Questing Heroes

The goal is to make a turn-based dungeon crawler Limited Multiplayer Online based off of the classic board game HeroQuest.

Read the original board game rules.

Features

• Accounts can make multiple characters
• Accounts can make "quests" (dungeon scenarios), which are automatically ranked by difficulty
• Quests can be ranked by accounts which have a character complete them
• when a Quest is completed by an account, the details (traps placement, etc) are forever visible to that account. Quest is "unlocked."
• Quests can be forked from an unlocked quest in order to make a new version for you to publish
• Every time a character completes a account-created Quest for the first time, the account which created that Quest is rewarded with gold/account USD balance
• characters persist between quests
• characters perma-die when their Intellect or Vitality points go to zero during a quest.
• characters reset to full Intellect + Vitality points at end of each quest they complete
• characters can form parties of up to 4 players to tackle a quest
• leaderboard of characters that have completed the most quests/the most dangerous quests
• intuitive WASD movement
• basic pokemon-ripped menus/combat options
• automatic DM, so no one has to play the monsters and trigger the traps, etc
• monsters, treasure, equipment, spells, traps, etc from board game
• turn timer to prevent AFK/disconnect

Pricing (haphazard ideas/brainstorming)

• Free to make one character per account, costs $0.25 per character created after that (minimum $3 purchase because of credit card fees)
• "buy the game" for $15, meaning your account has infinite of things that cost USD, whether I decide to make playing a quest cost money or not, etc.
• Cannot submit quests unless you have spent money

Screens

• advertising/landing page
• account creation
• account home page (lists characters, quests created+unlocked, account balance, lets you refill account balance)
• character creation
• character details
• quest creation
  • quests lifecycle: new -> saved -> published. Can only be edited until published. After that, it's frozen.
• quest list page
• character leaderboard page
• quest ranking page
• equipment shop
• "start quest" page /quest/:id/start?character=id
• play quest page /quest/:id/play
  • movement view
  • attack view
  • status view

Combat

1. When adjacent to an enemy, click [Attack]
2. Then click the enemy to confirm your target.
3. The view will change to combat mode.
4. Animation of attacker attempting his first strike. either miss, block, or hit.
5. Either animation of defender doing nothing, or blocking, or being injured.
6. repeat process until attacker has no more strikes
7. combat dice have 3 hit sides, 2 hero defence sides, and 1 monster defense side

Mind:

1. some rules should go here

Treasure

• Each room can only be searched for treasure once.
  • the game will have to know about each room, which means each room will need an id of some kind
• Each room can have either a specific treasure from the quest maker, or a random treasure.
  • the quest will need a map of roomKeys to treasure/random state
• Each quest has a "random treasure deck" which contains all the money and items that may be earned. This treasure deck also contains wandering monsters and traps. This deck is generated based on the difficulty score of the quest.

To install

first, install meteor

then

git clone [this repo]
cd heroquest
meteor

that starts the server on localhost:3000

Meteor servers will automatically restart themselves whenever you make code changes+save the file.