Game Projects

!!=purple Basic Stuff * Collect resources. This takes real time and starts out pretty slow. * 2D map that lets you go to other areas. Infinite. * Materials can be transformed into high-grade materials though there's also a chance they'll go to lower grade materials. * High-grade materials can also be crafted from several low-grade materials but this takes a lot of them. * everything whatsoever can be upgraded, and the recipes are PGCS. * Needs to be mobile-friendly.

!!=red Generation * The map generates various types of tiles, which have a different concentration of base resources and some chance of higher-tier resources. * There should also be rare tiles that have a very high percentage chance of higher-tier resources. !!=red Materials Materials have both a material class and a material level. These are both indicated by letters. Material classes: * Metal (M) * Rock / chemical extracts (R) * Plant / plant extract (P) * Animal / animal extracts (A) * Abstract materials (X) Not all levels are inside a material class, but there is always A and Z. There should be ~15 levels total spread randomly across the A-Z space.

!!=red Player Interactions The way the player can interact with the game are: * Move -- moves you elsewhere in the infinite map. Takes movement time (probably only 30 seconds starting out). You can also only move within your movement range, which starts at 1 (so anything adjacent) * Gather -- gathers resources from the current tile. Resource gather speed is dictated by your tool of that type and is fairly slow -- maybe 5-15 seconds per each resource starting out. The speed and yield is dictated by the particular outcrop -- these are procgen and some are going to be faster or slower. You must pick the outcrop you're gathering from. There's a limited amount of these per tile. !!=red Alchemy Actions * Transmute -- Attempts to transform a resource to the higher-tier version of it. Starting out, has a 50% chance to instead downgrade it, however this is upgradeable in 5% increments. * Clarify -- can turn some amount of a lower-tier resource into a higher-tier one with a 100% chance Varies depending on the resource in question, 3-5. * Metamorph -- turns a resource into a different material class, 2 levels down (and rounded down too if thr equivalents are higher or lower levels). * Entrope -- turns a material into a lower-tier equivalent. Takes no time. * Meld -- turns 2-4 low-level materials in different classes into a higher-tier material. These recipes are procgen and require an unlockable Recipe. Alchemy takes Alchemy time, around 20 seconds but upgradeable by 2 seconds at a time.

!!=red Crafting Crafting is also a player action. * Upgrades to all systems in the game can be achieved sequentially by sourcing the materials for them, in a PGCS way. Each upgrade tier bumps the maximum level of at least one of the materials up. The amount of that particular resource varies.

!!=blue Loot To make the game less of a slog, loot can be found that'll find a random selection of materials with different chances. * there are specific lootboxes that have terrain generation associated with them based on the tiles around them. This is known beforehand.