Anime Mayhem RPG Project
Development Stuff

Character's age group.

Provides different levels of skill maturation and learning. Each has their strengths and weaknesses in terms of specialization, learning, skill variety, age discrimination, etc.

The various character classes.

Classes tend to tie to various skills unless a class is skill-neutral. Other classes are specializations. The choice of character age group plays an important factor to available classes when creating a new character.

Character gender.

Some quest lines may be based on social circles and gender plays a major role.

A symbol with no schema will not persist any game data. For a symbol to represent any game data, either constant or changeable, it needs to define a schema.

Existing schemas may be combined to form aggregate schemas but each schema will only combine once to prevent cycles.

Classdef Declaration:
CLASS WITH MEMBER PREFIX pfx [DESCENDING [DEEP]];

Because symbols must be unique the classdef mechanism uses a class prefix system. Effective member names (in evaluations at game time) don't include these prefixes. Names that are the same after the prefix is removed are considered to be the same member by the inheritence mechanism. suitable thought to prefixes should be chosen so that classes that can utilize inheritence do not run into problems due to potential duplicate symbol names in the future.

Tautologies:
The simplest classdef is one that has a classdef declaration (above) but no schemas. Classes of this form will treat the child symbols as evaluating to true in expressions (class.zzz will evaluate false if zzz does not exist). If the class is part of a descent network this mechanism supports inheritence.

Inheritence is checkpointed to provide control of where it occurs in the knowledge base since global inheritence would be grossly inefficient.

The DESCENDING keyword marks the top level of an inheritence network. Any class symbol contained that is also DESCENDING will continue the chain to that symbol's children. Add the keyword modifier DEEP to make the inheritence unconditionally available to all descendants. Please note that too many deeply descending networks may cause reduced performance to knowledge base processing.

Enumerations:
WITH ENUMERATION MyEnum;

Declares an enumeration. The symbol pfxMyEnum (where pfx is the class prefix) should exist as a child of the class defining the enumeration and its children form the enumeration.

Help for documenting the data types recognized by the system (thus available) for schemas is under construction.

Emotion vectors are points in emotion space. Currently this is based on Robert Plutchik's emotional model: http://www.fractal.org/Bewustzijns-Besturings-Model/Nature-of-emotions.htm

Vectors are formed by making each primary emotion a dimension of the vector. Since there are eight primary emotions this results in an eight-space.

Each component of this vector has a range of [0,1].

Emotions can be identified with points in the emotion space and a nearest-neighbour (shortest distance aka Pythagorean theorem) method can be used to find the closest matching defined emotion.

Used by the AI and story.

Moods and feelings.

The various value labels that describe an automaton's value system. Values of a given NPC depend on the character, role, personality, etc. and compatibility to other values perceived in other characters.