Starstruck

• Starstruck is a game that I first built in C++ when I was in 8th grade as part of a project for my english class (of all things).

  • It became pretty good for what I had known at the time, and I was happy with how it turned out, but it could have had more.

• This is a re-envisioning of that game but in Rust. Hopefully with some new features, as well.

Future

• Want to get a terminal UI working. I want to be able to play the game through a UI instead of having to type choices in.
  • Or—at the very least—I wish to make the game run as if it is a single window with text changing instead of it just printing out so much text that the previous text goes off screen. This would be preferrable.
• Possibly use something like Ratatui: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui

TODO:

• Take user input from within GameState instead of within the Player class maybe.
  • (This just seems like it makes the most sense for the GameState to handle that instead of the Player class, which is supposed to be the backend to just handle the game actions)
• Add enemy random generation, using a vector of Enemy objects as the basis for creating the enemy
  • Scale with the player (or create an instance of an enemy that is high enough level for the player to fight)?
    • I think I'm leaning toward having the player progressively fight more and more enemies that make less and less sense maybe
• Add xp gain on kill
  • Keep it simple.
  • I kinda want Paper Mario's 100 xp to level up
• Add status effects that deal damage over time (or heal over time)
  • Keep it simple for now, maybe scale it with the player's level later.
• Do a uniqueness check before adding a status (so two of the same status can't exist)
• Maybe implement some sort of rock-paper-scissors system?
  • Defending beats physical attack
  • Physical attack beats Magic attack
  • Magic attack beats defending

TUI TODO:

• Would be awesome to have EarthBound-like backgrounds in the TUI.