Design¶

Concepts¶

• Quests - a "quest" or "questline" is basically a software-mediated storyline
  • progress on a quest is indicated by "quality"
    • advancing in the quest raises the quality, which locks all previous events in the quest out of sight and unlocks further advancement in the quest.
• Qualities aka attributes
  • e.g. having quality "Mystery of the Pie-Shop" = 3 gives the player access to the 3rd "card" in the Mystery of the Pie-Shop questline
• Cards
  • Cards have attributes
    • Discardable -- player get rid of card without playing it
• Characters
  • Characters have attributes:
    • Skills
      • these are author-defined
      • Mind, Matter, Charm, and Magic are the primary skills in SnowRPG
      • each skill has a Menace, whose level goes up when usage of that skill fails
    • Menaces
      • these are author-defined
      • Weary, Wounded, Suspicious, and Troubled are the primary m
    • Chaos level
• Opportunity vs. Always -- an attribute of a card? Or other things too?
• Locations
  • these are author-defined

Features¶

• admin
  • event management
    • create, edit
    • search
      • "search by quality affected" and "search by quality required" (Very Useful)