Create One Calendar Day

[Sean-Meyers]

For the prototype:

• [x] Beginning story event will lead into free play calendar day, then, if the player managed to make some money, they get the good ending, or if they did not, they get the bad ending.

• [ ] May have a random event, could be, finding some money on the ground.

• [x] Will probably need some locations the player can go to

• [x] Time system, player can only do certain things at certain times, forced to go to bed at certain time and/or energy level or something.

• [x] Merge into main branch

• Should be a plate taken from the buffet that will eventually be our game (e.g. We should show that we can implement a variety of things that our game will have)

• Should ideally be representative of calendar days for the rest of the game, so it can be copy-pasted fairly easily.

• Refer to the design doc and think about what else should be in the calendar day:

Resource Management The player must choose how they will spend their time and money each in-game day to ensure their hunger is satiated and their health is not 0. There are numerous ways for the player to acquire money. At the start of each weekday, the player can choose to go to a temp agency in the morning and apply for a job. The player’s equipped clothing and hygiene are factors that contribute to whether they get the job, both of which require money that may need to be spent on food instead. If the player misses their morning chance to get a job, they can still try their luck at the casino, or walk around town and hope for a beneficial random event, though they could also encounter a detrimental random event. The player can also attempt to steal, which has high risk and consequences, but not very high rewards, yet still, it may be the only option to survive. Time is spent in every action the player takes, including events forced by the game system, such as random or story events. Eating, buying food and clothes, walking around town, getting a job, gambling, stealing, etc all take a certain amount of time out of the day.

Player Stats:

• Health - Used to signify if the player loses the game. Can drop due to hunger, being mugged, or as a consequence of player choice. Low health increases stress.
• Money - Used as currency to impose restrictions on the player. Strategy must be used to get around these restrictions. Low money increases stress.
• Hunger - The primary source of monetary expenditure. Mismanagement leads to high stress, low health, and potentially death.
• Stress - Affects most probability dependent logic in the game. Higher stress leads to rolls that have more severe outcomes for the player. Conversely, severe outcomes may raise stress.

[Sean-Meyers]

Others feel free to assign yourself to this, since it's one of the bigger issues for our prototype, we'll need multiple people working on it.

[Sean-Meyers]

Todo in the next 2.5 ish hours:

Make Downtown and Sketchy Alley locations Simple get mugged random event in Sketchy Alley

• [x] Connect the rest of the beginning story event passages to the calendar day
  • [x] Make the story in the other passages affect stats similar to how going to the dumpster makes you stinkier.
• [x] Add Williams writing to the ending passages. (sorta done, with heavy temporary modifications)
• [x] Make the "Take a bath" button in the Public Bath passage give some feedback once pressed
• [x] Merge with audio branch
• [x] Merge with main branch

Cutlist (for now):

Make another art &/or audio asset (time consuming) Fix extra whitespace in passages caused by invisible stuff like comments and variable macros Make another calendar day to show that they are modular/copy-pasteable