Кicks are too slow, so people do not seem to use them. :(

There seem to be 2 general issues here:

• Kicks are too slow and the player often gets punched before the animation completes.
• Punch is stronger than kicks and kicks, so people generally use punches even though kicks push enemies farther back.

From itch.io - The fact that you can't hit when invincible is a bit weird :o

Fair comment. Temporary invincibility was originally added to counter the weak AI that would engage the player as soon as they revive after being hit. Perhaps we need another solution here.

Display the enemy being hit's HP in HUD. Problem here is that our resolution is a bit limited. We might not be able to display all enemy HP statuses at the same time.

We got people expecting to break the trash cans, etc. and find something below, like food for instance. The game does not support breakable objects at this point.

Add a desktop version, maybe using ElectronJS as wrapper. We can then distribute the game as downloadable and also add it to several Linux distros as a package.

The current HUD feature only a health bar. We should add an amount of lives as well.

Additionally, the player may gain more lives by hitting certain high scores. #13

• Add (dynamic?) shadows to player & npcs.
• Maybe also add shadows (either dynamic or static) to food and collectables in general.

Some HUD part that displays the amount of enemies left to clear.

• Add an option to toggle music and sounds on/off in the menu options.
• There should be some keyboard shortcuts for that as well.

Last edit: 10-Nov-2017 23:30 UTC+0
Last edited by: @petarov

The Kickpunch Script

(Warning! Cheezy content detected. 🧀 )

Characters

Foes

Name	Image	Description
P1		Level 1 NPC minion. Fists attack.
P2 (Big Joe)		Level 2 NPC minion. Has more health, does more damage.
K1		Level 1 NPC minion. Kicks attack.
K2 (Mino)		Level 2 NPC minion. Has more health, does more damage.
Bo		Boss Level. Fists attack.
Arkian Joel	n/a	Boss level. TODO

Setting

Brian and Gloria are back in their home town for the weekend and are taking a stroll on Shaker St. Suddenly, they are approached by a group of hooligans who block their way forwards. One of them, visibly bigger than the others, steps out of the group. It is Brian’s old school rival - Arkian Joel. Arkian does some smack talk and orders a bunch of hooligans to grab Gloria and Dido. He then orders Bo, a gang member, to take care of the "Brian problem" and the group leaves.

Bo leaves few thugs to finish Brian off. Brian faces the bad guys in fight and after defeating them continues down on Shaker St. determined to find Arkian and save his wife and dog.

Chapters

Opening Scene (Intro)

Gloria, Brian and Dido are positioned on the left side of the screen. A short dialog follows between Gloria and Brian.

Suddenly Arkian, Bo and a few thugs appear walking towards Brian's from the right side of the screen. The music changes and dialogs are exchanged.

The thugs (or Bo and some P1) pick up Gloria and Dido (their sprites hovering above the thugs' sprites) and move away from Brian (they move to the right pass the screen edge). Dialogs are exchanged between Brian and Arkian and the scene ends.

Dialog

TODO

Act 1 - Defeating Bo's Thugs

Brian needs to defeat Bo's thugs and continue his search on Shaker St. The act finishes with Brian defeating the thugs.

This act also serves as a tutorial. The player will be shown the controls to play with, the moves and so on.

Attack Waves

• Wave 1 - 2x P1 foes.
• Wave 2 - 3x P1 foes.

Act 2 - Local Drunks

While walking ahead, a door on the street opens. Brian faces a group of drunks from the local bar. He needs to defeat them before continuing to the next act.
The group consists of 3 waves.

Attack Waves

• Wave 1 - 3x P1 foes.
• Wave 2 - 5x P1 foes.
• Wave 3 - 3x P1 foes + 1x P2 foe.

Act 3 - Fighting Bo's Gang

Bo, a member of Arkian’s gang is left to deal with Brian. Brian needs to defat Bo and continue his search down on Shaker St. The act finishes with Brian defeating the boss level - Bo.

Attack Waves

• Wave 1 - 3x K1 foes.
• Wave 2 - 2x K1 + 3x P1 foes.
• Wave 3 - 3x K1 foes + 1x Bo.
  • Every time Bo's health diminishes by 25% we will spawn 1x P1 and 1x K1 foes.

Act 4 - Arkian's Gang. An Elevator Action.

Brian needs to get to the very top of a city building in order to locate Arkian Joel. He hopes to also find there Gloria and Dido. While taking the elevator he is suddenly attacked by Arkian's gang.

Note. In this level, because the elevator will be moving up, enemies will have to drop from above or something. We can't have them simply walking in from the left or right edge of the screen. Also, we could include the ability to throw enemies off the elevator. This has to be addressed in the game mechanics!

Attack Waves

TODO

Act 5 - The Roof Fight

Brian is on the top of a city building (on the roof). He has to combat a bunch of enemies before facing Arkian. The final fight is between Arkian and him, as well as some level 1 foes.

Dialog

TODO

Defeating Arkian ends the game and Brian wins.

Attack Waves

• Wave 1 - 2x P1 + 2x K1 foes.
• Wave 2 - 1x P2 + 1x K2 foes.
• Wave 3 - 1x Arkian + 2x K1 foes + 2x P1 foes.
  • Every time Arkian's health diminishes by 25% we will spawn 1x P2 / K2 foe.

Finale

Brian, Gloria and Dido are reunited and continue their weekend walk on Shaker St.

Dialog

TODO

Roll credits.

This is our task list. The list will evolve, hopefully by clearing the checkboxes below.

Let's go! 👊

Orga (@petarov)

• Create a GitHub repo
• Create an issue with all TODOs (this issue 🍺 )
• Acquire game assets
• Add a proper README file
• Find testers
• Upload game to Itch.io, add info
• Update GitHub README (Add screenshots)

Design (@petarov)

• Write a story
• Describe characters
• Write dialogs
• Describe levels / acts (what happens in each chapter - attack waves; etc.)
• Prep a list of required sound effects & music scores (see Assets below)

Development

• Repository structure pipeline
• Test Prototype

Levels implementation

Where and when to spawn enemy waves. We will use Tiled for that.

• Implement loading of levels. @petarov
• Collectables (only food for now) @petarov
• NPCs spawn mechanism and Hotpoints impl.
• Act 1 impl. @petarov
• Act 2 impl. @petarov
• Act 5 (Roof) impl. @petarov
• Act 3 impl.
• Act 4 (Elevator) impl.
• Breakable obstacles (e.g., break obstacle to spawn food)

Fight mechanics

• Player mechanics (controls, pick up food, actions - punch, combo, jump, airkick, death) @n3tn0de @petarov
• NPC mechanics (action animations - stand, attack, movement, death) @petarov
• Fight mechanics (collisions with enemies, impl. player hit combos) @petarov
• Enemy AI: Lower level enemies (when to attack, i.e., range, how to attack) @petarov
• Boss AI: (2 mostly common types - Bo & Arkian's) @petarov

Artefacts

• Add pixelated text font @Charliiee
• Center game screen (css anyone?) @n3tn0de
• HUD: Health bars for the player and NPCs being attacked @Charliiee
• HUD: Add dialogs tool (Something like pop up RPG dialogs where we can put texts) @Charliiee
• Menu: Add game loading screen (progress to show while loading assets) @Charliiee
• Menu: Main menu (Options: Play, Controls, Credits) @Charliiee
• Menu: Game over screen (If health goes to 0) @petarov
• Integrate sound effects & music @Charliiee & @petarov
• Wrap game screen in a Game boy frame (Example at OGA) @n3tn0de
• Screen shake effect (Phaser example) @Charliiee
• Shadows of player & NPCs
• Add in-game dialogs
• Add in-game tutorial

Misc

• Add controller support (at least x-input)
• Controls screen (keyboard, x-input)
• Support mobile devices (touch controls, etc)
• Simple particle effects (e.g., when the player breaks stuff on screen, breakable objects).
• Progress saving (localStorage api)
• Desktop version (nw.js, Electron)

Assets

Sound effects (@lampeight)

• Punch/Kick
• Jump / Dash
• Item pickup
• Death / Gameover
• Level / Stage Clear
• "This way 👉"
• Despawn (when beaten enemy blinks before disappearing)
• Props damage (trash cans, cars, street lights, etc., optional)
• UI / menu beeps and blips (optional)
• MUSIC: In-game music
• MUSIC: Menu music (optional)
• MUSIC: Intro (story dialogs) music (optional)

Graphics

• Pixelated text font (@Charliiee 's gonna look for something)
• Main character @PsyBack
• Bo enemy @PsyBack
• Boss @PsyBack
• Food sprite(s) (collect to add to the the player's health) OpenGameArt
• Girl sprite (Gloria)
• Dog sprite (Dido)
• Cool main menu background
• Go go go hand

Current font looks bad at low resolutions. This prevents us from enhancing the HUD and dialog displays.

When all enemies on Act 2 are removed and the player's at the end of the map, the pointer signal is not being shown.

This needs a fix, such that the player.sprite.x coordinate is taken into account.

Additionally, the game level may add some graphics elements that suggest going farther right is not possible.

Right now that always choose the shortest path possible. They need to be smarter than that and not stack together that much/often.

This was already mentioned in Itch.io and I got people I know that played the game, telling me the same.

Current hero.js defined speed is 40.

const HeroConsts = {
  SPEED: 40,

If we increase that, we must check how that stacks against the enemies. One idea I have atm is to use a global speed value for the player (maybe in Globals.js) and have all other enemy speeds vary depending on that value.

Additionally, we may add sprinting animations.

A special fx feature that adds rain to the level. Makes thing more dramatic.

This is not a feature-request or bug but an honest question!

Are you allowed to use proprietary assets in your game and then bundle it as open-source?

Doesn't that fall under "redistributing the assets" in some sense?

Various public-domain assets make an exception stating that that doesn't include "bundling the assets as part of the game or open-source project" but I'm not sure if proprietary assets are licensed like that. For instance envato doesn't even allow HTML5 templates to be used as wordpress themes (both free and commercial)

Please reflect your thoughts on this!!

There are no scores when punching / kicking enemies. Adding high scores requires enhancements in the HUD and also a Hall Of Fame menu option where, let's say, the Top 10 are displayed.

Additionally, we can have the High Scores stored remotely somewhere. And make them shared for any players that play the game.

Scores also allow us to add gameplay goodies like lives and such. E.g, 10K points give +1 life.