Road Map

Currently a big rewrite is being done. The result will become version 1.0.

All entries below a release must be fulfilled before that version is complete.

1.0 alpha

• Register account
• Validate new device

Map/Fountain/Portal

• Fountains continuously refill, more realistic
• Fountain size matters (also 3 types of each color with different image, max and refill speed)
• View fountains/workers from user
• View fountains/workers from portals
• View fountains/workers from placed workers
• Spawn workers
• Merge workers
• Modulate workers
• Place workers on fountains
• Send single worker home
• Send one color/all workers home
• Place portal
• Remove portal
• Move portal
• Adjust number of portals on portal gateway facility upgrade.
• Also fixing portal count daily.

Transmitters/score

• Transform workers to transmitter parts
• Mount transmitter
• Place transmitter
• View score

Crystal

• Modulate crystal

Facilities

• Build facilities
• Upgrade facilities
• Set good description on upgrade actions (see Downgrade, from x to y) - fixed in Beta-version

Chat/Messages

• Read public chat
• Write in public chat
• Read system messages

Trade

• View offers
• Accept offer
• Add offer
• Remove offer

Contacts

• View contacts

Treasures

• View treasures
• Start treasure hunt
• Claim treasure

1.0 beta1

• Bug fixing
  • Load map data when getting first position - It did worked before...
  • Only fade used fountains when the facility is build and that settings is active
• Fixing weird texts (fountain, portal)
• Notifications
  • Base
  • Workers returning
• All main views shall be able to open before data is loaded without crashing

Map/Fountain/Portal

• Show flashing workers placed when they are pending - NO. Place then instantly instead.
• Don't show pending workers/portals in the idle bar below the map
• Start/stop probing - has been partly fixed - but is not working in client yet - working when other fixes were done
• Update workers on fountain on map immediately when a worker is placed using not fast placement - Handled so it can not be placed again, even if it is not displayed on the map instantly

Facilties

• Rearrange upgrades
• Downgrade facilitites
• Adjust number of portals on portal gateway facility downgrade

Chat/Messages

• Read team chat
• Write in team chat
• Read private messages
• Write private messages
• Mark message as read-action

Transmitting

• Transmit transmitter to another player
• Transmit crystal to another player
• Transmit transmitter part to another player
• Check facility status in transmit actions

Transmitters/score

* Merge transmitter parts

Team

• View my team info
• View other team info
• Found
• Rename/properties
• Invite player
• Accept invite
• Reject invite
• Leave team
• Kick member from team
• Disband team
• Handover team
• Adjust number of portals on team join, leave, disband, kick
• Adjust worker properties on team join, leave, disband, kick

Monuments

• View monuments
• Build monuments
• Upgrade monument
• Adjust number of portals on build/upgrade if needed
• Adjust worker properties on build/upgrade if needed

Users

• Adapt user dialog and its commands
  • Shortlist toggle
  • Send contact
  • Start private chat
  • Tag in public chat
  • Open Gplus/Facebook/twitter
  • Kick from team
• Adapt commands when clicking on a message in the chat
  • Tag user
  • See user profile
  • Copy to clip board

Contacts

• Establish contact - worker on map
• Establish contact - code
• Send contact

Game Invites

• View/share game invites

Migrating

• Transform workers in existing format to new table. When? First request!
• Block a bunch of actions using old code (placing workers is one) in old server code once migrated workers.

1.0 beta 2

Bug fixing

• Fixing 3 found crash bugs
• The user radius was not increased with user level

1.0 beta 3

Bug fixing

• Fixing 2 crash bugs

Treasures

• Show what you got when claiming a treasures

Workers/score parts

• Show what you got when transforming a worker to score parts

Notifications

• Prepared for Facility status

Code fixes

• Lots of code cleaning

1.0 beta 4

Bug fixing

• Fixing one crash bug in map view

Notifications

• Facility status
• Personal/Team Messages
• Trade
• Transmitter placement
• other
• Sending device active(resume-first load)/inactive(sending) To mark what devices that will get chat notifications. (fixed in client, not on server yet)
• Tagged in message (fixed in client, not on server yet)

Code fixes

• Handling a lot of TODOs in client
• Removing "OldAction" class

Chat

• Filtering the public chat

Special

• Change color (loosing all stuff)

1.0 beta 5

Bug fixing

• Show capacity of workers in placing-dialog again (it was accidently removed)
• Fixed one crash bug

Code fixes

• Handling "enough" TODOs in client

1.0 beta 6

Notifications - fix on server

• Sending device active(resume-first load)/inactive(sending) To mark what devices that will get chat notifications. (server)
• Tagged in message (server)

Security

• Signing actions to improve security

Special

• Handle EULA

Invite player handling

• All uses may specify who invited them. This may only be set once.
• Ability to specify who invited user upon registering
• Ability to specify who invited user in user settings
• Get contact with the one who invited you
• Show who invited who in the user information dialog

1.0 beta 7

Bug fixing

• User location could take some time to get. It now reuses recent location if fresh.
• "Invalid fountain" when placing workers on some fountains (most likely fixed on server)
• Better logic to avoid unneeded LoadData-actions. Was a bug, now fixed on server
• Locating you was slow. Changing how it gets the location from GPS/Network. Hopefully it starts up a bit fast when there is a suitable locations found

1.0 RC 1

Bug fixing

• Fixing 1 crash bug on special case when mounting transmitter

Code fixes

• Handling "enough" TODOs on server (server side)

1.0 RC 2

Bug fixing

• User location was a bit slow to start with. Previous patch did not work before
• It always zooms in to your location when your location is found on first startup
• User location not always showing

1.0.rc-4

• Bugfix: Always show fountains on user location
• Ability to show pending actions
• Fixing lots of crash bugs if clicking things before data is loaded

Server fixes

• Many bug fixes on the server regarding sending mission data to client

1.0.rc-5

• Showing done missions (this feature was lost in the change)
• One crash bug fix on treasure claiming
• Some preparations for translating the app

On server

Mission on Game Invites

• Calculate in different way, sum of full levels of invited people (server side)

1.0

Server code fixes

• Enable calculate dominate(etc) missions in new code with new notifications
• Disable old calculate dominate(etc) missions

1.1

• Making all remaining texts translatable
• Ability for user to set language (if not pleased with the default from the phone settings)
• Add full translation to at least one more language
• Nudge treasures, away or up to 90 degrees from away. Fixed in 1.0.19
• Show relevant text on facilities BEFORE they are built. (Show the same description as when built?). Fixed in 1.0.21
• Show how active a player is (some levels: days, weeks, months, older), Fixed in 1.0.22
• Go from worker to it's position on the map. Fixed in 1.0.23
• Show headings in Trade dialog: For Sale - Cost, Fixed in 1.1.0
• Extended trade
  • Client must be able to handle system offers - Released
  • Rename Home Gate to Trade Post, Fixed in 1.1.0
  • Move "modulate crystal" to fixed offers in trade window
  • Cheaper Trade Post, only players own color for building, maybe 20 in own color
  • Add mission to build Trade Post
  • Change Modulate mission to Take a trade offer (partially is ok)
  • System static trade offers remain when used
  • Change actions on crystal click, Fixed in 1.1.0
  • Require Trade post on Internal Menu Trade action (same as on transmit on crystals), Fixed in 1.1.0
  • Add system trade offers, when most clients are upgraded
  • Set new mission on all who has a Trade Post

• Server: Remove dead code in action "Modulate crystals" - when pre 1.1 clients are upgraded

1.x

• Text color on yellow worker in dark mode, still has to be black, maybe have all level-numbers black and adjust images (at least bonus) so it works.
• Show Ids of portals/workers somewhere to easy debugging.
• Make the wiki item and concept centric instead of view-in-app centric.
• Russian translation
• Show when player last placed a transmitter
• Show wiki inline in game. Fixed in 1.1.15
• Explain worker modulation to only nearby colors. Done in 1.1.15, en version
• Ability to scroll to area of placed transmitter or expired portal, again. Fixed in 1.1.18
• Explain portal in early game: Have a mission to build a Portal Facility (not given at start), Available in Parallell with "Upgrade worker spawner" and let it cost a symbolic cost, 2 primary crystal, let it be before the "Build portal" (That shall be called "Place portal")
  • View mission - Client, fixed in 1.1.15
  • Done mission - Server - done when build
  • Build fac 2 primary - Support in client, fixed in 1.1.16
  • Build fac 2 primary - Server
  • Set mission done on all players who has it (wait for 1.1.15 to spread first)
  • Adjust dependency order of missions on server
  • Don't create portal gtw facility on startup
• Show current refill speed of fountain if having the fountain scanner
• Fix bug: Update other team info when data is loaded. Fixed in 1.1.19
• Change to new server
  • Copy daily backup to other physical machine

• Fix bug: "Invalid worker" when placing many workers with lots of network errors. Possible solution: Apply actions even if they can not be sent again. Will that help?
• Check bugs at: https://bitbucket.org/erik_melkersson/color-planet/issues/
• Avoid sending several email when using new device
• Bug with "Invalid fountain" when placing a worker, at some specific fountains, when they really should be empty.

Ideas - i want to include, sometime

• On start on color selection: show player count of colors on existing active players
• System automatically add trade offers from time to time... every 23 hours? (removed as usual after a week) - Some kind of transmitter part for crystals?
• Add info on how many players that have solved missions. [1]
• Collectibles, that you can make something lasting with
• Wiki page with info to translators
  • General info about some words and how to translate them
  • Info about app, bitbucket etc
  • Info about wiki
• Some kind of donate, buy function to support the costs - https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ErikMelkersson/posts/JsYT6zyD3qK?cfem=1

Design - thinking

Generellt:

• Rymd/Scifi-känsla men ändå lite gulligt inslag.
• Just nu finns både märk och ljus variant av det mesta.
• Saknar entydig stil. Knappar och kanske någon variant av ram eller liknande på dialoger.
• PNG och PNG9 är det som hgäller i appen men de är ju bra att bygga saker i vektrobaserat för att kunna skala upp men generera till lagom bilder till appen.
• Spelare har en av de 5 färgerna.

• App icon, Google play images (
  • Högupplöst ikon, 512 x 512, 32-bitars PNG (med alfa)
  • Funktionsbild, 1024 b x 500 h, JPG eller 24-bitars PNG (inte alfa)
  • Grafik för marknadsföring, 180 b x 120 h, JPG eller 24-bitars PNG (inte alfa)
  • Tv-banner, 1 280 bred och 720 hög, JPG eller 24-bitars PNG (inte alfa)
• Komma in i spelet på något bra sätt. Intro - basic "movie"?
  • Jag har missions som gör att man ska komma igång... kanske räcker, men bli mycket text att läsa direkt.
• Main menu där nere och de man fäller ut. Stil på knappar och bilder: tänk ringen med symboler i Startgate.
• Kartan: Själva kartan är svårt att göra så mycket med men alla ikoner på den och deras visning.
  • Bilderna som visas på kartan.
  • Två av sakerna under kartan är klickbara, inte helt självklart men dumt med för mycket över kartan. Någonting utfällbart, kanske även med text då, kanske?
  • Extra: Tanke på dem med uppladdningstid är att ha någon sort visare (bar) som visar hur mycket som finns i dem i stället för nedräkningstid.
• Basen/Facilities (Huset):
  • Göra om helt och hållet. Ha rutmönster där man bygger på byggnader (2x2 eller mer?) och utökningar (1x1?) på dessa.
  • Låta det bli någon form av minispel (min sak att hitta på), eller i alla fall något man kan hålla på att flytta runt
  • Behövs bilder för alla byggnader och deras uppgraderingar och någon form av startenhet.

• Current views/items
• Collectibles
• Base/facilities - Grid:
  • Spawner and other facilitites are bigger boxes
  • Upgrades are smaller boxes
  • Storage box for crystals and all need access to a flow of crystals? Limitied area based on... level or something else? ("Minigame")