To-dos

Design

• Do not forget to review the #interesting tag in the ists document

UI thinking

• Did do this Should I pop definitions in somewhere, maybe after you select a level you see a definition, and then the game? Some of the ists are pretty confusing and I don’t think it’s all that interesting in this case to say the game defines them?

Testing

• Play them all and note down issues/changes
• Read through all texts
  • Copyist bad outro
  • Demist no outro
  • Gist needs no-apple outro (e.g. you don’t get the gist?)
  • Typist should end on “REDRUM”
• Send to J+M when done

Release

• Main page
• Press kit
• Journal entry
• Testing mobile
• Testing (just reading the texts etc.)
• Website
• Reddit, that discord, Bluesky

• Contact Press

• Closing statement

General

• Question of points - does every one need it? e.g. Onanist?

Definition

• Add menu button/keys if needed

Alarmist

• Carefuls if you’re ever next to the wall as well

Checklist

• Yeah that seems bad somehow Add “flirt with death”? (i.e. get within one tile of a wall or yourself?) Maybe a bit overwrought
• Add “get moving”

Nudist

• Implement skin shedding version

Obstructionist

• Errors after quit (presumably a timer, presumably a setTimeout instead of a Phaser.Timer)

Persist

• Some weirdness around restarting… feels like persist shouldn’t be able to be restarted/menu’ed once it’s there (should remove its ability and the indicator it can)

Twist

• Rotating the camera feels like a bit of a… game changer? Feels underwhelming… could we rotate more stuff? Groups around their centre? The canvas?
• Rotate back to normal on die?

Typist

• Double-eat on space apple is a problem
• Need to check if score still being affected by carriage return (think not)
• I did. Let’s see. Clear the text for the game over? Maybe not?

Bugs

• Something weird happens to controls text over time “ARROWS CONTROL SNAKE SNAKE SNAKE” some kind of additive issue
• Struggling to reproduce right now? Apple randoms around instead of being stable in Deist
• Alarmist doesn’t show gameover text and doesn’t reset camera on death and doesn’t have controls text visible (sounds pretty interrelated)
• Just moved away from Hammer. On mobile swipes progressively trigger more often???
• Conformist straight up broken… or rather lets me go off the right edge?
• Fixed…? But… how can it be? Apple positioning still insane in Deist… why?
• Sped it up and also set arousal higher after hideControls so the snake starts out a bit horny Onanist feels a little slow
• Think it’s okay Not 100% copies are actually dying when they should
• Saw that bug with this and controls (repeating)
• I cared. It was largely that the snakeHead wasn’t having its origin set and added snake bits weren’t either. Don’t know how much I care but when twist unrotates things aren’t aligned normally?