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Crystal Ball

Thinking out toward a roguelike game and trying to put into Components and Systems some of the things I think I want to have happen in the game, I think to start I’m going to put Entity conflict into its own Component and System. For the moment, I think that means that all the stuff like hit points, armor, damage resistance, weapon, damage amount and type, all goes into a Component that’s basically just Combat. I’m second guessing myself as I write this, but I think I’m going to go farward in this direction for a while until I start seeing how my Systems start shaping up.

Combat Component

Listing out some things that I think I’ll end up wanting to have happen in the game will help me flesh out the work items I’m going to hang on the bare bones ideas I have so far.

• ablation of damage and wearing out of related items
• missing attacks due to high armor or dodge or illusion
• injury
• fatigue
• damage resistance by damage types
• temporary bonuses
• innate permanent bonuses

Simmering

I’ll let that list simmer for a bit and see if I think of anything else that I need to plan ahead on. In the meantime I probably also need to come up with a list of other things that I need to have in components because it will help me figure out what belongs in which component. For instance:

• combat, as above
• inventory
• communication? maybe reactions?
• skills? maybe several separate skills?
• relationships, maybe that’s part of reactions
• locomotion
• knowledge, discovered information
• conditions, maybe not, keeping these with the things they affect seems better except for reporting on a heads-up display
• heads-up display
• stats, tallies per entity could be fun

That stirs up some ideas!

⇠ Planning Again

Component Plan ⇢