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Add explanation about the game along the lines of:

Nesssarose is the proprietor and head cook for the Wicked Witch of the West Bed and Breakfast and Bar-B-Que (WWW B&B&BBQ). She has been plagued by globlins coming up from the cellar and stealing things: historical artifacts, spare change, her prizewinning recipes. Eventually, enough is enough and she heads down into the extensive (possibly infinite) cellars to retrieve her things and teach the globlins a lesson."

"Property is theft, especially when it's someone else's property in your possession."

Examining the wall (with the up arrow) has a chance to reveal things:

• Under a cracked brick: possible secret door, more likely to be a room
• Next to a mossy brick: water or healing
• Under a spider web: ???

Strip a lot of the code out of the Game state and put into Character and PlayerControl objects. Monsters and the Player should both be able to use Character, but if needed create a subclass. Might need a Monster control class for the AI to use?

Re-do door illustration. Pressing 'up' on a door takes you through it. Doors can lead to corridors (basically just like the existing corridor), or into rooms. Rooms have one thing to interact with, then the down button takes you back out.

• Cimim: looks like a monster, but is just a chest with loot. Has a health bar, but if destroyed, no loot. Using insta-BBQ in a room hurts Nessarose too. Up button opens chest for looting.
• Rat Catcher: She's down here and has found a few things that might be worth buying. She always has dead rats and live rats for sale (and her own pair of pet rats), but may have any other non-unique item available for sale.

• Player health
• Monster health
• Inventory
• Information about monsters and events
• How many goals have been achieved

When a monster attacks, some descriptive text should be shown, but it isn't there.

• Background music
• Monster attacks
• Take damage
• Player attacks
• Player dies

The physics engine is overkill for this game. Use Time.physicsElapsed and Sprite.data.velocity (always x-velocity for now) to calculate movement consistently. For thrown objects it may make sense to still give them physics.

Character sprites:

• Hero
• Owlpig
• Hand Flayer
• Bearicorn
• Ochre Cube
• Umber Couch
• Globlin
• Beerholder

Item sprites:

• Spell/scrolls
• Lever
• Wedge
• Gear
• Sundial
• Screw Pump
• Compass
• Spinning Wheel
• Antikythera mechanism
• Steam engine

Effects and Missiles

• BBQ spell
• Thrown glob (from globlins)
• Coins from umber couch

Background

• Floor
• Ceiling
• Door, open
• Door, closed
• Various walls
• Torches
• Rubble
• Pits
• Traps

Nessarose should have a default attack (kick) with it's own animation.

She should be able to upgrade this:

• Broom (any of several brooms) extends reach
• Bunion ointment: can kick harder, does more damage + stun

She can also have other weapons, which are expendable:

• Insta-BBQ, thrown, area effect, damage for a second or two
• Bus Ticket: Night Bus sweeps through corridor, destroying all monsters but not leaving loot

Just like monsters, the weapons should get their own file.

Rather than use her default attack, different keys should cause her to use items (if she has them):

b - broom (best current broom)
l - lever (or log?)
r - Use rat (bring pet rat out to play with, especially effective with the Bearicorn)

Make sure Nessarose can progress (and progressively get hurt) by moving from level to level. Right now she resets completely when we restart the level.

Now that the initial panic is over, let's think about how to make the monsters smarter.

• Implement wandering monsters
• Monsters move and attack, etc.
• Monsters take damage
• Player takes damage
• Monsters die
• Players die
• Loot monster

Each monster should be able to attack, in at least one way, but should also be able to do other things:

• Globlins steal and run away
• Umber couch: tempt you into going to sleep on it
• Bearicorn: heal you (especially if tempted with a pet rat)
• Ochre Cube: ???
• Hand flayer: ???