Game Progression

Goals for v0.0.1 (first stable planned release)

• Complete all items functionalities
• Complete mounts functionalities
• Complete blacksmiths functionalities
• Complete forges functionalities
• Complete hostel functionalities
• Complete plot functionalities
• Complete church & exp functionalities
• Complete dungeons functionalities
• Complete harbors functionalities
• Add keys functionalities
• Add every raw materials
• Basic vanilla plot
• More advanced vanilla plot
• Create missions data type
• Add text replacements to dialog and mission data type.
• Move all game data to a game directory located on the user default system config folder for apps
• Make the map item work
• Add compiled program for each Linux, Windows and MacOS
• Fix major known bugs (https://github.com/Dungeons-of-Kathallion/Bane-Of-Wargs/milestone/1 milestone)
• Make creating custom utilities items possible (with custom python scripts in plugins)
• Make Windows compatible
• Add event keys that can be entered in dialog phrases (wait for a specific amount of time, ask for player input, if statements with conditions etc...)
• Add difficulty modes
• Add ASCII art for every item
• Add 'K' main command to save the game only
• Add the ability for map zones to define which enemy type to spawn at night
• Remove map printing time from the elapsed day
• Fix metal (metal) display bugs
• Add more possible effects to consumables
• Create an item_handling.py class to handle items usage
• Modify the map script to make it ask how many map points should be displayed
• Make possible going both x and y coordinates when moving (for example NW command that does x, y = x - 1, y + 1)
• Make requirements.txt install when running game if preference auto update is set to true
• Allow dialogs actions to run custom scripts
• Add 'X' main command to check your active effects
• Update enemies lists, so each entry is actually many enemies
• Revamp plugin system
• Handle game parsing errors
• Allow plugins to only load specific files
• Allow plugins to disable some vanilla data
• Allow plugins to totally disable vanilla data

Smaller long-term goals

• Update gameplay shots once v0.0.1 goals are all done
• Enhance battle fights
• Make buying multiple metals at once possible in forges
• Enhance mounts
• Enhance map
• Enhance general GUI (with python rich module perhaps?)
• Split main.py into different parts in the source/ directory
• Fix python code style
• Add github workflows to check things like spelling or syntax
• Create logging system
• Add and Enhance the documentation present in the github wiki and the docs/ directory.
• Make custom term_menu function to make the program available on windows
• Add a way to display gameplay documentation from game
• Fix game yaml data warnings checks
• Illustrate fights stats with graphics and functions in a new wiki page (https://github.com/Dungeons-of-Kathallion/Bane-Of-Wargs/wiki/Creating-Enemies, https://github.com/Dungeons-of-Kathallion/Bane-Of-Wargs/wiki/Creating-Items, https://github.com/Dungeons-of-Kathallion/Bane-Of-Wargs/wiki/Creating-Mounts)
• Optimize Game Data Loading
• Add menu to check game's logs
• Optimize map item script rendering
• Add a new workflow to check every yaml data with schemas
• Optimize player loop stats computing
• Add the generic_text_replacements variable to the re-usable game variables
• Refactor the wiki so it's more themed
• Add the possibility to make effects infinite
• Create documentation about active effects player data dicts and how they work in the game engine
• Make the zone location key calculate itself
• Update the CONTRIBUTING.md document to add a new part about code style
• Update Check Updates menu option
• Upgrade the game data update process
• Create a new class to handle basic functions to print stuff or ask input
• Extreme specific checks for every data type
• Add selling map zones discounts
• Add some kind of grocery store, where you wan buy/sell anything, at a random price

Denied Features

• Make so that items can take more than 1 inventory slot
• Add auto-completion to the main UI command input
• Complete castles functionalities