[Arianne-general] Gladiators Server/Client detailed description

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I expose here the idea hidden on the graphic that I send yesterday.
Hope it help to point out problems better.

Title  : Implementation walkthrough
Info   : Description of how we are going to implement it
Keyword: basic, design, game, rp, idea
Author : Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin
Created: 2003/12/30
status : planning

Let's describe a common session and along it we describe how each part is 
implemented.

1) Player starts the game and click on the Start button.
   Common login-character procedure follow as in SimpleGame.

   RuleProcessor.onInit
     {
     Player[_joined]=""
     add Player to Zone
     }

2) We are now on the main screen, and the client would have showed that a 
new player have joined.

   RuleProcessor.nextTurn
     {
     foreach Player do
       {
       foreach Attribute
         {
         if (start with "_")
           {
           remove Attribute
           }
         }
       }
     }

   We are seeing now in zone the next set of objects.

   Zone
     {
     Object /* The heroes house is the shop in Gladiators */
       {
       name="Heroes' House"
       type="shop"
       Slots
         {
         Gladiators
           {
           Object
             {
             type="Gladiator";
             ...
             }
           Object
             {
             type="Gladiator";
             ...
             }
           Object
             {
             type="Gladiator";
             ...
             }
           }
         Items
           {
           Object
             {
             type="sword";
             ...
             }
           Object
             {
             type="shield";
             ...
             }
           }
         }
       }

     Object /*  The arena where fighting happens */
       {
       name="Arena"
       type="arena"

       status="waiting"
       gladiators="[]"
       waitingGladiators="0"
       }

     Object
       {
       type="player"
       name="miguel"
       fame="100"
       Slots
         {
         Gladiators
           {
           Object
             {
             type="Gladiator"
             ...
             }
           }
         Items
           {
           }
         }
       }

     Object
       {
       type="player"
       name="root777"
       fame="100"
       Slots
         {
         Gladiators
           {
           Object
             {
             type="Gladiator"
             ...
             }
           }
         Items
           {
           }
         }
       }
     }

   Well, a bit legnthy, but that would be the real content of a Zone that is 
just with two players, and none of them has requested to fight.
   As I have said, we will consider buy action on a later revision, so our 
players already comes with a gladiator to fight.

3) There are two possible actions now:
   · Equip
   · Request fight

3.1) TODO: Equip command
   This command is scheduled for next revision.
   Goto to 3

3.2) Request fight
   The player MUST click on the glowing sword on the right side of the 
window.
   Then the REQUEST FIGHT action is scheduled.

   RequestFight
     {
     Gladiator
     }

   On server we would have:

   RuleProcessor.Request Fight
     {
     arena=get Arena from Zone
     if(arena[status] is WAITING && arena[gladiators].size < 
GLADIATORS_PER_FIGHT)
       {
       player[status]="onArena"
       arena[gladiators].add gladiator
       }
     else
       {
       player[requestedFight]=turn
       arena[waitingGladiators]=arena[waitingGladiators]+1;
       }
     }

   The basic translation to common english is: "If the arena is waiting for 
fighters and there are no still enough fighters for the fight to begin, then 
add ourselves to the fight, else put us on the waiting queue".

   RuleProcessor.NextTurn
     {
     if arena[gladiators].size==GLADIATORS_PER_FIGHT
       {
       arena[status]=FIGHTING
       }

     foreach arena[gladiators]
       {
       gladiator[status]="onFight"
       }
     }

4) Once that arena status is fighting, can happen two things:
   · You are fighting
   · You are watching

4.1) You are fighting
   You have at the side of your character 3 buttons.
   · FULL Attack
   · FULL Defense
   · Dogde

   You can cast the action to change the way of fighting of your player.
   That will be initially to FULL Defense.

   FightMode
     {
     Gladiator
     Mode
     }

   RuleProcessor.nextTurn
     {
     if(arena[status]==FIGHTING)
       {
       /* Resolve this turn combat */
       Roll dices for each Gladiator
       GladiatorsPlaying=0;
       foreach gladiator
         {
         if(gladiator[status]=="onFight")
           {
           GladiatorsPlaying++
           Compute damages based on Ragnar's Doc for the rest of Gladiators

           if(gladiator[hp]<=0)
             {
             gladiator[status]="onDefeat"
             }
           }
         }

       if(GladiatorsPlaying==1)
         {
         arena[status]=REQUEST FAME

         foreach gladiator
           {
           arena[fame]=SUM gladiators[fame]

           if(gladiator[status]=="onFight")
             {
             gladiator[status]="onVictory"

             arena[winner]=gladiator[id]
             arena[timeout]="60"
             arena[thumb_up]=0
             arena[thumb_down]=0
             arena[fame]=arena[fame]-gladiator[fame]
             }
           }
         }
       }
     }

5) Requesting Fame
   When client see on Arena the REQUEST FAME status, he/she is presented a 
screen to vote for the result of the combat.
   The more thumbs up, the best the combat has been and so the more fame you 
are awarded. On the other side if combat has been really boring, you will 
see lots of thumbs and you will recieve a small amount of fame instead.
   Basically the process is control in the arena with a timeout value.

   Zone
     {
     ...
     Object /*  The arena where fighting happens */
       {
       name="Arena"
       type="arena"

       status="REQUEST FAME"
       winner="miguel"
       thumb_up=0
       thumb_down=0
       timeout="60"
       gladiators="[miguel|root777]"
       waitingGladiators=...
       }
     }

   RuleProcessor.Vote
     {
     if(NOT exist player[vote])
       {
       if(exists action[thumb_up])
         {
         arena[thumb_up]=arena[thumb_up]+1
         }

       if(exists action[thumb_down])
         {
         arena[thumb_down]=arena[thumb_down]+1
         }

       player[vote]=""
       }
     }

   RuleProcessor.nextTurn
     {
     if(arena[status]==REQUEST FAME)
       {
       if(arena[timeout]>0)
         {
         arena[timeout]=arena[timeout]-1
         }
       else
         {
         arena[status]=WAITING
         arena[gladiators]="[]"

         if(arena[waitingGladiators]>0)
           {
           Choose new fighters
           }

         Assign fame to winner

         foreach player
           {
           remove vote
           }
         }
       }
     }

4.2) You are watching combat
   Well, just that, you are only watching it.

Things that are left away on this analysis
------------------------------------------

1) If player is playing and exists we have to remove it from the queue.

   RuleProcessor.onExit
     {
     if(exist player[requestedFight])
       {
       arena[waitingGladiators]--;
       }
     ...
     }

   RuleProcessor.onTimeout
     {
     if(exist player[requestedFight])
       {
       arena[waitingGladiators]--;
       }
     ...
     }

2) Attributes of Gladiators have been deliveratedly ignored.
   They depend on the doc that Ragnar should follow soon.

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