Architecture

Entity

All objects on the screen are entities

Entities have:

• Sprites

• Collision detection

• Collision methods (to be over-written)

Hero

• Let's keep the hero's name generic (might change later on)

• Move methods (can be over-written)

• action methods (attacks, interacting with people/objects)

• transform method

Friend

• Nice NPCs

• They have dialog with the hero

• Can give the hero quests

Enemy

• Move methods

• Sequence (their A.I.)

Boss

• Derives from Enemy

• Can transform like the hero

Objects (collectibles)

• Things the hero can interact with/pick up

Terrain

• Pieces of the level that have specific collision patterns

• They can also initiate a level-transition

Logic

Inventory

• The player's collection of objects and currency

Questlog

• Where we store which quests the player has accepted/completed

Score

• Health and maybe some point-system

• Also the player's "level" (e.g. which shapes/characters has the player unlocked)

Levels

• Levels have a collection of entities and portals to other levels

State

• Stores level, score, and inventory