This project is a retro to JRPG and Go series of Puzzle. I'm very ambitious for it. It can be modified to a pure puzzle, a dungeon RPG, a TRPG and more. Many systems are built for later iterations.

▪   In terms of Design, get inspired by Lara Croft Go and Into the Breach, I was thinking about creating more connections between items. At the same time, I was trying to keep the game simple in input.

▪   In terms of Programming, When I was dealing with those item connections, interface is very helpful to make multi-behaviors.

▪   To make the level design easier, I spent part of time on level design tool, so that I could edit the level staticly in editor before running.

▪   For UI design, I realized UMG can be nested and reusable. By creating customized event dispatcher, the same UI component can have different behaviors when it's resused.

▪   To make the game both static and dynamic, or say closed for finished levels and open for new level design, the system supports both reading data from a datatable or from current level layout.

▪   I'm still thinking about Synergy and Emergent Gameplay. With this project, I guess I'm closer to the essential of elegant system design.

▪   There is a hard decision: Can player move when an item is activating and moving?

      Plan A: To confine movement, so there will be less unexpected bugs. But there will be less gameplay possibility as well.
      Plan B: To give players freedom, so it will be more likely to have emergent gameplay. But more bugs are there.

Due to time and energy, I chose Plan A so far. But in the future, I will try Plan B.