========================== Game Information

• 8-bit Arena

• Mish Mash

• Note - (?) <--- Items indicating this is a feature we COULD add if we have time!

========================== Main Class (Game State Manager)

• Load MainMenu object

• Load OptionsMenu object

• Game State Management

  • Integer GameState initalized to 1
    • 1 : MainMenu
    • 2 : OptionsMenu
    • 3 : TeamSelection
    • 4 : GameInProgress
    • 5 : EndGame
  • Switch statement

• If new game clicked

  • Create team selection and set gamestate to 3

• If options clicked

  • Set game state to 2 etc etc

========================== Object hierarchy

				             GameObject
	      ___________________________________|_________________________________________________________
                  |              		         |						           |
	TerrainObject		     	    PlayerObject		  		           ProjectileObject
				  _______________|_____________________     			  |		   |	
				  |	         		      |	   		    	  |		   |
				Melee		 		    Ranged	     	      BasicAttack    SpecialAbilitY
				  |				      |
			Individual Champion Class	   Individual Champion Class	

• Differentiating different melee champions from ranged chamions helps to streamline coding
  • IE: Each tank shares a similar HP pool / attack damage
  • In this scheme individual champions only need their special ability coded

============================== GameObject

- Collision Detection
- Positional coordinates (X / Y, or which tile this object occupies)
- Sprite drawing / animation

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PlayerObject

- Statistics
	- Name
	- Role (What type of role in the team they occupy, tank/assassin/support, etc...)
	- HP pool
	- Energy pool
	- Attack range (how many tiles in each adjacent direction the object can attack)
	- Movement points
		- Pathfinding
			- Unit speed ( how quickly they move from tile A to tile B)
		- Radius rather than 2 directional			

- Directional facing
	- North / South / East / West
	- Sprites for facing each direction

- Actions
	- Basic Attack (ranged or melee)
	- Special Ability
		- Name for the special ability
		- Cooldown parameter ( after using the ability, it cannot be used for X amount of turns)
		- Will have its own attack range

	- Move

- Combat
	- Attack damage
	- Critical hits (chance for an attack to do normal damage * 50%-100%)
	- Dodge / Evasion (?)

- Unit State
	- Healthy (Normal unit state, no buffs/debuffs)
	- Dead
		- Leave a corpse sprite on the tile it died on
		- Disable unit collision for this object
		- Disable unit interaction

	- Silence - No ability use for X amount of turns
	- Snare - No moving for X amount of turns
	- Stun - No action for x amount of turns
	- Damage over time
	- Alignment (Which player controls this unit, IE differentiating between friendly/enemy units)

- Collision detection special rules
	- Tilebased
		- Don't allow units to move onto tiles that are occupied

- Stats to track
	- Damage Done
	- Units killed
	- Healing done
	- Spaces moved
	- OBstacles destroyed(?)
	- Neutral Buffs recieved (?)

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MeleeObject

• Combat special rules

  • Only attack in the 4 tiles adjacent

• Melee based differentiations(?)

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RangedObject

• Extra statistic

• Combat special rules

  • Spawns basicattack objects on attack

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• Individual Champion Object

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• Code individual special abilities
• Alter specific statistics

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Terrain Objects

- Different terrain based neutral buffs (?)
- Destructible (?)

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Projectile Objects

- Unit Speed (velocity)
- Collision detection

- Combat
	- Attack Damage

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- BasicAttackObject

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	- Collision detection special rules
		- Projectiles fizzle when colliding with friendly units		

	- Combat
		- Critical hits

	- Unit State
		- Self delete on collision OR off screen

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- SpecialAttackObject

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	- Collision detection special rules
		- Cannot execute offensive special abilities on friendly occupied tiles
				- Status Delivery
	- Combat
		- Status delivery
			- Stun / Snare / Silence / DoT

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Map Class (gameboard)

- Pre-set maps
- Have a map class from which the children will be individually built maps
	- Grid size
		- Map for first release will be 15x15
		- Specify where to the terrain objects (obstacles)
		- Specify placement zone (the zone where each player can place his units before turn begins) 

========================== GameManager (Manages game action)

• Pregame (unit placement)

  • One player puts 1 piece down at a time in their placement zone
  • The placement zone tiles will blink : Red for player 1, blue for player 2
  • Pregame ends when both teams have set all their units on the board
  • Player 2 gets to move first

• Turn mechanics

  • Turn ends when current player selects Wait, 1 minute expires, OR an attack or special ability is used
  • Clicking an enemy unit flashes that enemy's movement range and Unit Panel (a small HUD that displays this units current HP/Energy and possibly a portrait)
  • Clicking a friendly unit brings up the, Unit Menu (Move / Attack / Special Ability), highlight blue the tiles that it can move on, and the Unit Panel for this unit - Clicking Move: - The next tile within the flashing radius you click, the unit will pathfind to - Clicking Attack: - Flashes all tiles the unit can attack - Only tiles occupied by enemies within the accepted range will be attacked - Turn ends after attacking - Clicking Special Ability - Flashes all tiles on which the ability can be used - If the ability is a friendly spell (for instance a heal) - Can only be used on tiles occupied by friendly units - If the ability is an offensive spell - Can only be used on tiles occupied by enemy units - Usage of ability ends turn - Clicking the global Wait button ends turn
  • At the end of each turn check an integer counter for number of units left on the board for a particular player. If counter = 0, game ends with the opposite player the victor
  • If counter != 0, Turn cycles to next player and repeat until all units of a player are eliminated or the game is exited

• End game

  • Do something to celebrate, timer or something

• Interface

  • HUD in the top left corner of the screen
    • Options
    • Wait
  • Unit panels display on the bottom left
  • Unit menu displays in upper right

========================== MainMenu

- Start Game
	- Give option to Blind pick or Draft pick (?)
	- Loads and initiatlizes Team selection object
- View Champion Roster (?)
- Options
- Exit

========================== OptionsMenu

- Exit 
- Disable sound
- Disable music
- Disable turn timer

========================== TeamSelection

• Display roster of champions in the middle of the screen

• Player 1 team roster aligned vertically on the left side of the screen

• Player 2 team roster aligned vertically on the right side of the screen

• Both teams can draft 1 of each champion

• Both teams can share each champion

• Player 1 gets to pick his entire team first

  • Player 1 team picking turn ends when he's selected 5 champions

• Then player 2 gets to pick his team

• After team picking ends, player 1 gets to pick a map

• After map is pick, team selection ends and the Game manager is loaded/initialized