Battle Engine Checklist

[Lamby777]

General gameplay stuff

• Intro silence, don't allow clicking before music
• Allow modifying intro (for boss fights n stuff)
• Win screen with dialog box and rewards/etc
• Show name of track
• Show battle portrait of current character
• Switching characters
• Prevent character swap abuse (maybe a penalty? or a cooldown?)
• Status effects (think of poison, sleep deprivation, etc.)
• Character-specific permanent effects (weaknesses/strengths...? idk how to explain it)
• Dynamic version of that ^^^ (things may happen during battle...?)
• Running away (needs further thought for implementation...)
• Enemy throws projectiles at player
• Enemy can use specializations in real-time
• UI info/warnings for enemy specializations
• HP bar, takes up full space if char doesn't have ability with a mana bar
• Mana bar (BPP for PK, Ammo for firearms, Charge for railgun, etc.)
• Gain BPP by picking up specific item on board
• Add a way to override the algorithm for spawning BPP items (for boss fights, etc)
• "Special" equips that treat combos differently (sniper rifle reloads, charge weapons, etc)

More complicated parts

• Item stuff Battle Engine - Inventory/Item Checklist #20
• Combo system Battle Engine - Rhythm mechanics Checklist #18
• Specializations for (playable?) characters Battle Engine - Specializations Checklist #19

[Lamby777]

Starting work on this... maybe? :)

[Lamby777]

This is getting somewhat complicated, so I'll break it down into 3 separate issues for each section. REASONABLE goals, man.

[Lamby777]

Well, one complete in 7165e1f lol
The others will take a bit longer cuz the actual battle engine isn't made yet.

[Lamby777]

Idea: Rather than having some punishment for an arbitrarily "too frequent" pausing or whatever, the "default" state of battle could be a menu just like any other game, but the "attack" option puts you into the bullet hell mode for a minimum of X seconds, after which you can exit back to the menu if you wish, or continue fighting. This exit behavior could be disabled for special attacks or stuff like that so people can't cheese, but for the most part this seems like the best compromise.

[Lamby777]

Idea for how running would work, taken from a comment in src/battle/mod.rs

"While running away, you won't be able to fight back, but once the countdown is over, you'll escape the fight."

Idea: Rather than having some punishment for an arbitrarily "too frequent" pausing or whatever, the "default" state of battle could be a menu just like any other game, but the "attack" option puts you into the bullet hell mode for a minimum of X seconds, after which you can exit back to the menu if you wish, or continue fighting. This exit behavior could be disabled for special attacks or stuff like that so people can't cheese, but for the most part this seems like the best compromise.

Update: The default mode should be attack, and opening the menu doesn't actually make things easier for you, so you can only really do it when it's "calm" and there are relatively few attacks going on. Kinda realistic, too. You wouldn't eat a sandwich while being chased by a killer robot, right?