Working on fishy facts on stream:

• TODOs copied from 20260918213218
• Last showed the game at Let's Glow! BART Anime Festival 202609191400 Kin-Yoobi 20260920163217
• In general, the overwhelming feedback I get seems to suggest that players would appreciate a stronger tie between the visual novel segments of the game and the puzzle. I think I can do this by introducing the puzzle parts as the thing the girls are doing in order to think of puns or facts to say to each other.
• Players don't read the plaque, I think I need the characters to talk about the animal together so the player feels like they're reading the plaque with the characters.

TODOs:

• Update the website to make it more obvious that i'm the fishy facts dev and that you should sign up for the newsletter.
• weave puzzle big bounds need to be increased to 25.
• Smaller offset for held pieces
• extra still hard for some people
  • Make puzzles leading up to extra have multiple solutions with pieces that don't need to be used.
  • ⭐ Make Karina mention that not all pieces have to be used in tutorial
• Use different colors for different speakers
• Change where the speaker name text is depending on the speaker
• Change styling of dialog box based on speaker
• stretch puzzle needs to be updated to have a stub
• Update the tiles so that undergrounds look more distinct
• Add control hints to level select
• Animate play button on unplayed levels in level select
• Pressing start during a puzzle returns to level select without focusing a puzzle.
• Add level reset button (maybe need a pause menu)
• Convert analog stick input to mouse emulation instead of button emulation.
• Don't auto-trigger ending dialog
• Fill in the gaps between tiles of larger forms
• Move solution border below the pieces to avoid cutting the piece border
• Locked items should show unlocked icon so players know what is locked
• Move standalone to be earlier in the puzzle sequence
• ⭐ Tutorial
  • ⭐ Change intro to go to first exhibit instead of map
  • ⭐ Show Karina saying that she needs to think of puns
  • ⭐ Add non-diagetic popup explaining the controls.
  • ⭐ Help menu with controls
    • Maybe add popups or background graphics showing controls as necessary
    • Maybe add help button on levels that add more context/hints
  • ⭐ Add input prompts.
• Misc Convention Preparation
  • Show picture source/copyright in level select.
• Writing
  • Character Building
  • Story Outline
• Touchpool
  • Add optional exhibit with distance puzzle.
• Map:
  • Controller support for choosing different aquarium areas
  • Render image citation information somewhere
  • Remember what level was last visited when returning to level select
• Kelp Forest
  • Kelp Bass puzzles (x6)
  • Sheephead animal info
  • Sheephead puzzles (x6)
  • Octopus animal info
  • Octopus exhibit (x6)
  • Giant Kelp info
• Puzzle:
  • When wrap x and wrap y are turned on at the same time, there is a missing dot in the bottom right
  • Add cursor representing pivot
  • Show icons on leaks
  • Add queue system for completion sound sequencing.
  • ⭐ Particle effect when solving puzzle.
  • Show text when any solution, the smallest solution, and the largest solution are found
  • Popup an image of the character when a puzzle is completed temporarily.
  • Click and drag to select multiple
  • Allow switching multiple pieces at the same time
  • Add an outline to white paths
  • Pieces get placed down in invalid locations sometimes
  • Update puzzle border to hide light rays that exit bounds
  • Preview where the light ray will be if the tile is placed
• Editor
  • If you open a puzzle, exit the editor, and then return, pressing Save overwrites the previously open puzzle even though it hasn't been opened yet.
• Visual Novel:
  • Add character emotions to each line
  • Show different sprites for each character emotion
• Coral Reef (See 20260710234933)
  • Implement subtractive color mixing tile
• Tide Pool (See 20260710234933)
  • Implement tile adjacency
• Deep Sea (See 20260710234933)
• Supporting dialogs (See 20260710234933)
• Stamp Rally
  • Hide small/big icons until stamp passport is aquired