Jovian Hersemeule

Why design TinyShooter

Four main reasons :
1> Practise with CLion
2> Practise with Box2D an SDL2
3> Implement and test general classes to use them again in other projects
4> A shooter is pretty cool to design

1) A powerful editor with a powerless beginner.
- Learn how to use useful shortcuts
- Learn how to generate classes

2) and 3) Design classes to easily create games.
- Rendering management : with Scopes systems in order to separate physics and drawing
- Input management : use inheritance to swap controllers (mouse / gamepad)
- Physics and game design : create a class which inherits from b2World,
in order to manage the userData void pointer.

4) Make a playable game to experiment.

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Encountered problems :
- Visuals are more relevant in Fixture than in Body userData.
- I have to set a float scaling number to link BoxD length with pixel length. It is hard to determinate where this
variable should be set : Renderer, GameCore, Controller ? Here I have chosen to set this variable in Soldier since
this class hasn't a single instance and zoom can be different for each player in a split-screen mode.
- I forgot to implement a system of event description (similar to Visual description) to separate event and order.
- I have doubts about update-able and non-update-able entities. For example, walls can't move. However they can have a
dynamic picture (like a gif).