Roadmap update

I hadn't had a roadmap update in a while, so time for a new one.

Milestone 8 (wealth):

• Items and Inventory
• Dropping items
• Splitting and combining item stacks
• Player trading
• Trading cash
• Shops
• Selling items
• Item stack sizes in trade window
• Item information system

Milestone 9 (adventuring):

• NPC interaction
• Scripting

Milestone 10 (security):

• Permission management
• Database logging of
  • Logins
  • Administrative actions
  • Usage statistics
• Prevent multi-logins
• Brute force protection

 Milestone 11 (eye candy)

• Animated sprites
• Animated tiles
• Particle effects

Alpha Status reached!

Refinement 1: HTML and CSS

The newest beta of my favorite browser Opera finally supports real WebSockets. Unfortunately there are a lot of layout problems (unrelated to canvas support). I need to get the UI to render properly on it, too. There are also some other layout problems, like the inventory grid not being exactly square in all situations.

Refinement 2: Movement

Since I declared my space partitioning and my route finding algorithm for working, I encountered some glitches which need to be addressed.

• Suboptimal routes in some situations
• wrong blockmap calculation in some cases
• one time I got stuck in a tree - reproduce this (or at least create automatic unstuck)

Refinement 3: Performance

The client framerate fell a lot lately. I need to find out why and optimize it so I get at least 20 Fps on my Intel Atom notebook.

Refinement 4: Game System

• Resistances
• Damage randomization
• Misses? Critical hits?
• Proceduarally generated spells
• Rest System

Refinement 5: Mob AI

I skipped a few AI strategies I had planned. These still need to be implemented:

• Attack strategies:
• Pursuit
• Stalk
• Flee
• Roam strategies:
• Guard
• Target strategies:
• Best attacker against team
• Closest to team
• Last attacker
• Last attacker of team

Refinement 6: Attract Mode

Observer random locations in the background during the login sequence.