Catalyst

This project uses FastNoiseLite.

TODO

• Basic world generation
• Basic Player Entity
• Working Collision System
• Solve Graphical Problems
• Sprite2D
• Tiles System
• Enable "Nullable" in project for better type safety
• Decouple game world logic from LoadContent()
  • Use a main Spritesheet and make sprites only point to them
  • Or alternatively load all sprites - and keep them in a dictionary where Sprites look them up
• Good resolution and automatic scaling
  • Reverse engineer how many tiles fit in the Terraria's screen
• Basic Input System (Keyboard)
  • Core, Keyboard
  • Mouse
• Only render what's visible
• Basic World Generation
  • Passes
  • Layers
  • Change spawn (not working with caves)
• Add map/debug mode to help see whole map
  • Basic Input Handling for that
• More complex world generation
  • Better caves
  • Blending
  • Refactor
  • Stone, dirt, clay patch passes
  • Test variations GARBAGE
• Random should be singletons/factory
  • Remember to use it on the offset fiasco that's happening in the passes and masks
• Skybox
• Tile Types from XML (data-driven approach)
• Lighting
  • Ambient
  • Light source tiles
  • Player must be illuminated as well
• Walls (starbound-style)
  • Destructible/Placeable walls
  • Affects lighting
  • Add torch to player for easier debugging
  • Allow player to place them
• Vegetation
  • Grass
  • Trees
  • Plants in general
• Autotiling/Atlas
• Tile State (Manager)
• Objects
• Entity System
• Player Interaction with the world
  • Actions (no need to generalize for Entity right now)
• UI
• Make Input Action registering data-driven (like in godot)
• Saving
• Chunking
• Generation Improvements
  • Need an algorithm for longer, winding caves
    • Maybe perlin worms?
• Layer specific parallax walls
  • Affects lighting as well
• Improve lighting (I can see a cross)