Big Blue Mobile Game Cloudvana - Launchers - Obstacles - Shields

1. loading screen

    1) while loading, display small / interesting facts about the cloud( e.g. "Your great cloud fact can go here!"), such messages should be configured in a file "messages.pinfo", and select one of them randomly to display, we may also display it when level complete/fail(will be updated in forum later).

    2) display the target of the level "complete XX GB in XX seconds" (XX are in level configure), for font, refer to 2(paused screen) but displayed in one line (zoom out may be required)

2. paused screen

    1) display the target of the level "complete XX GB in XX seconds" (XX are in level configure) as following:

           complete   (same font as "complete" in level complete screen)

            XXX GB     (same font as the score in game scene)

                in          (same font as "complete")

        XXX secs       (same font as the time in game scene, with  secs.png)

    2) add two new icon button, "home" to go to the landing screen and "level" to go to the level selection screen

3. update the app launch icon

8. add new obstacles: dark cloud, virus, virus 2, water pipe, compressor, splitter, laser, failing hard drive, malware, please notice that with level configure the work of obstales is not as much as it looks like.

9. add shields: antivirus, firewall, waterproof, deepfreeze

 

Winner is responsable for merging a bug fix(frozen effect of magnet is not stopped in paused screen) of last assembly in final fix

 

 

Technical Details

 

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1. Resouce Managment

We will use texture packer ( https://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker ) to packer sprite images (except backgrand images).

2. Level Configure Detail

   1) split level configure file, that is, one configure file for each level, e.g. level1.pinfo, level2.pinfo, thus it will be more clear and easy to update.

       File configure:

       probability that each size of file will appear(sum of them is 100)

   2) Cloud configure:
        scale of Cloud should be configurable(e.g. 100 means orignal size, 50 means half size)

        Configure level with two clouds to demonstrate(one is original size, and the other is half size)

   3) Obstacle configure:
       cofigure for following items(don't hard code in sub entity code), implement in ObstacleEntity:

movingAction: (x1, y1, speed1), (x2, y2, speed2), ..., (xN, yN, speedN) missing if not moving, e.g moving from point1 to point2 and back to point1, (x1,y1,speed), (x2,y2,speed), (x1,y1,speed)
dashline: (x1,y1),(x2, y2)...(xN, yN) missing if no dashline

    4) about some special obstacles:

Dark Cloud: "Dark Cloud" and "electric shock" are two different obstacle entity, "electric shock" entity is created by "Dark Cloud" entity, don't create "electric shock" repeatedly, instead, create only one "electric shock" entity instance for a "Dark Cloud" entity instance

Water Pipe: "Pipe" and "Water" are two different obstacle entity, "Water" entity is created by "Pipe" entity, don't create "Water" entity repeatedly for a "Pipe"
            Length of "Water" entity is changed from 0 to N and then back to 0 repeatedly (N is configurable)
            implementation hit: don't scale it, move the Water from the one side to another side and then back, it will be partly hidden by the pipe and screen edge

5) available shields for each level should be configurable

6)  add configure file "obstacles.pinfo"
config entries:
  id (this is the type of obstacle)
  name  
  idleAction (texture1, texture2, texture3, ..., textureN)

7)  add configure file "shields.pinfo"
config entries:
  id (this is the type of shield)
  name
  texture

8) config level for each new obstacle for verification

9) config level for each shield with two obstacles for verification