Post-jam upcoming update

Graphics

Tasks

Example tasks:

• Main tasks (+2% score)
• Reach endgame (kill 1500 birds - up from 1000, since it's possible to go even above 2000 kills)
• Kill 100 birds without getting any poop on your yard - moved to main tasks, forces the player to focus, helps with accuracy and timing
• Side tasks (+1% score)
• Catch 30 bird poops
• Score 25 ricochets
• Score 100 multikills (the reason for different ricochet:multikill ratio is that scoring a multikill is most likely accidental, while ricochet requires the player to aim at the wall first)

Scoring

• Base score remains the same (5 per kill)
• Distance will only affect the base score. The Distance ranges from 1-9
• Base score will also be affected by bird's velocity
• ResultScore is incremented by PartialScore, which is added every time you hit the next bird: (BaseScore * Distance * Velocity), which can roughly give 100 points, ranging from 80-120 points (goes up even more once the birds travel at maximum velocity)
• ResultScore is also incremented by LostCombo (calculated after 5 seconds when the player loses his combo), which is CurrentCombo^2

• Max Combo: your biggest achieved combo will be the major multiplier - up to 8.3x for 2000 combo
• Poops Caught: minor bonus, add up to 13% for 50~ poops
• Accuracy: punishment factor. During the longest plays, assuming e.g. 1800 stones were misses, you lose around 24% of the total score
• Ricochets + Multikills: minor bonus, adds up to 11% to the total score after reaching the endgame

Example

Mechanics

• (DONE) Currently, the stones will keep bouncing and rolling on the floor until they stop, which takes a bit of time and can cause the player to lose combo. While it makes the gameplay more difficult, it might be a little more convenient for players if fallen stones rolled a little less. The floor will have a different material, similar when you throw a stone into the grass - they stop much faster to allow them picking up their stones earlier.
• The game will start to speed-up after 60 seconds (up to 5 times). That means, it's no longer up to the player when the speed-up occurs.
  The speed-up means the birds take less time to fly from A to B.
• (DONE) Starting from 100% accuracy, it will drop down as the thrown stone touches the ground without hitting any bird. Accuracy is an additional factor in the new scoring system.

Effects

• Stones will be twice as big
• Upon a successful hit, stones will instantly jump to another target (only once)
• You get [x] extra seconds before speed-up - [x] is unknown for now, because this requires a lot of testing and fine-tuning. Initially, 20 extra seconds.

Fixes

• (DONE) Due to the lack of time, I could not push any updates. In the beginning, the birds were pretty slow. The current score has Distance as one of the factors and all variables were multiplied. In result, player gained 0 score if the bird was very close to the player, which is understandable, there was no effort in hitting the bird - you might not have noticed this, but it's still an issue in this version. This will even things out when hitting diving birds with maximum velocity and hitting them at almost maximum distance when they stop
  Since the birds are way faster now, the distance factor will be at least one, increased by the bird's velocity, because it's quite challenging to hit them as they dive.
• (DONE) The game didn't have a frame limiter in the menu scene, which resulted in rendering as many frames as possible, causing CPU to spike up to 70% usage
• (DONE) Due to the physics timestep being limited to half of the framerate (low resource cost), player's collider will be slightly wider to make is a bit easier to catch the bird poop
• (DONE) Stones will be more visible (glowing) once they touch the ground, as currently it's hard to spot them once out of sight