breakout71/Roadmap and todo.md

Roadmap

Bugs

• the Respawn perk may cause the ball(s) to keep floating in the void, with no bricks left to hit (it has happened twice, I suppose it's related to Respawn but can't be 100% sure).
• The '+1 choice permanently' is maybe '+1 choice until run end',
• It would be nice to see which level I am on between levels since that influences choice
• The +1 level shows level count only sometimes.
• sturdy bricks catch rate of 119%

The "engine" could be better

• 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

There are many possible perks left to implement :

• 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)

Some extra levels wouldn't hurt

• famous games
• letters
• fruits
• animals
• countries flags and shapes, with name as background

Potential big features or changes

• 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 the sort of bubble colors
• 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".