Working on Fishy Facts offline today:

• Copied TODOs from 20260613012434
• I think I'd like to work on the stage select on stream, so today I'm going to focus on adding the collectible screen (stamp rally passport).
• Originally, I was planning on the main characters going on multiple dates at the aquarium, where every date was at a specific part of the aquarium. At the end of every date, I was going to have the succubus buy a plushie. However, since I think it's better to let the player go to any exhibit they want whenever they want, I can't do this anymore. It also doesn't make any sense for the succubus to go to the gift store multiple times during the date. I thought that I might write it in such a way that after you complete all of the exhibits in an area, the succubus will think to herself that she should buy another plushie for the marine biologist later, without actually going to the store right away. But this doesn't work either, because all of the dialog is linear with no conditional statements. I think it works better if I just imply that a plushie has been acquired by filling in a silhouette on the map when you complete all the levels.

TODO:

• Common pain points:
  • Do some kind of animation when a puzzle is completed
• Map Select
  • Blockout of aquarium map
  • Clicking on different sections of the map zooms in so you can select an exhibit.
  • Selecting an exhibit opens the level select screen
  • Lock certain sections of the aquarium off based on progression
  • Show a plushie silhouette for each section of the aquarium that is revealed when all levels in that section are completed regardless of score
• Collectibles
  • Add stamp status to level select screen
  • Each exhibit has a stamp that you can receive when the sum of all solutions scores under a certain amount.
  • Remember stamp state of each exhibit
• Ending screen
  • Show blockout scene of main characters and collected plushies
  • Show ending text (thank you for playing, credits, etc)

For later:

• Add a way to "pin" tiles so they cannot be moved and/or rotated by the player
• More efficient import/export string for puzzles (maybe base64 encoding?)
• Change control icons based on mode state
• Return to selection mode when menu is opened
• Create UI theme to use throughout editor
• Change the 3D cursor appearance when placement is invalid
• Render held shape transparent so we can see under it
• Implement HFlip and VFlip for Shape mode
• Implement HFlip and VFlip for Tile mode
• Draw shapes we are not currently editing in a different way in shape mode
• Draw shapes we are not currently editing in a different way in tile mode
• Add a way to regroup tiles into a new shape
• Add preview for path that is about to be placed
• Restrict path placement to valid locations
• Show invalid placement icon
• Show icons on leaks
• Use different shapes for each color
• Show which colors are completed