Map System (General Feature Information)

[Toxocious]

Description

Ideally we'll implement a map system similar to the map engine that the Gen 3 Pokémon games (Emerald, Ruby, and Sapphire).

Dependencies

• Phaser (https://phaser.io/)
  • Javascript based rendering engine for games

Features

• [x] Render Tiled files as maps
  • Phaser has innate support for this if exporting the map as a .json file
• Support for a variety of entities/objects
  • [x] NPCs
  • Custom overworld sprite
  • Custom dialogue
  • Movement property
  • [x] Player Entity
  • Sets player spawn position for the map
  • [x] Warp Tiles
  • Sets destination for the map it leads to
  • [x] Encounter Tiles
  • Tile integer denotes encounter zone to draw encounters from
  • [x] Layer Transition Tiles
  • Needed to handle transitioning to other map layers
    • Ex. ground layer to mountain layer (over-simplified)
• [x] Animate player movement
  • Walking
  • Surfing
  • Fishing
• [x] NPCs can move
• [x] NPCs have custom dialogue
• [x] Move from map to map
• [ ] Surfing on water
• [ ] Sliding on ice
• [ ] Procedural map generation
  • Useful for PMD-like dungeons
• [x] Map Exp/Level
  • Earnable via catching/fighting/releasing wild encounters
  • Encounter odds of wild encounters influences earned Map Exp
  • Map Level increases odds of finding Shiny Pokémon
• Itermfinder
  • Ping for 'hidden' overworld items
  • [ ] Manual Mode
  • High-range
    • 8-tile radius around the player
  • [ ] Automatic Mode
  • Low-range
    • 4-tile radius around the player
• [ ] Overworld Bosses
  • n% chance to spawn per frame
  • Can be fought a single time per spawn
  • Can not spawn if an overworld boss is already active

Technical Requirements

• [x] Render Tiled .tmx files via Phaser
• [x] Parse and set collision tiles
• [x] Handle player interaction w/ NPC objects
• [x] Parse and set encounter tiles
• [ ] Program surfing logic
  • Check for water tiles
  • Check for current player movement method
  • Walking
  • Surfing
  • Sliding
  • Warping
• [ ] Program sliding on ice logic
  • GridEngine has innate support for this
  • https://annoraaq.github.io/grid-engine/examples/ice-movement.html
• [ ] Allow custom keybinds
  • Store/Update these in the database
  • Movement Keybinds
  • [ ] Left
  • [ ] Right
  • [ ] Up
  • [ ] Down
  • Interaction Keybinds
  • [ ] Interact
  • [ ] Fishing
  • [ ] Use Key Item

Map Creation README

A README will need created as a guide on how to create maps, and will cover layer naming, object layer naming, supported objects, and tilesets.

• MAP_CREATION.md