When starting a new game, save and quit to main menu, and then continue the saved game, the game crashes.

src/ResourceManager.lua:221: [ResourceManager] Attempt to get an unknown sprite: nil


Traceback:

crash.lua:55: in function 'handler'
[C]: in function 'error'
src/ResourceManager.lua:221: in function 'getSprite'
src/Level.lua:1307: in function 'deserialize'
src/Session.lua:53: in function 'startLevel'
src/UI/Manager.lua:22: in function 'levelStart'
.\games/ZumaBlitzRemake/ui/script.lua:907: in function 'f'
src/UI/Widget.lua:421: in function 'executeAction'
src/UI/Widget.lua:129: in function 'update'
src/UI/Widget.lua:149: in function 'update'
src/UI/Widget.lua:149: in function 'update'
src/UI/Manager.lua:151: in function 'update'
src/Game.lua:132: in function 'tick'
src/Game.lua:117: in function 'update'
main.lua:109: in function 'update'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

OpenSMCE issue: jakubg1#63

Once OpenSMCE has UI2 implemented, we can start working on issues that relate to UI/UX. Migrating to UI2 should hopefully be easy if a converter is provided.

As there would there be no "Weekly Tournament" unless someone pays up for a server, the player should be able to select a board per session.

This is essential for reimplementing the Spirit Turtle scoring bug strategy (#11).

This is probably the behavior in Luxor but definitely not in Zuma.

To replicate, start a new game, then exit to main menu when you hear the rolling sound

Currently, _Network methods (or rather, https methods) are blocking. This would require some sort of function to signal when data is received from remote sources (so for example, UI elements would be updated accordingly).

This bug is detrimental to gap shot strategies.

Suppose we have a track here:
🔴🟡🟡🟢🟢                    🟡

Matching the green spheres would cause the lone yellow sphere to slide back, as expected:
🔴🟡🟡                   🟡

However, adding a sphere that isn't of the same color won't prevent the lone yellow sphere from magnetizing further, even if there isn't any spheres to magnetize to. It will still magnetize, but at a constant, slower rate.
🔴🟡🟡🔵         🟡

After the timer runs out and the level complete screen shows up you can press ESC and save and quit to menu. When resuming, the game softlocks.

In the Crab Board level and possibly other levels aswell, you cant line up the ui and the level at the same time, this happens due to either the ui or the level appearing ingame a few pixels lower than it should, causing them not to be in sync

Video of bug:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/115082072/217077179-e3aa1fec-6c18-4d3d-8f3a-5b4931fafad1.mp4

Intended behavior:
https://youtu.be/1vPTFK-TUbc?t=34

Please view this announcement post as to why Zuma Blitz Remake isn't being worked on right now.

Requires #10 to be implemented first.

Video of strategy in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAmNwx4m6_o

As long as Hot Frog is active while a combo made via Hot Frog and Spirit Turtle is active, the combo does not reset - it sometimes even jumps.

As shown in 2:02:

• A x2 combo is made at the right side of the board
• To the left side of the board, the combo is extended, and somehow jumps to Combo x13, then 14
  I'm not sure how the combo jumps from 2 to 13 but at the very least combos should not end.

I'm not sure if this is possible (or plausible) without Spirit Turtle as it is the only way of triggering this bug.

Remember, it's not a bug, it's a feature because someone actually turned it into a strategy

In Zuma, ghost spheres' gaps can be used to make Gap Bonuses, allowing 2 lone balls in one area to cause a Gap Bonus when matched.

This is currently not the case for OpenSMCE. Gap bonus calculation does not account for ghost spheres.

When the pause button is clicked on in game, a ball is fired, and then the game pauses when the mouse button is released.

When the player reaches around 0:14, the "danger" music should start. Likewise, when the time added results in the total time being over 14 seconds, it should go back to normal.

There should be some sort of BPM counter (for OpenSMCE flexiblity reasons), or wait for the loop to end.

• Add the music assets
• Set baseline for time-dynamic music
• Play the least intense versions a couple of time first before moving on to the more intense version, and have it reset in case of the 15-second mark

• When the spheres reach a danger point, skulls should appear behind the balls on the path and they should flash towards the end point.
• The skull should be, obviously, animated.
• Since the skull center is always its endpoint, it can be rendered along with the path itself.
• If the player dies, a completely separate skull effect with eating the frog would appear. The source seems to be always the first path specified; no detection which path has breached the endpoint seems to be made.

• bf19d02 Implement base for skull rendering
• 05631b4 Refine animation (make it smoother)
• Smaller skulls on the path that start from the danger zone and glow towards the skull
• Implement fire additive effect around skull frame
• Add death animation