Investigate the use of a Boot scene for the managers, singleton and persistent services

[jChicote]

Note include the research notes in this ticket. Otherwise move it into a seperate Google Doc

[jChicote]

Progress with Boot scene

• Primary Managers are refactored out
• A game startup handler and scene startup handler is created

Proposed design for the handling dependencies

• For now make fields public for access
• Properly name the target class or object
• Have a seperate object responsible for managing the debug state of the scene.

[jChicote]

Notes on each manager:

SceneManager:

Objects it requires for setup (This may be a problem as running this from any scene requires these objects to exist if wanting to prepare the scene.0

• SceneLoaders
• Third person camera
• main Camera
• Existing player
• InputManagement
• Enemy Tracking
• Rewind Manager

What we want for the debug scene?:

• When opening and testing a lone item
  • All persistent objects are loaded and available
  • All scene scoped objects are loaded and available
  • All scene scoped objects initialise and validate to only run logic if that dependency exists.
  • A Debug Game and Scene Starters exist to handle intialisation logic or method invocation outside of typical game scene loop
    • Might highjack existing initalisation or behavior to ensure that logic mimics the prodoction environment.

Challenges:

• This will affect multiple areas
• This will require refactoring on different controllers

[jChicote]

Scope change

There needs to be more cleanup work in order for the code to be more verbose to the ready. Whilst the classes are being prepared to be applied to the bootscene. A struturtal role might be in place in order to prevent previous mistakes.

[jChicote]

Scope change:

The production scene contains controllers for checkpoints that are not properly managed now that the CheckpointManager is moved to the Scene level rather than the game persistent level

• [ ] Rename CheckpointManager to CheckpointController
• [ ] Fix references to the CheckpointController
• [ ] Create a CheckpointManager instance in production scene
• [ ] Create a seperate scene handler to handle the checkpoint systems
• [ ] Test the checkpoint system

Additionally we want to investigate any possible further issues and changes we need:

• [ ] Test and investigate any new bugs
• [ ] Investigate new issues that can derive from the present state of the management layer