Emoji Quest

[kriskowal]

• little improvements
  • distribute nightshades around euia
  • disk emoji for save waypoints (overwrite slot)
  • different fishing rod clue at boat if you boop with fishing rod, maybe where to find interesting fish
  • provide smaller clues for creating the fishing hook, like a separate clue for how to make a gear from gold
  • boop fish with fishing rod should at least be a clue giver
  • clues given by plants should be redundant, specifically the bamboo clue
  • more clue for how to make fishing rod from hook and rod
  • something to do with sponges, maybe interact with water wand
  • named inventory slot for jacket, so one can chop wood in the cold
  • should not be possible to get two free picks from the boulder (some sort of bump formula matching bug)
  • eating meat should produce a bone
  • animals should be renewable in general
  • mojical spelling: (all magic spells (uses of a wand) should have a
    blessive or cursive spelling of fish from the 120 phonetic variations)
  • dialog for all recipes
  • silver mines in borea
  • bank of borea
• engine features
  • ? key and modal key-binding help
  • need a dialog journal for reviewing prior clues
    • recipe / boop journal
  • named inventory slots
    • aka, special slots for stuff like clothes items
  • choice with default value (probably refactor options bag)
    • use default value for save slot
  • label save slots with location and disposition like 🎲⚅😁 5️⃣ ❤️ 5️⃣ 💛 🌂
  • drop mechanic (for dropping boat in particular)
  • webgl sprite atlas with off-screen canvas
  • make items droppable
    • item droppable flag
    • items on ground stack
    • show top item on ground when not obscured by entity
  • give action should actually move the item into an empty slot of the target,
    accounting for empty slots and capacity, and fail if there are no empty
    slots.
  • stamina
    • heavy objects (lumber, canoe) cost stamina to haul overland
    • stamina comestibles should restore all stamina
    • maybe consuming stamina needs to be probabalistic to stretch between
      banana trees
    • rest to restore stamina mechanic (should not restore when holding heavy
      objects or swimming, but resting should never consume stamina, even
      when encumbered)
    • move forests far enough from shore of occia that player
      has to make swim gear.
  • wandering of sheep etc
  • currents
    • water currents
    • wind currents (altitude dependent!?) 🎈
  • items with a sequence of tips
  • multi-dialog sequences for items-in-use mode
  • persist editor mode and cursor position in file
  • persist world, level, and face names in file
  • round trip test for emojiquest.json
  • merge view implementations for torus and rect
  • exit jump in predetermined direction (like always east when exiting thru a slide)
  • diluter for mapping mechanics back to JSON after they've been altered
  • conditionally hide direction arrows depending on whether a room exists in the direction
• editor features
  • means to delete entity targets
  • show and hide stamina only in play mode (not when returning from choose/input in editor mode)
  • show level and face names in editor menus
  • jump within level mode
  • lava/water editor modes
  • brush menu
  • skew, repeat, and turn rect topology for spiral
    • spiral topology
      • teleport transitions (ingress down, egress up?)
  • world file top-level property for enumerating tile types (earth,
    fire(lava), water, air, aether) and relating them to corresponding player
    effects rather than having them hard-coded.
  • intermediate representation of a parsed, schematically validated,
    semantically validated world that has not been committed to a playable form
    but is suitable for editing.
    or multiple intermediate forms suitable for particular kinds of transformations.
    like a layer-order flexible form.
    • identify unused entities, items, recipes, actions, levels
    • delete unused entities, items, recipes, actions, levels
    • reorder entities, items, recipes, actions, levels
  • organize entities, items, recipes, and actions into groups
• quest design
  • wand progression
    • trident
    • umbrella -> open umbrella w/ bee
    • open umbrella -> wet open umbrella (temporary) w/ trident
    • wet open umbrella -> open umbrella (when discharged)
      • to access the north pole
      • ??? other uses for wind + water, possibly making a tornado
    • power (bolt) from cloud (captured in a battery maybe?)
    • fire (flame) from sun (maybe captured in crystal ball, maybe charges disco ball)
    • wet open umbrella + disco ball + battery (somehow) -> wand
  • sportsballs
    • pig w/ weapon = meat on the bone
      • meat on the bone w/ scissors = pigskin / handegg
      • aside: meat on the bone w/ spoon = bone
      • aside: meat on the bone w/ knife = bacon
    • rugby ball
      • pigskin + tea
      • soccer ball w/ hammer
    • basketball
      • basket + yarn = basketball
        • reed + reed = basket
      • basket w/ wrench = basketball
      • basket w/ rollerskates = basketball
    • american football / pigskin / handegg
      • meat on the bone w/ scissors = pigskin
        • kill pig w/ weapon = meat on the bone
    • soccer ball / football
      • football + tea
        • ring the dumbell w/ hammer = drop tea
    • discus
      • basketball w/ hammer
    • disco ball
      • discus + yarn
    • tennis ball
      • other??? ball + fortune cookie = tennis ball
        • cookie + wand??? = fortune cookie
          • cookie???
    • baseball ⚾️
      • tennis ball + hat
    • softball 🥎
      • baseball + teddy bear
        • teddy bear???
    • volley ball
      • ball + bird???
    • eight ball
      • crystal ball + 8
        • various numbers add up to 8
          • the number 1 laying around somewhere
          • multiplication sign laying around somewhere
          • addition sign laying around somewhere
    • crystal ball
      • could be the vessel of the power of fire and only
        possible by taking a disco ball to the sun.
      • divide glasses
        • glasses from nightshades (divided)
        • glasses from sand
        • glasses from magnifying glasses (from sand)
  • mojical creatures
    • bear -> polar bear -> panda
    • kraken:
      • quest to restore the kraken in southeast occia, near dysia, also:
      • quest to restore birds to empty nests starts here
      • quest to restore the fire drake starts here
      • environment requires rationale for:
        • firefighter holding axe, ready to mince words
        • a pig on the island
        • access to scissors and a weapon
        • a nearby octopus
        • tea
      • sand island w/ spoon = hour glass
        • hour glass w/ wrench = other hour glass
          • bump hour glass at forge = empty jar
            • empty jar w/ wand of water = tea pot
              • bowl w/ tea pot = tea
            • bump empty jar at forge = alembic
      • kill pig w/ weapon = meat on the bone
        • meat on the bone w/ scissors = handegg (pigskin)
          • handegg + tea = football
            • football / 2 @ firefighter with axe = foot + ball
              • foot * 2 = footprints (2 feet)
                • give footprints to octopus w/ wand of water or better = becomes kraken
          • handegg / 2 @ firefighter with axe = hand + egg
            • various kinds of empty nest + egg = corresponding kind of nest with eggs
              • chicken nest + wand of water = chicken (euia)
                • chicken w/ empty hand = egg
                • chicken w/ wand becomes swan
              • bird nest + wand of the wind = bird (borea)
              • parrot nest + wand of water = parrot (occia)
              • penguin nest + wand of water = penguin (inferna)
              • eagle nest + wand of power = eagle (dysia)
              • duck nest + some wand or other = drake (oria)
                • drake + wand of fire or better = fire drake / dragon (oria)
        • meat on the bone w/ spoon = bone
        • meat on the bone w/ knife = bacon
    • unicorn
      • horse to unicorn mojical quest could be on 6, unlocked by one wand or the other.
    • dragon
      • duck to drake mojical quest for oria.
  • midas-> / <-unmidas
    • bump midas (point) with wrench to turn to unmidas (fist)
    • clover <-> trident
    • flower <-> fleur de lis
    • vase 🏺 <-> urn ⚱️
    • skeleton key <-> gold key
    • silver medal <-> gold medal
    • pail 🪣 <-> crown 👑
    • basket <-> trash bin
    • basketball <-> disco ball
  • birds and eggs
    • chicken w/ empty hand = chicken egg
    • chicken
      • drumstick w/ spoon = bone
    • get eggs from nestWithEggs, turning it to just a nest
    • mechanic for priming an egg pump if you need a lot of eggs somewhere far from euia
      • chicken w/ hand = egg (euia)
      • give egg + egg to nest => nest with eggs (oria)
      • bless nest with eggs (wand of the wind) => bird
      • bird yields eggs
• idea bank
  • sword + potato = battery
  • battery w/ jar => juice jar 🍯 + empty battery (out of juice pun)
  • djinn and tonic joke combo
  • boop every moose of the Venerable Order of Meece: 🦌 First Moose. Second Moose. Tertiary Moose. Honorable Moose.
  • 🪨rock, 📄paper, ✂️scissors, 🦎lizard, 🖖spock
  • cookie makes ball into ballet point shoe?
  • midas pointes shoe to ballet shoe
  • blowfish + wand of wind = balloon (access to sky maybe)
  • chain + gear = bin
    • link + link = chain
  • bolt + knife = dagger
    • bolt + bolt = knife
  • with the assistance of a firefighter and their axe 🧑‍🚒,
    • split a football (soccer, we're civilized) into a foot and a ball (of yarn).
  • combine two feet to get two-feet (footprints)
  • give two feet to octopus and it becomes the mighty kraken
• misc
  • mushroom is a recycling plant, we are the champiognes
  • trident recycling
  • skeleton ☠️ should be a renewable 🥄source of bones 🦴 (or maybe someday also 💀, by some other tool) especially since it provides the fishing hook 🪝 clue
  • bumblebee/dumbledore should respond to boop with trident or other wands and provide clues for their usage, perhaps morph to next clue giver
  • champiogns should recycle chains
  • need clue for digging up bones from skeleton with shovel
  • model should defer fell and take model view commands to tick
  • space jump mechanics
    • bump tower with last component, morph tower to rocket, teleport to space, become rocket
    • bump die in space, teleport adjacent to rocket tower, become player again
    • [o] bump die in space, teleport to and become the tower
    • [o] move to "exit" tower, leaving tower behind.
  • ambidexterity
    • mining actions with pick in the right hand
  • occia puzzles
  • recycling center to get medals back from some items
  • softwood and hardwood should just be wood now
  • [o] put camera controller back on springs
  • handle cancellation due to an error (as occurs in loading or saving dialogs) while in limbo mode
  • level switch menu
  • model should round-trip Snapshot type (which should be the enriched types of the schema)
    • enrich typed arrays, uint8array, uint16array, map in schema library
  • change snapshot representation of entities from dense array of locations
    to entity numbers into a sparse map of entity numbers to locations.
    • change the representations of all such maps in the file format to a
      node that describes its representation, like dense, RLE, or sparse.
  • separate world compactor from enrich/dilute logic
  • schema.js targetLocations: $.optional($.index($.number())),
  • schema.js targetEntities: $.optional($.index($.number())),
  • add new world
  • add new level
  • refactor file.validate and model.capture to operate as transforms on the
    TypeScript representation of the schema
  • persist editor marks in file
  • These turn out to be unnecessary since I went a different direction for menu trees.
    • [o] programmatic world generation, particularly for menus
    • [o] menu world with menu mechanics
    • [o] create loose model, sufficient for menu views
    • [o] controller world stack (push and pop instead of merely play)
  • validate mechanics description coherence
  • move mechanics schema into world data file
  • rename makeMap to makeDaiaMap or rename make** to make*, like makeTorusMap to makeMap
  • rename EntityWatchFn to WatchEntitiesFn
  • bump north pole (with wand?) to teleport to netherworld (if empty at target location)
    • is target location intrinsic to the action type? target entity type? item type?
  • save named waypoints, editor goto
  • change async mode funcs to async iterator mode funcs that yield to the driver for animation
  • spin health and stamina out for menus and edit mode
  • somehow decouple the emojis registered by the engine for controls from
    the emojis registered by emojiquest or whatever game is loaded
  • couple lifetime of world and mechanics, so that mechanics can become part
    of world: (hamburger menu and dpad tile types need to be converted between
    world loads, need means to refresh these)
  • offset toponyms with tile number
  • cut between views of the same level when teleporting
  • capture color brand information in file format, with colors for levels,
    such that each face of each level gets assigned a sequential color.
  • toroid topology
  • multiple levels
  • move tileColor from brand.js to daia/color.js (actually just moved color into file format)
  • relieve daia/topology.js on tileSizePx dep
  • entities array in file format is sequential: could be implicit
  • parallel arrays for entities and types in save file
  • escape to menu
  • capture level topology info in data file, and restore into arbitrary level
  • move commandDirection from driver to controls
  • decouple motion bids from interaction bids
  • allow dialog interaction with neighbors on inaccessible tiles
  • dialogs for actions.
  • save and restore health and stamina
  • stamina effects
  • hot and cold effects on health
  • tile for agent dynamism
  • water effect on stamina when swimming
  • should be possible to talk to the entity in an adjacent but inaccessible space
  • terrain effects on motion
  • dialog boxen
    • bump dialogs
    • load and save ok and error messages
  • hamburger menu
    • return to play or edit after load or save
  • file format
    • local storage
    • mobility flag
    • health and stamina
    • reconcile the mandatory player inventory shape with the very flexible inventory shape in the file format.
    • numbers must all be safe integers in integrity checks
  • model tests
    • fake view
    • after-animation on-reset integrity assertions (do the buttons match the intended final state)
  • editor agent chooser diagonal motion
  • eating effects on health and stamina
  • show world coordinate only in edit mode
  • moar juice
  • water and magma rounded border drawing
  • editor
    • variable cursor shape and size
  • clue for where to find blowfish (he-fairy)
  • clue for where to find cane (she-fairy)
  • clue for using spoon to get bones (tractor)
  • clue for cutting the coat off a cow (troll hut)
  • clue for cutting sugar cane (tanabata)
  • introduction to occia, shoreline they-fairy
  • mushroom fertilization
  • audit recycling plant recipes, should generally conserve, even if necessary
    to break down to intermediates.
  • use dumbledore for wand upgrade clues