GAME_MECHANICS

Combat (move to game mechanics)

The focus of this game is to provide a deep strategy, rich, combat experience. Every character is a magic user to some degree. Combinations of a characters moves are allowed. Combinations between characters are the most devastating.

Action Queue, Turn Based Combat

• Each character in combat has an action queue
• Actions queues are private unless a Predict skill is taken
• Action queues populate automatically with defaults
• Users insert better strategy
• There is also an initiative order
• Turns can be Fully TurnBased or Semi-Real Time (3-10 seconds per action)

Attacks/Defenses:

• make sure to work with your squad to make efficient maneuvers against opponents

• separate a focus-pool between 'attack', 'defense', 'counter'

• allocate willpower and energy pts to special attacks

  • supplement them with focus-pool additions

Willpower:

• You only have so much willpower to aid you in combat, use it wisely

Natural Energy

• The world around you is like a small battery you can tap
• If you capture key energy flows on the battle field you will gain a distinct advantage
• If your opponent does you will be at a distinct disadvantage.
• Your movement, and that of your squad, is a combat meta game crucial to winning

General Overhead Map

View similar to pokemon gameboy or classic zelda games

Animation:

• Comic books, manga, anime are all popular
  • they are all minimally animated
• Construct a collaborative turn based video game based on a table top rpg.
• Simplistic graphics presented in comic book 'stills'
  • 'stills' can be semi moving scenes
    • planned character locations, effects:
      • example: fireball graphic
• For all 'engine' information:
  • emphasis is on exposing all the statistics to the characters controller
• Detailed magic system
• Detailed combo system
• Complex, GO-like movement meta game
  • people draw energy from the surrounding environment
  • energy channels can be claimed/blocked/rerouted
  • provides an 'energy' edge in battle

Magic:

You have a willpower pool that naturally regenerates between battles and overnight.

• part of the Priests belief in prayer before bed You have a willpower reserve of hard to regenerate points
• these can be used to provide imense bursts to your current willpower pool
• regenerate with weeks of rest, or great acts in support of your commitment

Spell Categories:

Physical: Strenth Dexterity Resist Forsee

Force Attack Energy Trap Predict Empower Cloak (fire,lightning Primary Goal

• Fast, iterative releases.

• Get things to work.

• Build a rich game over time.

Required Components

CraftyJS

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Mapping:

• 2d visualization of grid
• character heads
• trees, walls, doors, paths
• show energy flows
• show naration/story line in subtitles
• allow a movement path to be selected
• allow a movement point to be set as an action point

Person model

• attributes:
  • strenth
  • dexterity
  • intelligence
  • willpower
• gear:
  • unlimited bag
• equipped items:
  • weapon
  • armour

Control Panel:

• below the map
• allows action/item handling

music:

• ask for a low key theme # low/frequent
• ask for a combat theme # medium/occasionally
• ask for a key scene theme # high/rarely

Engine:

• Person class
• what attributes does a person have minimally
• what is a 'turn'
  • how and where can you move
  • when and what actions can you take

Turn Based == Restful

• dont worry about real time
• dont worry about default actions

Scripting format for interactions

• with a supporting AI for combat

Plot

• survive, band together
• resist The Church
• seek Hermits for training
  • not all are friendly
• follow your conviction

Combat

• a persons movement is like 'snake' in the energy game
• a person sets a direction of focus for attack/defense
  • range + degree of coverage are inversly proportional
  • long+limited range to protect against 1 archer
  • touch range for 360 degree martial arts coverage of self
  • can be: protect
• a person has a general combat pool
  • allocates between:
    • target opponent offensively
    • target opponent defensively
    • protect self-or-ally offensively
    • protect self-or-ally defensively
• give details combat analysis

Radial mechanics

• consider a push:
  • a short push could push all enemys around the caster back a few feet
    • distance=1;strength=3;scope=8;
  • a long push to knock over an archer
    • distance=8;strength=3;scope=1;
  • a mage could sheild a sword strike with their hands
    • distance=0;strength=11;scope=1;
• distance:
  • number of squares away, 0 is self
• strength:
  • damage modifier
• scope:
  • how many blocks, around the casters square, are affected

Magic

• willpower pool
• natural energy + flows
• limited spells, attack, defense

spells

• shield # magical sheild set like view, low radius more degrees, or more wall but one direction
  • protect 1 person completely or many people partially
• empower: magical damage added to weapon
• flicker: more evasive, harder to hit
• fleet: movement greatly increased
• push/pull: linear projections of willpower as force
• claim: enforce your will on the world/disrupt someone elses energy absorbtion
  • land claimed by 'snake' is claimed with a strength related to duration, and distance from owner
  • there has to be a straight line between owner and space owned without enemy interuption
  • 'claimed' land gets a higher strength from your investment
  • if you cross claimed land, you can break it, or traverse and lose connection

Commitments

• choose a 'commitment' (mission) at the start
• when you accomplish it
  • select a permanent commitment
  • select a new mission commitment