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Add theme modes and health collectibles #4

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Add theme modes and health collectibles #4

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Overview

This PR improves visuals with new themes, player mechanics, and the development setup.

Changes

  1. Visual Adjustments

    • Added theme color values (2b2ea02).
    • Tuned light scattering (godsray from moonshine library) shader for better theme intensity (5d6ad75).
      • Caveat: Lacks old school vibe with high_light theme mode.
    • Adjusted contrast for player/game elements (7dda780).

  2. Gameplay Tweaks

    • Smoothed alpha transitions and reduced laser fire rate (6cfc595).
      • NOTE: Alpha varies based on startup dt and needs to be consistent across devices.
    • Scaled down player size, adjusted eye trigger behavior during invulnerability (9925c0a).
      • Larger eye-like feature set enhances consequences of player's actions.
    • Added shield/health collectibles to replenish health (c89a79c).

  3. Dev Setup

    • Added Nix development environment configuration for easier setup (fd4427f).
    • Fixed LOVE packaging error (7583736).
      • Moved source files to src/ directory. Now love main.lua must be from run within the src directory.

Future improvements

  • Fix alpha inconsistencies. (medium/low priority)
    • Review smooth / interpolated alpha calculation in renderer.
  • Improve font sizing for themes. (high priority)
  • Add timers for berserk mode, dash, and laser cooldown. (low priority)
  • Add cooldown for spawning health/shield after recharge. (medium priority)

@lloydlobo
Add theme variants protoyped color values
2b2ea02
@lloydlobo
Tune light scattering shader based on theme light intensity
5d6ad75
@lloydlobo
Use smoother alpha and reduce laser fire rate
6cfc595 
NOTE: `alpha` seems to depend on start `dt` accumulated.
This varies based on each game instance's startup conditions.
e.g., sometimes alpha could be .6111 or .8234 and fluctuate from there,
but does not deviate a lot from the starting alpha value.

We need to look into how this all works and make it consistent, no
matter the device running the game.
@lloydlobo
Upload lastest screencast
ddd61b8
@lloydlobo
Tweak player and game contrast based on theme
7dda780
@lloydlobo
Add player shield/health collectibles
c89a79c 
Fx for the collectible is a bit janky for now, but suits the background music.

Future improvements:
- Refactor collectible into state, and constant shields to config.
- Allow for 2 additional shields to collect. (Will lead to rewrite of health based code and side-effects)
@lloydlobo
Scale down the player size (radius, trails, etc)
9925c0a 
- Decreased player radius, player trail count.
- Increased laser radius, player eye trigger.
- Now invulnerability timer also effects player's eye trigger size.
  - When damaged and invulnerable for a second, the eye gets big and
    shrinks by a fraction for bounce/spring effect.

Also we cleaned up the config.lua file, to use private-like variables to
set "constants" inside the module/package table in `config.lua`. Phew!
that was wordy...

Future improvements:

- I should FIX the damn alpha!!! It's janky.
- Introduce better font sizing, to go along with theme
- Introduce limit timers for:
  - Beserker spin mode (high)
  - Laser cooldown after a while (only for combined "beserker + dash" mode)
  - Dash (high)
@lloydlobo
Fix zip utils packaging error reported by LOVE
7583736
@lloydlobo
Choose appropriate trail settings
48d3c5d
@lloydlobo
Add nix development environment example configuration
fd4427f 
Running it installs LOVE and other test dev-dependencies
@lloydlobo lloydlobo added the minor version Automatically create a new minor version tag after PR is merged label Oct 14, 2024
@lloydlobo lloydlobo self-assigned this Oct 14, 2024
@lloydlobo lloydlobo marked this pull request as ready for review October 14, 2024 03:11
@lloydlobo lloydlobo merged commit d7fe38f into main Oct 14, 2024
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@lloydlobo lloydlobo deleted the themes branch October 14, 2024 04:13
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