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%
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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".