Content Planning

[ashes999]

Technical Proof of Concept

• [x] Basic achievements system
  • [x] Basic achievement class: title (eg. son of adam), objective (first sin), description (every child of Adam sins and the best are the ones who repent often)
  • [x] Class to handle recording stats/events and searching based on criteria
  • [x] Basic serializer
  • [x] Load/set achievements on startup
  • [x] Achievement icon pop-up when you achieve an achievement
  • [x] Achievements item in the main menu
  • [x] Achievements screen with your achievements (show text) across all games
• [x] Basic points system
  • [x] Class to handle recording points, maybe as positive/negative
  • [x] Remove points UI/SFX (hidden flag?)
  • [x] Game over screen scrolls through good and bad, in order chronologically
  • [x] Save these with your save-game
• [x] Game design: Cross these off when you know how to implement them.
  • [x] Real-time system. 1 minute of game time elapses every 2s. The game goes from Fajr to Fajr (24h). Total gameplay time is ~48 minutes.
  • [x] The game ends after 24 hours (common event with autorun or parallel execution)

    Core Content

• Focus. More is not more. Get this game done (MVP) with the simplest possible deeds that still demonstrate depth and breadth of activity. THEN do all this crazy stuff.
• [x] Overall Plan:
  • [x] We need a solid story as the backdrop to this. Import the one from v1, the one from v2, or something else tawheedy?
  • We're importing from v1. Hero joined the king's army to be a hero. As his rank increases, he finds out they're actually doing evil things. He personally did some. He regretted what he did and fled, hoping to make amends for some of the things he's done. (Nobody outside of the king and the army know about the evil in the king's army)
  • [x] At least three "arcs" of quests that lead up to something (good deeds)
  • Whatever it is that leads to discovering the protagonist's identity
  • Someone who's convinced that grave worship to some righteous dead person is the right thing. The arc ends with their understanding and becoming fully tawakkul in Allah.
  • Old lady who gets sick after doing something bad, like throwing stones at you. If you ignore her bad comments, and then remind her as her final illness progresses, she'll take shahada or repent before she dies.
  • Monsters keep attacking townspeople and kids. Track them to a cave. Turns out poachers are smoking them out so they can kill them and sell their hides/horns/etc. for mega gold. In fact, you initially believe they're just monster hunters trying to help. Then as the smart one is talking, his dumb lackey stumbles out and mentions that he smoked up the nest. At that moment, a mother and child animal come running out. Do you fight the monsters, or the humans?
    • If you fight the monsters, you get the You Monster! achievement, and the hadith of the lady who killed her cat
    • If you fight the poachers, you get an achievement with the hadith of the prostitute and the dog. Or perhaps something about intentions mattering.
  • [x] At least two "arcs" of quests that lead up to something (bad deeds)
  • Story like Musa alayhi salaam where some armed robber thief kid says "help me" (against the person fighting him, who turns out to be police). If you help after he gets caught after each of the three robberies, at the end of the third robbery, he laughs and robs you too. You lose TIME!
  • Magician's quest. If you mess with him, something supernatural happens, and you ask him about jinns. Then, you can become his student, by blackening your heart. It culminates with you having some awesome super power (super speed?), albeit at a cost paid in blood.
  • [x] At least six random acts of good
  • Pray Tahajjud on the musallah in your room (trigger) in the last half to third of the night
  • Give candy to a random kid running around saying "CANDY! CANDY! CANDY!" and following you
  • Mine ore from the mountains, for the blacksmith
  • Talk to shaykh
  • Pray in the masjid
  • Break idols in the masjid and confront Samiri when he barges in
  • Save the kid from the pond
  • Mountaintop: tadabbur of the creation
  • [x] At least six random acts of evil
  • Don't pay the inn-keeper for your room
  • Pray to the idols (or throw money in their pond)
  • Tell the kid to get lost
  • Grave worship
  • Attack the old lady who throws rocks. You use too much force by mistake, and her bones break.
  • Screw up the blacksmith's forge area
  • [x] At least ten achievements
  • Son of Adam: first sin (kullu ibni Adam akhattah)
  • Seeker of Knowledge: talk to the shaykh 3x
  • Aabid: pray in the masjid 5x/day
  • Ibrahim: break a statue of idols in the masjid
  • Sword of God: 10+ battles and still alive
  • Shaheed: drown in the pond
  • Door of Charity: give away stuff/food/money to 5+ people. Put food items in-game that you can get.
  • Give secret charity by night
  • Rediscover your identity (hadith of the guy who killed 99)
  • Self-destruct: wipe out all your good deeds (magician quest)
  • You Monster! badge
  • Badge: hadith of the dog and the prostitute
• [x] Strategic plan for points of relative actions. All actions are equal. Just like the guy who used to track his daily good/bad deeds as black/white stones in a bag. (Showing that would be great.)

  Implementation

• [x] 24-hour clock, takes 48 minutes to elapse a full day
• [x] Game ends after 24 hours (common event, parallel/auto execution? Check ADAAN)
• [x] There's a pond.
  • [x] There's a kid who appears, drowning, at a certain time
  • [x] You can save the kid by jumping in
  • [x] If you're in the pond too long (long route to get in), you drown, and it's game over
• [x] There's a masjid
  • [x] They give adhaan 5x/day at appropriate times (just the first two takbeer, but loudly)
  • [x] You can pray in the 5x salah at specific times by standing in the row and pressing a button
• [x] Grave worship that you can join in. Random person at the graveyard. (Not related to the quest arc.)

  Brainstorm

Accept these into the actionable lists, or dump them.

• How do you make tawbah? Du'a menu to make du'a whenever you want?
  • You should be allowed to repent anywhere, anytime.
  • Proposal: Make an parallel event on each map which checks for a specific button press to open chat dialogue with options dua / tawbah, and etc.
• Battles, what where how and why? Monsters plaguing the town?
  • Will depend on story, but could be due to bandits, thieves, etc.
• Plant an olive tree (even if The Hour is coming)
• someone who backbites whenever you talk to her. And another who gossips. Bit is staying quiet bad? DO you have to change the topic? (Research)
• Small but consistent deed. What works over the span of a day?
• You have a sick cat, a stray. Lock the door when you leave, and don't feed it? Now you have a dead cat.
• Hadith of blacksmith and perfumery?
• Seeking knowledge down a long road, even if it's for just one hadith.
• How long is the game in game-days? Real-time?
• Fighting. Maybe cleaning out monsters that attack kids, or bandits, or something.
• Story like Ibrahim (AS) breaking statues and hanging the axe on the big statue, "he did it"
• Simple sins like buying and drinking alchohol
• Magician who you can hire and negate all your good deeds? Or jinn in the desert?
• Disbelieving nation who asks you to sacrifice anything to their god, to pass the toll gate?
• Taweez guy who (unknown to you) makes a shirk taweez?
• Story arc with hunters/poachers?
• You can die in a few different places.

[Wulf]

If I edit this, you won't see the changes I make, are you okay with that?

[ashes999]

If you want to just add the changes from your PR, yes, I've looked those over.

If you want to add/subtract more than that, either comment, or put it under "brainstorm" so I can verify it and move it in.

Or we could, you know, just talk :)

[Wulf]

Alright, the PR wasn't really any different other than making points less wordy and more precise (removing "at least"s).

Okay, no worries then. Do we have the points system from last time?

[ashes999]

Indeed we do. It should be trivial to re-integrate it. There are links in the README to the v1 and v2 repositories.

[ashes999]

Looks like it wasn't trivial. There was a bug where starting a new game, earning points, quitting to title and starting a new game didn't reset the points. That's fixed now.

[ashes999]

@Wulf please update this with your bandit comments.

[Wulf]

ashes999, thanks for the reminder! Checkout the brainstorming section. :)

[ashes999]

Also updated with my phone notes @Wulf

[ashes999]

On to #3