Guidelines

The Player

• Should have global objects for $items, $events, $stats, and $skills that any story could modify
• Should be nameless, gender-neutral

Player Inventory

• Global inventory items should be of the form global-item-name
• Per-story inventory items should be of the form user-item-name
• To pick up an item, use the <<action "Get {item}">>
• To check if a player has already retrieved an item, either check the
• $items['NAME'] value or check "visited("Get NAME")"
• An item can be added to the global items hash with the following $items['NAME'] = VALUE
• A unique item, like "gearbox" or "sword", will have VALUE of true
• When a unique items is used up or destroyed, set its value to false
• Generic items that the player can have many of, like "gold" or "smallKey", will have a numerical value

Player Stats and Skills

• Are persistent between stories
• Are stored as $stat.{name} = {value} $skill.{name} = {value}

The Hub

• Should heal the player
• Should be able to tell the player their stats/skills

Rules for all stories

• All stories should have a path that leads back to the hub
• Stories can NOT kill the player ** Alternately, we could allow player death to 'port them to the Hub
• Stories should not cause the player to lose or use up global objects ** An exception to this could be gold or money
• Should not decrease a stat or skill