AllegroFlare 10,000 ft view

[MarkOates]

Overview

• Think/manipulate at a high level
• Have many complex/compound concepts well-formed and clarified

Desirable Outcomes

Different from project outcomes or, desirable outcomes represent things that would make AllegroFlare more appealing and attractive to a general audience.

• Motion animations controls
• Tile map creation (done with tiled, can have tutorial)
• 3d scene creation (?)
• Scene2d
• Scene3d
• Clear entity system
• Script editing
• Depth blur
• Casted shadows
• Baked shadows
• Dialogs, achievements, notifications
• Different 3d controls (fps, horizontal sliding, etc)
• Collision 2d<->2d
• Collision 3d<->3d
• Collision stepper/response system
• Audio controller with dynamic audio
• Audio ambience effects (room reverb)
• Cross-platform
• Ambient occlusion
• Multiple light sources (3 is good, point, basic fill)
• Fixed skybox
• Transparent 3D parts (sorted drawn back->front)
• Fixed acne on face edges
• Smoother frame rate strategy, no frame jumps

[MarkOates]

Consolidating stuff into this issue... here's another list:

Graphical Features

• bloom
• depth blur
• glass/lens refraction
• color curving
• fog
• billboarding sprites
• picking
• real time shadows
• reflection
• skybox (dynamic)
• post-processing features
• pixel dither

Features

• simple audio controls
• simple sound fx controls
• virtual controls customizable joystick
• display options (fullscreen/windowed)
• TitleScreen
• Notifications
• Screen transitions
• Credits screen
• Character dialogs
• Storyboard screens
• High score screen
• TileMaps, Tiled integration
• 3D scene graph
• 2D scene graph
• collision mesh
• basic 3d physics?