Menu-Screen

idea

like all games orxonox too needs a start-screen. The Startscreen is a menu, where the user can:

• choose a profile (later stage)
• start a new Game
• choose some settings
• quit the game

implementation

The problem is, to define a new Class named MenuSreen, that is like world a Loop-class, that

1. displays the GUI
2. checks for input events
3. acts on them.
4. maybe display a cool background (animated)

Settings should be saveable. → use the GUI class to write directly to the orxonox.conf file. maybe save some states, and default values.

considerations

for the menu-screen to work properly, context-switches might be nice, e.g.

• see #110 for more info on this topic

PowerUps

The basics of getting new Stuff for your ships are encapsulated in PowerUps. Some of them are already implemented in source:/trunk/src/world_entities/power_ups

Todo

• More and better looking power-ups
• Power-UP system

Implementation

• The Power ups should be handled over a general System (maybe in power_up.h).
• each power up does something else like more energy new weapon, invisibility… think of it.
• The PowerUp-Engine should on power-up-grab relay the effect it has onto the destinationEntity

Usage of const char* is dangerous

millions of times, we ran into the char deallocation/allocation-debug stuff problems…

At least in the main Classes: port to std::string:

meaning:

• BaseObject
• PRINTF()("THIS WOULD BE PAIN);
• SHELL
• and much more.