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134 lines
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# Roadmap
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Agreed on 2026-11-05. Worked through in this order; every block is committed, pushed and deployed
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on its own. Details not listed here are decided along the way.
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## 1. Open items – done (v202611-00035)
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1. **Heroes attack every master** – with rival masters or several players, each hero wave marches
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to the heart of the *strongest* living master (most creatures and gold), not only the player's.
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2. **Co-op campaign offline with an AI partner** – "League against the Lightwatch" playable
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without the server: the partner is an allied AI master with its own dungeon (built like a
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rival); its creatures join attacks and it sends gold when the player runs short.
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3. **Resume editor co-op runs** – an interrupted multiplayer run of an editor campaign goes on at
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the reached mission; the host keeps the progress.
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4. **New screenshots** – title demo, language dropdown, co-op campaign.
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## 2. Bridges – done (v202611-00036)
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Stone bridges over lava exist already (75 gold per tile).
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1. **Wooden bridges burn** – fire spells, fire traps and dragon fire set them alight; after a few
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seconds they collapse and units on them fall into the water. Stone bridges are fireproof.
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2. **Drawbridge** – an expensive bridge (about 150 gold per tile) with a per-bridge switch:
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*manual* (a click raises or lowers the whole bridge) or *automatic* (rises when heroes come
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near, lowers afterwards). Knights can only tear it down while it is lowered.
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3. **Cooling lava** – frost spells and frost traps turn lava into walkable obsidian for a while.
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4. **Repairing bridges** – imps repair damaged bridges; knights wear bridges down step by step
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instead of in one blow.
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Built as: `src/bridges.rs` (fire, wear, drawbridges, obsidian), the *Drawbridge* tool (click: down → up →
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automatic) and the *Frost* spell (lava → obsidian for 40 s); the frost glow trap keeps lava next to it cooled.
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## 3. The surface world – done (v202611-00038)
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1. **Surface terrain** – grass, trees, paths, daylight and sky. Trees act like earth: imps fell
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them.
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2. **Wood** – a second resource. Above ground it comes from trees (plenty: a fortress is besieged
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there), underground from giant mushrooms in caves and by the water (scarce, slowly growing back,
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so few wooden doors down there). Wooden bridges, wooden doors, siege engines and room upgrades
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cost wood; iron and magic doors and stone bridges still cost gold.
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3. **Raising walls** – imps can raise a wall again on the player's own empty floor, for gold, so
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tunnels can be closed and doors placed where they matter.
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4. **Fortresses above ground** – walls, towers, a gate, a clearing with torches.
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5. **Siege weapons** – heroes bring battering rams (against doors) and catapults (against towers);
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the player builds his own siege engines in a workshop.
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6. **Missions** – the last mission of the main campaign (M30) and of the co-op campaign (M20) lead
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to the surface: the dungeon half lies in the rock (gold and more), the other half is a forest
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with the High Marshal's fortress to destroy. Free play and multiplayer get a map option
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"Surface". The map editor gets the new terrain.
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Built as: `src/wood.rs` (wood, giant mushrooms), `src/walls.rs` (the wall tool), `src/surface.rs` (sky layer
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`Map::sky`, forests, cliffs and cave mouths, clearings around fortresses), `src/siege.rs` (rams and catapults:
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in hero waves from wave 4/6, buildable with a forge). The fortresses above ground are the knights' usual
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fortresses (fortress.rs) in a clearing. Final missions: campaign M30 and co-op M20; free play, versus matches
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and editor random maps have the option "half above ground".
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## 3b. Music – done (v202611-00039)
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Six more underground tracks and a block of six surface tracks: the same leitmotif brighter and in major, synthetic
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birdsong and wind, flute leads and harp arpeggios. The music follows the camera (surface or underground) with a
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crossfade.
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Built in `tools/compose_music.py` (instruments flute, bird and wind; birds and wind on two extra channels only in
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surface songs, so the older pieces stay byte for byte the same): build16-19, battle9-10, surface1-4,
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surface_battle1-2; `audio::Category::Surface` / `SurfaceBattle`, chosen in `MusicDirector` when most of the
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camera's surroundings lie above ground (4 s crossfade).
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## 4. Additions – done (v202611-00047)
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Status: creature abilities (personality.rs: an ability per creature at level 3-7, used by itself) and
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creature relationships (likes, hates, brawls) existed already. Done in this block so far:
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bosses (`src/bosses.rs`: four champions of the Order lead every fifth wave - Sir Aldric's shield wall,
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Dame Seraphine's radiant burst, Brother Halvard's call to arms, Captain Rothgar's charge - with a health bar
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and loot), statistics (`src/stats.rs`: counters and a chart at the end of a game) and achievements
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(`src/achievements.rs`: 64 of them, kept in the browser and merged with `/api/profile` on the server after a
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login; the menu page *Achievements*), room levels 2 and 3 (researched in the library once every tool is known:
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+25% per level, brighter, gold trim) and random events (`src/events.rs`: earthquake, lava or water over the
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banks, a new gold vein; every 8-12 minutes in free games and versus matches, switch in the game settings; the
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host's choice goes to every client with `"events"` in the create message) and wild beasts (`src/beasts.rs`:
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dens of cave bears and giant beetles in the caverns of bigger random maps; neutral like the dwarves; beaten while
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a prison has room, a beast gives in and joins), traders (`src/traders.rs`: every ~10 minutes in single player a
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merchant waits a minute at an own portal; a click with the hand buys rune plans, an ember wyrm, a chainbreaker,
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wood or a mana potion), seasons (snow above ground in winter, pumpkins at Halloween, from the real date) and
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creature equipment (`src/armory.rs`: without orders the forge makes iron, steel and rune gear for gold; each
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piece goes to the strongest creature without one that good: +10/22/38% health and attack, a coloured mark at
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the health bar). The dynamic music (calm and battle) existed already and now also follows the camera to the
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surface. The tutorial (*Tutorial* in the title menu, `editor::templates::tutorial_campaign`): Crookfinger leads a
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new master through digging, claiming, lair, mushroom garden, the first creatures, a slap and two knights - one
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painted mission whose triggers switch each other on. **Block 4 is done.**
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1. **Random events** – earthquake (tunnels cave in), lava eruption, flood, gold vein found. Rare
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(every 8–12 minutes), free play and multiplayer only, can be switched off in the menu; in
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campaigns only through new script blocks.
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2. **Creature abilities** – from level 5 every creature has an active ability (ogre stomp, spider
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web, mage chain lightning, ...), used automatically and wisely, with a cooldown.
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3. **Bosses and elite heroes** – every 5th wave brings a boss hero with a health bar at the top,
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an ability of its own and loot (gold, runes).
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4. **Wild beasts** – beasts in caves (cave bears, giant beetles, ...) that can be tamed in the
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prison and become creatures.
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5. **Room upgrades** – rooms can be upgraded to level 2 and 3 for gold and wood (a library that
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researches faster, ...), shown by ornaments and brighter light.
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6. **Creature equipment** – the forge makes weapons and armour in tiers (iron, steel, rune);
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creatures fetch the best fitting piece themselves, the strongest first; equipment is visible.
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7. **Creature relationships** – creatures like or hate each other, quarrel, and work better with
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friends; the lair shows who likes whom.
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8. **Dungeon visitors** – neutral traders and smugglers come through the portal and sell rare
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traps, runes or creatures for gold.
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9. **Dynamic music** – procedural music that changes between calm and battle and swells when
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heroes come.
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10. **Tutorial mission** – an interactive introduction with Crookfinger (digging, rooms,
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creatures, traps), built with the editor and script blocks.
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11. **Statistics** – charts at the end of a game (gold over time, creatures, kills, buildings; for
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every player in multiplayer) and lifetime totals in the profile.
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12. **Achievements** – 50+ achievements with pixel badges, including hidden and humorous ones in
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Crookfinger's style and progress bars, stored per user on the server.
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13. **Seasonal events** – cosmetic touches by date (pumpkins at Halloween, snow on the surface in
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winter, ...).
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## 5. Next (agreed 2026-11-06)
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Done: the pixel look (the world 360 rows on every device, 270/480 selectable; the interface on the same
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grid), guard and attack markers (shields and swords), savegames with the game state only.
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1. **Real AI masters** - rivals, AI seats and the co-op partner play by the player's rules: imps dig,
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claim, mine and set torches; rooms by plan, traps, towers, research; the attack flag, shields and swords;
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strength by the difficulty.
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2. **Mouse cursor** - clearer hands for the hand tool (open, holding, slap, punch).
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3. **New heroes** - thief (steals gold, from wave 3), monk (immune to spells, 5), ranger (lays traps, 7),
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inquisitor (converts the weakest creatures back, 9).
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4. **Master talents** - Builder, Warlord, Warlock, Merchant (5 levels each), a toolbar button; per game,
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carried over in the campaign.
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5. **Weather above ground** - rain (puts out fire), fog (less sight), storms (lightning in trees and units).
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6. **Named creatures** - names per kind and language, epithets at higher levels, memorial stones.
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