Development plans

Canonical development plans

These have been recovered from the original developers' planning files.

Cities and Dungeons

• Proposed cities
• Proposed worlds

Monsters

• Proposed monsters

Subsystems

• Mounts

Version Requirements

Minimum requirements per 0.01 release increment.

Every version must henceforth include one new feature from every one of these categories:

• fountain effects
• banana jokes
• special monsters
• special items
• special materials
• Monty Python jokes
• insults
• diseases

Every other version is ok for these:

• traps
• states other than diseases

(source: CVS doc/Work/Version Requirements)

Pro-canonical plans

Canonical plans suggested after the departure of the original devs.

IvanCon plans

These plans were determined by the J_Kahvi and the IVAN community at the first IvanCon:

• Player mood system with HUD graphics for facial expressions (like DooM)
  • Graphics are ready (Ernomouse has them)
  • various levels of panic (morale paniced <-> psycho)
  • Berzerk mood
  • Animated face of the player
  • when high on mushroom, new face
  • One for every mood

• Male and female chars are different
• Sex

Magic system

• • ESP/telekinesis kind, no fireballs and other cliches (ex. lift a sword and use it to attack)
  • Shouldn't be based on Mana (something else than mana-point based system)
  • eg. travel through walls but no objects can be carried/worn, player leaves his body and inventory behind and turns into a ghost, should the body rot if you're away too long?
• ghost items
• amulet of astral projection
  • magical mushroom gas could result in Astral projection
• if mana drops low, it'd cause bizarre things
• eaten items could enhance spells (Nethack?)

Sleep

• the player will have to sleep
• dreams
  • the player could gain things from dreams
  • affect food burning rate; Affect stats; Affect item spawning rate
  • finding spells only from the dreams
  • dream world

• Dig up or down (Escaping up/downwards)

• A new quest
  • Retrieve a hammer from the catacombs
  • Smith gives you a key to petruses wives
  • Sex with one of them -> pregnancy (3 days?); What if you're female?
  • Sacrifice the child and become Valpuri's champ
  • If groin gets scarred a lot, you might get infertile (Magical way of restoring fertility)
  • Probably Petruses children could be sacrificed instead, as a harder guest

• Player classes
  • Might not be needed

• More comments to the code are needed
  • Someone should write a guide to code files

• There is a power chart for balancing weapons
  • Accuracy, power, sturdiness
  • Frequency of appearance is used to balance the power
  • Add features -> play testing

• Steppingstone material between meteorite steel adamantine
  • The int requirement takes a huge leap

• Every weapon class should have an artifact
  • More special items would be nice too (f.ex. flaming sword)
  • WIP --Red kangaroo (talk) 17:13, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

• Trophy items and NPC's for people who contribute a lot to IVAN (there are plenty of examples already)

• Different types of damage
  • Slash, point, blunt, burn
  • Variance between different weapons
  • Works diffeerently on f.ex. armour

• Ranged weapons would get more reasonable to have
  • sling for blunt
  • bow for point

• Items and limbs made of f.ex. gas
  • A weapon: "Fan"
  • Steam powered Vacuum cleaner (effective against ghosts, insects, thrown items)

• Monsters could be put into items
  • Iron maiden, Cage traps
  • The problem is to make the charachter disappear
  • Could be handled as f.ex. traps?

• A cloud of insects (fireflies, locusts?)
  • The catacombs could have lots of insects

• You could have a conversation with the gods

• Ighalli's god system
  • effects should be balanced somehow, so that better effects need better relations
  • bad effects
  • god requesting an offer for some favours
  • lifestyle choises could effect god relations

• blood contains a lot of iron

• Ghosts that disenchant items
• Ghost that eats anything in the way
• Invisible chars leave invis. ghosts

• Chaostroms Zombie torso riddance idea
  • Limit the torso animation rate to third or quarter of what it is now
  • When the groin is severed, the torso cannot turn into a zombie any more

• Convert all graphics to 32x32 (J_Kahvi could probably do it)
  • Opens possibilities to f.ex. turning into a big monster??
  • Would double the objects available
  • midget objects
  • wand of object enlargement
  • Midget tunnels and dungeons (Gulliver)
  • Create new midget monsters from the existing 16x16 graphics
  • midgets handle as groups, so you'd attack all the midgets in one square, they still could move freely about

• Individual throwing accuracy for all items

• Moods on the dungeon ("quite like underground weather")
  • magical weather, tiring weather, hungering weather

• Too much mining would collapse the level above (Dwarf Fortress style)
• generate not only the level you enter, but the ones next to it
• The catacombs should have a different algorithm than the GC and UT

• Spreading fire which generates smoke
  • Smoke clouds should have a intensity modifier
  • In towers and towns wind should blow away the smoke and spread the fire
  • Insects could act as clouds that move randomly
• Beehive that grows... O god!
  • bug room
  • makes a nice practice thing

• Side dungeons that go sideways

Monty Python

• llamas
• dead parrot
• the killer rabbit
  • a little chance of a killer rabit spawning from adult mutant rabbits mating
• witches that weigh the same as a duck
  • duck flesh and witch flesh

Dungeon types

• Tower dungeon
  • very open levels
  • wind, going against the wind would be taxing or slowing
  • illusions of f.ex. floor tiles
  • you should be able to escape the tower by jumping outside
  • if the player walks on a floor made of air then he will fall down a level, until he hits something solid
  • Damage based on falling distance
  • can't progress backwards
  • wind blow would affect large and unencumbered creatures more
  • if you jump or fly, you'd automatically get blown a certain amount with the wind
  • this way small creatures could find secret dungeons
  • tower made of balsa
  • if the player weighs too much, the floor breaks
  • For a cloack you could wear a Dwarven parachute, which radically decreases falling damage

• Small alien side dungeon
  • Based on the frenchmen's alien mod

• Astral projection dungeon
  • only accessible as a ghost
  • astral projections could carry only one item
  • only one revard could be brought outside, in case the side quest would be accessible only once
  • wizard hiding from something in an astral plane
  • his body is f.ex. suspended into a nearby statue
  • constantly exploding level as the entrance
  • explosions triggering every moment
  • ghosts could be immune to explosions
  • ghosts could move between levels without stairs (see digging up and down)

• Midget dungeon

Monsters

• Wand using monster
• Poltergeist monster
• Insect cloud monstertype that you cannot attack by normal melee attack

Items

• Fan (blows away insects and ghosts)
• Steampowered vacuum cleaner (sucks in insects and ghosts)
  • Instead of steam powered, it could be basically just a captured Eddie; when it breaks, the Eddy comes out...
• Wand of unlocking / locking (closes unlocked and unlocks the closed doors)
• Dwarven parachute
• Rubber boots that boost electricy resistance
• HUGE morningstar type weapon
• weapons destroying walls? You can kick them...

• Weapon tweaks
  • The stethoscope is a bit strong as a weapon
  • Gauntlets don't use unarmed skill (if they're wielded as weapons, maybe they shouldn't either)
  • Wielded gloves should affect unarmed skill and worn gauntlets should do extra damage

Four Mountains

• By JKahvi
• More here.

Later community development plans

These plans are a combination of current developers' plans and ideas by community.

SquashMonster's legendary thread

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Individual developers

• Plans by fejoa
• Plans by red kangaroo

Done

• holy hand grenade

• Ghosts apperance could vary
  • Appearance saved when dying
  • Blue and small transparence

• Should full helmets dampen sound
  • The less dense a material is, the better sound barrier it is

• Shops shouldn't have locked doors without warning
  • when the shop is put into a room, change the locked doors next to it into unlocked ones

Scrapped

• Another route to Attnam might be nice [SCRAPPED IDEA]
  • Not sure if it's necessary, as there already are alternate ways

Important links

• General ideas thread