smash-life

Zero to Hero competitive Smash browser game

Basics

Player is a person at a smash tournament

• Train while at home to prepare for tournament
  • Learn certain skills or matchups or pickup new characters
  • train them up to use in tournies
• Use skills learned in training to battle in the tournies
• Earn money to travel further and play against better opponents to learn faster
  • Sponsorships will do something (add later?)
• Goal is to win bigger tournies and raise your rankings

Player

• Basics
  • name, gamertag, hometown
• Game knowledge
  • Mains
  • Matchups
  • Tech
  • Style of play
  • RPS skill (extremely small edge)
    • Leveled up through playing RPS against the computer (RPS AI high priority)
• Assets
  • Money
    • End of each month requires bills to be paid
    • If money is negative you must do IRL job (cannot play Smash/level up)
  • Fame?
    • Crowd favor
    • Subs for money
    • Get fame from characters (Yoshi ftw)
    • Social media presence?
• mechanics
  • Spend time to up stats for different things (fame, smash stuff, money)
    • spend time on IRL job to get money without going to tournies
      • Too much time spent in IRL job will decrease stats (you get worse)
        • All stats getting too turns you into a casual, Game Over
  • Go to tournies to learn and play to make money
  • Can be sponsored
    • No longer can run out of money
    • Can lose if you start to suck
• Ranks:
  • Casual (Game Over)
  • Local Scrub (Start)
  • Local Threat
  • Hidden Boss
  • PR Beast
  • Regional Hero
  • Established Pro
  • Top Contender
  • GOAT (top)

Gameplay

• First opponent at first tournament is Venom. Mains Link. Is trash. Quits after that night, because he got rekt

Characters

• Have to learn specifics
  • Character specific tech
  • General tech
  • matchups
• can level up game stats
  • neutral game
    • Spacing
  • punish game
  • edgegaurding
  • survivability
    • Includes DI, Teching, and recoveries
• leveling up stats can also be done indirectly by leveling up relevant skills to those core game stats

Battling

[TODO]: Make combat interactive

• Disrespect option randomly appears occasionally. Sometimes costs you the punish, but doing it a lot helps build fame faster

Basics

• Games start with RPS and stage picking
• Combat based on Neutral, then punish, then edgegaurding with a luck factor
  • Luck factor based a bit on fame and style skills (Mang0 inspired)

Implementation

• Targeting Browsers
  • Since we don't want to run a server, JS seems the way to go (probably node.js with Browserify)
• Game progress stored locally as cookies
  • Can export / import game data
• Code repo hosted on GitHub