Mission design questions

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• Assessments / achievements: Avoid seeing by anyone, etc
• Lights: Hide in the shadows
• Noise: Walk/run modes?
• Kill vs faint/paralyze/swap AI
• FOV cones for enemies?
• Weaponry: Ordinary melee -> noisy; piano wire -> silent; firearms -> noisy; arrows / blowdarts -> silent?

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• Failure conditions & rewards

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Design patterns (from Mengchen Hu):

• Ability and equipment (balance more towards equipment, have two cybernetic enhancement slots)
• Achievement
• Action posture (walk/run, show with e.g. brightness)
• Alert (for enemies h -> ? -> !, also global alert?)
• BG story
• Collection factor
• Difficulty selection (maybe not right now)
• Enemy type (just a handful)
• FOV (usually about 60 deg / 10 m)
• Hostage
• Light and shadow (probably a good idea)
• Mark (track routes)
• Neither damage nor moving actions (paralyze)
• Observation (routes)
• Obstacle (movable / immovable)
• Option (game style: kill / stun / avoid / bribe / hack; also plot)
• Patrol (of enemies)
• Sound (as detection factor -> yes)
• Statistics and assessment
• Trap (probably a good idea to have some)
• View of player (well, that's top-down)

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Branching & chaining of missions

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Pillars probably work really nicely with fov cones