announce #6
Title: | Character Creation and Hollows |
Author: | Pallas |
Date: | June 25, 2025, 3:41 a.m. |
Today, I didn't do anything like I planned for yesterday. Instead, I worked on the character creation and player hollow commands. When a new character is created, a personal room they own called the Character's Hollow is created within the Aisling (it's a tree hollow). This room connects to an inner room called the Character's Dreamhouse. Here, the player can name and describe the room using the room command. They can also expand in any standard direction from this room, provided they have enough room points. A player starts with one room point, and each expansion costs one room point. I haven't decided yet how players will gain additional room points, but it will likely be by leveling up or completing quests related to dream magic.
I also started a quest command for the player's quest log. I'm not happy with how quests and achievements overlap in weird ways (for example, some quest progression depends on earning an achievement, which has a cooldown before you can do it again, and the quest has a separate cooldown. It's a bit extra). I want to simplify this.
Tomorrow, I might spend some time cleaning up before continuing with a "day in the life of Marianne," or I might proceed with character creation, including organizing the help system to make it more accessible for new players.