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

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