<p>Playground Wars game design document</p>
<h1>Plot</h1>
<p>The girls have taken over the playground and the boys had to retreat to their tree house. Now they are planning a daring counter-attack!</p>
<h1>Factions</h1>
<ul>
<li>The two factions are boys and girls</li>
<li>You take the role of the boys</li>
</ul>
<h1>Resources</h1>
<ul>
<li>Candy is the only resource</li>
<li>Adults are candy harvesting points</li>
</ul>
<h1>Units</h1>
<ul>
<li>Each faction has two units, one fighter and one supplier</li>
<li>Units can be given the order to move, no other orders are possible</li>
</ul>
<h2>Supplier</h2>
<ul>
<li>The supplier is a low-health, fast-movement unit</li>
<li>The boy’s and girl’s supplier units are identical, except for the way they look</li>
<li>The supplier can beg to adults for candy</li>
<li>The supplier cannot fight</li>
<li>Suppliers do not react when attacked</li>
</ul>
<h2>Fighter</h2>
<ul>
<li>The boy’s fighter is a low-health, low-damage, medium-movement-speed, medium-attack-speed unit</li>
<li>The boy’s fighter has an attack range of 280 pixels</li>
<li>The girl’s fighter is a high-health, high-damage, fast-movement-speed, slow-attack-speed unit</li>
<li>The girl’s fighter has an attack range of 30 pixels</li>
<li>A fighter’s line of sight is 300 pixels</li>
</ul>
<h1>Mechanics</h1>
<p>The basic game mechanics are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Moving</li>
<li>Begging (harvesting resources)</li>
<li>Recruiting units</li>
<li>Fighting and dying</li>
<li>Winning and loosing</li>
</ul>
<h2>Moving</h2>
<ul>
<li>Units will only move if the designated position is passable/reachable</li>
<li>Moving units will ignore enemies and won’t attack and won’t harvest</li>
<li>If a moving unit runs into an obstacle (another unit) it will re-calculate the path to it’s destination and walk the new path or stop if the aim is not reachable</li>
</ul>
<h2>Begging</h2>
<ul>
<li>When a supplier stands next to parents (100px radius) it will beg for candy</li>
<li>Every five seconds of begging give the respective faction ten candy resources</li>
<li>Suppliers can’t beg while moving</li>
</ul>
<h2>Recruiting units</h2>
<ul>
<li>The player presses one of two buttons, which will make a unit appear next to the headquarters</li>
<li>The girls will spawn a knight every 50 seconds (if they have enough candy) near their headquarters, this unit will be ordered to move to the boy’s headquarters</li>
</ul>
<h2>Fighting</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fighters will always attack their nearest enemy (inside the line of sight) this means they will go close enough to the enemy to attack it and then attack it</li>
<li>When enemies leave the fighter’s line of sight, they will not be followed</li>
</ul>
<h2>Dying</h2>
<ul>
<li>When a unit dies, it’s image is replaced by an image of the same unit in a dead form, after five seconds the unit disappears from the map</li>
</ul>
<h2>Winning</h2>
<ul>
<li>When the girls have zero units, you win</li>
</ul>
<h2>Loosing</h2>
<ul>
<li>When you have zero units, you loose</li>
</ul>
<p>6. Controls</p>
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