TODO list

first priorities

first drafts of systems
- natural world
  - agriculture
- tools
  - block breaking, holding, placing
procedural generation
- as concrete as possible
  - no "biome" artificial construct, things should be gradients
    - different blocks are generated at different temperature/moisture/??? values
    - temperature
    - moisture
      - water would require some kind of fluid simulation, maybe model off of dwarf fortress?
      - ground moisture for plants
  - natural features
    - multi-block objects
      - though it is a voxel system, not everything should be a voxel - think large rocks, trees that fall down when cut, etc
smart entities
- hierarchical state machines are probably the way to go for AI

gui + interactivity
- kind of bundled into one. a goal for this project is avoiding overwhelming, confusing UI in other sandbox games like dwarf fortress, factorio, even minecraft's ui can be confusing at times
  - this means minimalism, but not hiding information
  - a factor in game design decisions should be avoiding the need for a new menu or UI element in the first place
- a big part of the game I'm envisioning is AI which can interact with the world in the same way the player can, and vice versa
  - this means believable, well-defined, predictable, interesting systems
  - this also means actions need to take place visually, within the world, rather than inside a GUI
- this is a second priority because I want to create a convincing world before all else.
animation FSMs
ramps redo
- IDEA: use 2 parameters, 6-way direction (one of -x, +x, ... +z) and 4 corners values in range [0.0, 1.0]. then you can check bbox collide and LERP entity position to determine collision!
- art for this is problematic, solve art issue before implementing
'knowledge and skill' system rather than some kind of tech tree
- reading books, observing someone complete a task, being taught, etc. will give you knowledge in a task
reputation and impressions instead of directly choosing roles
- NPCs remember how you have interacted in the past
- how you present yourself has an impact on how you are viewed by NPCs