DONKEYSLUG

Donkeylube Software Studios

Donkeyslug should be some kind of a rougelike game, a dungeon creeper. The player should die easily, and death is permanent, but I would like some kind of "leftovers" from previous characters, making the game easier over time. The world should be autogenerated, maybe with additional support for static, hand-made levels. It should stay the same between characters, though, making new and more "permabuffed" characters able to reach deeper into the levels. I would also like to make some kind of garden or something that the player could tend to - maybe a place to grow herbs for potions...

What I am really trying to do is to get into Test Driven Development, and apply my freshly accumulated knowledge procured from the various literature I've been reading. :)

CURRENT GOAL(S)

• System for importing Items and Creatures, taking it out of the code.
  • Maybe JSON YAML is suited for this?
• Weapon and armor system

FUTURE

• Allow player to access and interact with inventory
• Improved monster AI
  • Different behaviors (run away, search for player, patrol, sleep, random walk, et.c.)
  • Knowledge about other creatures - who are friends and enemies
  • Improved FOV
  • Call swarm
• Leveling and scaling
• Ranged combat
• Traps
• Cooler, player-centric view with minimap for play testing
• Moving to new levels
• More algorithms for level generation
• Timed stat changes (buffs, poison, et.c.)
• Fog-of-war
• Turn based or realtime? Decide.

COMPLETED

• Simple view for play testing
• Player and creatures can move around (limited to four directions), attack, pick up and drop items
• Simple parsing of hand made ascii maps
• Level generator (square rooms, digs random tunnels until all rooms are connected)
• Preliminary battle algorithm
• Basic monster AI
  • Creatures can find their way out of a paper bag - and find the shortest path to whatever they are pursuing
  • Creatures have a crude FOV (just a square emanating from a creature, ignores walls)
  • Creatures will charge at the first creature they see
• Creatures can pick up and drop items
• Creatures can consume edibles, which in turn can affect their stats
• Creatures can use recipes to combine ingredients into something edible and stat-changing (health potions, cake of dexterity, ++)