Contents

• Game Overview
• Player Control
• Map Display
• Movement
• Inventory
• General Principles
• The Loop
• Systems
• Display
• Input
• Sound
• AI
• Saving Data
• Interface
• File Structure
• XML Schemas
• Classes
• External Libraries

Game Overview

This document is a work in progress.

This project is named Chernobog, after the medieval Slavic god Чернобог. The name is an arbitrary designation, and the final game may or may not have anything to do with Slavic mythology.

Chernobog is intended to be a side-scrolling action game in the vein of Super Metroid. The idea is to have a large, interconnected world which players gradually gain access to as they gain new, meaningful abilities.

The method of control is similar to the one pioneered by the 1996 Crack dot Com game Abuse. Players move their character with the keyboard and aim with the mouse.