mnml/server/WORKLOG.md

Principles

• Experience something

• Express something

• Prove something

• 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

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

• main screen layout

  • ping icon

• combat screen layout

  • health bars
  • statuses

• icons

  • skill type / damage type
  • skills themselves
  • passive nodes / notables

• tell him about discord

WORK WORK

broken skills strangle taunt

NOW

inventory + drops table id data game

drops_buy(game_id, index) drops_get() inventory_get()

reduce balance
move drop into inventory

drops_update()
inventory_update()

-> inventory

inventory_combine(game_id, [indices]) inventory_get()

new item =
  match base item
  match modifiers

update inventory[base_index]

inventory_update()

-> inventory

SOON

• clean up categories

• why is the text fucked?

• iconography

• full svg buttons to not have to fuck around with text

• FAQ

• aoe skills

• combo 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

  • chat wheel trash talk
  • KO animations and trash talk

LATER

• redis for game events

• chat

• notifications

• elo + leaderboards

• Items

  • Colour scheme

Db maintenance

Art Styles

• Aztec
• youkai
• Pixel
• Industrial

notables

• prince of peace
  • bonus healing / no damage
• fuck magic
• empower on ko

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