This tool is designed to make creating your own custom items for my personal project/game as straightforward and easy as possible. All json Objects produced are readable by the json parser in personal project.
Droppers produce/mine Ore. They are responsible for setting the base properties(Value, temperature, Multi-Ore) and effects of the ore.
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Ore Name: Name of the ore.
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Ore Value: This of the value of the ore and is fundamental to the game. When sold this value is added to the players' wallet.
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Ore Temperature: The temperature of the ore. 0 represents a neural/default value. Temperature vales that are less than zero indicates that the ore is cold and values greater than 0 indicate that the ore is warm. Temperature is used to encourage people to build their base/tycoon in an intentional and strategic way by making them consider the impact that ore temperature can have on how ore is upgraded/processed.
- EX: An upgrader that multiplies ore value by 10x if is its temperature is greater than 100 otherwise it adds 20 to the ore temperature.
- EX: An upgrader that multiplies ore value based on the temperature of the ore.
- EX: an upgrader that resets an ore if the ore is cold enough.
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Multi-Ore: Allows the player to increase the number of ore without needing to drop more ore. Functions as a "multiplier" for the number of ore.
- EX: an ore with a multi-ore of one can be thought of as 1 ore but an ore with a Multi-Ore stat of 3 can be thought of as 3 version/copies of an ore. This property should be treated with care as it can easily break the game.
Furnaces are responsible for selling ore. When a furnace goes to sell an ore it applies a bonus/upgrade to the ore. It then calculates the ore's sell price by multiplying the ore value by the Multi-Ore, then adds that value to the players' wallet. After processing a certain number of ore(special point reward threshold) the furnace will reward a currency called Special Points which can be used to buy special/unique items in the shop or to purchase upgrades. Multi-Ore influences/impacts this process as well. An ore with a multi-ore stat of 2 represents 2 ores being processed.
- EX: If a furnace sells an ore with a Multi-Ore property of 10 the furnace will have effectively processed 10 ore.
Conveyors are fairly simple and only do one thing, move ore around the tycoon. The speed at which a conveyor moves ore around is determined by its speed stat. A higher speed stat means that ore will travel faster, the base speed is 1.
Upgraders are the heart of the game and are rather complex. Upgraders function like conveyors except they tend to take up more space and they also upgrade the ore. When an upgrader goes to upgrade an ore it first checks the ore's upgrade tag to see if the ore can be upgraded by it(the upgrader). The number of times an upgrader of that type/name can upgrade an ore is determined by the maxUpgrades Property of that Upgraders upgrade tag. Each upgrader has a Primary/Main upgrade strategy. Upgrade strategies determine how the upgrader upgrades the ore and are triggered/applied when an Upgrader upgrades an ore.
- Value To Modify (VTM):
The Property of the Ore that will be modified/changed by the Upgrade.
- EX: Ore Value, Ore Temperature, MultiOre, etc.
- Operator: The Operator determines how the modifier is applied to the VTM.
- EX: Addition(+), subtraction(-), multiplication(*), division(/), exponents/pow(^), assignment(=), and modulo(%).
- Modifier: The Modifier is the value/number that the Operator applies to the VTM.
Simply: VTM = VTM [Operator] Modifier.
Examples:
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An Upgrade the following properties: its VTM is Ore Value, It's Operator is addition(+), and its modifier is 40 will result in an Upgrade that will add 40 to the Ore's value every time it's applied.
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An Upgrade with the following properties: its VTM is Ore Temperature, its Operator is multiplication(*), and its modifier is 3 will result in an upgrade that will multiply the Ore's temperature by 3x each time its applied.
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An Upgrade with the following properties: it's VTM is MultiOre, its Operator is assignment(=), and its modifier is 8 will result in an upgrade that sets the Ore's MultiOre property to 8 whenever it's applied.
- Basic Upgrade: A Basic upgrade modifies an Ore Property by applying the modifier to the VTM using the specified operator.
- Bundled Upgrade: A bundled upgrade strategy wraps any number of upgrades strategies into one. Upgrades are applied in
the order they were declared.
- EX: If you want to create an upgrade that multiplies ore value and adds to ore Temp you would choose a bundled upgrade. You would then select Multiply as your first upgrade and add as your second upgrade. Then you could exit out.
- Conditional Upgrade: A conditional Upgrade has a condition to evaluate, a comparison type(Greater Than, less than, equal to), and a threshold(the value which condition to evaluate is compared to). Depending on the result of this comparison either the true or false branch is activated. Each branch contains an Upgrade Strategy. You can set the true branch and false branch to a be Bundled upgrade if you want it do multiple things. EX: you want to multiply ore value and add to ore Temp if true.
- Influenced Upgrade: An influenced upgrade takes a function/equation and calculates the modifier of the upgrade based on the result of that function. You have the option to set a minimum and maximum value for the modifier value.
- Resetter: Resets the upgrade tags on an Ore allowing it to be upgraded again by previous upgraders, this is a very powerful effect. Tagging an upgradeTag as a resetter tells the game not to reset the upgrade tag when the ore is reset by an upgrader.
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Ore effects function as status effects that can be applied to ore by different items such as upgraders or droppers.
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Bundled Effect: A Bundled Effect functions similarly to a Bundled Upgrade. It's primary use is to apply multiple effects at the same time.
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Upgrade Ore Effect: An Upgrade Ore Effect can be configured to apply an upgrade strategy to an ore on a specific interval over a set duration. EX: you want an ore's value to increase by 2% every 5 seconds for 30 seconds.