STATES
game
	start menu
	ingame
		campfire
		event
	options

OBJECTS
	pcs
		StatusComponent
			morale
			health
			combat prowess
			hardiness
			location
			traits
			wealth
		BackgroundComponent
			name
			race
			home
		ArtComponent
			portrait
		OpinionComponent
			reputation
			opinions
	npcs
		same as pcs
	world
		nations
			leaders (type of NPC)
			demographics
				population
				culture
		settlements
		locations of interest
		paths
		artifacts
			name
			qualities


DESCRIPTION
	Fellowship has the intent of mimicking the feeling of adventure present in
	the Lord of the Rings novels by JRR Tolkien. Similar to games such as
	Oregon Trail or Kings of Dragon Pass. Gameplay loop is centered around
	managing your fellowship on the campfire screen between periods of time
	(days? weeks? whatever is appropriate) and the events that happen between
	them. Events will be handwritten but will happen randomly and differ
	depending on many factors such as your party, location, and prior events.
	It is in this way that travel is abstracted rather than directly player
	controller through movement keys. At the campfire players will keep track
	of their resources and manage things such as destination, travel speed,
	food consumption, and morale.

	The game will feature a lot of procedural generation to enhance
	replayability. For each new game, a world will be generated with
	settlements, locations of interest, and paths connecting these. Nations
	that rule over various areas of the world will be generated with unique
	culture and demographics. A number of NPCs will also be generated for
	possible recruitment, help, or conflict interaction. Finally,
	a struggle, villain, quest etc. will be generated for the player to work
	towards completing with his fellowship. The game world would continue to
	move on behind the player. As time passes, the generated nations may
	struggle with each other, or the villain may progress his plans. The large
	number of unique events combined with the procedural generation will
	hopefully generate a lot of emergent narrative to keep players attached.
	Randomly generated artifacts and treasures could either provide simple
	stat adjustments, or perhaps major changes. Undecided. At the very least
	they could act as event triggers.

	The game would also include preset campaigns. These campaigns would feature
	much less procedural generation, and much more likely certain events to
	happen. These would likely be modeled after existing works of fiction that
	follow this structure, such as The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings, allowing
	the player to experience that familiarity but experiment with how the story
	might have happened had they been the ones making decisions. Copyright
	infringement would be avoided by focusing in on the events and tropes
	rather than the specific names, e.g. a lich and his phylactery could fill in
	for Sauron and the One Ring.

	Aspirations for future iterations of the game include online functionality,
	such as a monthly generated world that asynchronously records the actions
	of all players engaging with it, populating the worlds of each player with
	NPC fellowships that mimic others around the world.