major_tom/TODO.md

TODO

Distance-based sound effects

Sounds (explosions, impacts, etc.) should attenuate based on distance from the player. Offscreen events far away should be inaudible. Add a helper that takes a world position and scales volume by proximity to the camera/player.

Large map support (5000x5000)

Audit the engine for anything that breaks or becomes slow at very large map sizes. Key areas to check:

• Tile layer allocation (uint16_t * for 25M tiles)
• Tilemap rendering culling (already viewport-clipped, verify correctness)
• Physics / collision queries (should only check nearby tiles)
• Entity updates (currently iterates full pool regardless of distance)
• Camera bounds and coordinate overflow (float precision at large coords)
• Level file parsing (row lines could exceed fgets buffer at 5000+ columns)

Spacecraft art and entity

Create placeholder pixel art for the player's spacecraft (fits the 16x16 grid aesthetic but spans multiple cells, roughly 4-5 tiles wide by 2-3 tiles tall). Needs at minimum:

• Landed/idle frame (visible near spawn on planet surface levels)
• Landing animation (descending + touchdown, 3-4 frames)
• Takeoff animation (liftoff + ascending, reuse landing in reverse) Used in two contexts:
• Level start: ship flies in, lands at spawn, player exits, ship takes off and leaves — serves as the level intro sequence
• Level exit: ship flies in and lands when player nears the exit zone, player enters, ship takes off — triggers level transition

Asteroid refinement

• Reduce asteroid count significantly — occasional hazard, not a barrage
• Add slight horizontal drift so they fall at an angle rather than straight down
• Increase fall speed for more impact
• Stagger spawns more widely across the level