Suggestions for General Arena/Combat Enhancement

[jdaltonchilders]

I let one of my co-workers play the game yesterday and they thought it was a lot of fun. He had three complaints though with the arena/combat.

1. The player needs a way to increase the rate of fire.
2. It'd be cool if your fire blast could be larger as you got stronger, so your attack area increased.
3. The cursor (mouse) needs to be brighter or just more visible on the screen.

What does everyone think about making adjusts for these suggestions?

[wfmonster]

Maybe we could have a multiplier on the rate of fire that increases as your enemy kill streak increases.

[hawkins]

Maybe we could have a multiplier on the rate of fire that increases as your enemy kill streak increases.

I'm not sure this makes much sense since once you die the game ends, so every kill is part of the kill streak? Thus you always increase in speed?

I like them all, but some thoughts:

• First sounds like a power-up. Might be hard to balance
• same as 1
• Sounds good - maybe Phaser makes this easy? Here's an example cursor Realm of the Mad God used to overcome this exact issue:

[jdaltonchilders]

@hawkins I was thinking we could use hidden variables which update when the player purchases a damage power-up.

Sweet cursor! I'll look into implementing something similar shortly.

[hawkins]

I was thinking we could use hidden variables which update when the player purchases a damage power-up.

Sounds fine by me

[jdaltonchilders]

I've updated the coin distribution and damage power-up logic. Please see PR #52 and commit 04c47ed.