Level end screen

[michalove]

Three comments from the survey:

• One person thinks that the three statistics are uncovered too slowly. Maybe reduce the delay between them?
• It was unclear was "survived" means. We should rename it to "Success on first try" or "No death" or something
• The animation for the button presses is super cute, but a bit too long. Some people almost did not see the rock falling down. The solution is to either make it faster or shorter or to somehow clearly indicate when the animation is over (some animations are over immediately, some take some time)

[Germanunkol]

• I already sped up the statistics when we first started the demo and I read that comment. It's about 2 or 3 times as fast now. We can speed it up more, but its already much faster than it was when the person commented.
• Changed the "Survived" to "no deaths". This is indeed much better.
• I agree that the button level end animation is too long, and we can make it shorter. Maybe an indication is useful, too (small blinking "play" button, or fading to another, more greyish, color once animation is done?). On the other hand, the fact that the animation isn't indicated gives us space for "hidden" animations and fun stuff: For example, did you notice that the statue with the player infront of it blinks every 10 or so seconds? This way the player might notice something new after playing the game for a few hours, which I think is kinda cool. So maybe we shouldn't add an extra "indication", but rather make it more obvious that the button animation is still playing, for example let the player move more at the times where he's currently standing still....?

[michalove]

• the speed is fine like that. After all the player can still skip the animations, by pressing a button
• great
• When I wrote the above issue, I only copied, what was written in the survey, not necessarily my opinion. I personally think it is totally fine to have longer animations. I totally agree which your argument. I think the game should be full of details that only become visible, if you pay attention. That would hopefully give it some sort of "mystery" feel.

I notices, after you implemented the background shader, the game flashes when I reach the exit-flag. I believe it is a shader-change-issue. Can you have a look?

[Germanunkol]

Yeah, the whole canvas-drawing and shading isn't all that pretty sometimes. I can have a look, but do we want a shader in the end? At the moment it's not really needed - we can just tweak the color of the images later on. If we add any more effects to this shader, I will fine-tune it of course, but if it's just for quickly testing the colors, I don't think we should bother...

So as soon as we decide we want to keep the shader in there (to add some more advanced effect), I'll look deeper into it, all right?

[michalove]

I was thinking, we could have the background in an arbitrary color later on (picked by the level designer). If we do that, then also the coloring of the background-tiles has to be able to handle arbitrary colors. If I recall correctly, it is possible to draw images with a color (using a blend mode). I don't remember however, if it is possible to mix the image with a prescribed color (for example 50/50). The standard blend mode (multiply) will only make everything dark.