Closed cursorial closed 4 years ago
nicholas-ochoa
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6 years ago Some of the initial framework is in place for this (the title.js scene and ui/ui.js scene. Ultimately, I'm planning to use Vue along with the iView UI Toolkit to build much of the interface. I explored doing a UI entirely within the game engine but the performance considerations (even using Phaser) make that less of an option - better to spend those cycles on the simulation or somewhere else.
cursorial
commented
6 years ago This is actually a much better idea to be fair, no point running it through a rendering engine.
On Mar 1, 2018 2:44 PM, "Nicholas Ochoa" notifications@github.com wrote:
Some of the initial framework is in place for this (the title.js scene and ui/ui.js scene. Ultimately, I'm planning to use Vue https://github.com/vuejs/vue along with the iView UI Toolkit https://github.com/iview/iview to build much of the interface. I explored doing a UI entirely within the game engine but the performance considerations (even using Phaser) make that less of an option - better to spend those cycles on the simulation or somewhere else.
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We should create a main menu with the following options to replicate what we see in SimCity when the game starts up.
The options should include:
Some of these options won't have implementations behind them yet, such as loading scenarios, although they could at least be created for now. It would be good to create a button component system here that can also be used for the GUI in game to keep everything consistent across the codebase.
After taking a look at the code I've noticed that we're missing some stuff, we'll need some form of game state management - it may be worth looking into using a game library of some sort so we don't have to implement that ourselves. I'd suggest Phaser. This would also help us to structure the code a bit better since currently it looks like there's a lot being handled in game.js
These are just the options from the original game, it may be worth adding other options - for example a 'Settings' option for selecting resolution/changing in-game volume, etc.
Another potential would be to set up some way for people to share maps that they've created, scenarios, assets, etc. See: OpenTTD. Would be good to allow for mods, etc.
Finally, it would be cool to see a multiplayer version of the game, not sure how far we want to move outside the scope but OpenTTD also allows for multiplayer online, it could be cool to see similar here.