A World Adrift

Changelog

v0.0.2.65

Items

• new weapons: Stone Wood Axe, Wood Club
• renamed weapon “Axe” to “Wood Axe”
• consumables can have an effect assigned to them, all consumables(in other words, the health potion) converted to use magicEffects now.
• consumables can be set to be able to be used in combat or not.
• new Consumable “Bandage”. It functions as a more common out-of-combat potion. It will have different functionality later of boosting passive health regeneration.

Magic Effects

• implemented “MagicEffects” system. Basically a unified way for things(spells, consumables, enchantments, whatever really) to change a player or npc. Right now it only supports changing stats and the like, but it is primed to be extended to things like body transformatives once that content is implemented.

Events and Exploration

• new events: An Odd Noise (catch a brigand in a compromising moment), A Dropped Bag(yey, free bandage)
• Vixsya’s first encounter event is no longer repeatable.
• moved some code checking if an event met the requirements to appear from Region to the event itself.
• events that give items now once again properly add them to your inventory

Factions and NPCs

• Ilchex gatherers can now spawn with Stone Wood Axes
• Ilchex Warriors, Uchiz Warriors, and Vagrants of the Knife Scouts can now spawn with Wood Clubs
• when a faction’s name is known, it will be used by for generic npcs of the faction instead of the more generic name. (Tribal Goblin becomes Uchiz or Ilchex, Forest Brigand becomes Vagrant of the Knife)

Conversations

• When you ask Vixsya about them, you now gain knowledge of the Forest’s name, the names of the two goblin tribes, and the Brigands.
• Vixsya’s “Ask about the Goblins” dialogue option now gives you knowledge of both Ilchex and Uchiz’s names instead of you needing to ask about each specifically.
• Vixsya’s dialogue event no longer crashes the entire game

Quests

• Built a some of the quest system framework
• Questlog implemented, it can be accessed from the camp menu.
• Some overarching main story quests.

Dialogue System

• dialogueConversations can now have and be loaded from individual files instead of just the single big one. Really great stuff from an implementation and debug standpoint.
• the initialText is also fed through the parser now like dialogueOptions are.
• dialogueOptions can be disabled.
• dialogueOptions now can be set to only be available once per conversation.
• dialogueOptions can grant knowledge of a faction or region’s name
• improved the way dialogue options can add knowledge. Its still super scuffed, but now its a lot less scuffed. As an added bonus, they can add multiple knowledges from one option now.

Knowledge System

• Implemented the “Knowledge System”. The knowledge system is basically a way for the game to track what a player character “knows”. Currently, its incredibly scuffed, but it works. In the future other game systems like quests or dialogue will be able to check it to expand or restrict options based on what you know about the world. Mind you, its not too fancy!

UI

• non-combat use consumables are no longer displayed in the consumable list.
• when a region’s name is known, it will appear in the explore menu, the travel menu, and the combat scene instead of the more generic name (The Forest of Tulor vs The Forest)
• made it so mousing over a vital’s(health, stamina, etc) bar will give you the more accurate decimal value as “current / max” as opposed to the old way of having to mouse over the current number to see its decimal, and then having to mouse over the max to see the one it has.

“Text Parser”

• can now decide between “is” and “are” depending on pronouns. (“you are hungry”, “he is hungry”)
• can now decide between “were” and “was” depending on pronouns. (“you were hungry”, “he was hungry”)

Save and Load

• player’s knowledge saves and loads.
• added temporary code that in the event the player had seen the Vixsya conversation and the save does not have knowledge in it will add the knowledge the player should have gotten. This is for compatibility with prior versions and will be removed after the next public update to avoid cluttering the save/load system up.

Misc

• changed a lot of the file loading to use a generic function.
• a bunch of other little optimizations and super minor code improvements that I didn’t think to write down.

v0.0.2.5

Characters
Vixsya has been added! Vixsya is our first named/unique character to be implemented, and now she is available in the public version! This is the first conversation/encounter with her, expect to see more of her down the line(and of course ways to …not…). As of this update, her conversations is roughly 2700+ words and the design document for it is about nine pages long.

Expect to be able to learn a more about the immediate setting of the Forest, its inhabitants, and a bit about the regions outside of it as well from the conversation with her.

Dialogue System

• implemented it.
• dialogueConversations are now loaded from files
• some tweaks to how dialogueConversations and dialogueOptions are implemented, they weren’t quite functioning in practice the way I intended.
• dialogue functionality is now accessible in a fully working state in-game.(being able to start combat from it, for example)
• created “dialogueStats”, which is basically eventStats but for dialogue. It records: what conversations the player has seen, how many times they’ve seen them, what they chose to say, and how many times they said it.
• lots of improvements to how dialogue works in general.
• Dialogue system now uses the text parser.
• dialogueConversations are now loaded as needed as opposed to all of them on game launch.

Events, Encounters

• Started the Explore/Travel/Events overhaul.
• general improvement on how events and the options from them are handled internally.
• You can now choose to travel to a newly discovered region, or instead remain in the current region.
• You can choose whether or not to take the items found in an item discovery event.
• Slightly altered the text of the “Grave of Green” event to reflect the ability to NOT take the potion.
• Combat no longer returns you to the camp, but instead to the region explore menu.
• exploreEvents activating dialogue are now implemented.
• can now have “factionDialogue” type events similar to “factionCombat” events that generate a faction member to interact with for a dialogue encounter.
• remade the “faction_combat_forest_goblin_ilchex_gatherer” event as “faction_dialogue_forest_goblin_ilchex_gatherer”, now when encountering tribal goblin gatherers it doesn’t have to end in a fight. Some text is still placeholder.
• eventStats now records how many times the player took an item from the event.
• reworked how exploreEvents are disabled(think one time events, or discovering a new region). Now it uses the eventStats.
• updated Ilchex gatherer dialogue event to use the parse upgrades
• the explore option in the region menu now takes 1 hour of in-game time.

World and Regions

• current_world vs just referring to world. Not likely much will come of this for now.
• worlds can have a timeScale assigned to them.
• regions can now have locations and connectedRegions assigned to them.
• No longer builds all the events for a region on loading the game, instead only when the region is relevant.

Inventory/Equipment System

• Reworked how the equipped section works in the code. No real change from this to the end user.
• Unequiping a weapon now equips the character’s race’s “natural weapon”(generally, fists). Previously, the weapon slot was set to null, and requests for a character’s weapon would check to see if the slot was null and if so return the natural weapon. This doesn’t really change how the end user experiences things.

UI

• The “Description” Section in the PlayerInventory screen no longer exists. You can now see the item’s description by mousing over its name.
• Mousing over the item’s name in the equipped section now shows the item’s description.
• Some tweaks to the PlayerInventory screen UI in general.
• Inventory Screen is no longer opaque, helping visibility of the options.
• Options Menu is no longer opaque
• Camp UI now hides itself when inventory or Options menu is open. Main Menu UI hides itself when Options Menu is open.
• Sex Scene no longer has its own background that is set based off of the current region. Instead the Combat scene UI hides itself, allowing us to use the combat scene background for it.
• renamed explore option in the camp into “travel”
• the exploration events from the explore region now pop up their own little window instead of appearing in the region’s window.
• disabled combat scene having its own background, now it uses the region’s background(it just set itself to be the same as the region’s anyways.). Disabled, not removed. I’d like to preserve the ability to have a different background for battles in the future.

Text “Parser”

• upgraded the text parser to better handle modifying verbs based on pronouns when multiple actors are part of the parse.

Sex System

• Every turn during sex passes time by 5 seconds.
• updated sex action text to work with the parse upgrades

Save/Load System

• Saving the game no longer records exploreEventsOneOffSeen. Loading a save no longer loads exploreEventsOneOffSeen. Instead, if the save file has it and eventStats has no record of the event, a new entry recording the event as having been seen once is added to eventStats.
• dialogueStats is saved and loaded.