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Readme.md

@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ Break colourful bricks, catch bouncing coins and select powerful upgrades !
 - [Play now](https://breakout.lecaro.me/)  
 - [Post your comments on itch.io](https://renanlecaro.itch.io/breakout71)   
 - [Help and tips about the game](./Help.md)
-- [Credits](./Credits.md)
-- [Project Roadmap](./Roadmap.md)
+- [Credits](./Credits.md) 
 - [Open source android version on F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.lecaro.breakout/)  
 - [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.lecaro.breakout)  
 - [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/lecarore/breakout71)  
@@ -21,4 +20,148 @@ It's very lean and does not take much storage space (Roughly 0.1MB).
 If the app stutters, turn on "fast mode" in the settings to render a simplified view that should be faster.
 There's also an easy mode for kids (slower ball).
 
-The web version is known to work on firefox 
+# bugs
+
+- having Hot Start and Single puck hit streak perks in a run resets combo from start [29014379] 
+- The ball goes through Sturdy bricks sometimes, but it does not break 
+nor bounce back after hitting them (and indeed this does not cause a 
+miss). In the video you can clearly witness it several time, and it 
+becomes especially apparent towards the end. I guess this is somehow 
+related to Color Piercing or Piercing (or both).
+- Easy Cleanup activates twice if the latest Respawn happens before all 
+the coins have been caught or fallen off screen. As you can see, I had 
+Lv 1 on both the perks: the ball hit the second to last brick, the last 
+one is automatically destroyed, but then another one gets respawned and 
+quickly destroyed again.
+- Boring cheat – I found out a way to farm points: if you have Respawn 
+Lv 3 or 4 you can endlessly hit the same cluster of bricks, and if you 
+manage to put the pluck in a comfortable position (i.e. straight line) 
+it's very easy to farm plenty of coins with the aid of appropriate combo 
+perks. No video though, this happened on the app while I was playing 
+casually (it's quite easy to reproduce, though). I wouldn't do that 
+because it's mind-numbingly dull, but still I'm not sure this kind of 
+play is intended or if it should even be allowed.
+- Combo balancing – one thing that makes the best strategy overly 
+dominant is the way combo resets abruptly with everything other than 
+Compound Interest, which pairs exceptionally well to Coin Magnet (which 
+is in itself instrumental to scoring high). If the other combos would 
+scale down accordingly (i.e. 1 coin less when you hit the 
+walls/ceiling/puck – or at least drop some percentage, but not all of 
+the combo at once). This would instantly make many more strategies and 
+combinations viable, because right now it doesn't make much sense to 
+pair Compound Interest to any other combo perks (except in very specific 
+circumstances).
+
+
+# Game engine features  
+
+- the onboarding feels weird, missing a tutorial
+- Players can't choose the initial perk
+- apk version soft locks at start.    
+- shinier coins by applying glow to them ? 
+- ask for permanent storage
+- It's a bit confusing at first to grasp that one upgrade is applied randomly at the start of the game
+- on mobile, add an element that feels like it can be "grabbed" and make it shine while writing "Push here to play"
+- add a clickable button to allow sound to play in chrome android
+- offline mode with service worker
+- add pwe manifest 
+- see how to do fullscreen on ios, or at least explain to do aA/hide toolbars
+- experiment with showing the combo somewhere else, maybe top center, maybe instead of score. 
+- more help somewhere accessible
+- limit GC by reusing coins and particles
+- convert captures to mp4 unsing ffmpeg wasm because reddit refuses webm files
+- few puck bounces = more choices / upgrades
+- disable zooming (for ios double tap)
+- particles when bouncing on sides / top
+- show total score on end screen (score added to total) 
+- show stats on end screen compared to other runs
+- handle back bouton in menu 
+- mouvement relatif du puck
+- balls should collide with each other
+- when game resumes near bottom, be unvulnerable for .5s ? , once per level
+- apply global curve / brightness to canvas when things blow, or just always to make neon effect better
+- manifest for PWA (android and apple)  
+- lights shadows  
+- Offline mode web for iphone 
+- controller support on web/mobile
+- webgl rendering
+- enable export of gameplay capture in webview
+- endgame histograms could work as filters, when you hover a bar, all other histograms would show the stats of those runs only, without changing reference of categories
+- sound when ball changes color
+- option : don't pause on mobile when lifting finger
+- option : accelerated relative movements on mobile
+- maybe just have 10 background, and always use the same one for the nth level of each run  ?  
+- would be nice to have a leaderboard for not using each perk too. Like "best runs without hot start"
+- restart run on r
+- when missing, redo particle trail, but give speed to particle that matches ball direction
+
+# Perks ideas 
+
+- second puck (symmeric to the first one)
+- keep combo between level, loose half your run score when missing any bricks
+- offer next level choice after upgrade pick
+- ban 3 random perks from pool, doesn't tell you which ones, gain 2 upgrades 
+- 3 random perks immediately, or maybe "all level get twice as many upgrades, but they are applied randomly, and you aren't told which ones you have."
+- wrap left / right
+- pause and cheat again 
+- wrap top / bottom : coins fall back from top of screen, ball flies to the top and comes back from the screen bottom ? 
+- faster coins, double value
+- +1 upgrade per level but -2 choices
+- n% of the broken bricks respawn when the ball touches the puck
+- bricks break 50% of the time but drop 50% more coins
+- wind (puck positions adds force to coins and balls)
+- balls repulse coins
+- n% of coins missed respawn at the top
+- lightning : missing triggers and explosive lighting strike around ball path
+- coins repulse coins (could get really laggy)
+- balls repulse coins
+- balls attract coins
+- twice as many coins after a wall bounce, twice as little otherwise ? 
+- fusion reactor (gather coins in one spot to triple their value)
+- missing makes you loose all score of level, but otherwise multiplier goes up after each breaking
+- soft reset, cut combo in half instead of zero
+- missile goes when you catch coin
+- missile goes when you break a brick
+- puck bounce +1 combo, hit nothing resets
+- multiple hits on the same brick (show remaining resistance as number) 
+- bricks attract ball
+- replay last level (remove score, restores lives if any, and rebuild )
+- accelerometer controls coins and balls
+- bricks attract coins
+- breaking bricks stains neighbours
+- extra kick after bouncing on puck
+- transparent coins
+- coins of different colors repulse
+- bricks follow game of life pattern with one update every second 
+- 2x coins when ball goes downward / upward, half that amount otherwise ?
+- new ball spawns when reaching combo X
+- missing with combo triggers explosive lightning strike
+- correction : pick one past upgrade to remove and replace by something else 
+- puck bounce predictions rendered with particles or lines (requires big refactor)
+- the more balls are close to a brick, the more coins she spawns when breaking
+
+# extra levels
+
+- famous games
+- letters
+- fruits
+- animals
+- countries flags and shapes, with name as background
+
+# big features
+
+- use ts and a bundler to get fewer bugs and compatibility with old browsers / webviews
+- final bosses (large vertical level that scrolls down faster and faster)
+- split screen multiplayer
+- translation
+- Add color schemes into the game (ex : Catppuccin, Dracula, Terminal, etc)
+- add a toggle to switch between the “coin” design and colored bubbles
+- sandbox mode
+- hard mode : bricks take many hits, perks more rare, missing clears level score, missing coins deducts score..
+- stats by lack of perk, like "best score without using hot start". 
+
+Instead of automatically unlocking things at the end of each run, add the coins to the user's account, 
+and let them spend those coins on upgrades. The upgrades would then be explained. They could have a condition like
+"reach high score of 1000" or 'reach high score of 99999 without using "hot start"'. 
+This requires recording a bit more info about each run. 
+I could unlock the "pro stand" at $999 that just holds the play area higher.