Victory condition

[Coolthulhu]

Any plans?

How about this:

• Exactly one special endgame lab per game, spawned in (0,0) overmap
• It has exactly x levels (5 sounds good)
• The finale has a portal
• You can either disable it or enter it and die (Freeman you fool!), both of which count as win
• When starting new game, it will try to place you within set distance of (0,0) overmap, to force you to walk but not too far

Having a victory condition - even a semi-trivial one like this - goes a long way towards giving a game a purpose and a timescale. Those in turn are a point of reference for balancing.

[TrainTurningPoint]

Hi @Coolthulhu. I have some plans, but they are rather complex and probably won't be possible until some major changes in game mechanics. They don't conflict with your proposal though, adding a special endgame lab is a necessary step which can be built upon later so there's no problem.

When starting new game, it will try to place you within set distance of (0,0) overmap, to force you to walk but not too far

The only thing I dislike. I'd rather have it be the opposite, so the player spawns no closer than a set distance:

• spawning within a set distance from (0,0) would limit the number of possible spawn points for the character, which is a problem for people who don't reset the world on dying or have multiple characters in the same world
• it's supposed to be endgame content, finding it too early would not be a good thing for player since he can't benefit from it yet and some more useful location might have spawned there instead
• whatever the intended timescale will be, I'm not expecting player to win before being able to travel the overworld freely anyway

Overall, please do go ahead. I was planning to tackle winning conditions much later, but there's no reason not to do it now if you are interested.