• Yup was a game I spent years and years working on. It went through several code reworks and art style changes.
• I'd given up on it sometime in 2023, but I came back to it after graduating because I felt bad.
• A nice game engine I'd created was sitting right in front of me, and I didn't make a finished project with it.
• This revision wasn't to remake anything, but to finish the game with the tools I had.
• I made it simpler, removed a lot of the extra junk that was there, and fleshed it out.
• I am proud of what I created, and the people I showed it to had genuine fun playing it and came back multiple times.

• OKAY so this game was way too polished for me to drop
• But I'm noticing there was a lot more, or moreso less I could have done.
• For one, the main character assets should not change as that makes the game cluttered and confusing
• There should only be one bullet asset
• There shouldn't be worlds, only randomly generated levels that slowly get more chaotic as time goes on.

• Remove the "skins" and make the enemies only have one basic skin
  • Enemy A: Nope A
  • Enemy B: Nope B
  • Enemy C: Nope C
  • Surf-Guy: clone of Enemy A
  • Yippee: Special
  • Sandwich: Special
  • Computer: Special
  • Laser-Eye: Special
  • Jellyfish: Special
• Remove the tutorial
  • There will be less clutter, so they'll learn the complicated stuff themselves
• Remove the end results
• Remove the demo code from Play State, and remove uses of it from the Title Screen
  • It's extra bloat that isn't needed, and if it is it could be an inhereted class, not integrated
• Simplify the Game Over, and title screen
• Remove the changing bullets (they can change, but they're not supposed to normally)
• Make a new campaign/world just called "arcade"
  • There is only one enemy
  • New enemies get added every 5 levels
  • Each new enemy class has a randomly-assigned formation pattern that does not change for the entire game
    • this pulls from a random list of all the start patterns
• World BG/FG will change every 5 levels
• Special events that do graphical changes for the funsies
• Sounds.
• A shop that sells upgrades
  • Triple Shot
  • Homing Missile
  • Extra damage

I will have one week to do this (Tue 19th to Tue 26th)

• Okay so I did get a lot done
  1. Enemies are gradually unlocked as time goes on
  2. The backgrounds and such change as time goes on as well
  3. There is now a shop, and a buttload of upgrades you can use your points to purchase
  4. A lot of the previous code is now unused, and needs to be replaced.
• So now I am going to be extending this period by another week, because college keeps getting in the way of what I want to do.
  1. Difficulty scaling properly
     • Enemy attack speed goes up GREATLY during the first 10 or so levels, and then slows down to be more gradual afterwards
     • For each difficulty level an enemy class passes, they gain 1 health. Newly introduced enemies always have 1 health.
       • Probably add healthbars to this?
  2. Bosses
     • This will probably just be one boss with slight changes.
     • For each world ("difficulty level") you've gone through, the boss becomes more powerful
       • extra attack
       • more health
       • different idle state
     • Note that the formation handles bosses as just another enemy in the formation.
       • It checks if the enemy dies, and then updates for a new formation
  3. OPTIMIZE WHAT WAS ALREADY THERE
     1. Adding the GameOver/highscore state back.
        • The old one was too complicated and convoluted.
        • It just flashes the game over screen, and if you got a high score it prompts you to type your name.
     2. Optimize the title screen
        • I made emblems.
        • Emblems should be used, not some crappy dictionary thing.
        • Not gonna lie it looks bad but thats intentional
     3. FIX THE UI BORDER
        • THIS ONE IS ALSO LAME
        • IT SHOULD JUST BE PASSED THE PLAYER CLASS AND DRAW IMAGES AND MAKE EMBLEMS
        • Change the images too
        • actually this is just going to become a menu sprite like the other ones
     4. Re-add the advance state back, just as a transition so you know more things are going to be added
     5. Add a graphic that plays at the start of each level, just a little thing that says "LEVEL x" or "BOSS LEVEL"

• OKAY so college is getting in the way way too much
• 2 entire days I could have been working on this game were dedicated to studying for finals
• I have a new checklist
  1. CHANGE THE FLOOR ASSET
     • There is no longer a floor, just a platform under you that follows you, so you're technically on a ship in space
     • This stays at the bottom of the player.bar[1] position, and follows your rect.centerx value to seem like it's always catching you
  2. UPDATE THE WAY THAT MENU ASSETS BEHAVE
     • All of the menu assets behave the same, so I can just iterate through what gets drawn by a list
       • So reference all the menu assets in a dictionary and iterate [for x in x, if x.active then draw and do inputs]
     • make it so playstate has an "activate queue" so multiple items aren't activated simultaneously
       • playstate.activate_queue = {}
       • playstate.activate("gameplay")
       • then it repeatedly checks to see if said item de-activates, and then activates the next (after .popping)
     • give the menu assets a parent class since a lot of them inherit the same values
     • [NEVERMIND] give menu assets a .visible bool value, so multiple items can be drawn to the screen at the same time
  3. ADD BOSSES
     • check bosses.py for pseudocode

• College is over. I can work on bosses properly now.
• Bosses have been added.
• Making the title screen into a menu so multiple things can be added and worked with.

• This ends Tuesday.
• Condense the code down, specifically what's in Menu
• Redo ALL sound effects
  • Shoot
  • Jump
  • Land
  • Crouch
  • Uncrouch
  • Hurt (done)
  • Death (done)
  • Switch Weapon (done)
  • Enemy A bounce
  • Enemy B jump
  • Enemy * Shoot
  • Enemy Computer Shoot
  • Enemy Jellyfish Zap
  • Enemy Sammich Swoosh
  • Enemy Yippee... Yippee.
  • Enemy Yippee Death
  • Enemy Lumen Laser
  • Menu Select
  • Menu Confirm
  • Menu Back
  • Menu Denied (done)
  • Shop Buy (done)
  • Shop Denied (done)
  • Boss Explosion
  • Boss Shoot
  • Boss Shot Woosh Sound
  • Boss Birthing Noise
• Make the Lumen laser look less bad
• Finish the HighScore Menu
• Finish the About Menu

• World data no longer exists
• The gameplay assets only have lists of unlocked enemies/BGs/start patterns
• This is handled through a class filled with static methods known as Info

• I got rid of a majority of the "states" and replaced them with "MENU" assets
• These "menu" assets are pygame.sprite.Sprite(s) that handle everything themselves and leave the play state to just hold them
• Doing this, the amount of needed states has been dropped down to just Title and Play.
• advance, gameover, gameplay, lore, options, pause, and shop are all menu assets, handled entirely through playstate

• There are multiple bosses, but they all pull from one Boss class
• They all behave the same, but pull different attacks from a greater pool of global attacks
• This is to add artificial content to the game to make it feel like there's more than there really is.
• All of the attacks and states are performed within classes thhat handle all of the values themselves without pestering the boss's attributes too much.
• Because of this, there are now like 16 bosses each with sets of moves.

• While the Menu Queue was a smart idea, it seemed to introduce some new bugs that relate to the GamePlay state's init starting a game sesh.
  • I need to figure out how to fix that, because currently the gameplay state and it's creations will start immediately when the game begins.
  • I figured it out. I just made it so the gameplay state can't make windows when it's not active.
• I moved the title state to a menu now, so everything is in Play State. Lol.
• Removed levels and a bunch of other files
• Made a file that contains a "sprite" class which is just pygame.sprite.Sprite with some added values
• Removed loadlist for images, anims, and audio.
• I moved every file into respective folders so they can be categorized during imports, and made into an executable easier
• Fixed the bug where PlayState doesn't restart after a game over
• Fixed the way music plays with an "AutoSong" class

• The game is just about done now in terms of content, background workings, nerfs, buffs, etc!
• There is enough music to keep the game working perfectly and sounding unique.
• I am overall very happy about this.

• Changed the Triple Shot to work more like a Shotgun
• Changed the Wide Shot to work like a huge damageable wall
• Balanced the prices
• Fix the shop so duplicate items don't show up
• Fix the boss instakill glitch
• Add some warnings to bosses
• Add more buffs to the bullets
• [NEVERMIND] Add... gulp... a controls screen.

• Honestly mostly everything has been edited and modified in some way so it is technically mine.
• However I do have this list of assets used, although most aren't used anymore. "Harsh 8-Bit Explosion" - ImATaco "Explosion" - Kutejnikov "8bit_explosion_4.wav" - Soundholder "explosion_asteroid.wav" - runningmind "explosion1.wav" - alphatrooper18
• All of these have their names changed and I don't know what goes to what
• There are also this list of sounds I pulled off VoiceMod, which I don't think are copyrighted. "hi.wav" - Roblox: Work At a Pizza Place "bye.wav" - Roblox: Work At a Pizza Place "angry.wav" - Roblox: Work At a Pizza Place "boing0.wav" - Sonic the Hedgehog 1 "gravitycoil.wav" - Roblox: ??? "rizz.wav" - No idea. Some TV show from the early 2000s and repurposed in an old Vine. "siren.wav" - Also no idea. Also from Vine. "tada.wav" - Windows 95. Don't sue me please. "waah.wav" - Tied to the Yippee video somehow. "yippee.wav" - That video of the german kid that I don't think is copyrighted. "getout.wav" - Some GTA car show clip. "ford.wav" - The Ford startup sound when a door is open "dialup.wav" - The AOL dialup noises (not copyrighted)