Working on fishy facts on stream:

• Copied TODOs from 20260616211212
• Focusing on polishing in preparation for the next playtest. I already did everything I absolutely need to do and I won't be able to work on the game during the last week of the month.

Vertical Slice:

• Nice looking title screen
• Do some kind of animation when a puzzle is completed
• Remove all author names from UI
• Music:
  • Title screen
  • VN
  • Touch Pool
  • Tidal Pool
  • Open Sea
  • Kelp Forest
  • Coral Reef
  • Deep Sea
• Sounds:
  • Pick up tile
  • Place tile
  • Button click
  • Color completion
  • Puzzle completion
• Touch Pool Exhibits:
  • Sea Urchin levels
  • Manta Ray levels
  • Hermit Crab levels
  • Starfish levels
• Visual Novel:
  • Exiting touchpool dialog
  • Background
  • Succubus drawing
  • Marine Biologist drawing
  • Show thank you for playing demo text
• Map Select
  • Blockout of aquarium map
  • Clicking on different sections of the map zooms in so you can select an exhibit.
  • Lock certain sections of the aquarium off based on progression
  • Hovering over an exhibit focuses it (with an outline? glow?)
  • Controller navigation
  • Move dialog to map icon
• Collectibles
  • 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
  • Button to open/close stamp passport

TODO:

• Support narrative dialog per-character instead of only generic narrator
• Tell Godot Resource manager that JSON is updated after edit.
• Level select doesn't focus on open
• Level select doesn't focus when returning
• Popup to confirm exiting game
• Popup to skip dialog during VN
• 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
• Fix 3D cursor transparency overdraw
• 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
• Show which colors are completed
• Replace white and black star shape with cross shape (star shape becomes indistinguishable from square when all paths are connected to it)
• Raise the dot in the middle of dotted shapes so that it is not recessed
• Show ending scene of main characters and collected plushies
• Add cursor representing pivot
• Constrain cursor to puzzle bounds
• Fix controls on Steam Deck