/LightSpeed

Space Age Rogue Runner for OCR A-Level Computing Programming Project

Primary LanguageC#GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

LightSpeed

Space Age Rogue Runner for OCR A-Level Computing Programming Project

Music by Eric Skiff, licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence

To-Do:

  • Main Menu with Buttons

  • Create Ship

    • Larger ships are slower
      • LightSpeed charges slower
      • Less evasion
    • Ships have certain amounts of points to spend at start
      • Can be upgraded to change shape at shops (shipyard?)
    • Ship is 2D array of Tiles
    • Tile Class
      • Attributes for O2 (float), bools for others (isCracked, isWalkable etc.)
    • RoomBase Class
      • Marks Tiles it Uses
      • Marks centre to render icon
      • Certain Rooms have specific size requirements
      • All room classes inherit off this base class

  • Create Entities

    • EntityBase Class
      • Attributes: health (float), maxHealth (float), team (int), bools: fireDamage, lowO2Damage, etc.
        • Teams are player and enemy (leaves room for mp expansion with more than one player later)
      • All players and enemies inherit off this class
        • Includes different species with different stats/abilities

  • Weapons/Drones

    • WeaponBase Class
      • Attributes: power (int), isEnabled (bool), shots (int), damagePerShot (int), usesMissile (bool)
      • All Weapons inherit this class
    • DroneBase Class
      • Similar to WeaponBase, but for drones
      • All Drone Weapons inherit this class

  • Abilities

    • Active cost resources to use
    • Active abilities require charging using power for certain amount of time
    • Passive abilities are less powerful, but don't require charging
      • Provide buffs to player/enemies
    • Take up space in ship

  • AI

    • Use A* Algorithm for entity pathfinding between rooms
    • Select what to repair based on priorities
      • Change depending on situation
        • If whole room is on fire, avoid it
        • If trying to escape, prioritise engines/helm + keep helm manned
        • Default priorities are O2 first if any crew requires it & low, followed by weapons/shields
    • Crew is selected based on time & dist
      • Minimise damagefixTime + speeddistance
      • Best crew mans each station
        • If conflict (one person best at 2 things), order is helm, weapons, engine, shields, other

  • Warp Nodes

    • Map for LightSpeed Travel
    • Randomly generate connected graph and plot nodes on map

  • Events

    • When travelling to a node, an event can occur
    • Types
      • Encounter - Enemy ship to fight
      • Empty - Nothing happens - flavour text
      • Shop - marked on map, can buy & sell items
      • Distress - marked with beacon on map, can be trap, often civilian trapped
      • Special - special events that cause things to happen other than default
        • Events can have multiple outcomes depending on choices

  • Saves

    • Save achievement data & hi scores to file, & overwrite but keep on disk
      • Also save stats e.g. total playthroughs etc.
    • Save games are deleted when loading, recreated when saving
      • Prevents cheating by reloading old saves