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@@ -22,7 +22,23 @@ make a custom doodad, and there (will be) some example doodads you can build
 This game is still in **alpha release mode** and it has a few major features
 still to add.
 
-## Inspiration
+# _Sketchy Maze_ is a "Forever Project"
+
+I have a list of features I _really_ want for the "1.0" launch of the game, but
+I'll plan on continuing development for as long as I find it interesting and will
+release free updates to everybody who buys the game just once.
+
+I've always wanted to make a videogame, and always liked to learn about game
+design and everything, but never actually made anything worthwhile until
+_Sketchy Maze._ Over time, I realized that I don't actually want to build
+"a video game," what I wanted was a game _project_. Something I could just work
+on and add features to, more of a game "platform," something long-term like
+Minecraft.
+
+This page describes the initial set of features planned for the 1.0 and some
+ideas I have kicking around further down the road if all goes well.
+
+# Inspiration
 
 I'm a 90's kid, and when I was growing up in the era of Sega Genesys and Super
 Nintendo games, I used to like to draw my own maps on paper of a 2D platformer
@@ -41,13 +57,13 @@ do the job and you can draw whatever shape you want for your level hazards.
 
 ![Palette editor](/images/palette.png)
 
-## Mod Friendly
+# Mod Friendly
 
-While the game ships with a [handful of built-in doodads](doodads.md) to
+While the game ships with a [handful of built-in doodads](/guidebook/doodads.html) to
 spice up your level, you can also create your own and program them to do
 whatever you want, with JavaScript!
 
-## See Also
+# See Also
 
 For more information about _Sketchy Maze_, please see the following links:
 

content/faq.md

@@ -26,11 +26,33 @@ _Sketchy Maze_ is first and foremost a videogame for **desktop operating systems
 It should run on any GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows or Apple macOS computer.
 
 If you're feeling dangerous, you can also run it on GNU/Linux smartphone devices
-like the Purism Librem 5 or Pine64 Pinephone.
+like the Purism Librem 5 or Pine64 Pinephone. Mobile ports are _relatively_
+down on the priority list, but it already _sorta_ functions.
 
 See the [Download](/download) page.
 
-# Pricing
+## Do I need to learn how to program?
+
+Nope! You can just draw some levels and use pre-made doodads in them. The "1.0"
+version of the game is expected to include a proper set of single player levels
+that can simply be _played_ so you don't even need to draw your own level if
+you're not feeling creative.
+
+## The user interface is ugly!
+
+I find the "Windows 95" look charming.
+
+The good thing about the user interface is that it's released as a
+[free and open source](#is-this-game-open-source) module. Eventually I plan to
+build theming support into the UI toolkit, and _Sketchy Maze_ will automatically
+look awesome.
+
+I developed my UI toolkit from scratch, and the "Windows 95" look is _very_ easy
+to program. A button is just a handful of rectangles drawn on top of each other
+with offsets to provide the "3D look" and I found it preferable to make the UI
+toolkit _look how it acts_ until I was confident I did it right.
+
+# Pricing and Distribution
 
 ## Is this game free?
 
@@ -56,3 +78,89 @@ Paid versions of the game will include _additional_ features such as:
   sharing with other players.
 * Possibly some access to online account features (in-game UI to share and
   download levels and doodads made by others, etc.)
+
+It is expected that the full set of built-in doodads will be equally available
+in free versions of the game. And these doodads should be varied and featureful
+enough to create all sorts of custom and creative levels, which can be shared
+with other players.
+
+## Will the game feature any form of Digital Rights Management (DRM)?
+
+I hate DRM, so I don't expect so.
+
+## Will this game be available on Steam?
+
+I haven't decided yet. I think I could try and distribute the game myself first.
+It's gonna be in beta for some time and I can see if it attracts a cult following
+along the way.
+
+# Technicals
+
+## What is this game built with?
+
+_Sketchy Maze_ runs on a custom game engine, built from the ground up, in the
+[Go](https://golang.org) programming language using [SDL2](https://www.libsdl.org/) for graphics via [veandco/go-sdl2](https://github.com/veandco/go-sdl2) bindings for Go.
+
+While the game itself is not open source, some of its critical components are released as free and open source projects that other developers can use in their projects.
+
+## Is this game open source?
+
+Parts of it are!
+
+_Sketchy Maze_ was built from the ground up using little more than
+[SDL2](https://www.libsdl.org/) which lets you plot pixels on a screen. While
+I was designing the game, I thought it'd be a good idea to write an abstraction
+layer between low-level SDL2 functions and give me a clean, Go-like API to work
+with that keeps my code from either _depending_ too much on SDL or for my Go
+code to be written too C-like to work with it.
+
+So I built my own [render](https://git.kirsle.net/go/render) library that
+abstracts around SDL2 for desktops and HTML5 Canvas elements for WebAssembly,
+and my game needed UI buttons so I wrote a [UI toolkit](https://git.kirsle.net/go/ui)
+which provides Labels, Buttons, Menus, Windows, and all sorts of useful widgets
+to draw my user interface with.
+
+Here are a list of open source projects created **as a part of** development of
+_Sketchy Maze_ which should be generally useful to any Go developers for making
+some simple graphical applications.
+
+* [go/render](https://git.kirsle.net/go/render): Render engine supporting SDL2
+  (native apps) and HTML Canvas (WebAssembly) targets.
+* [go/ui](https://git.kirsle.net/go/ui): Go UI toolkit for adding labels, buttons,
+  windows, menus, and more widgets and arranging them sanely in frames with an
+  API like Tcl/Tk. It uses go/render so can also target WebAssembly.
+* [go/audio](https://git.kirsle.net/go/audio): Simple audio abstraction which can load and play music or sound effects, currently only SDL2 supported.
+
+GitHub mirrors of the above:
+
+* [go/render](https://github.com/kirsle/render)
+* [go/ui](https://github.com/kirsle/ui)
+
+Also this website, the user guidebook, and other things with the game are
+readable as open source code, at https://code.sketchymaze.com/
+
+## Wait, does _Sketchy Maze_ have a WebAssembly port?
+
+Sure does! But performance isn't great yet, and I'm not sure whether WebAssembly
+support in web browsers needs to get better or if I need to tighten up my code.
+There _is_ a lot of room for optimization in my UI toolkit, to minimize the number
+of draw calls per tick.
+
+One day I might have a "demo this game right in your web browser" feature with a
+(probably stripped-down) version of the game built for WebAssembly. So far, though,
+it just freezes web browsers frequently and I'm not letting you see it yet.
+
+## Is it coming to Android or iOS?
+
+These are relatively low on the priority list; maybe after the 1.0 release is
+feature-complete I'll work on making the game work on mobile phones.
+
+Already the game _sort of_ functions on GNU/Linux smartphones such as the
+Pinephone. This phone has a 720x1280 pixel display and _most_ of the UI buttons
+are usable in the level editor, doodads can be dragged onto levels, etc.; its
+current biggest issue is with the on-screen keyboard app not being able to press
+two keys simultaneously (like to move and jump at the same time).
+
+An Android port would likely be the first one _after_ testing on the Pinephone
+to get a touch-friendly user interface going. This game mainly just uses SDL2
+which is good for portability!

content/features.md

@@ -9,4 +9,115 @@ before the game leaves "alpha" status.
 
 ![Screenshot of the level editor](/images/floor-is-lava.png)
 
-TBD.
+# _Sketchy Maze_ is a "Forever Project"
+
+I have a list of features I _really_ want for the "1.0" launch of the game, but
+I'll plan on continuing development for as long as I find it interesting and will
+release free updates to everybody who buys the game just once.
+
+I've always wanted to make a videogame, and always liked to learn about game
+design and everything, but never actually made anything worthwhile until
+_Sketchy Maze._ Over time, I realized that I don't actually want to build
+"a video game," what I wanted was a game _project_. Something I could just work
+on and add features to, more of a game "platform," something long-term like
+Minecraft.
+
+This page describes the initial set of features planned for the 1.0 and some
+ideas I have kicking around further down the road if all goes well.
+
+# 1.0 Features
+
+The expected feature list for the "1.0" version of the game, and how
+far along I am.
+
+## Level & Doodad Editor
+
+The level editor should include basic drawing tools:
+
+* **Features:**
+  * [x] Easily switch between Play Mode and Edit Mode to test your level.
+  * [x] Draw your own pixels anywhere you want.
+    * _Should_ be pixel-perfect collision detection, though Boy has a hitbox
+      that could use some trimming.
+  * [x] Editable Palette to add and modify colors.
+* **Drawing tools:**
+  * [x] Freehand
+  * [x] Line
+  * [x] Rectangle
+  * [x] Ellipse
+  * [x] Eraser
+  * [x] Undo/Redo
+  * [ ] Zoom In/Out ([--experimental](/guidebook/experimental.html))
+* **Level Sizes:**
+  * [x] Bounded levels (0,0 to 2550,3300)
+  * [ ] Custom width/height for Bounded (just needs UI work)
+  * [x] No Negative Space: infinitely big levels which still have a
+    top-left corner bounded at (0,0)
+  * [x] Unbounded: infinitely large levels with no corners.
+  * [ ] Bordered: a bounded level where the top and left decorations
+    wrap around on the bottom and right sides too.
+* **Wallpaper Themes:**
+  * [x] Notebook: standard blue ruled notebook paper.
+  * [x] Blueprint: dark blueprint paper.
+  * [x] Legal pad: yellow legal pad with blue and red lines.
+  * [ ] Blank sheet: a texture of a blank white sheet of paper.
+  * [ ] Grid paper: a white page with grid pattern.
+  * [x] Pure white: just a solid white background with no texture.
+  * [ ] Placemat: a wavy pattern meant to decorate all four sides of a
+    Bordered map.
+  * [ ] Custom Wallpaper: users will be able to bundle a custom
+    wallpaper texture inside their level file.
+* **Doodad Editor:**
+
+## Doodads Editor
+
+## Single Player Campaign
+
+The game is expected to come with a series of proper levels built-in which
+are played in sequence and has some kind of interconnected story or
+something. Currently you get some tutorial levels.
+
+* **Single Player Campaign:**
+    * [ ]
+* **Polish:**
+    * The platforming physics will be better. Currently the character gets
+      stick walking up sloped surfaces, _especially_ moving Left (but not as
+      much moving Right).
+
+* [ ] Checkbox?
+
+# Current Doodads
+
+The current list of doodads built-in with the game can be found in the
+[guidebook](/guidebook/doodads.html). For the exhaustive list so far, we have:
+
+* **Bird:** a red bird that flies back and forth and can be ridden on.
+* **Button:** sends a power on/off signal to a linked doodad.
+* **Colored Doors & Keys:** four pairs of locks and matching keys.
+* **Crumbly Floor:** a break-away floor.
+* **Electric Door:** a closed door that only opens when it's powered.
+* **Red Azulian:** test mob.
+* **Small Key Doors:** locked doors and keys that are consumed each time
+  a door is unlocked.
+* **Start & End Flags:** set the player spawn point and level goal.
+* **State Blocks:** blue and orange blocks that toggle from solid to
+  passable.
+* **State Button:** on/off switch that globally toggles state blocks.
+* **Switches:** toggle electric doors open or closed or provide power
+  on/off to other doodads.
+* **Trapdoors:** one-way passages (all four directions).
+* **Warp Doors:** for fast travel around the map between any two linked
+  Warp Doors.
+* **Warp Doors (Blue & Orange):** boolean state versions of Warp Doors,
+  which may only be entered while the door is active.
+
+Some hidden doodads that you can activate with cheat codes, but which
+don't **do** very much because they were for the player character:
+
+* **Boy:** the player character in a blue hoodie.
+* **Blue Azulian:** the original placeholder character, a blue version of
+  the Red Azulian.
+
+(For that cheat code, try entering "boolProp showAllDoodads true" into
+the developer console **before** opening the Level Editor, and they will
+be available in the Doodads palette with the others).