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pjasicek / OpenClaw

Reimplementation of Captain Claw (1997) platformer

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Roadmap 2: What's next #72

Closed pjasicek closed 7 years ago

pjasicek commented 7 years ago

Current state:

Levels 1-4 are good enough for me - there are no game-breaking major issues that I know of. The game is stable and does not crash at all in the first 4 levels.

FPS is good enough at the moment - 1100 - 1300 FPS on GTX 760 GPU and i5 3.4GHz CPU. But FPS varies from level to level.

Windows - OK Linux (all distros) - OK MacOS - OK Android - Compilable, playable but not yet supported iOS (iPad + iPhone) - Not supported, but feasible Windows Phone - Not supported, not plans to support it

Overall, the progress over 3 months was tremendous from my point of view (over 20k C++ LoC were written and over 15k XML LoC were created). If I can push myself the same way in the following months at l will be very happy with myself.

Future plans: (1.7. - 1.10. 2017)

Implement levels 5, 6
Support android platform - make APK and distribute it freely on Google store
Enhance boss logics
Attempt to add cutscene cinematics

pjasicek commented 7 years ago

Coming back to the project was a bit hard. But more commits, features and fun should follow.

pjasicek commented 7 years ago

Level 5 done !

pjasicek commented 7 years ago

Level 6 done !

What next:

Make ingame menu screen after pressing escape
Make end screen after defeating level 6 boss (implementing levels 1-6 was the main goal) and then move back to main screen
Focus on various bugfixes (there are not so many) throughout the levels
Enhance boss logics (some of them have the ability to jump back instead of taking damage and so on)
Compile and store on github the whole Android toolchain and precompiled libraries
Figure out controls on Android
Attempt to add cutscene cinematics (ffmpeg library is needed for this which is a bit collosal)

pjasicek commented 7 years ago

Ingame menu done. This time I was really glad when I invested quite a lot of time in proper design of Main Menu implementation in first place - 99% of the ingame menu is based on that.

pjasicek commented 7 years ago

Plans for now:

Make captainclaw-1.0-1.deb package for debian distribution
Make captainclaw-1.0-1.rpm package for fedora/centos distribution

jstasiak commented 7 years ago

Regarding distributing the application to users - I'd be happy to help with a Homebrew package for mac os. There are two considerations here:

there need to be version numbers that can be used in package definition
I think the name captainclaw is too generic (there's no way to distinguish the original game and this project by name alone which may create confusion and maybe even a legal liability)

pjasicek commented 7 years ago

it should probably be called "openclaw" or something like that. TTD open source project named itself also "OpenTTD" and there was no problem with that. I am welcome to any suggestions.

As captainclaw being too generic - there is no linux version of original CaptainClaw so it should not be a problem, but on Windows it is undistinguishable.

jstasiak commented 7 years ago

Yeah, although I meant it more in a platform-independent project name way. Regardless - I really like openclaw, it has a nice ring to it.

pjasicek commented 7 years ago

As of now I am officially happy with the result. I played first 2 levels and I could not really see any noticable difference between original game and this reimplementation regarding gameplay.

This week I will make packages for distributions - deb/rpm/msi.

pjasicek commented 7 years ago

Project renamed to "OpenClaw"