README.md

Nothing really here yet… But eventually it'll be AWESOME!

Possible Working Title: FORSAKEN REALM

Libraries used

Server-side dependencies:

• django 1.4 (https://www.djangoproject.com/)
• tastypie api (http://tastypieapi.org/)
• south (for migrations) (http://south.aeracode.org/)

Client-side (included in repo):

• jQuery 1.7.2 (http://jquery.com/)
• Underscore.js 1.3.3 (http://underscorejs.org/)
• Backbone.js 0.9.2 (http://backbonejs.org/)
• json2.js (http://www.JSON.org/js.html)

To-Do:

• Simple map creation DONE
• Terrain effects (right now all terrain are the same outside of color)
  • <attribute> <operator> <effect> (eg moveCost * 2) DONE
  • require <attribute> <comparison> <value> (eg size < 7) NOTE: This is partly done. The models have been made, and I wrote a check function in the JS to help with enforcing it down the road.
• Game Creation DONE
• Game Joining (Issue #6)
• Basic gameplay - skirmish mode
  • Purchase characters DONE
  • Place characters DONE
  • Move characters DONE
  • Melee/ranged attacks (Issue #1) DONE
  • End turn DONE
  • End-of-game checking (Issue #3) DONE
  • Enforce maxMove attribute (Issue #4)
• Simple, dumb AI (basically just need to put the hooks in there that a real AI would use, and then make a dummy AI that just picks an action at random) (Issue #2) DONE (although I didn't make it as extendable as I had originally planned, gonna have to add a bit of extra code to actually get that right)

Down the road ideas:

• Other game modes (CTF, race, ability to add NPCs, co-op)
• Character sets (to make it easier to choose what characters should be included in games, especially once there's more user-created content)
• Campaign (First just a number of game types lined up in a row, later add some abilities to include storyline)
• Tournament
• Linking maps to character sets
• Player stats/rankings
• Custom attributes (abilities that only apply to certain character sets or game types)
• Abilities (Effects on surrounding characters, etc)
• Cell-specific effects (Permanent modifiers that are attached to specific locations on a map) NOTE: Functionally, this is done. There's just no way to add them in the map editor.
• Character icons
• Limit initial placement/# of players as a map setting
• Push server (either use my own Node.JS server with Socket.IO or use something like PubNub or Photon Server/Cloud)
• In-game messaging
• HTML5 audio (on button presses, etc)