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By @Eiyeron. This is only a paper where I'm collecting all the infos we need to work on.
Entity
- An entity must be placed between map's layer.
- An entity should have differents comportments according the the NPCs/enemies we want to do
- AI : Composition? Derivation? @Eiyeron : I'd go for composition.
- Scripts?
- An entity should be able to move around a map or stay static
- AABB collision with map tiles.
- Velocity : pixels/seconds!
- Movement target? Random? Patroll? This should be extendable the same way than the AI.
- Spritesheet animation.
- Controllable with events/scripts(?)
- Should we count levers, chests, objects as immovable entities?
- It could make their creation easier but it also break the "Entity is movable or interactive abstract(?) character" idioms for a "dynamic interactive object".
Battle engine
- Checkout/move HBE to this once the overworld system is done
- Tie-in with script(?), inventory, experience, characters/enemies and events.
Map
- Loading from file
- Dynamic tiles
- Animated
Events
- Scripting (?)
- Store a flag array to know where we should be in the timeline/sidequests
- Check progression integrity and sequence-breaking-proof mesures/check?
Textbox
- HBE does have logic for one but it's way too linked to its custom string parser because it allows the engine to trigger effects on string updating/drawing and not parsing.
- So, split them and find out how to force the engine to trigger said effects in the middle of reading them?
Objects (inventory)
Disclaimer : Lots'o'text. Prepare your anus.
- How to store them? I have three general ideas/way to do:
- Golden Sun/Earthbound : one item (be it armor, consommable or key item) take one inventory slot
- Pro : inventory becomes plain dumb to set
- Con : have you ever thought that a nut would take as much space as a CLAYMORE?!
- Pokemon I/II/III gens : one kind of item takes one inventory slot
- Pro : you possibly can have much more objects and be more prepared
- Con : Also brings worse problems : a grinder will fill his bags with replinishing items and will seek his path through without having to relay upon inns. I had this problem on recent Pokémons generations once berries are in : one kind would replenish PP and thus, with acutal care, one could go for days of grinding without healing at a Center.
- Pokemon IV+ gens/Bravely Default : All item kinds are registered to the bag, one kind per slot and its only limits are about a kind's quantity, not the global quantity
- Pro : DOn't care about storing/retrieving basic potions
- Cons : The inventory data would be as big as the number of item kinds there is in a game. Be prepared to have a lot of data to manage. It also rapes reality much more than the 2 previous points because you have pretty much a freaking bottomless bag, or almost.