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It would be really cool to have a dynamic lighting engine with good shadows and stuff. That way we could have cool night time races.

When running into a wall engines often stick together. It is annoying.

Main menu
pick a race
start a race
end a race
check stats
pick/design a racer
etc.

The current name of events is confusing.
We should rename things like render() to onRender().

We should do aerodynamics simulation on pods.

We want to implement an interesting damage system.
On every collision, the severity of the collision should be calculated from the magnitude of the impulse applied. This could be approximated by the change in momentum of the body. Based on the severity of the collision, a "catastrophic event" should be selected:

• Flaps on one side stop working
• Boost stops working
• Only half thrust available
• Engine stuck at half throttle
• Engine stutters temporarily
• Engine coupling weakens
• Engine coupling fails completely
• Rope disconnects

Driving through the pit stop area should remove all negative conditions from the pod.

Using arrays as vectors kinda sucks. We should develop our own vector class that has nicer operations.

Add important constants to a config object for in-game editing.

We need a background so we can tell when we're moving.

We want to be able to race against the computer.

shadows

The camera should show mainly the stuff in front of you so you know what to avoid. There could possibly be a button to look behind you if you want.

We need to replace the LinearSpring ropes between the pod and the engines with a new, more rope-like spring.

Add particle effects to the game. Collisions, smoke, exhaust, air.

My gamepad is getting old, and it's causing me some problems. The left stick doesn't rest at 0,0 and the right stick can't get all the way up to 1.0.

Here's an interesting article that covers some of this:
http://www.third-helix.com/2013/04/12/doing-thumbstick-dead-zones-right.html

We need a way for easily creating racers with a variety of parameters. These should include:

• Engine Size
• Pod Size
• Engine Mass
• Pod Mass
• Engine Power
• Colors
• Flap Position
• Rope Length
• Coupling Distance
• Coupling Strength
• Coupling Sprites
• Health
• Damage Characteristics

We should be able to play the game without a gamepad, even though it will be significantly inferior.

We want races.

Replace some placeholder graphics with shader sprites

We need to add braking/control flaps to the racer.

Initially: build a map somehow
Finally: build a map editor