Terrarum/work_files/GameDesign/BACKEND_DESIGN.md

The extension of THE_ENGINE.md

The game has elements that are:

• Actors
  • Controller
    • AI
    • JInput (Provided by LWJGL)
  • Factioning
  • Scheduler
  • Physics solver (simple, AABB-oriented)
  • TODO: sprite assembler (character--avatar--maker)
• Imagefont
  • Font drawer
    • Hangul character assembler (aka JOHAB)
• Sprite animator (really simple one)
• De/serialiser
• Concurrency helper (really simple one)
• Tiles
  • Tile property database
• Items
  • Item property database
    • TODO: Material system
• Map drawer
  • Map camera
  • Map drawer
  • Lightmap renderer
• Map generator
  • Utilises Joise Modular Noise Generator
  • Additional noise filters
• Real estate
  • The registry (a book that records the current owner of tiles on the map. Owner can be a single NPC or faction)
  • Utility
• Internationalisation
  • Language pack

The elements are connected like:

• Actors
  • Controller ← AI, Player Input
  • AI ← Factioning, Scheduler
  • class "Actor"
    • class "ActorWithBody" with properties like (AIControlled, Factionable, Luminous, Visible, etc.)
      • class "NPCIntelligentBase"
        • (NPCs that has AI and can be interacted)
      • (fixtures, player)
    • (any of the invisible actors)