Working on fishy facts offline:

• Copied TODOs from 20261020205653
• Worked on the game last night as well
  • Finally wrote some code to add a full version string to the title screen
  • Did some work on the dialog importer
  • Fixed the map input bug earend ran into yesterday
• Finished my application to the Forward Thinking Showcase 2027 (Due Oct 31st). If I get in, I'll be on a timeline to make a game announcement trailer and set up the Steam Page.
• One of the big things I need to do is refactor how the puzzle is implemented both for performance and so i can take advantage of Godot's resource system
  • I want to reference other VN resources from the puzzle directly instead of by path
  • This means I have to convert Puzzle into a Resource type instead of a RefCounted type
  • This means I have to convert Matrix into a value type instead of an Object type
  • Converting the Matrix into a Vector3 would probably help with safety, memory usage, and performance as well, due to the fact that Vector3 is a value type and uses fewer integers.
  • The current solver is very complicated and does a lot of unnecessary work. I should simplify it and make it faster.

TODOs:

• Convert puzzle into a resource
• Reimplement puzzle solver
• Add map item for exiting to the entire map
• Implement navigation between aquarium areas
• Add map character movement
• Add character map icon interaction
• Update Map and Player to use the same input echo emulation
• Dialog
  • Add support for loading background images in importer
  • Update Karina's name in speaker label
  • Change dialog box style based on speaker
• Puzzle
  • Add level reset button (maybe need a pause menu)
  • Add hint button to replay puzzle dialog
  • Convert analog stick input to mouse emulation instead of button emulation.
  • 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 or particle effect on leaks
  • Particle effect when solving puzzle.
  • Click and drag to select multiple
  • Allow switching multiple pieces at the same time
  • Pieces get placed down in invalid locations sometimes
  • Update puzzle border to hide light rays that exit bounds
  • Preview where the light ray will intersect if the tile is placed
  • Implement subtractive color mixing tile
  • Implement tile adjacency
• Tiles
  • Fill in the gaps between tiles of larger forms
  • Bevel all paths and give them a different material so they can be colored differently to help undergrounds and white paths easier to see.
• Touchpool
  • Add optional exhibit with distance puzzle.
• Kelp Forest
  • Kelp Bass puzzles (x6)
  • Sheephead puzzles (x6)
  • Octopus exhibit (x6)
• Stamp Rally
  • Hide small/big icons until stamp passport is acquired