Beam raycast now skips the tile the turret is mounted on, so
wall-embedded laser turrets can shoot outward.
Extract entity_is_enemy() into engine/entity.c as single source
of truth for enemy-type checks. Replaces triplicated type lists
in level.c, drone.c, and projectile.c that caused the collision
bug when new enemy types were added.
Implement four feature phases:
Phase 1 - Pause menu: extract bitmap font into shared engine/font
module, add MODE_PAUSED with Resume/Restart/Quit overlay.
Phase 2 - Laser turret hazard: ENT_LASER_TURRET with charge/fire/
cooldown state machine, per-pixel beam raycast, two variants (fixed
and tracking). Registered in entity registry with editor icons.
Phase 3 - Charger and Spawner enemies: charger ground patrol with
detect/telegraph/charge/stun cycle (2s charge timeout), spawner that
periodically creates grunts up to a global cap of 3.
Phase 4 - Mars campaign: two handcrafted levels (mars01 surface,
mars02 base), mars_tileset.png, PARALLAX_STYLE_MARS with salmon sky
and red mesas, THEME_MARS_SURFACE/THEME_MARS_BASE for the procedural
generator with per-theme gravity/tileset/parallax. Moon campaign now
chains moon03 -> mars01 -> mars02 -> victory.
Also fix review findings: deterministic seed on generated level
restart, NULL checks on calloc in spawn functions, charge timeout
to prevent infinite charge on flat terrain, and stop suppressing
stderr in Makefile web-serve target so real errors are visible.
Raise hard map size cap from 4096 to 8192 via MAX_MAP_SIZE constant.
Replace fixed 16 KB fgets buffer with dynamic line reader that handles
arbitrarily long tile rows. Check calloc returns for tile layer
allocation.
Add entity distance culling: skip updates for entities beyond 2x screen
width from camera, skip rendering beyond 64 px margin. Dead entities
bypass culling so cleanup callbacks always run. Player, spacecraft,
drone, and moving platforms set ENTITY_ALWAYS_UPDATE to opt out.
Replace naive 4-neighbor flood fill with scanline algorithm (O(height)
stack instead of O(area)) for safe use on large maps.
Raise MAX_ENTITY_SPAWNS from 128 to 512 and MAX_EXIT_ZONES from 8 to
16 to support populated large levels.
Distance-based sound effects with stereo panning for explosions, impacts,
and pickups. Spacecraft entity with full state machine (fly-in, land, take
off, fly-out), engine/synth sound loops, thruster particles, and PNG
spritesheet. Moon level intro defers player spawn until ship lands.
Also untrack build/ objects that were committed by mistake.
Introduce moon01.lvl as the starting level — a pure jump-and-run intro
with no gun and no enemies, just platforming over gaps and dodging falling
asteroids. The player picks up their gun upon transitioning to level01.
New features:
- Moon tileset and PARALLAX_STYLE_MOON with crater terrain backgrounds
- Asteroid entity (ENT_ASTEROID): falls from sky, damages on contact,
explodes on ground with particles, respawns after delay
- PLAYER_UNARMED directive disables gun for the level
- Pit rescue mechanic: falling costs 1 HP and auto-dashes upward
- Gun powerup entity type for future armed-pickup levels
- Segment-based procedural level generator with themed rooms
- Extended editor with entity palette and improved tile cycling
- Web shell improvements for Emscripten builds
Implements a full level editor that runs inside the game engine as an
alternative mode, accessible via --edit flag or E key during gameplay.
The editor auto-discovers available tiles from the tileset texture and
entities from a new central registry, so adding new game content
automatically appears in the editor without any editor-specific changes.
Editor features: tile painting (pencil/eraser/flood fill) across 3
layers, entity placement with drag-to-move, player spawn point tool,
camera pan/zoom, grid overlay, .lvl save/load, map resize, and test
play (P to play, ESC to return to editor).
Supporting changes:
- Entity registry centralizes spawn functions (replaces strcmp chain)
- Mouse input + raw keyboard access added to input system
- Camera zoom support for editor overview
- Zoom-aware rendering in tilemap, renderer, and sprite systems
- Powerup and drone sprites/animations wired up (were defined but unused)
- Bitmap font renderer for editor UI (4x6 pixel glyphs, no dependencies)
