<p>Last updated: Feburary 09, 2009</p>
<h2>Recently Updated or Finished Items:</h2>
<ol>
<li>AI implementation is undergoing, finished most of the required basic facilities. Now it is going back to design stage, working on the AI state-machine & strategies design.</li>
<li>overheat mechanism added.</li>
<li>the death-countdown mechanism is now working more properly.</li>
<li>Test: check if the new attack formula is good: (current_num-1)/2 * chain + (chain-2)*2; After the addition of overheat mechanism, this formula still seems like too powerful. more testing is required.</li>
<li>multi-mice feature. (half done, the replugging problem remains, and for now, it won’t work on X11.)</li>
</ol>
<h2>Gameplay & Balancing adjustments:</h2>
<ol>
<li>AI implementations.</li>
<li>Test: make the number of default color set more than 4. Maybe 5, 6 at most.</li>
<li>puzzle mode needs a more specific and focused gameplay.</li>
<li>other game modes such as score attack a time attack.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Distribution & Core development:</h2>
<ol>
<li>separate view lib and model lib. build them into .so, .dll, .dylib, etc.</li>
<li>create ruby binding for control flow, to ease the creation for module via Rice, <span class="caps">SWIG</span>, etc.</li>
<li>pull Timer out of EventDispatcher, and try to design a formal holder of timer, not dummy.</li>
<li>make aliases of all standard library usages. lest the change from std::tr1 → std in the c++0x causes trouble.</li>
<li>UI improvements such as adaption of different screen resolutions.</li>
<li>code clean up. remove unneeded comments or temporary codes.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Tools & Utilities adjustments:</h2>
<ol>
<li>pull puzzle generator from ludy.</li>
<li>make puzzle generator’s command be rake based?</li>
<li>choose a unit test tool, such as cxx unit, google unit, etc.</li>
<li>try to translate puzzle generator to C++ if the real-time generation of big puzzles is crucial someday.</li>
<li>the utils::dictionary needs writing and error-logging functionalities.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Bugs & Issues fixing list:</h2>
<ol>
<li>SplineAnimator has a bug which will crash the game when used in garbage throwing effects.</li>
<li>wiimote’s rumble functionality always crash the game in the long run. (after about 1 hrs of play using wiimote)</li>
<li>multimice will not run on Mac (using X11 on Mac) for now, because the underlying library (ManyMouse) currently doesn’t support X11.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Others:</h2>
<ol>
<li>more visual effects. better particle emitter interface and functionality.</li>
<li>cpu performance issues in X11 / Mac game builds. (probably a mysterious sleep in Irrlicht)</li>
</ol>
<p>Other minor or more specific descriptions are in the archilifelin’s memo. but that memo is a mess for now.<br />
There are also a few inconsistency between implementation and the original game design documentation,<br />
some of the changes and decisions are made on-the-fly but the doc wasn’t revised. So the <span class="caps">GDD</span> needs<br />
to be revised, in the future anyways….<br />
Also, there were so many things in <span class="caps">GDD</span> didn’t come to the implementation because we were running<br />
out time then. Thus, expect this <span class="caps">TODO</span> list to keep growing in the coming months and years.</p>
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