Kingdoms -- Changes and Todo list

Todo list

To be completed during Alpha development

• Develop high level computer player intelligence. (Med)
• Develop medium level computer player intelligence. (Med)
• Add computer player personalities. Integrate into New Game dialog. (Low)
• Add sound support in app, and add sounds to theme. (High)
• Design screen to display when there is no game in progress. (Med)
• License terms. (Med)
• Show selected item in info panel. (Med)
• Allow user choice of size of continent? (Low)
• Support for 640 x 480 screen resolution. Some things may have to auto-resize, or disappear, for this resolution. (Med)
• Add "how to play" help. (High)
• Add complete help. (Low)
• Add context menu for right mouse click (High)
• Add surrendering of human players. (Med)
• Add shooting radius to menus??? (Low)
• Indicate which is the successful defender of an invasion move. (Med)
• Show the path that a still moveable item has taken?? (Low)
• Add obvious GUI method to cancel a move (same as ESC). (High)
• Change Add and Upgrade to only show... 1. Peasant, 2. Spear, 3. Bow, 4. Horse, 5. Village. Change Upgrade to use add on top of an existing item. ??? (9-08-05 Tried this -- Rejected for now)
• Make items end turn for non-invasion moves too. This would solve a number of other problems. ??? (Med)
• For computer only games make End Turn button Pause/Resume Game. Also modify the menu item. (Med)
• Allow game to be played using only the keyboard. (Low)
• Animate some of the moves (e.g. shooting). (Low)
• Re-create images according to the zoom factor. (Low)
• Add comment bubble for booty, and for showing defender. (Med)
• Remember window coordinates for next time app is started. (Med)
• Add summary map to info panel. (Low)
• Make default theme look visually appealing. (Med)
• Bugs to fix
  • [5-Aug-2005] After adding a new person, then HQ moves, the person may not have the correct start square. Is this really a problem? If it is, how should it be fixed? (Med)
  • [5-Aug-2005] Disable End Turn during computer turn. (Low)
  • [9-Aug-2005] Need to sort out refunded money for some merges (e.g. So + BM -- refund for Bow). (Med)
  • [9-Aug-2005] If a man has a turn-orig-pos, then merging should only allow man to move his normal distance.. (Med)
  • [11-Aug-2005] Initial size of menu must be wrong, as lines are drawn in the wrong place. (Low)
  • [26-Aug-2005] Popup menus sometimes dissapear as pointer goes into them. (Low)

To be completed during Beta development

• Add graphics + theme editor.
• Add zoom + scroll bars.
• Make skinnable + add skin selection?
• Installer.
• Continent designer.
• Add network play.
• Add loading and saving of continents.
• Add some specially designed initial maps... e.g. europe, america, world? etc.
• Translations to other languages?

Changes list

Completed in current Alpha development (0.4 Alpha) (unreleased)

• Add distance attacks with spears (1) and arrows (2), instead of increased defense radius. (High) (Done 12-Aug-2005)
• Added zooming. (Low) (Done 14-Aug-2005)
• Increased number of players from 5 to 8. (Low) (Done 26-Aug-2005)
• Add expenses and booty to financial summary. (Low) (Done 26-Aug-2005)
• Modify the cursor to show the merged item type. (Low) (Done 28-Aug-2005)
• Change colour of path way to represent valid and invalid distances. (Low) (Done 28-Aug-2005)
• Add pie chart for territory. (High) (Done 28-Aug-2005)
• Sort out surrendering of computer players if there is only one human player left. Detect when game is completely won by one player. (Med) (Done 29-Aug-2005)
• Fix title bar info. (Med) (Done 29-Aug-2005)
• Guaranteed that each player will have at least one kingdom to start with. (Med) (Done 29-Aug-2005)
• Centred continent in window if smaller then window. (Low) (Done 3-Oct-2005)
• Fixed initial display of scrollbars for an instant. (Low) (Done 3-Oct-2005)
• Added black shadow to land. (Low) (Done 3-Oct-2005)
• Moved game UI code from view into its own window. (Med) (Done 3-Oct-2005)
• Moved "End Turn" button into player name area of info panel. This will now be visible even in 640x480 resulution. (Low) (Done 14-Nov-2005)
• Reorganised player name area in info panel to use less vertical space. (Low) (Done 14-Nov-2005)
• Bugs to fix
  • [5-Aug-2005] Make computer play when is 1st player. (Low) (Done 29-Aug-2005)
  • [29-Aug-2005] After an upgrade an item can't be dragged. (Low) (Done 29-Aug-2005)
  • [9-Aug-2005] Merging two men together should take turn-orig-pos of the man that didn't move. (Med) (Done 4-Oct-2005)

Completed in Alpha release (0.3 Alpha) (11-Aug-2005)

• Develop low level computer player intelligence. (High) (Continued 5-Aug-2005)
• Only allow low computer intelligence in New Game dialog. (Med) (Done 4-Aug-2005)
• Reduce flickering in info panel. (Low) (Done 5-Aug-2005)
• Added scroll bars on the main continent view. (Low) (Done 7-Aug-2005)
• Add colours to new game dialog. (Low) (Done 8-Aug-2005)
• Add icons to menus. (High) (Done 8-Aug-2005)
• Add Level, Speed to menus. (Low) (Done 8-Aug-2005)
• Show item under mouse cursor during placement. (Med) (Done 9-Aug-2005)
• Make menus stay on screen. (Low) (Done 9-Aug-2005)
• Don't clear current selection on undo. (Low) (Done 10-Aug-2005)
• Change mouse cursor when over item. (Low) (Done 10-Aug-2005)
• Add last/next to financial summary. (Med) (Done 10-Aug-2005)
• Have greyed item instead of stop cursor for illegal positions. (Med) (Done 10-Aug-2005)
• Add tooltip for hovering over Kingdoms and items on the board. (High) (Done 10-Aug-2005)
• Warn if no human players in New Game dialog. It is an error to have selected no human or computer players in New Game dialog. (Low) (Done 11-Aug-2005)
• Show distance count on path way in partial move. (Low) (Done 11-Aug-2005)
• Allow user to move info panel to right side if required. (Low) (Done 11-Aug-2005)
• Add click-and-drag to move items. (High) (Done 11-Aug-2005)
• Bugs to fix
  • [5-Aug-2005] Unable to move person after they have been upgraded. (High) (Done 5-Aug-2005)
  • [1-Aug-2005] Make permanent action menu items fill whole width of window. (Low) (Done 5-Aug-2005)
  • [9-Aug-2005] Computer players seem to be able to delete their own HQs. Doh! (High) (Done 10-Aug-2005)
  • [7-Aug-2005] Draw path info in correct place when view is scrolled. (High) (Done 10-Aug-2005)
  • [5-Aug-2005] Draw submenu arrows as part of drawing the MenuWndEntry, rather than as part of CGrTextItem. (Low) (Done 11-Aug-2005)

Completed in Alpha release (0.2 Alpha) (4-Aug-2005)

• Show also wages in purchase menus. Line up numbers too. (High) (Done 1-Aug-2005)
• Implement continent number seeding on New Game dialog. (High) (Done 2-Aug-2005)
• Don't allow upgrades from horsed characters to unhorsed characters (High) (Done 2-Aug-2005)
• Work on web pages for games.7sun.com to make them look nicer. (High) (Done 2-Aug-2005)
• Add restart turn, and multiple single move undo capability. (High) (Done 3-Aug-2005)
• Implement initial simple computer player intelligence. (High) (Done 4-Aug-2005)
• Changed building powers from 2,3,3 to 1,2,3. Changed building defense radius from 1,2,2 to 1,1,1. Changed building costs from 15,30,45 to 10,20,30. (Done 4-Aug-2005)
• Add auto computer end-turn. (Done 4-Aug-2005)
• Bugs to fix
  • [2-Aug-2005] After new person is placed, fix bug with distance restrictions. (High) (Done 3-Aug-2005)
  • [4-Aug-2005] Original position reset to -1 after upgrade. (High) (Done 4-Aug-2005)
  • [4-Aug-2005] Unhorsed to horsed training should restrict to same or better in person's training. (High) (Done 4-Aug-2005)

Completed for first Alpha release (0.1 Alpha) (28-Jul-2005)

• Show player to move. (Done Jul-2005)
• Add end turn button. (Done Jul-2005)
• Only allow selection of kingdoms whose player is to move. (Done Jul-2005)
• Add 2 frames (4 frames?) animation. (Done Jul-2005)
• Change board to hexagons (was circles). (Done Jul-2005)
• Look at menus (need to be ratified). (Done Jul-2005)
• Add all types of moves. (Done Jul-2005)
• Add moves feedback for the user. (Done Jul-2005)
• About box (Done Jul-2005)
• Update actions after a move. (Done Jul-2005)
• Grey out actions during a move. (Done Jul-2005)
• Generate better continents. (Done Jul-2005)
• Simple initial theme (medieval). (Done Jul-2005)
• Look at toolbar (remove it). (Done Jul-2005)
• Show player number + name in info panel. (Done Jul-2005)
• Make graphics work on more pixel depths (even if it looks poor on the paletted depths). (Done Jul-2005)
• Add gravestones. (Done Jul-2005)
• Update new game dialog. (Done Jul-2005)
• Bugs to fix
  • [Jul-2005] Don't make HQs for players who aren't playing. (Done Jul-2005)
  • [Jul-2005] Remove selection on End Turn. (Done Jul-2005)
  • [Jul-2005] Don't show 'stop' cursor for replacing piece back in it's original position. (Done Jul-2005)
  • [Jul-2005] Use distance qualification for building placement too. (Done Jul-2005)
  • [Jul-2005] Grey out action menu during partial move. (Done Jul-2005)
  • [Jul-2005] Don't allow placing new buildings on top of HQs. (Done Jul-2005)
  • [Jul-2005] Don't allow double click during partial move. (Done Jul-2005)
  • [Jul-2005] HQs in kingdoms of size 1 should vanish. (Done Jul-2005)
  • [Jul-2005] Man should die in kingdom of size 1. (Done Jul-2005)

Page last revised by Admin, 3 October 2005.