Damage text needs a revamp:

• scaling doesnt work on different resolutions
• the random left/right drift is annoying, fade straight up is cleaner

We need a way to submit one time use redemption codes. The database needs to store all valid codes and what they will award on success, and each user needs to track what codes they've already redeemed

Loading scenes for transitions into ingame, and to load the main menu. Should have a debugger in the corner so we can see if there is load errors, and trigger some function that makes a popup for load error (ie failed login, or server under maintainence)

Item features needed:

• viewing menu of all items from main menu
• equipping menu on each character profile (boots, armor, hat, weapon, trinkets x2)
• database updates: items need types for the 5 ^, and types for non-equip items
• items need a list of status effects that they will apply, and the relevant half ingame. status effects include the basic stat modifiers (perm status effect)
• set item equips to be 1-to-1 on django db
• Duplicate equiping: we want basic, low tier equips to be equipable on multiple people (assuming you have multple copies), but unique equipment only on 1. this prevents balancing issues like 6 GA abilities

• "congrats, you hit the end"

We are in dire need of a proper UI. We need a set of background pictures like the one below. we can probably find something on https://assetstore.unity.com/

database should be automatically backed up routinely. digitalocean has a built in method, but its paid, and im not sure it will integrate with what we have

• Health bars each have their own canvas. Move to main canvas and build a character tracker.
• Pool particle effects
• server calls are pretty inefficient; way too many REST calls

• create referral menu/button in the settings, similar to redemptions

Features:

• display copy-able referral code, that can be inputted in either the referral page or code redemption page
• on redemption, gives rewards to both user and code owner
• make quest to track total referrals, so we can give bonuses at big milestones (alot of gems)

Other:

• hard: investigate how to/ if its possible to create some sort of link generator from the game that generates a message like "Hey, download the game by clicking this www.salutationstudio.com/?referralCode=123". Routing to appstore/playstore is relatively easy, but im not sure how we would pass forward that referral code
• write up documentation on how we can prevent referral scamming (best i can think of is to track device id's, banning users that got 5+ referrals or something from a single device id)

9 new characters exist ingame, but need to be added to the prod database. Character names can be found in Scripts/Character/Moves/Moves.cs at the bottom, and only the archer and mage should be ranged.

• Update the base characters model to reflect the new characters. Viking and archer are already set as an example, but the other two need to be updated, and 5 more need to be added.
• under characters, give testWilson and test3 some copies of the new characters
• under teams, update team 3 (i think thats the copy test wilson uses) to use the new updated characters owned by test wilson
• under placements, update some of them to use the new characters owned by test3
• do a few test battles, check if the updating succeeded

Investigate and implement qualiuty controls ingame.

• how much will it bloat the build by?
• is there an easy way for default settings? eg: high quality mode by default for new phones

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/QualitySettings.SetQualityLevel.html

There's something weird happening with lighting. everything is super unsaturated in gameview, currently being compensated with a maxed saturation filter. Also, shadows are not rendering even with the right shadow settings.

Currently, the sim already generates a full replay history, so implementing this would just be serializing the command history and storing initial state

We'd want this for sure for tournament mode, and we want to give people the option of sharing replays with friends of any game they played (only store replays for a few days by default or something)

The current placement code for starting a battle doesnt work well. Taking a character off the board causes issues, selecting enemies shouldnt be possible, and the code in general needs refactoring. Most of the code is in Scripts/GameControllers/PlacementManager

Some issues:

• tile colors dont reset properly at match start
• sometimes crashes when dragging characters to and from game
• enemies should not be clickable, disable their box collider

We need to store the username and generated password somewhere. By default we could just do this with just device storage, but we'd like to be able to use device specific storage like google sign in and apple keychain. Most games do incentives( ie: "1000 gems if you link your account to google play!")

• Apple has a pretty rough issue: its really common that most people are out of the free 5gb device storage, meaning we really shouldn't rely on being able to use it
• we could add in some device id verification if we need it

^M vs \n causing diffs to be pretty hard to read

Currently, there is no way of knowing if a chat message has been read or not, and no notification for new messages. The message structure on the server has to be modified to mark the latest read message.

for now, its fine that the settings menu opens after clicking the username in top left (later there'll be a self profile that has a settings button contained within

in the settings menu, can you first set up 3 things to control the volume

mute toggle box, master volume, backgrounmusic volume, comat/ui volume

4 things i guess

nvm this is pretty much 2 unrelated prs, but the volume one is probably better to do first LMAO

if you look at Ingame, you'll see a audiomanager prefab

you'll have to move it to the main menu, and set it to not destroy on load so its kept between scenes

then, add 3 AudioMixerGroup serializefields, and set it to the 3 in Sound/IngameAudioMixer.Mixer
mymixgroup.audioMixer.SetFloat("Volume", 0);

to persist settings, you can just use playerprefs, saving serialized things to the persistentpath is probably overkill https://danielilett.com/2019-10-26-unity-tips-5-persistent-data/

We have a library called "EasyMobile" that handles payments. However, we still need to set up the payment libraries for apple and google (this is half done, which might cause some issues with whoever picks this ticket up). Then, we need to make an endpoint to send the payment receipt to the server, where it interacts with either the google or apple api and awards the player for the purchase.

• apple certificates are a bit of an L since the dev account has to be tied to a person. Hopefully i can just generate the certificate for you and send it?
• wilson will send login for google

Some of the background UI is going to be very expensive..we need a mode to switch the background into just images for lower tier phones.

"You completed this acheivement/ special event! special sale"

Back button is in no way hooked up with our current menus, with each close button running its own list of functions.. Would need to implement infrastructure to know currently active ui element.

We cant afford shadows, swap them out for dark circles underneath a person

Currently, we have rank only as the form of elo. We want to change this to a tier system so there's incremental goals to aim for, and so we can offer things like end of season rewards.

Background music, action sounds, menu sounds, etc

once tmpro 2.1.0 is out, change chat keyboard to use custom social keyboard. this is bugged in current unity version.

end screen recap after a battle. add battle stats if time

on account creation, add a message to the database from the developers (rng between salutation studios members)

Not everything is rescaling properly for different UIs. The chat is cut off sometimes, the team scroller is not started at the right position, and images are not resizing on the shop card flipping menu.

1x, 2x option for game playback speed.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-timeScale.html should be an easy solution. Should also save last chosen setting into playerprefs, so the player doesnt have to mess around with it (odds are they'll permealock it to 2x)

Whoever picks this up can first start with documenting a good flow of everything that needs to be explained; new eye would help for catchiung confusing parts

seems like the commit for the death animation (374dd4b#diff-b2693d9c2124f3ca9547b897794ac6a1) actually contains the baked animation, meaning the animation scene is useless after that commit.. temporarily reverting to the commit before this. If we ever update death animation, figure out how to reexport that one segment or rebind the skeleton.

• Should provide links for installing on Play store / App store + graphics

2 seperate parts: some sort of cron components on server so we cna have messages like "last login 8 hours ago, collect rewards now!" or so we can run something on the server to push a notification to everyone. eg: "new update, download now!"

No idea why, but the buttons are impossible to click for me, only works 1 in 10 times on a samsung s7 edge. Hopefully just too small?

Also when i tested this on the phone, it seemed like there was constant white noise in the background even with nothing playing; this is very noticable on low volume. Maybe its my phone thats bad?

Should also make some change so the default slider value isnt the max

• Fix up some formatting
• potentially make scrollable
• Replace char_id's with thumbnail of hero + name or something

Mobs mode, we can pretty much copy AFK arena for this one.

We are aiming for at least 10 characters at release. Now that we have an animator, the only task is to design reasonable characters and implement them in game

Track Global stats:

• Wins/losses (also per character)
• Total Damage Inflicted per character
• Total Damage received per character
• Health healed per character
• Top 3 most used characters

Per Game stats:

• Total Damage Inflicted per character
• Total Damage received per character
• Health healed per character

When viewing a profile, we should display the userStats table, and some rendering of their main team

Right now, the chat's title is the id of the chat, which is obviously not ideal. In the underlying implementation, this title is also being used as an id to get the chat we're using. We want to add another field to what the chat stores, so we can replace the title with either the person's name, or "my clan chat".

• Chat is using a tabbing library, which we would have to modify
• Files for the chat can be found in Scripts/MainMenu/Chat
• Chat also interacts with Scripts/Server/MyChatController

Message previews
We'd like to be able to see a preview of all messages without needing to click into it to see the last message