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Right now, game only has one hardcoded map with customizable scale. But obviously things shouldnt stay the same.
While general idea should remain the same - all maps must be flat (due to how game's core mechanics work. I've tried to tinker with heights, but didnt find a stable way to provide hitboxes consistency, in that case - too much will depend on vertical size of creature and height projectile's flight) there are plenty of things that could be made to spice up gameplay (obstacles and spawners, walls and different visual map styles). Thus, for game to reach 0.1 milestone (e.g first release), it should have at least some barebones map loading mechanism, which will be further improved during later development stages.

Thus far, I see 3 ways to achieve this:

1. Pre-generated maps made with blender.

   Pros:

   • Go-to access to 3d objects
   • Can see how it will look in game right away

   Cons:

   • Require third party software and basic 3d modeling skills, thus hard to use if we would want to have user-created content

2. Kaggen. E.g tiled map generation mechanism, that works similar to one from King Arthurs Gold - map's layout is drawn as png image, then for each pixel of specified color on specified position (image size works as map size), we spawn specified tile/object/etc.

   Pros:

   • Easy to draw

   Cons:

   • Would require some work to write loader script without relying on third party libraries
   • For each new color-object relation, manual loader modification will be required
   • No simple way to declare requirement to put decoration above floor level

3. Map editor + formatted json (to store items placement information)

   Pros:

   • Format would be as flexible as necessary
   • Isnt tied to tiles or heights - all objects can have any x, y, h position

   Cons:

   • Requirement to manually write map editor for the game

All of these should be investigated, in order to determine development direction to take

Say, with nuitka. This way, I believe, it will be a bit easier to share it and play - no need for user to tinker with dependencies, no need for us to pack python with game. Plus it may improve performance... I think?

Either via setup.py with Requirements.txt or via pyproject.toml. Because right now installation process require few extra steps which isnt really convenient