Terrarum/work_files/GameDesign/MISC_MECHNANICS.md

Colouring

Artificial: Use 4096

• Colouring of potion
  • Randomised, roguelike fashion
  • Choose Col(RGB) from set of finite cards: 255, 255, 128, 128, 0, 0
  • MULTIPLY blend chosen colour with white texture

Colour keys

Things are colour-keyed so that players would get the idea by just a glance.

• Amber: Inactivated, TBA??
• Cyan-blue: Activated, Energy weapon?
• Purple: Magic
  • Application: spell tomes/scrolls written with Magic Description Language
• Phosphor Green:
• Cherry red (#F04): Health (using this to help with deuterans)

NOTE: cyan is a tricky colour for deuterans; will be inextinguishable between greys!

Making sprite

• Layers

  • (Optional) Glow
  • (Optional) Hair foreground
  • Right arm dress
  • Right arm body
  • Dress
  • Boots
  • Body
  • (Optional) Hair accessory
  • Hair
  • Head
  • Left arm dress
  • Left arm body
  • (Optional) SFX

• Size

  • Regular sprite 'height' (hitbox height) : 40 px
    • Apparent height may vary

Chargen

• Select hair, colours, then compile them into single spritesheet

• NO gender distinction, but have masculine/neutral/feminine looks (in clothing, hairstyles, etc.)

• Colour: 4096 colours (12-bit 0x000 - 0xFFF)

• Base mass: 60 kg

(De)serialisation

see SAVE_FORMAT.md

Actor as universal tool

• Utility tiles that have states (e.g. noteblock) are implemented using Actor.

NPC Killing

• AI: Attacked first: Warn player to not attack Attacked second: The NPC becomes hostile until player sheathe the weapon Attacked thrice: All the NPCs within the same faction become hostile until the player is away

Deceased HISTORICAL actors are stored to the inventory of DEBUG CHAR (id: 0x51621D) to make them not accidentally GC'd and for the lore.

Ownership of lands

• Codex of Real Estate → assign owner to the tiles → copy the information to the NPC instance

Health and magic point

• Works like Ampere in electronics.
  • Health: Regen per time
  • Magic: Out power per time
  • "I somewhat doubt this now..." --Torvald, 2017-03-12
  • "It won't work." --Torvald, 2017-04-22

Civilisation

Based on Millénaire Minecraft mod, they have limited resources, have ruler (one of those: town-ruler, country-ruler). Players can either help them or force their way into the head position, or even eliminating them.

Villages can be either independent or part of larger country (Dwarf Fortress)

Level of technology

Anything goes as long as it does not exceed TL11 of GURPS. Although the universe has the existence of traditional sorcery, the laws of physics of the universe itself is same as we know it. Simply put: NO FUCKING PERPETUAL MOTION AND PERFECT PROPHECY

New light sim: Raytracer

Only take NEAREST SUNLIGHT tile into render, as there will be not much artificial lights on the screen.

Not sure about the performance, but it can be fully multi-threaded.

"You know, the world can always use more ideas." - probably not Oxton