To give players a feeling of completion, display a star ranking at the end of the game.

I set a benchmark by typing in as many HTML tags as I could, going by the list.
I was able to type in 89 commands and got a score of approx 140,000.

That was at high speed going from a list with no downtime for thinking, so it's
definitely an upper bound. I'm thinking a more realistic number would be 30 commands, one star per 6 commands.

The playing state is zoomed in on the screen

To complete this issue, create a function to "enter" the playing screen which does the following:

• zoom camera in until the monitor almost fills the viewport
• blank the monitor
• display some help text #14
• begin the timer
• respond to keypresses with #1
• respond to onValidCommand and onInvalidCommand by doing the following
  • update the score
  • add command entry to the screen (scroll up older entries to make room)
• at end of timer, display #20 and then move to leaderboard state

Create some help text to display when the player begins playing. Something like this:

Enter all the commands you can think of, as fast as you can!  You have two minutes!

Commands may be:
 - HTML tags
 - BASH commands & built-ins
 - Python keywords and standard library functions
 - JavaScript keywords and standard library functions

Get all bash:

• keywords
• built-ins
• anything else?

Need this for web build

Get all JS:

• keywords (like function, async, if)
• global functions (like parseInt, isNaN, but not ones inside namespaces like Math.random())

All game instructions should be on the main screen on the right. This will give people a chance to read the instructions and type "play" when ready to start the game.

This version would be deployed publically and playable from home. The only different from the conference build is that the net build will not be connected to a leaderboard server. It could use a localStorage leaderboard, if there's time to build one.

To complete this issue, create a function to "enter" the leaderboard which does the following:

• fetches the latest leaderboard data from #16
• if player just finished playing, send their score to #16
• display leaderboard, something like this

NAME   SCORE   TRIBE
TOM    1500    BASH
JIM    900     PYTHON
BOB    100     CSS

Left arrow was fine when the textarea was visible but now you can't see the position of the cursor. Moving the cursor with the left arrow should simply be disabled for simplicity. Backspace is still fine.

Get all HTML tags from HTML5.

The bash commands have many valid commands that are punctuation e.g.: ., {, [, !

Juice for when a command is submitted.

• valid sfx
• valid vfx
• invalid sfx
• invalid vfx

Ghosty should appear and give hints.

1. Hi, you appear to be having trouble with this game. Here's a hint.
2. F ... (pause) ... N ... (pause) ... I ... (pause) ... D

I don't think we decided between "press F1 to activate hints" or "you get a hint when you're idle".

Should be 10 per command +1 per letter

Some feedback from Castastrophe:

1. It's fun!
2. On title screen the eye is drawn to the text on the left, not to the computer screen. The blinking cursor helps but not enough.
3. The time on the bonus commands screen is way too long.
4. There are too many bonus commands. Two or three per language would be better.
5. Choosing a language would be better than having them all mixed together.

Instead of simply not working, an invalid key (like { for example) should have a sound effect and maybe a visual effect too.

A progress bar or something similar to convey time remaining.

Each command that gets entered should stay on the screen, command-line style.

If you backspace on an empty line, the space in the shell prompt can be deleted.

From: > █

To: >█

Both of these should be valid from Python:
abs()
abs

Also allow underscores:
__import__

There should be some text when a player finishes, saying to check out the podcast and offering a link to the game repo.

Johan will help improve and edit whatever we write.

Question: should the text appear before or after the leaderboard?

When ghosty is giving a tip, he should float around subtly on a path (bezier path)?

The keyword "JSON" is sometimes proposed as a golden keyword for js but when entered it is never recognized as a valid command.

A blinking cursor would be really nice to have, to draw the eye to the command prompt.

It should be fairly easy to add and remove a █ character on a timer.

If needed, the HTML special char is: █

to know how many times the game has been played

followup to #5

The computer model we have doesn't include UV coords so we can't map textures onto it. If we get a version with UV coords, we're all set to put the console texture directly onto the screen.

If not, a backup plan that should still look pretty good is to take the temporary flat plane (#5) and give it many more polygons, then curve it. Here's an equation that's at least approximately the same curve as a CRT monitor.

Add two small cubes or spheres to the comp (with three.js) to act as power & activity LEDs. This would help add some life to the computer and keep the title screen alive.

so people that want to play quickly don't have to wait.

Have a primer screen before the game starts that has like a randomly selected list of golden commands that will be displayed before the game starts that is part of the instructions screen that says "Here are a few commands to get you started" then they disappear and the game starts, the golden commands will count bonus points for memory.

this helps many things:

1. It kind of gives a primer into the game instead of just dropping them on a command line
2. It makes the game totally playable for people who know nothing about ANY of the things, because they can treat it simply as a memory challenge
3. It kind of makes it a little less tempting to bring a list and just type stuff, since we'll show a list at the beginning and people that are good at remembering the golden commands will get bonus points vs people dumbly entering from a printed list or their phones

The golden commands can have extra juice when they enter them right, and they will be different each game

Have a way to display a descending order horizontal bar chart of the frequency of commands entered. It would be really interesting to see which command are most commonly typed. This could be brought up on -demand with a hotkey when the game is not playing, or after the leaderboard state.

There should be a camera sway (or some other kind of motion?) on the title screen to keep things active.

Here's the general layout of the title screen:

To complete this issue...

create a function to "enter" the title screen which does the following:

• positions the camera
• blanks out the computer screen
• adds 'type "play"' to the screen
• when player types "play", transition to the play state
• displays the CLH logo
• displays credits "created by Jared Sprague, Michael Clayton, and Eric Kramer"
• displays link to repo, maybe?

The above can be roughly laid out, they don't have to be perfect, we can fine tune and tweak later.

It's really cool and interesting to free move the computer around and play from different angles.

Horizontal and virtical scrollbars apear, need to get rid of them

Get all python:

• keywords
• global standard library functions (like max(), but not ones inside modules like math.sin())

We need a link on the splash page to a credits screen. When the link is clicked, stay on the same page but replace the instructions with list of credits.

Important credits:
Open source contributors
CLH team
Waveshaper for music with link back to bandcamp

Link at the bottom to go back to Instructions.

The song cuts off half-way through the game

Need a kiosk app that can switch multiple browsers running the webgames and executables running open jam games. This will be the way players pick which game they want to play when the walk up to the arcade machine.

just putting this here so we don't forget to change stuff like date to Date

Parse probably? @Jared-Sprague is in charge!

I think it should save two things:

• commands entered
  • every command entered (or maybe just the successful ones) should be logged so we can get stats about which commands are most popular, etc.
• leaderboard scores
  • name - a short name or handle, we should limit it to maybe 8 or 10 chars so it always fits on screen
  • score - the score
  • top_lang - the language from which they scored the most commands, it would be cool to display that on the leaderboard #17

Bug found by @castastrophe, score doesn't reset between plays. If you start a new game your old score shows up. Per-language command counts are also not reset.

Display a message that the game is not playable on mobile

If you enter the same valid command twice, we should not give double score, but just basically ignore it. maybe put feedback on the screen that it was already entered. Like

ls # already used

When the player is on a roll the sides of the monitor should start catching on fire, ala Overwatch

Add sound effect and visual effect when a key is typed.

• sfx
• vfx

When help text appears on the screen, it should appear char by char, as if it were being typed.