history.txt

Umbra

{_To_Do__________________________________}

01Jul29 Entity.effects/Script: allow some way for a script to remove itself
01Jul29 Brain: don't list isBurrowing critters in friends/foes

01Jul28 Magic tomes increase Magic skill without a teacher, but cost Madness

01Jul08 General store: Inflatable raft
01Jul08 Ruins: highway
01Jul08 Dungeon dressing
01Jul08 Brains:
        brainRat: do not move away from walls, otherwise random, will attack
            if they or any nearby Entity, rat or not, are injured
        brainZombie: if any warm Entity in range, move toward it and attack,
            else random.
        brainHerbivore: move away from any Hostile Entity; move toward any
            Loved Entity; else move forward 80%, turn left 10%, turn right
            10%.
01Jul08 Allow some species (Rat, Rabbit, etc.) to breed if two are adjacent
01Jul08 Aquatic monsters
01Jul08 Aerial monsters?

01Jul07 Transport to an alien sector from inside of Mogth's temple
01Jul07 Use Butcher skill to turn corpses into one or more gobbets instead of
        eating "corpse of..."
01Jul07 Entities should hear loud noises and come to investigate
01Jul07 Do redraw in multiple passes:
        1) Collect terrain, stuff, and light
        2) Run visicalc
        3) Expand light sources

01Jul04 Secret doors

01Jul01 Only map visible squares (check lightmap), integrate with VISICALC

01Jun18 Make clearLOS even faster somehow!
01Jun18 Tile graphics for Map

* 01Jun14 Show damage overlay on critters

01Jun04 Smart entities can open/close/lock/trap doors

01Jun03 Find a way to make nextTurn faster, then shift back to updating
        everything on the level
01Jun03 Damage to target's equipment on extraordinary attack rolls

* 01May30 Trigger door with anything in it should fail, trigger items/entities
        instead.  Trigger should present a menu of available items.

01May28 Track which sectors have been created, refuse to recreate one if some
        cheater deletes a sector
01May28 Better recovery from a crash while loading a new sector
01May28 NPCs should use items they pick up, if they can.
        In factory, block off Entity.equip slots they shouldn't use.
01May28 Try to make Dungeon faster
* 01May28 Big arrow on display indicates that you're turning or moving
01May28 When anything living, including a player, dies from anything except
        insanity, there's a chance the corpse will rise as a zombie...

01May26 Attacks at more than range 1 take a bonus or penalty based on size
01May26 Better "Game Over" dialog

01May21 Forest: Hangman looks like a tree with tentacles

01May20 Command to reorder the party

01May19 "Number Encountered" field in Bestiary, Sector.makeEncounters uses it
        to place several of the same kind together if possible.

01May13 Customizable color themes

01May10 Pool cash command
01May10 Effect: "roll n s b m" optionally used to set state to determine
        amounts for other effects:
        roll -2 2 2
        t stat Wounds
        t stat Fatigue

01May06 Models: armor, headgear, accessory
01May06 Scrollback for status

01Apr29 Door: use Knock spell, or Key item
01Apr29 class Key(Item.Item): any key opens any door

01Apr24 itemLabel used in equip/inv/get: show an icon for item type

01Apr23 Sound effects, with quote balloons next to noise-making sprites
01Apr23 Memo & score server
01Apr23 Show stats as a green/yellow/red bar with a descriptive word inside,
        no numbers

01Apr22 Entity respawn on entering a map if there are few or none in it
        (if 1d10>ncritters?)
01Apr22 NPC knowledge and rumors
01Apr22 partial, semi-accurate (blank spots) maps of the world for sale
01Apr22 Call the current Zone in Game.turn()
01Apr22 Stat recovery?
01Apr22 Every night, have one star flare in a supernova and vanish, deleted
        from the star list.

01Apr22 Sector types:
        riverNS, riverEW, riverX, lake
        flow from mtns to sea, choosing lower terrain, then equal, then
        laking.
01Apr22 convert (plains, hills, water) near towns to (farm, farmHills, dock)
01Apr22 Starport near a ruin
01Apr22 Terrain:
        Pillar
        Stone_Stairs (black at top)
        Wall, Door_*, Floor -> Stone_*, Plaster_*, Wood_*
        Marsh
        Quicksand (looks almost exactly like sand!)

01Apr22 Entity:
        status={} # keyword:=Int
            - checked every turn
        genotype=0
            - warm-blooded
            - cold-blooded
            - insect
            - machine
            - undead
01Apr22 friendliness=0
            - mod to charm/persuade
            - results:
                - neverending enmity, gains goal "kill this person"
                - hostile, will kill on sight only
                - dislike, will jack up prices, give misleading or no info
                - neutral
                - tolerant
                - friendly, will give discounts
                - true love, will obey any command until it lowers friendliness

01Apr14 Keep 9 sectors in memory, and allow vision across sectors.  Then get
        rid of walkable edges around sectors.

01Apr01 Change the sky by weather.
01Apr01 Use texture-mapping on top of the polygons; even figuring out how to
        stipple with custom bitmaps would be a big improvement.

{_Done___________________________________}

01Jul29 Spells: Lesser/Greater Summon *

01Jul28 Magic: Skill.useMagic and all of Spell except use_*

---39 days---

01Jul14 Town: don't make doors against the "road" that gets replaced with the
        town wall.
01Jul14 Town: don't create main street for other towns, give them
        randomly-placed shops
01Jul14 Get all
01Jul14 Skill use costs: Locksmith costs 1d6 Fatigue

01Jul13 Ruins: cash is now placed
01Jul13 Town: Don't create inhabitants in front of the door!

01Jul08 pickling entire Game instead of a list of data fields
01Jul08 Moved redraw to Game
01Jul08 Teachers give training in a skill
01Jul08 Undead: If on level 0 during the day, burrow and do nothing, draw mist
        occasionally.
01Jul08 Differentiated food and corpses.

01Jul07 Dungeon doorways
01Jul07 Changed dungeon height to 1.25
01Jul07 Make generators for all sector types, use a dict to select which one
        to use.
01Jul07 Hand to merchant: consolidate identical items, only accept appropriate
        items
01Jul07 Vehicles, specifically boats
01Jul07 Water bordering on land has a beach, and possibly a dock, if the next
        sector is not water
01Jul07 moved S_* from Sector to Global.SECTOR_*

01Jul04 Finished generator for ruins suburb
01Jul04 Switched back to cPickle, pickling entire Sector object instead of the
        sector data and each level.
01Jul04 Added Phantom, Ghost, Spectre
01Jul04 Fixed Bestiary["unarmed"] entries that used STAT instead of DMG

01Jul01 Ruins stairs: there were 3 per level, because I was binding both up
        and down with makeStairsPair.  <sigh>
01Jul01 Filled downtown buildings with loot and monsters
01Jul01 Terrain: Skyscraper, Sky_Doorway
01Jul01 Sprite: panelcmd sides NRFL and emitcmd allow the building of
        facing-dependant models; changed door and window to use this.

01Jun24 Fixed Bestiary.FRIENDS["rat"], which allowed rats to gossip to humans.
01Jun24 Created CALevel
01Jun24 Ruins: suburb, downtown

01Jun18 [M]ap: show world and sector maps.
        Game.playerMap filled in by Game.getSector()
        Sector.playerMap[levelnum] filled in by Game.nextTurn()
01Jun18 Fixed defect: locksmith wasn't updating the linked door
01Jun18 Fixed defect: taking Madness from killing Citizens, etc. wasn't
        calling checkStatus()
01Jun18 Fixed defect: Town was placing people in their homes on level 0, stuck
        in the walls.
01Jun18 Town: now generates loot in buildings and locks doors
01Jun18 Change Tree base to brown
01Jun18 Terrain: TreeStump
01Jun18 Terrain
        .toughness=Int #0:=invulnerable, 1+:=dmg in a single attack needed to
            transform to self.damaged
        .damaged=Terrain
01Jun18 Umbra.selectMeleeTarget: [1] Ahead
01Jun18 Chopping down doors
01Jun18 Destroy altars, get XP and a counter in Game

01Jun17 Improved UmbraText - shows a key describing everything you can see,
        and checks for clear LOS
01Jun17 Thing.light_level, flashlight.light_level=3
01Jun17 Lightmap in Umbra.view
        fill with Game.light_level on lvl 0, 0 on lvls 1+
        for each thing,
            if it has light_level,
                apply level, -1 per grid distance
        for each grid, clip light_level to 0..10, divide by 10.0
01Jun17 Sprite.draw takes light_scale and calls util.colorTransform
01Jun17 Added lamps to town and altars glow
01Jun17 Rewrote Level.clearLOS to use int instead of double, doubled speed.
01Jun17 Changed default VIEWDIST to 8
01Jun17 -nolight and -nolightlos to Umbra
01Jun17 Script.do_light
01Jun17 Start town always has one of each kind of shop
01Jun17 Sub-minor version numbers don't cause a version mismatch on saved
        games; make sure to advance minor version whenever the save file
        changes!

01Jun03 Merged Script and Effect into one class
01Jun03 -hack starts you just outside a temple with some minimal equip, but
        no money.
01Jun03 Fixed skill gain bug: it added 1 to the default level of -5!
01Jun03 Dungeon: filtered out doors like this:
        ________
        __+n____
        ##+n####
        ##____##
01Jun03 Changed Terrain.Mountain.char to 'MM' and Sector.Mountains to 'M' for
        better readability
01Jun03 makeOneEncounter now includes average player levels in the encounter
        rank, and applies it to all hostiles, whether on the surface or in a
        dungeon.
01Jun03 Use Skill: only applies to Locksmith right now
01Jun03 Sorted game copy/delete/load lists

01May28 Town, Plains split from Sector
01May28 Take madness for killing a member of a friendly species =
        max(0, friendliness*util.d(1, 4))
01May28 Friendly Entities gossip, merging friendliness lists when adjacent
01May28 Sectors with temples have different encounter tables
01May28 Temples in 10% of forests, mountains, hills, desert, and marsh
01May28 Encounters and treasure in temples
01May28 Terrain: Altar
01May28 Script: effect
01May28 Effect: taskstat, taskskill
01May28 If a player goes insane, it becomes a Lunatic NPC.  Hee!

01May27 Temple, Dungeon, DungeonFeature

01May26 Bestiary.SPECIES_DATA.friendSpecies now records specific friendliness
        level; humans are neutral to rats but friendly to each other, etc.
01May26 Critters now resent it when you attack their friends in their sight,
        and like you when you attack their enemies.
01May26 friendSpecies groups: "minions", "humans", etc.
01May26 Added size to Entities; small critters can move through trees and
        cannot be attacked while under that cover.
01May26 Show NPCs fighting
01May26 Level.getThings()
01May26 Terrain: Stone_Window
01May26 Terrain.opaque, Thing.isOpaque()
01May26 Brain: B_Autopilot
01May26 Started building Mogth-cult temples

01May20 Made better forest and mountain sectors
01May20 Player turns are done first in nextTurn, and they are not given a turn
        with the critters; this gives you until your next turn to do things if
        you die.  This was already the case if you were north or due west of
        your attacker, I just generalized it.  This helps a lot when playing
        just one or two characters - "damn, where'd those emergency chocolates
        go?"
01May20 Red stipple over dying characters, improved color-coded stat summary
01May20 Model: zombie (crap), bloody_bones (major improvement), baron, spider
01May20 Critter: Harvestman, Jumping Arantula, Zombie, Baron, Jackalope
01May20 Fixed problems with too-long menus in UmbraTk
01May20 Fixed clearLOS so you can't shoot through closed doors any more...

01May19 Ranged attacks now choose from a menu of all legal shots.  Targets no
        longer block each other, but that feature produced too many false hits
        from entities filling an entire grid anyway...
01May19 place towns (WORLDSIZE/8 plus the starting town) next to water 90% of
        the time
01May19 Model: soldier, cultist
01May19 Moved all Entity construction into Bestiary module.
01May19 NPCs with guns get to shoot back if they make a Speed roll.
01May19 NPCs can pick things up if they've got nothing better to do.
01May19 List repeating items in status and inventory as "%s (x%d)"
01May19 Starting town is fairly peaceful (except for all the damn rats), other
        towns are much meaner.  Son, don't take your gun to town.
01May19 Show blood splatters when you get wounded
01May19 Different critters have different food values as a corpse.
01May19 Encounters for all terrain types
01May19 Critters: remaining townsfolk, cultists

01May13 Drop cash where there already is cash should just add to that cash
01May13 class Cash(Loot)
01May13 Umbra.selectTarget
01May13 View Char menu: "Hand Item to NPC"
01May13 Ranged combat
01May13 class Ammo(Loot)
01May13 Models: gun, ammo

01May12 Brain: B_Coward
01May12 Doors, supposedly the same instance, did not always have the same state
        on different levels.  This is a bad idea, anyway, since they'll have
        different locations but supposedly be the same object.  Door.linkedTo
        holds the coord of a matched Door to change state in lockstep.
01May12 Show secondary stats for all PCs in the character frame, replacing the
        buttons.
01May12 Set system-wide colors - black and green!

01May10 Added food effects
01May10 Game should not store its name, because that is used to determine the
        save path.

01May06 Created Melee, Ranged, and Defense subclasses of Equip
01May06 Created Skills: Melee, Ranged, Dodge, Locksmith, Repair, Science,
        Magic, Archaeology
01May06 Added starting skills to Entities based on Profession
01May06 Experience, levels, skill gain (currently random until schools are in)
01May06 Created Effect: stat
01May06 Main Menu: "Attack": prompts each character for an action: Pass, Melee
01May06 Combat: strike, dodge, and armor
01May06 Entity.defense=0, .unarmed=Fisticuffs
01May06 Brain: B_Still, B_Hunter
01May06 Entity.friendSpecies, friendliness (very basic)
01May06 Renamed Wizard to Arcanist
01May06 Handled player death
01May06 GameOverException
01May06 Move status text off view window and into a label

01May05 Bound arrow keys to move buttons in addition to Roguelike keys.
01May05 Merchants
01May05 Added "Jack of all Trades" profession, who get a 20% xp bonus but have
        no starting skills.
01May05 Shops
01May05 Enforced MAXITEMS limit better
01May05 Line wrapping with util.foldLines()

01May04 Refactored Canvas3D out of UmbraTk

01May03 Moved indoors door just outside of the buildings, added Into_Darkness
        terrain.
01May03 Rearranged the user interface to put the controls on the right
01May03 Added Terrain.Into_Darkness to make the inside of doors black.

01Apr29 Moved status to a pair of labels above the view, no redraws needed to
        make them update - hooray!
01Apr29 Created buttons for the main menu and characters.
01Apr29 Moved most of the level construction to Sector, so __makeTown could
        work on two levels at once.
01Apr29 Minimal scripting, ECHO and TELEPORT
01Apr29 Created indoors level for town, with teleports back and forth.
01Apr29 class Door(Thing.Thing), trigger opens and closes them.
01Apr29 Scale stars so changing the screen size doesn't leave a black spot in
        the sky.
01Apr29 Cash

01Apr28 Wasted a day installing SuSE 7.1, broke everything.  Bah.

01Apr23 Turning does not cost a turn now, since it doesn't cost other Entities
        anything.

01Apr22 Entity.gender and .species
01Apr22 Encounter tables for plains and town
01Apr22 Entities wander aimlessly on turns when they make a Speed roll.
01Apr22 Entity.brain is a key from Brain, choosing among module functions:
            bob.brain=Brain.slackBrain
            Brain.think(bob)
01Apr22 Movement blocked by other Entities
01Apr22 Created Rabbit, Rat, Bloody Bones, Lunatic, and Boss sprites

01Apr21 util.d() handles negative dice, negating the entire roll.
01Apr21 Added -size <n> option to UmbraTk
01Apr21 Added -nodebug option to Umbra
01Apr21 Added Get to main menu
01Apr21 Created Sprite, converted most of Terrain
01Apr21 Assigned Sprites to Things
01Apr21 Filled in the rest of the town
01Apr21 Created a swarm of humans with silly names in town

01Apr15 Change the sky, sun, and moon by time of day.  Eclipses are possible!
        Constellations of stars are generated when a game is created.

01Apr14 Changed Thing.loc to __coord=Int, since the Sector is always known.
        __coord=(levelnum<<20)|(y<<10)|x
        Level uses:
            __terrain=String[]
            __stuff=List{}
        Removed Grid
        This speeds up load/save times and reduces memory usage.
01Apr14 Added altitude and height to drawBlock; used those to simplify
        drawStoneRooftop()
01Apr14 Optimize loadGame, saveGame:
        saveSector(save/a/128_128.sec) took     99ms
        saveGame(save/a/game.dat)
        saveGame(save/a/game.dat) took          199ms
        loadGame(save/a/game.dat)
        loadGame(a) took                        2520ms
        loadSector(save/a/128_128.sec) took     3109ms
        saveSector(save/a/128_129.sec) took     139ms
        saveGame(save/a/game.dat)
        saveGame(save/a/game.dat) took          199ms
01Apr14 Mountains, Hills, Marsh, Desert (aka beach), and Forest sectors.
01Apr14 Optimized loadSector, saveSector:
        saveSector(save/b/128_128.sec) took     10ms
        saveGame(save/b/game.dat)
        saveGame(save/b/game.dat) took          210ms
        loadGame(save/b/game.dat)
        loadGame(b) took                        2589ms
        loadSector(save/b/128_128.sec) took     180ms
        saveSector(save/b/128_128.sec) took     19ms
        saveGame(save/b/game.dat)
        saveGame(save/b/game.dat) took          190ms
        Pickling long lists of items is VERY slow!!!

01Apr11 Game menu: New Game, Load Game, Copy Game, Delete Game, Quit
        Allows cancel of New Game, etc.

01Apr08 View Char menu: "Trade Item to Another PC"
01Apr08 Put grey walls at extreme edge of vision for "fog", if the -fog
        command-line argument is given.
01Apr08 Use [wy*WORLDSIZE+wx] for sector types
01Apr08 Do not keep everything in memory.  Page out any Sector you are not
        currently in.
01Apr08 Movement between Sectors
01Apr08 Load and save works on subdirs of db
01Apr08 Land sectors have a rim of clear terrain to enter.
01Apr08 Game.__makeSectors produces a whole random planet.
01Apr08 Minimalistic polygon art for Hill, Tree, Bush, Equip, Entity, and
        Water.  It's bleak, sterile, and cubist, but kinda compelling, like
        the Teletubbies world...
01Apr08 Created ponds in Plains - without bridges, I can't afford to do
        rivers.

01Apr07 Main Menu: "Step Left", "Step Right", "Turn Back"
01Apr07 Create loot and equipment
01Apr07 Implement Thing.draw()
01Apr07 View Char Menu: "Get Item", "Examine", "Use Item", "Remove Equipment",
        "Drop Item"
01Apr07 Main Menu: "Quit" should prompt to save or not
01Apr07 Moved all character-specific commands to View Char menu
01Apr07 -viewdist command line option

01Apr01 Implemented pseudo-3-D with colored polygons
01Apr01 Took Terrain references out of Grid
01Apr01 Replaced Coord with Level ref and Int (y<<16)|x

01Mar31 Put facing in Game
        01Apr08 Removed it with getFacing() from party[0]
01Mar31 Replaced move North/East/South/West with:
        Step Forward
        Turn Left
        Turn Right
        Step Back
01Mar31 Started on 3D graphics code
01Mar31 Refactored generic Tk stuff and testing out of UmbraTk

01Mar29 Improved the Town generator, still only makes main road and keep.

01Mar25 Implemented character creation, main menu up through basic movement,
        showMap and showCharacter (both very primitive right now).

01Mar24 Restored to the desktop, implemented framework and initial menus.

01Mar18-01Mar23 Worked on it on my PalmPilot all week.

01Mar17 Created.

{_Design_Notes___________________________}

Concept:

- A *simple* computer role-playing game.  The world is randomly-generated, but
there is an eventual goal.  Heavily influenced by roguelike games, Alternate
Reality, and console RPGs like Lunar 2.

- Single view.  There are a couple of roguelike games with wilderness levels
(Omega and ADOM), but they use pregenerated world maps, use a different scale
for it, and have different actions available.  The original Ultima games had
3-D wireframe for the dungeons, but tile-based wilderness...
    I want the player to ALWAYS see the world at the same scale, from the same
perspective, with the same controls.  Likewise, console games switch to a
battle map for fights; that should happen in your normal view.

- THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE:
    Simplicity of gameplay is more important than realism.

- Set after a magical apocalypse, the Great Old Ones, led by Mogth, have
reclaimed the Earth from the infestation of Humanity.

- Goal: gain enough power to defeat Mogth and free Humanity or escape the
planet.

- Gameplay: move, use item, use skill/power/spell, talk/trigger, attack,
menu.

- The world is 2-D, 256*256 sectors.

- Sectors consist of an overall terrain type and 1 or more levels, counted
from 0 up, whether the levels are a dungeon or a tower.

- Levels are 2-D, 64*64 grids.  Grids are 2m*2m*2m.

- Yes, this is really huge.  32km square, in fact.

- Levels may have Zones, which run every turn the player is on that level.

- View shows pseudo-3-D, with a 90&deg; POV.  Things have one or four 256x256
sprites.

- Combat happens from your POV.  Weapons can hit Entities in a 180&deg; FH arc.

- Equipment (weapons, armor, rings, etc.) is readied when "used", and has
constant effects.

- Loot must be "used" to do anything, triggers an effect when used, and may be
one-shot or permanent.

- Items which are not Loot or Equip cannot be taken, but can be triggered.

- PCs & NPCs use the same classes, Game controls party members, AI controls
NPCs.

{_Bestiary_______________________________}
* = unimplemented

NPCs: Anyone you can talk to
    Human
    Boss
    Soldier
    Merchant
    Citizen
    Prostitute
    *Farmer
    Child
    Lunatic
    Mercenary, Torpedo, Assassin
    Thug, Bandit, Thief
    Nerd, Geek, Engineer
    Apprentice, Wizard, Archmage
    Cultist, Acolyte, High Priest

Creatures: Normal animals
    *Alligator
    *Army Ant Swarm
    *Babboon
    *Barracuda
    *Bat
    *Bear
    *Boar
    *Cat
    *Chicken
    *Cow
    *Coyote
    *Deer, Buck/Doe
    *Dolphin
    *Duck
    *Goat
    *Goose
    *Horse
        Not available until mounts are implemented, riding is a skill
    *Killer Bee Swarm
    *Monkey
    *Moose
    *Orca
    *Panther
    *Pig
    *Piglet
    *Puma
    *Python
    Rabbit
    Rat
    *Rattlesnake
    *Raven
    *Sea Lion
    *Shark
    *Vulture
    *Wildcat
    *Wolf

Monsters: spawn of Mogth
    *Angel
        Human/swan hybrid
    Arantula, Jumping
        4m-tall tarantula
    *Arantula, Spitting
        4m-tall tarantula
    *Arantula, Trapdoor
        4m-tall tarantula
    *Artillery Bug
        A blast of steam propels a stone from its gullet
    *Basilisk
        rooster, spits poison
    *Billipede
    *Black Widowmaker
    Bloody Bones
    Zombie
    Baron
        Bio-Zombies (see Varley's _Demon_)
    *Chimera, Rat/Vulture/Cockroach
        Human merged with an animal
    *Demon
        Human/bat hybrid
    *Dero
        Human/rock/mud hybrid
    *Devil
        Human/mtn goat hybrid
    *Devilfly
        1m-long dragonfly, seizes things in its legs
    *Digger
        Human/badger hybrid
    *Dogboy
        Human/dog hybrid
    *Elemental, Smog/Plutonium/Iodine
    *Pixie, Elf, Nymph
        Human/plant hybrids
    *Freak, Midget/Deviant/Giant
        deformed Humans (not just size but shape as well)
    *Gargoyle
        Human/alligator hybrid
    *Globbo
        Slime mold
    *Gobbler
        Giant toad
    *Hangman
        Trees with noose-like tentacles
    Harvestman
        Daddy long-legs, *BIG* fangs
    *Hippogriff
        Carnivorous horse
    *Hut Crab
        Hut-sized hermit crab
    *Honeytongue
        Giant sundew, sticky, acidic
    *Myrmidon
        Giant termite
    Phantom, Ghost, Spectre
        Luminous semi-substantial life-hunters
    Jackalope
        Killer rabbits with antlers
    *Manticore
        Panther with a human face above the jaw
    *Meatgrinder Slug
    *Mermaid
        Human/shark hybrid
    *Ogre/Hag, Ghoul, Wendigo
        Human cannibals in 3 stages of corruption
    *Supermaggot
        Giant carnivorous worm
    *Sword Heron
        Carnivorous heron with a razor-sharp bill, attacks in flocks
    *Vampire, Flying
        Giant bloodsucking bat
    *Vampire, Hopping
        Giant bloodsucking tick
    *Vampire, Swimming
        Giant bloodsucking leech
    *Yardworm
        Like an inchworm, only bigger.  Poison bristles.

{_Goals__________________________________}

There are two goals:
1. Defeat Mogth
    - collect weapons, armor, artifacts
    - increase in power
    - gather allies & armies
    - go to confront Mogth
    - "kill" it
    - it rises from death, destroys humanity as you watch
    - get destroyed & devoured
    - fade to black

2. Lead Humanity Off Earth
    - find the starport & clear it of monsters
    - collect operation & repair manuals and spare parts
    - repair the starship
    - gather allies & refugees
    - escape, see any left behind get destroyed and devoured
    - land on New Earth
    - as a cut scene: past trees from landing site, see a temple of Mogth,
    hear mocking laughter
    - fade to black

{_Scripts________________________________}

A list of:
<who> <command>
who := <target>|<user>
target := t
user := u

command := any of the following: (* = not implemented)

    # displays text as a message to who
ECHO <text>
    # teleports who to levelnum, x, y, and changes facing (Global.North, etc.)
    # if given.
TELEPORT <levelnum> <x> <y> [<facing>]
* LONGTELEPORT <wx> <wy> <levelnum> <x> <y> [<facing>]
    # added to who's stats; use negative ndice to subtract
    # secondary stats are increased to harm the target...
STAT <stat> <dice string>
    # identical to stat, but affected by armor
DMG <stat> <dice string>
    # n=turns, 0=until removed, -n=every n turns
* DURATION <turns int>
    # only affects these genotypes
* GENOTYPE {<type string> }*
    # does not affect these
* NOTGENOTYPE {<type string> }*
    # chance of spreading to all in 1 square; autohits any who touch the
    # infected, with the current remaining duration
* CONTAGIOUS <percent>
    # status[keyword] += 1
* STATUS <keyword string>
    # status[keyword] -= 1
* NOSTATUS <keyword string>
    # skill[skillname] += lvl
* SKILL <skillname string> <lvl int>
    # del skill[skillname]
* NOSKILL <skillname string>
    # the area of effect is centered on who
* AREA <diameter>
    # visual fireworks
* VISUAL <effect>
    # ends the effect if it passes (RQ>=0), displays the failmsg and ends the
    # script if it fails (RQ<0)
SAVESTAT <stat> <modifier> [<failmsg>]
SAVESKILL <skillname> <modifier> [<failmsg>]
* SOUND <filename>
* IMAGE <frametitle> <filename>
    # returns from the script if target.player==test
* ISPLAYER <test>
* GAMEOVER <bigtext>
* EXPERIENCE <xp>
* CASH <pennies>
    # gives a light_level of lum to who
LIGHT <lum>

- examples:
    Small Blade
        t Wounds 1 10 0
    Large Blade
        t Wounds 2 10 0
    .22
        t Wounds 1 10 0
    Mild Acid
        t duration 3
        t contagious 10
        t Wounds 1 10 0
    Strong Acid
        t duration 6
        t contagious 10
        t Wounds 2 10 0
    Blindness
        t notgenotype demon insect
        t duration 0
        t effect blindness
    Heebee Plague
        # By having contagious and duration before genotype, non-warm
        # Entities can be carriers even though it doesn't affect them.
        t contagious 90
        t duration -600
        t genotype warm
        t Speed -1 3 0

{_Model_File_Format______________________}

line := <comment>|<blank>|<cmd>

cmd := <definecmd>|<blockcmd>|<panelcmd>|<polygoncmd>|<linecmd>|<ovalcmd>
        |<namecmd>|<emitcmd>

definecmd := d:<name>:<value>
blockcmd := b:<side>:<fill color>:<outline color>:<opts>
panelcmd := p:<side>:<fill color>:<outline color>:[lrnftbLRNF]:<opts>
polygoncmd := y:<side>:<fill color>:<outline color>:<points>:<opts>
linecmd := l:<side>:<fill color>:<points>:<opts>
    # only two points are used, for top-left and bottom-right
ovalcmd := o:<side>:<fill color>:<outline color>:<points>:<opts>
    # only the y coord of the first point is used
namecmd := n:<side>:<fill color>:<points>
    # emits all LRNF panels and clears them for another model
emitcmd := e

    # if all side conditions are met, then the command is executed
side := [alrcn]
    a=any side
    l=left (nx<0)
    r=right (nx>0)
    c=center (nx==0)
    n=not here (nx!=0 or ny!=0)

color := {#[0-9a-fA-F]*6}|{}

points := {<x>,<y>,<z>;?}*

opts := {<name>=<value>,?}*

{_EOF____________________________________}