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-# Vale
-## Game Design Document
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-[!vale](./Assets/Concepts/file_00000000f5686230bb8eaf09d5e151fd.png)
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-### Core Concept
-A roguelike adventure game where players manage a caravan through an apocalyptic world, balancing cozy village preparation with urgent expeditions as cosmic horror threatens to consume everything.
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-### Genre & Inspirations
-- **Primary Genre:** Roguelike/Action-Adventure
-- **Inspirations:** Stardew Valley (village life), Monster Hunter (preparation), Oregon Trail (caravan travel), Dark Souls (combat), Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (expedition structure)
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-## Core Game Loop
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-### Phase 1: Village Preparation
-**Duration:** Player-controlled, but time pressure increases nightly
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-**Activities:**
-- Explore home village and surrounding biome
-- Complete fetch quests and resource gathering
-- Craft and upgrade equipment
-- Accept requisitions from local guild
-- Manage caravan supplies and crew
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-**Mechanics:**
-- Real-time day/night cycle
-- Relationship building with NPCs
-- Crafting system for gear and caravan upgrades
-- Resource management (food, materials, gold)
-
-### Phase 2: Expedition
-**Duration:** Variable based on requisition and player choices
-
-**Core Systems:**
-- **Caravan Management:** Real-time movement across procedurally generated wilderness
-- **Combat:** Action-based encounters with monsters and threats
-- **Survival:** Resource consumption, weather, terrain hazards
-- **Problem Solving:** Environmental puzzles (broken bridges, quicksand, etc.)
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-**Requisition Types:**
-- **Delivery:** Transport goods between settlements
-- **Hunting:** Eliminate specific monsters or threats
-- **Scouting:** Explore uncharted wilderness areas
-- **Urgent:** Combat cosmic horror manifestations
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-### Phase 3: Decision Point
-**Options:**
-1. **Return Home:** Teleport back to village, process rewards, full Phase 1 reset
-2. **Continue:** Accept new requisition from current location
-   - **In Cities:** Full selection of appropriate requisitions
-   - **In Wilderness:** Limited to scouting missions
-   - **In Frozen Zones:** Only urgent requisitions available
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-## Cosmic Horror System
-
-### The Eclipse Timeline
-- **Night 1:** New star appears in sky
-- **Night 2:** Star begins to eclipse
-- **Night 3:** Full eclipse achieved, first frozen circle appears
-- **Nights 4-6:** Circle expands across map, consuming settlements
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-### Frozen Zone Effects
-- **Towns:** NPCs become unresponsive, shops inaccessible
-- **Monsters:** Increased strength and aggression
-- **Environment:** Visual corruption, audio distortion
-- **Progression:** Circle grows steadily, making areas permanently inaccessible
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-### Victory Condition
-Players must complete urgent requisitions to fight through frozen zones and destroy the Eldritch horror at the circle's center before the map is fully consumed.
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-## Core Mechanics
-
-### Caravan System
-- **Mobile Base:** Rolling headquarters with upgradeable components
-- **Crew Management:** Hire specialists with unique abilities
-- **Supply Logistics:** Food, medicine, ammunition, repair materials
-- **Customization:** Armor plating, weapons, comfort upgrades
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-### Progression
-- **Character Skills:** Combat abilities, crafting expertise, social connections
-- **Caravan Upgrades:** Enhanced durability, speed, cargo capacity
-- **Knowledge Accumulation:** Map data, monster weaknesses, optimal routes
-- **Reputation:** Standing with various guilds and settlements
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-### Requisition System
-- **Difficulty Scaling:** Rewards and challenges increase with distance from home
-- **Location Dependency:** Available missions determined by current settlement type
-- **Time Pressure:** Eclipse progression affects mission availability and urgency
-- **Chain Opportunities:** Strategic route planning for multi-requisition runs
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-## Technical Considerations
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-### Procedural Generation
-- **Wilderness Maps:** Terrain, resources, encounters, weather patterns
-- **Settlement Variation:** Different guild offerings, NPC personalities, local specialties
-- **Threat Distribution:** Monster spawns, environmental hazards, cosmic manifestations
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-### Progression Persistence
-- **Between Runs:** Character knowledge, some equipment, unlocked settlements
-- **Within Runs:** Caravan upgrades, relationship progress, map exploration
-- **Cosmic Resets:** Eclipse completion triggers world state changes
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-### Difficulty Scaling
-- **Natural Progression:** Distance from home increases baseline challenge
-- **Time Pressure:** Eclipse advancement creates urgency without artificial timers
-- **Player Choice:** Risk/reward balance through requisition selection and route planning
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-## Art Direction
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-### Visual Themes
-- **Village Life:** Warm, cozy, pastoral aesthetic
-- **Wilderness:** Varied biomes with realistic but fantastical elements
-- **Cosmic Horror:** Progressive visual corruption, impossible geometries, color distortion
-- **Eclipse Progression:** Sky changes provide constant visual reminder of approaching doom
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-### Audio Design
-- **Ambient:** Natural sounds in wilderness, village life audio in settlements
-- **Combat:** Impactful weapon strikes, monster audio cues
-- **Cosmic Influence:** Distorted audio in frozen zones, building tension through sound design
-- **Music:** Dynamic scoring that responds to location type and eclipse progression
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-## Success Metrics
-
-### Player Engagement
-- **Session Length:** 6-night cycles create focused, completable experiences
-- **Replayability:** Multiple paths through procedural world, various strategies
-- **Skill Development:** Players improve at resource management, route planning, combat
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-### Emotional Arc
-- **Preparation Satisfaction:** Village phase provides calm planning and anticipation
-- **Expedition Tension:** Travel phase delivers challenge and discovery
-- **Cosmic Dread:** Eclipse progression creates escalating pressure without frustration
-- **Victory Relief:** Successfully stopping cosmic horror provides meaningful catharsis