A Playable Conwayste

[Manghi]

Figured we should start tracking things since we have the technology. 😛

A playable Conwayste must have the following:

• [x] Configuration Settings
• [x] User Input via Keyboard/Mouse
• [x] User Interface
• [x] Multiplayer Lobby (text-based)
• [ ] In-game configuration (aside from audio and video)
• [ ] Multiplayer Lobby (GUI)
• [ ] Server Discovery - Looking into a very simple server registry, or hard-coded server list that can be overridden
• [ ] Capable of Online Multiplayer
• [ ] Sound Effects / Music
• [ ] Game Modes (at minimum: "1v1 - wayste em", "CTF")
• [ ] Input mapping screen (#57)
• [ ] Player join/ready-to-play notification if minimized (#29)
• [ ] Standardize logging format for CW, NW, and LibCW
• [ ] README for new players (game overview, installation instructions, FAQ, etc.)

Nice-to-haves:

• [ ] Gamepad/Controller Support
• [ ] Colorblind Support - user adjustable player colors
• [ ] Level Editor
• [ ] Graphical Polish (if any additional are needed; example is adding glow effects to cells || UI animations like slide-into-view)

[Manghi]

Configuration settings was completed under rev 2cb8d29239c62fe6a26743f008099f1ef919c666.

The next item of of focus is getting a networking library written that can be integrated into Conwayste.

[AaronM04]

Awesome checklist!

[AaronM04]

So if we don't have a multiplayer lobby, how would multiplayer work? Would the server be waiting for two players to join so they can play?

[AaronM04]

Also, I would add to this under must have: a way for the user to set their own name.

And under nice to have: a level editor.

[Manghi]

I guess we need to define if "Playable" decodes as "Playable by Some", like a beta release, or "Playable by All". I now agree that the lobby should be there for 1.0. There's no real point to setting it up so that two players connect to a game without going through a lobby.