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Pandaqi / In-the-Same-Boat

Jackbox-style game where you try to sail a ship together - discovering treasures and battling your friends.
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Show ship orientation #13

Closed Pandaqi closed 5 years ago

Pandaqi commented 5 years ago

I thought I would be able to skew/rotate/scale sprites to show the orientation. Phaser, somehow, doesn't support this in any reasonable way.

As such, I think I need to display a cursor underneath each unit.

This is a simple circle/rectangle (outlined), with an arrow clearly pointing in the orentation direction.

With this in place, units can just always be displayed in the same way. (In fact, in most cases, I don't think orientation is even necessary/available information?)

Pandaqi commented 5 years ago

... is this even necessary?

WELL, it might be an upgrade level. If the cartographer is upgraded enough, he can see the orientation of other ships. This might be valuable information.

(Of course, we need to keep track of orientation for monsters and AI ships, in that case. Or not. Maybe it only works on player ships.)

Man ... the cartographer's upgrades should become more expensive. They're too good!