Alive

Play it here: https://ab-und-zu.github.io/alive

Media

Using a stick as sword to fight first monsters

Casting ice spell to freeze monsters and water

Onboarding

Concepts

• Character select
• Press action button
• Picking up stuff
• Attacking
• Stats
• Monsters walk
• Portal
• Walk through grass

Option 1

• Spawn circle

• Top says "ALIVE" in big font

• Center character

• Below "Select character , Press OK"

• Action: Press ok

• Top "INTRO" portal

• Bottom opening

• Left right flowers and bushes with items

• No chest, compass later

Tutorial

Plan

• v1
  • Loading screen for level generation
  • Score / Experience
  • Portal to next level, increased difficulty
  • Shops
  • Epic monsters: boss and fairy
  • Normal monsters: circle and question mark
  • Applying damage: monsters, weapon types, armor
  • Paths between waypoints
  • Fix quests
• v2
  • Character select menu
  • potions
  • Fix fog of war corners and replace opacity with overlay
  • Map zoom out
  • Torches, view radius with zoom, reduce in bush
  • Music / FX
  • More elemental spells?
  • Chests and keys
  • Perlin noise terrain generation
  • World presets: normal, desert, ocean, forest, mountain
  • Pushing or swapping blocks puzzle

HUD

• Player: Female symbol, note symbol, arrow up, exclamation mark, ampersand, uppercase letter, numbers
• Average drop: 10wood 10iron 15 food 20 mana
• Swimming: oxygen count?

Layers

• Deep water
• Shallow water
• Sand
• Ground
• Path
• Rock
• Ice

Items

• ○ Gold

• ♥ Food

• ◆ Mana

• ≡ Wood

• ÷ Iron

• • Power

• . Apple

• ↔ Blossom

• Sword: Wood / Iron / Gold / Ice / Fire

• Shield: Wood / Iron / Gold / Ice / Fire

• Ranged: Spell Ice / Fire / Bubble, gun

• Boat: Wood

• Bomb

• Torch

Spells

• Ice
• Fire
• Bubble
• Trap

Elements

• Fire
  • red
  • DoT
  • Burns trees
  • Thaws ice
• Ice
  • aqua
  • Stun
  • Makes water to ice

Recipes

• 5 wood : 1 gold

• 4 iron : 1 gold

• 3 mana : 1 gold

• 2 life : 1 gold

• 5 wood 2 gold : 1 sword

• 10 iron 10 gold : 1 sword

• 10 wood 5 gold : 1 shield

• 15 iron 25 gold : 1 shield

Rooms

• Spawn
• Chest
• Fairy ring
• Endboss
• Food store (red)
• Mana store (aqua)
• Shield store (maroon)
• Weapon store (grey)
• Spell store

Monsters

• ▶ Triangle (Straight until wall then random direction change)
• Circle (öÖöÖ)
  • Straight towards player
• Questionmark
  • A* path finding
• Alphabet (Z)
  • Static, shooting
• Shark (clover)
  • Swimming only
• Shock wave tower
• Fairy (running away)

Balancing

• No weapon: 0 dmg

• Wooden sword: 1 dmg

• Iron sword: 2 dmg

• No armor: full dmg

• Wooden armor: -1 dmg

• Iron armor: -2 dmg

• Ice spell freeze: 8 ticks

• Fire spell dmg: 3 ticks

• Triangle: 5 hp 3 dmg

• Circle: 2 hp 3 dmg

Presets

• Normal (lakes, forests)
• Ocean (allow swimming with air)
• Forest
• Dark (no fog of war)
• Desert
• Ice world
• Lava world

Random observations

• I'm spending quite a lot of time on awesome details, but the game is not Alive yet
• I tried implementing Immer, which was actually quite fun and revealed some referencing bugs in my code. However the performance dropped significantly, actually unplayable, didn't even bother to measure. Auf Nimmerwiedersehen!
• iOS Safari opacity transition sometimes not working in energy saving mode, but not caring about it either