February 14 Meeting Agenda

From SuperTux

The next developer's meeting will be held on Saturday, February 20^th starting at 15:00 UCT. Anybody interested in SuperTux is invited to participate. The discussion will be held on IRC, network freenode, channel #supertux. Minutes of the meeting will be made available at Meeting 2010-02-20.

The following are topics we would like to discuss. Since it's possible that we cannot address all the below issues, we might postpone some issues for a later meeting.

The minutes and IRC log for this meeting are now available.

[edit] Discussion

1. Project management
   • (Unstable) Release
     • Licenses of data files: Status of tracking down the original authors.
2. Gameplay
   • Feedback for the Yeti and Above the Arctic Skies levels.
   • Carrying objects
     • Proposed behavior
     • Small Tux should not be able to go through 1-tile tall tunnels when carrying stuff
       • Requires extending the hitbox
         • That would hurt Tux when walking under a hurting tile 1 unit off the ground, which is wrong - Mattmccutchen
     • Should held items function as a shield? (They do in SMW3)
     • Prority? (I.e.: Should this go into the next release or is this something that can wait?)
3. Source code
   • Move external libraries out of tree and require them on the system itself (distro support? Windows?)
     • tinygettext: supertux-r6306-tinygettext-external-required.patch or supertux-r6306-tinygettext-external-automagic.patch
   • Split physics, drawing, etc. apart
     • Which design pattern to use?
   • Find some way to change object constants without recompiling (sprites, Yeti bounds, velocities of various things, …)
4. Next meeting date and time

[edit] Things to do

• Document the license of data files in a file named AUTHORS or CONTRIBUTORS. See also: bug 578.
• Fix bugs / things you don't like
• Make certain game is fun
• Update wiki pages (clean up design documents)
• New levels
• Enemies (bombfish, snowman, ninja snowball, forest enemies such as owl/zeekling...)
  • Boss levels need lots of work (tree boss is confusing, totem pole is a piece of #@%&$, all are way too easy if you just stand in a corner)
• Expand levels to 25 tiles tall (max resolution is now 1280x800)
• Make certain camera/levels allow playing reasonably at 640x480 (min resolution)