Buggy behavior, but progress!

A number of bugfixes and significant progress since I started. Feeling pretty good. May upload a demo soon

Bug Fixes

• Left most basin was not positioned properly - which is why it was being ignored, even by the L Balls. This is kind of fixed though there is a graphical glitch - the balls do wind up in the proper basin.
• H-Bomb & V-Bombs (Lightning) behavior is correct, and the balls will fall if the H-bomb goes off below them now.
• Lightning should not trigger game over if it lands on a full basin
• Still some issues with balls not clearing properly an the last dropped ball sprite lingering. I think I've fixed that though.
• Probably plenty more I'm not thinking of.

Progress/Additions

• H-Bomb & V-Bomb (Lightning) working
• Wildcard behavior working
• Paint Bombs seem to be working
• Added small sfx here and there
• Added explosion animation for cleared rows and H-Bomb.
• Changing available balls based on "difficulty" - TBD what that actually means though.
• Title screen placeholder, Info Screen, and Gameover Screen + Logic.

Next Steps

• Fix Clone Ball logic
• Fix scoring - right now its just nonsense placeholder numbers
• Fix graphic glitch/issue with balls falling into left most basin
• Source background music
• Wildcard ball may trigger line clear on 2 unique colors. Saw that occasionally but am having trouble replicating that bug.

Design Doc

Current status of the design document is a little hairy, but it works for my own note taking. Some highlights:

Sprites

I tried to keep it so that sprites 1-4 in the one's column corresponded to the ball colors in order, so 01 is a red ball, 11 is a red paint bomb, 21 is a left red ball, and 31 is a right red ball. It helped a little bit with simplifying some functions.

Modes

• Baby mode – one color only. Mostly used for debugging.
• Easy Mode – two colors
• Hard mode – 3 colors
• Nightmare Mode – 4 colors
• Insanity – no power ups.

Accomplishing this by having a ball_pool{} array which will just list all the various sprites. When initialized it draws from the list of available balls based on what mode is selected, preserving a ratio of regular balls to special balls (need to tweak that a little still methinks - as the special balls are still fairly common at ~30% frequency.)