Let's make a game together.

I've recently started putting together an idea for a new game. I've also wanted to make time to do some writing, so why not do both? This is going to be the first part of a longer series about developing a browser game with Html5 and AngularJS. Most of it will serve as a way for me to keep my thoughts and ideas together and work out problems. We'll learn how to do this together.

First, here's a list of all the ideas I want to contain in this project:

• It's a roguelike-ish dungeon crawler, run on JavaScript and drawn to the canvas. Player data can be stored on Firebase.
• There will be multiplayer elements, but wont be a 'multiplayer game'. There will be a common lobby for all active players to trade and sell items, but players will be dungeon crawling alone.
• I like the idea of possibly/randomly finding another player's corpse with their loot.
• Maybe have 2 chat channels. One for the lobby, one for global chat. Or, at least add player-to-player messaging.
• Put a shop in the lobby, but markup the prices. 
• Dungeons are procedurally generated, increasing in size, difficulty, and reward with depth. There's a LOT of room for creativity here, in terms of adding things to be generated.
• Loot is also randomly generated. All equipable items (weapons, armor, boots, helmet, accessories) can be randomly enchanted or cursed. There should also be sets of unidentified items.
• Players will have some basic stats to manage, but once they die, they lose their stats, inventory, and level progress.

On one hand, it's kind of a lot of stuff to work out. On the other hand, most of it will be generated content, so it's more a matter of making a couple really good generators first, and tie them together with a good UI. Granted, that's still a huge oversimplification, but those are going to be what drive this game so it's a good place to start. In the next post, I'll start setting up the project and outlining the general flow and design of the game.