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 # On Planning a Game
 
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 In the next lesson we'll make use of these general points and try to plan out our tutorial game. 
 
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+# Planning our tutorial game
+
+Using the general plan from last lesson we'll now establish what kind of game we want to create for this tutorial.
+Remembering that we need to keep the scope down, let's establish some parameters. Note that for your own 
+game you don't _need_ to agree/adopt any of these. Many game-types need more or much less than this. 
+But this makes for good, instructive examples.
+
+- We want a small game we can play ourselves for fun, but which could in principle be expanded 
+  to something more later.
+- Let's go with a fantasy theme, it's well understood.
+- We'll use some existing, simple RPG system. 
+- We want to be able to create and customize a character of our own. 
+- We want the tools to roleplay with other players. 
+- We don't want to have to rely on a Game master to resolve things, but will rely on code for skill resolution
+  and combat.
+- We want monsters to fight and NPCs we can talk to. So some sort of AI. 
+- We want to be able to buy and sell stuff. 
+- We want some sort of crafting system.
+- We want some sort of quest system. 
+
+Let's answer the questions from the previous lesson and discuss some of the possibilities. 
+
+### Administration 
+
+#### Should your game rules be enforced by coded systems by human game masters?
+
+
+
+We want to have a game that doesn't require human game masters to run. Human GMs are great but only when they are available. 
+  
+- _What is the staff hierarchy in your game? Is vanilla Evennia roles enough or do you need something else?_ -
+  The default hierarchy should be enough: `Player` - `Player Helper` - `Builder` - `Admin` - `Developer`.
+- _Should characters be able to send mail (IC/OOC?) to each other in-game?_ - Why not! 
+- _Should players be able to post out-of-characters on channels and via other means like bulletin-boards?_ - We will
+  not be implementing a bulletin-board in this tutorial, but we'll allow use of the default channels coming 
+  with Evennia.
+  
+
+### Building
+
+- _How will the world be built? Traditionally (from in-game with build-commands) or externally (by batchcmds/code 
+  or directly with custom code)?_ - We will show examples of a few differnt ways, but we'll build the brunt of 
+  things using Evennia's Batchcode system.  
+- _Can only privileged Builders create things or should regular players also have limited build-capability?_ - We 
+  will only allow privileged builders to modify the world. The exception is crafting, where we will allow players to
+  to use in-game commands to create specific, prescribed objects from recipes. 
+
+### Systems
+
+- _What are the game mechanics? How do you decide if an action succeeds or fails?_ - We will let the system decide this
+ from case to case by passing questions to a rule module we'll create. 
+- _Do you base your game off an existing RPG system or make up your own?_ - We will make use of 
+ [Open Adventure](http://www.geekguild.com/openadventure/), an 'old school' RRG-system that is available for 
+ free under the Creative Commons license. We'll only use a subset of the rules from the blue "basic" book. 
+- _How does the character-generation work? Walk from room-to-room? A menu?_ - We'll be fancy and do this as a
+ as a menu, it's all the rage. 
+- _Does the flow of time matter in your game - does night and day change? What about seasons?_ - We'll find there
+  is a contrib to add this, so we'll do so.
+- _Do you want changing, global weather or should weather just be set manually in roleplay?_ - We'll not model
+  weather in this tutorial. 
+- _Do you want a coded world-economy or just a simple barter system? Or no formal economy at all?_ - We'll 
+  allow for barter and buying/selling but we won't try to emulate a full economic system here. 
+- _Do you have concepts like reputation and influence?_ - We will not have anything like that. 
+- _Will your characters be known by their name or only by their physical appearance?_ - We can easily add this
+  because we happen to know there is a contrib available for it, so we'll add it. 
+
+### Rooms 
+
+- _Is a simple room description enough or should the description be able to change (such as with time, by
+light conditions, weather or season)?_ - We will make use of a contrib to allow us to change these things, so yes.
+- _Should the room have different statuses? Can it have smells, sounds? Can it be affected by
+dramatic weather, fire or magical effects? If so, how would this affect things in the room? Or are
+these things something admins/game masters should handle manually?_ - We will not model any of this. 
+- _Can objects be hidden in the room? Can a person hide in the room? How does the room display this?_ - We will
+ not go into hiding and visibility in this tutorial. 
+
+### Objects
+
+- _How numerous are your objects? Do you want large loot-lists or are objects just role playing props
+created on demand?_ - We will have a mix - some loot from monsters but also quest objects. 
+- _If you use money, is each coin a separate object or do you just store a bank account value?_ - We'll use 
+  coin as-objects. 
+- _Do multiple similar objects form stacks and how are those stacks handled in that case?_ - We want objects 
+  to to stack when they are put together. 
+- _Does an object have weight or volume (so you cannot carry an infinite amount of them)?_ - Sure, why not.
+- _Can objects be broken? Can they be repaired?_ - While interesting, we will not model breaking or repairs.
+- _Is a weapon a specific type of object or can you fight with a chair or a flower too?_ - We can let all 
+  objects have the ability to be used in an attack. 
+- _NPCs/mobs are also objects. Should they just stand around or should they have some sort of AI?_ - We won't 
+  be very sophisticated about it, but we want them to move around and have some rudimentary AI. 
+- _Are NPCs and mobs different entities? How do they differ?_ - Monsters you fight and NPCs will be variations 
+  of the same parent. 
+- _Should there be NPCs giving quests? If so, how do you track Quest status?_ - We will design a simple quest system.
+
+### Characters
+
+- _Can players have more than one Character active at a time or are they allowed to multi-play?_ - We will
+  allow 
+- How will Character creation work? Walking room-to-room? A menu? Answering questions? Filling in a form?
+- How do you implement different "classes" or "races"? Are they separate types of objects or do you
+simply load different stats on a basic object depending on what the Player wants?
+- If a Character can hide in a room, what skill will decide if they are detected?
+- What skill allows a Character to wield a weapon and hit? Do they need a special skill to wield a
+chair rather than a sword?
+- Does a Character need a Strength attribute to tell how much they can carry or which objects they
+can smash?
+- What does the skill tree look like? Can a Character gain experience to improve? By killing
+enemies? Solving quests? By roleplaying?
+- May player-characters attack each other (PvP)?
+- What are the penalties of defeat? Permanent death? Quick respawn? Time in prison? 
+
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