RPG todo

Script

• Timers
  • copy reference table
  • countdown to 0 before executing.
  • update every frame, but execute only outside of cutscenes.

Gameplay

• hotkeys
• special item properties
  • money (constant value for all purposes)
  • cursed status
  • unidentified status
    • hide true power or make it a lot less useful?
• (maybe?) character generation
• looting and trading... hardcode references "loot" and "trade"?
• sneaking/stealth
  • light and visibility
  • silhouettes and light levels?
  • stealing
• proper friendly fire protection
  • 0 - no protection (default)
  • 1 - prevents you from hurting yourself
  • 2 - 1 + prevents you from hurting allies
  • 3 - allows injury to hostile characters only
• spell types
  • movement (paralysis counters)
  • vocal (silence counters)

Logic

• the consume use case for books and potions.
• statusgroups on items
  • temporary spells that alters the properties of the weapon
  • multiple at once with different targets.
• temporary spell effects for wielded items,
  • multiple status effects on a single use, separate chargeflags, multiplier, duration and element.
  • make sure to use each for the right purpose
• Projectiles
  • improve ricochet, gravity related stuff is funky
• target types
  • cone
  • self-area/multi
• status types
  • dispel - should work on individual effects
  • silence
  • paralysis/stun
• Expose a tonne of constants to Cubescript for configuration at the game maker's discretion. These include leveling and power curves

GUI

• inventory
  • item examination
• status effects
• trade
• stats
• crafting
• journal
• newui variants

Recipes

• (maybe) allow in game apparatuses to act as a catalyst
  • (maybe) several catalysts and ingredients list? or just duplicate and alter the recipe?

AI

• queued prioritised actions
  • most important done first
  • multitasking
• waypoints
  • randomness
  • state - don't favour waypoints which are in use
• ai tags
  • identify purpose and effect of entities in game world for the AI (parsing the script for these is simply not practical)
    • alternatively use simpler more specific types, such as "door", "container", "portal" and "mover" as opposed to a singular "object"

Cutscenes

• create a cutscene variant which can't be skippped (maybe)
• some sort of skipping bar (1000 ms?) to prevent accidental skips

Renderer

• particles for active spell effects
• render attachments/equipment
• animations for weapons
  • generic animations, unarmed strike, melee strike, bow shoot, gun shoot, etc

Journal

• quests
• log entries
• sorting and filters

Sound

• sounds while charging spells
• sounds for projectile firing, travel and death
• sounds for active statusgroups
• (maybe) voiced dialogue

I/O

• flat file export of current script/data definitions (maybe)
  • couple with ingame menus for realtime modification (maybe)
• better range checks and protection
• save and restore AI directives

Particles

• set particle effects for entity afflicted status effects
• vary spawned amount of particles depending on distance (few when close, full amount when far away)
• explicit variable for setting waypoint drawing distance