Potential

A web app version of our game, Potential.

Initialy the app will be used mainly for playtesting the game itself, but we're aiming to make a proper web app of it, and eventually an Android app.

Design Brief

0.1.0

Barest Essentials The game at this stage should include the following features/capabilities:

• Basic board
• Basic pieces
  • Distinct pieces as individual instances
  • Display current charge
• Piece movement (no restrictions on movement at this time)
• Manual charge transfer
• Piece removal (manual only at this time)
• Game reset
• Board type setting
• Max charge setting
• Tutorial

0.2.0

User friendly The game at this stage should include the following features/capabilities beyond or instead of those introduced previously:

• Display available moves remaining on active piece
• Player turn rotation
  • Active player is clearly displayed
  • Active player can only move their own pieces
  • Automatic Entropic edge check at start of turn
• Piece locking
  • All of a player's pieces available until first move is taken
  • Only active piece is availble after that
  • Active and inactive pieces are clearly marked
• Undo move (enable undoing last move all the way back to start of turn)
• Movement restriction
  • Automatically check for, and mark, available spaces
  • Use different marks for jumps and slides
  • Only allow movement to marked spaces
• Automatic charge transfer
• Automatic piece removal
• Automatic win screen
• Updated tutorial

1.0.0

Playtester The game at this stage should include the following features/capabilities beyond or instead of those introduced previously:

• Variable setups
• Variable win conditions
• Variant selection
• Variant tutorials

1.1.0

AI game The game at this stage should include the following features/capabilities beyond or instead of those introduced previously:

• Play against AI

1.2.0

Android app The game at this stage should include the following features/capabilities beyond or instead of those introduced previously:

• Available on Android

1.3.0

Online game The game at this stage should include the following features/capabilities beyond or instead of those introduced previously:

• Player accounts
• Online play
• Asynchronous play
• Invite a friend play
• Matchmaking
• Score boards

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