BLADE OF AVENTINE

Orcus brings Commodus back to life and tasks him with defending the Roman culture from the various degenerate groups like the Germans (barbarians), Christians,

Models

• Player
  • Commodus
• Gods
  • Orcus
  • Minerva
  • Owl of Minerva

Plot

• Orcus gives you his speech the first time you launch the game

• Orcus takes you to defend Romes food supplies from the rabble that are trying to profit off the chaos

• You are instructed on movement (WASD, shift to sprint)

• You are instructed on how to look around (mouse, scroll to zoom)

• You are instructed on how to destroy things with your scepter to get materials

• You are instructed on how to move around objects to build things

• You are instructed on how to build something once it matches a recipe

• A senatorae shows up to try to kill you

• He drops an Aureus

• Play the level, defeat the giant rat

• ! Room for more fighting with Unwashed Masses here

• Meet up with general to get the German barbarians out of Rome

• Defeat the German Knight

• ! Room for more German levels here

• General betrays you, sending his forces against yours

• Defeat the Roman General

• Hunt down the Scotts in the forests

• Defeat the Scottish Berserker

• Hunt down the Germans in the forests

• Defeat the German ?

• Return to Rome to fight off the invading vandals

• Die to the vandals

Dialogue

• Orcus Resurrection
  • Didst thou thinketh thine toils wouldst end, having passed drunk on thine degeneracy?
  • Thinketh thine oaths free to be broken?
  • Thou shalt suffer more false Heracles

• Towers

  • Basic

    • Arbalest
      • Mid range, mid fire, mid damage, single target
      • Ground & Air
      • ~100 Value
      • Wood/Bronze/Sinew
    • Trebuchet
      • Short range, slow fire, high damage, large AOE
      • Ground only
      • ~200 Value
      • Wood/Wood/Sinew/Sinew/Marble
    • Watch Tower
      • Fast firing, but chooses targets randomly, mid range
      • Slightly higher DPS than Arbalest, but no focus
      • ~100 Value

  • Fire Arbalest

    • Wood/Bronze/Sinew/Oil

  • Greek Fire (flamethrower, short range, very fast fire, low damage, AOE and DOT)

    • Bronze/Bronze/Oil

  • Oil Hurler

    • Medium Range, causes slow and bonus damage from fire
    • Wood/Oil

  • Magic Missile (Arbalest with longer range & homing arrows)

    • Wood/Bronze/Sinew/Magic

  • Magic Beam

    • Marble/Magic

TILE IDS

0. pillar
1. wall
2. roof
3. roof_border_center
4. roof_border_corner
5. roof_border_end_00
6. roof_border_end_00_inverse
7. roof_border_end_01
8. roof_border_end_01_inverse
9. roof_border_inner
10. roof_border_inner_inverse
11. roof_border_inner_wall
12. roof_border_wall_00
13. roof_border_wall_01
14. roof_center
15. roof_end
16. roof_end_inverse
17. roof_inverse
18. bricks_00
19. dirt
20. grass_00
21. grass_00_001
22. stairs_00
23. stone_00

Factions

• Unwashed Masses
  • Filler: Peasant
  • Tank: Deserter
  • Fast: Rat
  • Flyer: N/A
  • Boss: Giant Rat
  • Unique: Senatorae
    • Low health, lots of money, high damage, medium speed, goes after player instead of bread
• Franks
  • Filler: Peasant
  • Tank: Soldier
  • Fast: Berserker
  • Flyer: Hawk/Vulture
  • Boss: Knight
• Roman Revolt
  • Filler: Soldier
  • Tank: Centurion
  • Fast: Scout (on horse)
  • Flyer: N/A
  • Boss: Roman General
  • Unique: Senatorae
• Scotts
  • s
• Vandals

TODO

!!!!! IMPORTANT START !!!!!

Flying units become standard units when they land to eat

DART

TREE STUMPS WOOD FENCE 'ENDS' EMPEROR NEEDS A CROWN

LEVEL 2 WAVE DESIGN LEVEL 3 MAP & WAVE DESIGN

FINISH BUILDING ASSEMBLER CEILING Only one player should be able to dance on a tower at a time Tower level up sound Tower max level banners Tower placing sfx

NEED Orcus model NEED doors NEED dart model NEED ballista model + anim SCALE UP Centurion and use him as the boss of level 3

• Door that is opened by walking into its area collider

  • Is also an interactable that can be broken down

• Faction units

  • ??? BOSS
  • GERMAN KNIGHT BOSS

• Orcus

  • Orcus in his throne
  • A rack that you can select different scepters from

• Models

  • Characters
    • Emperor
    • Athena
    • General ? (who betrays you)
  • Items
    • Bread
    • Coin
  • Blocks
    • Bronze
    • Marble
    • Wood
    • Magic
    • Oil
  • Tiles
    • Shop kiosk/cart
    • Bread Pile
    • Pillars
    • Harvestable
      • Crate
    • Temple
      • Door
    • Peasant Buildings
      • Door
    • Roman flags
  • Towers
    • Gun: Arbalest
      • Animations
    • Gun: Catapult
      • Animations
    • Gun: Dart
    • Gun: Flamethrower
    • Gun: Watchtower
    • Wood tall yaw pivot
    • Wood short yaw pivot
    • Bronze short yaw pivot
    • Wood large foundation
    • Wood small foundation
    • Marble large foundation
    • Marble small foundation
    • Bronze small foundation
  • Projectiles
    • Bolt
    • Rock (marble)
    • AOE hit effect

• Sprites

  • "Build with E" animated sprite
  • Generic button
  • Generic menu frame
  • HUD icons
  • Generic font
  • Opening splash screen

• Particles

  • Character death (blood splatter?)
  • Object placed (subtle dust scatter)
  • Tower building (heavy dust that covers up the tower rising from the ground)
  • Dust from sprinting
  • Coin get
  • Bread get
  • Fire

!!!!! IMPORTANT END !!!!!

LESS IMPORTANT

• Hit sfx

• Firing sfx (for towers)

• Reload sfx (for towers)

• Random callouts

• Action callouts ("Stop!" from centurions)

• Broken towers

  • Non-functional towers on maps at the start, break down for materials and space

• Happy dance for allied units upon victory

• Skybox models

• Debuffs

  • Oiled: slow + bonus fire damage, used up by fire
  • Fire: damage over time

IF I HAVE TIME

• Tower States

  • Pristine
  • Damaged

• Multiple scepters with different effects to choose from

• Multiple dances with different effects to choose from

• Barracks that spawn centurions

• Horn that when interacted signals all ally units to attack enemy bread

• Interact with horn again to signal retreat

• Horn to interact with to bring enemy wave early

• Not sure

  • Put held exp into towers by standing next to them and holding E
  • Take exp out of towers by hitting them with your scepter
  • No tower friendly fire? (On second thought, maybe we keep it, it's kind of funny)

• Difficulty

TODO NO MORE

10/18/24

• Enemies that target players over bread no longer hit towers while chasing players
• Rats are slightly slower
• Rat kings health has been reduced by half so that he is now beatable in single player
• Player cape is now more purple, and capes are colored by player number
• Added support for enemies changing their type (GROUND vs. FLYING), and flying enemies now change their type to GROUND when they land to eat your bread
• Level 3 no longer spawns 40 senators on wave 6 and now only spawns 4

10/17/24

• SENATORAE (ONLY TEXTURES LEFT)
• CATAPULT (DONE)
• GATE/WAVE PREDICTOR OBJECT (DONE)
• SHOP MODELS (DONE)
• VOLUME SETTINGS MENU
• BRAZIERS
• WATCH TOWER
• HEALTH BARS
• SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE SPAWNERS
• PEASANT HOUSES (DONE)
• GATEWAY MODELS (I JUST USED THE BUILDINGS INSTEAD)
• BODY DATA TOGGLE FOR SEARCH FOR TARGETS TO HIT
• Towers level too fast (now they are just right)
• Coins dropped by flying units drop correctly
• You can now hit flying units when they land to eat
• WOOD FENCES

10/14/24

• Added tutorial ghosts to explain how the game works
• Fixed GUI scaling issues with players menu
• Coins now have sparkle effects so that they don't blend in with the terrain
• Pickups no longer break if you die while midway through collecting them
• Wood is now a limited resource that will limit how many towers you can make
• You can now hit enemies with your scepter. It deals very low damage
• Fixed a bug where the boss spawning caused all characters to no longer be able to walk up inclines (don't ask)
• Level music doesn't start until the waves start
• Waves don't start on level 1 until your first tower is built
• Temples now have ceilings
• Ghosts now disappear in a puff of smoke when hit or when finished speaking
• Player Character Animations
  • Walk
  • Sprint
  • Attack
  • Build (swing hammer)
  • Hands up (grabbing)
  • Place grabbed object
  • Stagger (knocked back by contact with enemies)
  • Die (from tower friendly fire)
  • Dance (leveling up towers)
• Base Character Animations
  • Eat (eating 1 bread)
  • Walk
  • Attack
  • Stagger (damaged)
  • Die
• Added pigeon
• Towers are now restricted to targeting ONLY_FLYING, ONLY_GROUND, or ALL
• You can now hold tab to display all available tower recipes and controls

10/13/24

• Added splitscreen functionality
• Added Players menu for adding/removing players and assigning control schemes
• Added rat king boss
• Range indicator for towers is a little more subtle and is always flush with the ground, regardless of tower height
• You can now feed money to towers in order to level them up. They will drop half the money fed to them if they are destroyed
• Fixed bug where towers didn't drop money fed to them when destroyed
• Bronze modelled

10/12/24

• Varying coin values are spawned based on the Roman currency
• Sharp tower projectiles now stay with enemies, till death do them part
• Recipes are now order independant
• Enemies now attack you if you get too close
• Added bandits
• Added rats
• Arbalest towers now have sounds and animations
• Towers now display their level and experience
• Towers no longer deal exponential damage with each shot
• Towers now correctly target enemies eating your bread
• Bread now has a model
• Breadpile now uses mini bread stacks to represent how much bread you have left

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• Fixed an issue where towers couldn't shoot targets that were stuck attacking a tower because the towers were aiming at the targets projected velocity
• Towers can now have unique targeting priorities. This means weaker towers will prioritize less armored targets over armored targets, arrow towers prefer faster targets, etc.

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• Fixed a bug where objects would enter a glitched state if you died while holding them
• Towers now display their level and experience

10/11/24

• Towers now have range indicators when they are highlighted
• Towers now get a range bonus the higher up they are placed

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• Hitting building sound
• Death sfx
• A lot of art and bug fixing

10/10/24

• Added footstep sfx for the player character
• Made the shop a placeable entity
• Changed the shop to fit the data/base/database format
• Waves can now be composed of multiple units that spawn at the same time
• Interactables now each have unique interact, lift, place, hit, and break sounds
• You can throw most things you are carrying!!!!
• Wood tower base large, wood tower yaw pivot, arbalest, and arbalest bolt modelled
• Towers now display their loaded projectile when they are ready to fire

10/09/24

• Towers are now entirely data based and can be made from generic parts, which will be great since I need to add a lot of towers
• You can now place entities on top of terrain with non-zero height
• Fixed a bug with block piles creating super blocks that survive reloads
• Fixed an issue with GUI button visuals not lining up with their hitbox due to shaders
• GUI buttons now have sounds
• Created animation framework for characters so that it is easy to add new characters and animations
• Added player character with unique animations

10/08/24

• Added ability to have hidden levels that don't show up in level select
• There is now a defeat level which will act as a hub and level select (though you can use the menu based level select too)

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• The game now tracks and saves/loads the levels you have beaten
• Levels can now be locked until a specific level has been beaten

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• HUD
  • Coin count
  • Wave indicator
  • Bread count
• UI frames
• UI buttons

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• Grass tiles
• Grass gets squished when things are put down on top of it

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• Orcus now rises from the ground in a central location once you have beaten a level, speaks his dialogue, and once the dialogue is exhausted, he will move you to the next level if interacted with
• NPCs in general are now capable of all the things Orcus is capable of, though I don't know if I will have time to do anything with that. We will see! Maybe a secret wizard that teleports you to a bonus level.

10/07/24

• Added temple tileset
• Added Cypress trees and functionality for spawning 'scenery' entities
• Added building assembler, which uses the tile sets to assemble buildings in a rectangular shape

10/06/24

• Added marble walls, built with 2 marble
• Enemies can destroy blocks in block piles (full ingredients left when a tower is destroyed), so it is very dangerous to leave towers undefended

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• Your damage to turn a tower back into ingredients is now separate from enemy damage to towers, and all towers take only 3 hits from the player to destroy, regardless of their health
• Towers now start at 0 hp and reach their max hp when they are fully built
• Enemies can now attack towers that are still building
• Fixed bug where the shopkeeper was giving you more coins than the sell price for blocks
• Fixed crash that occurred if you tried to change levels while music was fading in or out (oops)
• Added support for projectiles to travel in arcs, deal area damage, and have pierce
• Projectiles are now (mostly) data based and should be (mostly) easy to make many different kinds

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• Added trebuchet tower, which absolutely wrecks because there are no tanky enemies yet
• There are now 'large' and 'small' towers, all towers can be moved but large towers slow you down more and only small towers can fire while being moved

10/05/24

• Spent time with fam 👌
• Towers now slowly gain exp when you stand next to them
• Towers prioritize targets with bread based on distance from point to protect, and they prioritize them over all other targets

10/04/24

• Music

  • Level
  • Boss
  • Victory

• Smooth fades for background tracks

• Random callouts can be set on a per character basis

• Drops can be set on a per character basis

• Each faction can have its own base, spawner, pathing, and units (including your own)

• You can win still while having allied units alive (previously victory only allowed when all units were dead)

• Bread pile that must be defended

• Enemies that reach the bread pile take 1 bread and attempt to leave the map with it

• Lose when all bread has left the map

• Enemies carrying bread drop the bread as a pickup (like coins) when they die

• Dropped bread can only be picked up by the player, but will despawn after 15 seconds if not picked up (thus counting as having lost the bread)

• Non-player factions can have a bread pile, and are destroyed when their bread pile is empty (even if it has not all left the map yet)

• Pickups now despawn after 20 seconds so that bread can't be left on the ground to make the player invincible

• Dialogue readers in world space and GUI, but no dialogue system to make use of them (that's next)

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• Towers are now data based and can level up from getting kills

• Units now attack towers/walls that they walk into, and different towers have different max hp and hp regen rates

• Enemies taking bread from the pile but not being able to pick up fallen bread was making the game far too easy unfortunately... Now they eat a certain amount of bread and die (?) once they are finished eating.

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• Coins can now be used at the shop to buy blocks used for making towers
• Blocks can also be sold at the shop
• Shop sells at markup and buys at markdown, amount can change per shop
• Shop has a shopkeeper that announces prices (but he is invisible right now because I haven't done the art)

10/03/24

• Peasant

  • Random peasant callouts

• Enemies drop resource for getting blocks (coins)

• Right click on towers multiple times to break them down into pieces again

• Interact button to build a tower from a blockpile, instead of it happening automatically

• Sprite that shows up when a blockpile is a valid recipe and it is highlighted

• Last wave gets special boss music

• Main Menu

• Mission Select menu

• After killing all enemies in last wave, victory state

• Enemies come in premade waves (resource)