    • make sure they're pixel aligned
    • teleport
    • recall/reset crystal smash

  • screen shake

  • disable walljump? maybe an item enables this?

  • UI

    • pause

  • animations

  • story

    • fix dream world

  • title screen

    • logo

  • credits roll listing all the enemies

  • slippery ice

  • item spawn rule manipulation

  • npcs with dialog (mintty)

    • can pick them up and they go "hey put me down!"
    • trade them items

  • throw object in midair pushes you back?- sorta double jump

  • design

    • everything serves at least two purposes
    • progression- petal collection, unlocked zones
      • world state change, carried item, knowledge of secrets
    • non euclidean room transitions?
    • memorable vignettes with mechanics and setting
    • difficult/unreachable areas, unsolvable mysteries

  • world

    • center- veggie garden + love + magic (starting area) (red rose petals)
    • ? - ruins + angels + rain + birds (sacrifice game reference) (crumbling/throw blocks, glide wings, rainwater fill puzzles)
    • up- ice + sunlight (fruits?, sunlight beam puzzles, animal hybrids)
    • right- gears jungle (robots, moving/rotating platforms)
    • left- tide pools & cliffs (octopus, crab etc.) + sunset
    • way up- saturn palace
    • down?- hollow earth cave (bigfoot, faceless birds, atlantis etc.)
    • limbo
      • big & scrollable, enter with long fall
      • some stuff changes as you progress
      • secret puzzle to carry out void tear
      • set limbo palette override
      • enter/leave animation & sound
      • limbo music start right away
    • dream world
      • connection to limbo
    • secret lagoon
    • slumbering beast

  • other petal colors: orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white

  • soul world/soulspace/soulside

    • soul tokens- somewhat hard to get (find in special room, buy from NPC)
      • when thrown, create gateway to soul world
        • enter with up
          • test
          • little arrow appears overtop door
    • soul world music
    • silhouette tiles
    • flipped horizontally
    • can't walk between scenes in soul world (glowy border)
    • items replaced with item souls- intangible, can be picked up and moved, controls spawn position/scene in main world
      • position permanent even when reloading
      • can be placed in main world to spawn item in soul world
    • enemies replaced with enemy souls- move and ???
    • npcs replaced with npc souls- mess with them somehow
    • some decoration objects in main world have soul npcs in soul world
    • fluffy dream particles
    • soul petals (rare)
    • big meta puzzle with dream world
    • respawn enter portal when exiting soul world
    • wrong warp? (knowledge of world layout, partial warping with x/y)

  • collectible petals

    • big flower at center of zone
    • fill with min% # shards to progress
      • go to soul world and fight corrupted flower soul
      • win: destroy thorns barrier to next zone
    • fill with 100% shards to unlock bonus area
    • each zone has different color petal
    • need to carry each petal all the way back? or collect automatically?
      • might depend on # of petals
    • teleport between filled flowers
      • little flowers sprout next to big one
      • colored same as completed areas
      • pull one out and throw it in the fountain to teleport to the big one of its area

  • puzzles

    • enemies
      • put item on back of enemy to move it
      • ride on flying enemy for a long time
      • ride enemy across spikes into secret room
      • carry enemy and drop in another room to use its behavior
      • stand on enemy (in natural location or after moving it) and use its extra jump/throw velocity
      • enemy stack
    • get around room reset mechanic
      • box spawns on button and locks something immediately on room enter; grab it and exit+reenter room to have it not be there
    • crystals
      • throw reset/recall crystal and quickly grab another item
      • put down and regrab recall crystal to change its recall point
      • use key from one room on multiple doors in another
    • teleport jar
      • take teleport vase into its partner and enter limbo world
      • teleport across scenes
      • rotate jar to come out gravity rotated?
    • backpack
      • put multiple items in backpack
      • take teleport vase into its partner in backpack
    • use moving platform jump/throw velocity
    • jump between stuff in different screens (respawn, refill moves)

  • music

    • title: ?
    • garden: good mood, slam-funk
    • funny miniboss: L05 chase
    • ice: juhani ending
    • ruins: echoes of eternity
    • jungle: face the facts, juhani stage 2?
    • tide pool: angel eyes, highrise
    • soul world: drm
    • flower boss fight: ?
    • backpack: sketchy shopkeep
    • limbo: lost

  • pre-launch

    • make sure all music is preload
    • unmute persistent music
    • make sure all sprites use paletteswap material

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