cappercapacitor-gb

An original action platformer for the Game Boy

Planning

• PICO-8
  • Animated sprite viewer
  • Art design
  • Gameplay test
    • Background and collision detection
    • Camera control

Development

• Stage 1
  • Clean up code from the last game
  • New / temporary background tiles
  • Add meta-sprites
    • Capper
    • Look left and right, animated
  • Increase map size
    • Full size of VRAM
    • Camera follows player
    • Camera stops at edge of map
    • Update jump physics
  • Hazards
    • New sprites for lasers, saws, spikes
    • Update collision detection
  • Recreate stage from last game

Ideas

• Look and feel
  • Large sprites
    • Capper 16x24
    • Dust 16x16
    • Sparks 8x8?
    • Lasers 8x whatever
    • No background elements smaller than 16x16
  • Digital cute
    • Cute Capper?
      • Bouncy, rounded, floppy top hat
    • Cute sparks?
    • Cute dust?
    • Cute backgrounds? Rounded corners? Big circles?
  • Colors
    • All sprites are black outlines, dark gray shading
    • Stage elements are black outlines, use white sparingly
    • All backgrounds white or light gray
• Hazards
  • Spikes
    • Floor
    • Ceiling
    • Walls
  • Lasers
    • Horizontal
    • Vertical
  • Sparks
    • Four frames of animation?
    • White with black outline?
    • Bouncing left / right
    • Bouncing up / down
    • Shooting horizontal / vertical
    • Bouncing diagonal
• Controls
  • Variable height jumps?
    • Tap for short jump, hold for high jump
  • Down to duck
• Collectables
  • Dust balls
    • Collect all to complete the stage?
    • Collect all for best score?
    • Adjacent dust forms a cohesive dust area?
• Health
  • One hit deaths
    • Stage resets completely?
      • If too challenging then the stage should be smaller / simpler?
  • No bosses
• 40 stages?
  • Mirror mode? Get from "end" to "start"?
  • Hard mode? Hazards move 2x speed?