Architecture example

This is an example of a (pretty silly) mission, to illustrate our architecture.
First, an overview of the main parts of the architecture

• Locations in the overworld are connected by paths
• Any change to the overworld or player action happens through interactions, most of which are mini-games
• Interactions may have:
• A number of inputs
• A number of side-effects
• A primary discrete output
• Some secondary discrete outputs
• Each location specifies
• What interaction plays when you enter that location
• What interaction will play for each possible output of the first interaction
• Etc. until you leave the location through a location-changing interaction

In our example, the interaction present are:

• Select and change location
• Input: none(chosen during interaction)
• Side effect: Location Change
• Output: none
• Flip a coin
• Input:None
• Side Effect: None
• Output: Heads/Tails
• Make a Choice
• Input: 1-4 things to choose from
• Side Effect: None
• Output: The thing that was chosen
• Toggle Path
• Input: the path to toggle
• Side effect: Path is turned on/off
• Output: none

Using these three simple interactions, we can create a game like this:

To win this game, you'd have to go to the topmost location and flip coins until you get heads to turn on path 5; then go to the bottommost location, and make the choice to toggle the path. Then you can get to the Goal!