Collecting letters that are dropped during the Action Phase directly impacts the success of the Word Puzzle Phase. By adding a large shape behind a moving letter, it draws the eye to that movement. This will hopefully kick-start thoughts about new words that can made and further tie the theme of Action vs Word together.
All data for the Action Bar is stored via parallel arrays.
Because the length of the trail points is always the same, data does not need to be separated 'per path'. An index in intervals of ITEM_PATHS_LENGTH will always be the next path.
Combining data like this also allows for a single update loop to process all data for the trails.
The EXP Bar and Multiplier Tokens are animated for the same purpose: initiate planning for the next phase.Â