Kaboom initial kinda-playable release

[jeffparsons]

This is not the "a real game you'd want to play" release, but rather the very first release where it's technically possible to play and tell who is winning.

Mandatory:

• [x] A simple projectile weapon that explodes on a timer. (Easier initially than colliding with terrain.)
• [x] Recognise explosion near a player (same radius as explosion)
  • [x] Give points to player who fired the projectile
  • [x] Log message about the kill
  • [x] Re-spawn the victim (initially just move the entity rather than re-creating it)
• [x] Communicate about grenades, explosions, etc., over the network

Desirable for a release soon after:

• [ ] Explosion effect (just a temporary yellow sphere)
• [ ] Blow up terrain around the explosion
  • [ ] Convert real space coordinates to grid space
• [ ] Smooth chase cam to paper over the awful blocky movement of CellDwellers.
• [ ] Dumb bots that just walk around waiting to die.

Explicitly out-of-scope:

• Non-grid based movement (I'm not touching this until the ECS-friendly nphysics release)
• Any kind of HUD. Log messages to know what's going on only

[Ploppz]

What do you need from nphysics for non-grid based movement? Is it planned to be included soon in nphysics?

[jeffparsons]

@Ploppz From https://www.patreon.com/posts/whats-next-on-0-16264116:

Compatibility with ECS-based designs. The physics world will be Send+Sync so it can be used safely on ECS systems. (Previous versions of nphysics used Rc<_> internally, breaking those properties.) However, nphysics itself is not implemented as an ECS (because I think it does not fit very well).

Expected pretty soon.