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My idea: having OpenHexagon generate alternate versions of all the levels on startup, with the same scripting and all, but slightly different speed/delay values.

They would be accessible from the main menu, using the up/down arrow keys to select an harder/easier version of the current level.

Scores have to be managed separately for every difficulty.

Right now the projects use CodeLite, which is a cross-platform app, but the project files aren't the easiest to work with on platforms other than the OS it came from.

The one I usually jump to is CMake:

http://www.cmake.org/

This will let you generate Makefiles, project files, etc. CodeLite actually has support for this if I'm not mistaken, so you should be able to keep working from there without any extra effort beyond setting it up the first time.

You probably came across this when looking at SFML2; definitely take a look at it. It's nice to have in the event that you switch development environments, or even operating systems! (Also broadens your developer audience, particularly those who might want to package OpenHexagon in something like a Linux distro.)

I copied content from /Release/ to /Unix/, tried to run it and I get this:

krofna@krofna-desktop:~/SSVOpenHexagon/Unix$ ./OpenHexagon
loading config
loading fonts
Error querying directory Fonts/
loading sounds
Failed to open sound file "Sounds/beep.ogg" (System error : No such file or directory.)
Failed to open sound file "Sounds/death.ogg" (System error : No such file or directory.)
Failed to open sound file "Sounds/gameOver.ogg" (System error : No such file or directory.)
Failed to open sound file "Sounds/levelUp.ogg" (System error : No such file or directory.)
Failed to open sound file "Sounds/openHexagon.ogg" (System error : No such file or directory.)
Failed to open sound file "Sounds/go.ogg" (System error : No such file or directory.)
loading music
loading music data
./OpenHexagon: line 24: 8083 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ./x86_64/openhexagon.x86_64

I tried AngelScript, but didn't like it.
Considering Squirrel (http://www.squirrel-lang.org/) or LUA.

OK, every time I die and hit "R" to restart, it starts the music somewhere that isn't where I was when I went through the first time. Is this intended or a bug?

Well, you can use A-Z and 1-9 as characters for profile names, but no 0.

Command that plays a sound, for the simple levels event scripting.

"Can you add custom sounds for each level pack in the next release?"

It would be great if you could use git tags for version numbers. This would make it easier for packagers, especially on the linux side to see which version they need to build. Also it shouldn't be too much work for you.

OH needs a GUI to create/modify player profiles.
I also need to improve the current profile creation code to make it more flexible.

While the SSVEntity/Start libs are technically supposed to be separate, it may be worth combining them into one repo to make it easier for other developers to clone and contribute. You could configure the project to keep each project separate (more on that in the next issue), but something like how OpenHexagon-Unix organizes things would make updating easier, I think.

"It would be great if you updated the level readme file to acknowledge the pulsing effect and how to use it."

Keyboard keys may be useful for unique levels or debugging

Readme is first thing to show with github interface, so it should be up to date.

Not necessarily a problem with the code, but it's worth noting.

The audio/music files used in Open Hexagon clip like crazy, as seen here:

http://www.flibitijibibo.com/yeahno.png

For some audio backends this is fine, but for Linux in particular this will cause all kinds of crackling/popping with SFML2's use of libsndfile.

Here's the SFML bug: SFML/SFML#310

The solution is to get copies of the songs that are more careful with gain (as long as it doesn't clip over 1.0, you should be all set).

Insanely hard to debug

Ideas: alpha-gradient walls, vignette-like borders around the screen, settable color-swap time.

Maybe it is possible to implement a global highscore list, so you can see the records from the other players. Just an idea for a new feature ;)

When i restart the game, pulse option is always enabled, althought it's disabled on previous games.

I don't know if its a bug or an enhancement, i don't know if it's prepared for save this option.

Tested on Linux KUbuntu 12.04 32bits

"Is it possible that you can add mouse control into the next version? as in Right click for clockwise and Left click for anti-clockwise?"