blessfrey gdd - skill

description

Skills are individual powers usable by entities. They can take 8 at a time on their skillbar. They can be used for combat, puzzle-solving, and roleplaying. They are acquired through exploring.

skill acquisition

• basic job skills are learned when the job is unlocked, temporarily or permanently
• update skill list if skill was added (MessageBus)
• giantess NPC that will allow the player to make some custom skills (dropdown menu for parts of a skill desc sentence -> exported to JSON)

skill usage flow

• Skill button pressed
• Used
  • New usage
  • Target
  • Fail if user activating a skill
  • Fail if skill cooling down
  • Cooldown
  • Publish & emit "skill_used"
  • Pay costs
  • Append to active list
  • Activate

Skills perform their function on their user and target, but they are also applied to their target's applied_skills, a list of skill usages.

structure

logic

end

A skill naturally ends after completion. After all the keywords are complete, the skill will complete.

A skill prematurely ends if it is removed (the remove keyword targets applied skills) or reapplied (a duplicate skill ends earlier instances of the skill then is applied normally).

When a skill ends for any reason, all keywords must also end.