Milestone Notes: Playability

Playability

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This is what is written in the criteria for this milestone.

Provide complete playable prior-milestone implementation
Sustain progressive, non-repetitive gameplay for 4min or more including all new features (with minimal tutorial)
Implement time stepping based physical animation: A subset of the game entities (main or background) should now possess non-trivial physics properties such as linear momentum or angular momentum, and acceleration and act based on those. Specifically, you should implement some form of physical simulation, which can be either background effects (e.g. water, smoke implemented using particles) or active game elements (throwing a ball, swinging a rope, etc…)
Incorporate one or more polygonal geometric assets
Implement smooth non-linear motion of one or more assets or characters
Implement an accurate and efficient collision detection method (include multiple moving assets that necessitate collision checks)
Stable game code supporting continuing execution and graceful termination

This is what we wrote that we would have done for this milestone in the proposal.

More sprites and assets for panda, enemies and bosses. Plan B: enemy sprites are common with different overlay color.
More precise physics for the gameplay, acceleration and momentum for the panda, enemies, dynamic obstacles.
Additional environmental obstacles (crushing blocks, spike pits)
Basic boss design started, decision trees implemented
Experiment with 2D lighting effects
Experiment with projectiles for player. Plan B: Melee weapons/Crush enemies

Write what we accomplished here to make the individual reports and the milestone document easier.

Added timer component to make delayed actions easier to program
Small jumping fix
Added back button to all scenes to return to the main menu
Changed platform sizing to better reflect their actual behaviour
Added acceleration and deceleration for player to make the game smoother
Changed horizontal and vertical levels and generation system to make difficulty progression better
Added obstacles to the vertical level

Added ability to add bread enemies that go to the right on vertical levels
Updated llamas so that they change direction they face/ shoot based on panda x coordinate for vertical levels
Made it so that enemies don't start moving/ shooting until they are about to go on screen
Added cave mesh object that serves as a transition between levels add enemies to the vertical level to make it a bit more interesting?