Gameworld and Gameplay Guide

Dungeon Map#

The map represents the game world and is one of the central services in our microservice dungeon game.

For a more comprehensive overview of the game world please refer to the Map Service

It consists of several planets, connected with other neighbouring planets.

Dungeon Example

Planets#

Our dungeon consists of planets, where each planet has an UUID and is directly connected to its neighbouring planets.

As player you only know the existence of the planets you have been in, and which are neighbours these planets. You discover a planet and its neighbours by moving a robot onto this planet. (There is no fog of war, ich you wanted to you could monitor the movement of all robots, not only your own and generate a map from that information. Please don't do this.)

A robot can only move to a neighbouring planet. (Exception granted for special items.)

There can be several robots one a planet, with no upper limit.

You can only see the contents of the planet you are currently in. The contents of a planet are revealed when a robot enters the Planet. ( Again by listening to all robots you could potentially get updates to all entered Planets. Do not do it, this is not fair gameplay)

Mining Resources#

Resources are a central part of the microservice dungeon. It brings economical value into the gameplay. Each resource can be mined by robots and later sold for moneten 💸. Mining speed and such is determined by your robots upgrade level.

Mineable Resources#

There are five different kinds of mineable resources

Value	Name	Price
COAL	Coal	5
IRON	Iron	15
GEM	Gem	30
GOLD	Gold	50
PLATIN	Platin	60

After every mining of a resource field the player which has mined said planet gets notified of the remaining number of resources.

Resources-"patches" on a planet can be depleted.

Upon depletion a new resource spawns at a random location on the map.

If a robot mines with a full Inventory, all mined resources are lost to space.

Multiple robots can mine at the same planet and the same resource spot, with no upper limit.

Space stations and Trading#

Space stations are a special type of planet, which can be seen as trading and spawn posts. You can also sell resources for moneten and buy several upgrades. There is also a simulated economy, so all prices change during the game.

You can buy:

New Robots (you don't have to be on a space station to buy a new robot)
Robot Upgrades
Special Items
Energy Restoration
HP Restoration

The costs for HP Restoration depend on the Level of that Robots Max HP independent of how much HP you are actually repairing. Same goes for Energy Restoration and Max Energy Level.

You can only repair a robot to max HP.

Buying robots can be done globally. It will then spawn on random space station. When buying a new Robot it will spawn on a random space station.

Each Robot can hold an unlimited number of Special Items.

For a technical overview and all possible trading transactions please refer to Trading

Robots#

The player interacts with the whole The Microservice Dungeon through robots. Your player is sending commands to the game service, which is relaying these commands to the robot. Following these commands the Robot can move around, fight stuff, mine resources, and much more.

A robot has a pool of HP, that you need to survive attacks and a pool of energy, that is used to perform all actions.

The robots have an unlimited inventory, where special items can be stored. Additionally the robots have a second limited inventory, where mined resources are stored.

Each robot can perform up to one action per game round! Your most current command to a robot is overwriting every predating command.

Lastly the every robot has several stats that can individually be upgraded by buying upgrades from space station. These Stats are for example size of energy pool or attack power or mining speed etc. By using these upgrades, you can either specialize your robots or have an army of low level "zombies".

Movement#

Each robot can only move one planet each turn (some special items like "wormhole" cause exceptions).

There are different types of gravity on each planet, where it gets more difficult to moving through these planets.

Gravity	Energy Costs
Easy	1
Medium	2
Hard	3

As an example: Moving from an easy gravity planet to a neighbouring medium gravity planet costs 1 energy. The startpoint not target determines the energy costs.

Fighting#

As soon as you enter another planet with your robot, you get the information of how many other robots are on that planet. If you stay on a planet, you don’t get information about other robots leaving the planet

Here you can choose whether you want to engage in a fight with that player or choose to be peaceful.

In battle following rules apply

As with all action every player can only do one attack per turn. That means either one normal attack or the use of one Special Item
First all damage Dealt gets calculated, then all damage received. That means even when you get destroyed you will still have dealt damage that turn.
When a robot is destroyed all its resources are equally divided between all other robots in that planet
If a robot has full cargo and cannot carry its share of resources they will again be distributed among the remaining robots with free cargo space
If there is not enough space anywhere to carry the dropped resources they will be lost to space

Blocking#

You can build barricades to stop other players from leaving the planet.

Blockading costs 2 Energy + 10% of max energy capacity for every round the blockade is uphold
during a blockade robot can enter the planet but not leave it
blocking has to be renewed every round making it impossible for a robot to do anything else while blockading, as it counts as an Action
If a player tries to move through a blockade, it will still cost the energy that the move would have used. The Player would receive the event move unsuccessfully.

Game loop#

Each robot's action whether it is blocking, trading, moving, fighting or mining will be executed at the end of the corresponding phase of each round. A robot can only execute one action per round. A basic single round is 60 seconds, with the first 45 seconds for command collection, in which the players can send commands to their robots and 15 seconds for the command executions. The game service is the orchestrator of the game rhythm. The actual duration of the round length can be changed, but there is always a fix 3/4 of a round command collection time and 1/4 command execution time.

Actions of the same phase will be batched together and executed simultaneously for all robots in a phase in the following sequence order:

Blocking
Trading
Moving (with an item)
Moving (without an item)
Repairing
Battleing (with an item)
Battleing(without an item)
Mining
Regenerating

Repairing means buying a repair item at a space station.
Battleing (with an item) is executed before Battleing(without an item) so you could destroy someone who is attacking you with an item and in that case you don't suffer damage to your robot.
Regenerating: Robots have a limited energy pool, which is used for all actions. They can regenerate a part of their energy by using the action regenerate. This action does not require energy.