Roadmap

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Roadmap

World Generation

• [x] Generate biomes in splotches
• [x] Generate features
  • [x] Minor features (villages, camps, caves, etc.)
  • [x] Major features (currently just cities and city districts)
• [ ] Generate roads between certain features

NPCs

• [ ] Add static NPCs
  • [ ] Filler NPCs with random dialogue (guards, townspeople, etc.)
  • [ ] Merchant NPCs
  • [ ] Quest giving NPCs
  • [ ] Human enemies (bandits, etc.)
  • [ ] Passive animals
  • [ ] Hostile animals
• [ ] Add dynamic NPCs (use pathing algorithm to move around, much slower than player)
  • [ ] Travelling merchants (can create temporary camp features at "night"?)
  • [ ] Soldier patrols
  • [ ] Certain quest giving NPCs (potentially switch between static and dynamic?)
• [x] Write pathing algorithm
  • [x] ...between two coordinates
  • [x] ...between a coordinate and closest biome/feature
  • [x] ...ignoring n matches of biome/feature
  • [x] ...using BFS on number of tiles
  • [x] ...using BFS on travel cost

Interface

• [x] Basic terminal interface for testing (or to fall back to?)
• [ ] ncurses upgrade
• [ ] Full GUI upgrade???

Player

• [ ] Player class to have typical features like health, xp, inventory, etc. (no mana, this is not a magic world)
• [ ] Mainly block on waiting for user input
• [ ] Can travel freely (except on non-travellable tiles)
• [ ] Tiles can be blocking or not. A blocking tile prevents further player movement until an action is taken
• [ ] Implement travelCost for player? Tiles such as forest would take longer to move away from than plains

Threading

• [ ] Run on 4+ threads
  • [ ] Main thread running player
  • [ ] Thread 2 running interface
  • [ ] Thread 3 running worldgen
  • [ ] Threads 4 through maxThreads running instances of dynamic NPCs
• [x] Threadsafe queue for getting status messages from other threads (to be read by Interface thread)
• [ ] Have interface thread block on condition variable and other threads notify to reprint output