# Principles
* Experience something
* Express something
* Prove something

# Key Mechanics
* 10d chaos maths, not rock paper scissors
* phys is faster and chaotic
* spells are slow and reliable
* defensives are implicit
  * armour is restored, not gained
  * players can feel aggressive

# ask sam
* icons
  * skill type / damage type
  * skills themselves
  * passive nodes / notables

# WORK WORK

broken skills
strangle


## NOW
* armour and SS
  * rolls as a drop item
  * armour and SS the same
  * evasion is a % function of the value

## SOON
* clean up categories
* why is the text fucked?
* iconography
* full svg buttons to not have to fuck around with text
* FAQ
* aoe skills


* keep track of games joined
  * concede game on leave
    * ko all cryps on team, check status
      should correctly assign the winner and drop items

* skills
    * private fields for opponents

* flavour text

## LATER
* redis for game events
* chat
* notifications
* elo + leaderboards


* Items
  * Colour scheme

# Db maintenance

# Art Styles
* Aztec
* youkai
* Pixel
* Industrial

# Mechanic Ideas
teams
1v1 2v2 3v3

gem td style attr combinations
  stoney + spikey = jagged

  plants
  animals
  viruses
  fungus
  artificial
  elementals

  techno artists for the soundtrack

  slimey
  ghostly


* 1: Fighting against human nature is a losing game
* 2: Aesthetics matter
* 3: Resonance is important
* 4: Make use of piggybacking
* 5: Don't confuse "interesting" with "fun"
* 6: Understand what emotion your game is trying to evoke
* 7: Allow the players the skill to make the game personal
* 8: The details are where the players fall in love with your game
* 9: Allow your players to have a sense of ownership
* 10: Leave room for the player to explore
* 11: If everyone likes your game, but no one loves it, it will fail
* 12: Don't design to prove you can do something
* 13: Make the fun part also the correct strategy to win
* 14: Don't be afraid to be blunt
* 15: Design the component for its intended audience
* 16: Be more afraid of boring your players than challenging them
* 17: You don't have to change much to change everything
* 18: Restrictions breed creativity
* 19: Your audience is good at recognizing problems and bad at solving them
* 20: All the lessons connect

Evasion:
•    Provides a X% chance to dodge direct hits
•    Exists a bar with e.g. 200 / 200 evasion rating
•    Your chance to dodge is reduced as your evasion rating is reduced
      20% base dodge with e.g 150 / 200 rating will reduce your chance to dodge to 15%

•    As you take damage your evasion rating decreases as a linear proportion of your HP bar
(not armour or magic shield)
E.g. with 700/900 hp your (200 / 200) evasion rating would be reduced to
 (7/9) * 200 = 155


Armor:
•    Defensive bonus against incoming physical damage
•    Provides a X% mitigation to reduce incoming physical damage before it is applied
•    Armor exists as an additional pseudo health bar
•    Armor is reduced to zero before damage is applied to cryp health
•    If damage taken is physical, armor is the first defensive bar to be reduced
•    A cryp has the X% mitigation while they have at least 1 armour

Magic Shield (same as armor basically)
•    Defensive bonus against incoming magic damage
•    Provides a X% mitigation to reduce incoming magic damage before it is applied
•    Magic shield exists as an additional pseudo health bar
•    Magic shield is reduced to zero before damage is applied to cryp health
•    If damage taken is magic, armor is the first defensive bar to be reduced
•    A cryp has the X% mitigation while they have at least 1 magic shield