redrussianbear/bill-fortress

An RPG dungeon crawler where one plays as a bill on its way through congress

Bill Fortress

Minimal Viable Product

• Simple, functional overworld depicting the congressional process ✓
• Functional Debate mode ✓
• Meme-tastic soundtrack ✓

Game Structure

• Begins with character creation
• Three main sections:
  • First Legislative House
  • Second Legislative House
  • Conference & Approval
• The two legislative sections are split between Committee and Floor section
• One can choose what house to originate in, unless one chose the "Revenue Bill" option, in which case one must start in the House
• Each individual house section culminates in a horde battle called "Final Vote"
• The final boss is the President

Character Creation

• Fields to determine:
• Bill name
• Bill type:
  • Resolution
  • Criminal Statute
  • Revenue Bill
  • Mandate
  • Change to Bureaucratic Structure
  • Subsidy
• People it benefits, people it hurts
• What Congress the bill is being proposed in (with a list of historical presets)
• What party the bill sponsor is from

Gameplay

• Debate is entered when the bill confronts a member of its opposition
• Debate is in the form of [combat form]
• If the bill loses all of its health, the game ends
• If a bill wins debate, it loses Original Text Percentage proportional to how much damage it took in Debate

Character Progression

• Endorsements grant better stats and new abilities in Debate
• Endorsements can either be purchased with Campaign Contributions, or exchanged for Amendment, which lower Original Text Percentage

GUI

• Overall wrapper GUI class
• Inside a GUI, one or more Components. This can be a menu, a bar, etc
• A component contains buttons, fields, displays
• Buttons are assigned a function to check if the button is active and a function to execute on press
• Rendering of GUI is done recursively, first with the parent being drawn, then all of the children