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After playing a thousand times, I feel zen, especially at late game. When the pace rises at breakneck speed, enemies and bullets fly at you at imperceptible quickness and you try to dodge everything. All the while the screen is cluttered with your own attacks. Yet I'm at peace despite the hectic visual bombardment. Surviving happens by itself, simply by non directed attacks and motion.

((Demo videos))

@ [video]https://youtube.com/video/DVhOveCRXTQ[/video]
@ [video]https://youtube.com/video/sphnDwwyuaY[/video]

Ominos = a TetraShmup

Shooter where you, the player, are a tetromino (Tetris piece). Shoots differently based on shape, color, and orientation.

Play Ominos

Action	URL
play	https://forrsiis.itch.io/ominos
play	https://tetrashmup.amuseum.repl.co
play	https://ieants.cc/html5/ominos/
watch demo	https://youtube.com/video/DVhOveCRXTQ
hosted	https://replit.com/@Amuseum/TetraShmup
hosted	https://github.com/ForrSiis/Ominos

[[Design Notes]]

OFFENSE

Color	Type	Emission	Impact	Leveling	Damage
red	round pellets	shoots out from each cell	vanishes after hit	bigger radius and more damage	early game low, late game veryhigh
cyan	laser beams	shoots ahead and behind	passes thru enemies	more beams	low
yellow	exploding missile	miniature clones of player	after hit, all missiles explode, into AOE	bomb bigger radius and longer duration	missile medium, bomb veryhigh
magenta	energy field	pulsing energy around player	hits everything inside field	bigger radius	very high
green	bouncy balls	reflects off edge of screen	vanishes after duration	longer duration	low
white	falling pieces	ominos fly from edges of screen toward player's position	vanishes after hit or duration	more pieces	early game veryhigh, late game low
brown	seeker arrows	finds and follows the nearest enemy	vanishes after hit or duration	more seekers	low
black	sticky fidget	spins out from each cell	sticks to enemy, vanishes after duration	more stickys and faster damage over time	on collision and per second after sticking, low
silver	satellite yoyos	miniature clones of player circles around player	absorbs enemy attacks	bigger radius	high
blue	forked lightning	shoots from each cell at 90 degrees	forks after hitting enemy	more forks and more times	low
olive	poison cloud	spreads out from cells a short distance	stays on field a short duration	bigger radius and longer duration	low

((Power ups))

= eat spinning Plus omino = gain 100 points = regain shield = change shape and color = faster movement speed

= alter shape and color = eat Plus ominos

= player level = per 1000 points

= player level = faster shoot rate = more powerful attacks

= faster movement speed = eat Plus ominos

= shield = decrease when hit by enemies and their attacks = die when 0 = eat Plus ominos to regain shield



((Controls))

= move ULDR = OIEA = DXCV

= rotate = S T = , .

= rotate = player piece = 22.5 degrees = 1/16 of a circle

= autofire = on

= gamepad = d-pad = buttons rotate and start game


((Environment))

= obstacles = rotate piece may help pass thru obstacles

Slots machine design

See attached PDF on how to design a slot machine. Includes calculations on hits, lines, scatters, wilds, probabilities, winnings, RTP, etc.

See attached spreadsheet for KARA 5 Slots calculations. The target RTP is just above and as close to 1.0 as possible.

Slots code inspired by Karma-Slots.

Scryer: fixed to work with Opera Presto

To interface with SQL is dependent on the server-side language (e.g. PHP, Ruby, etc.). The VSV library for each language should have a method to simplify import and export between SQL and VSV.

Ex.
VSV.importFromSql(sqlLink, sqlDb, sqlTables) {
  // query from SQL server into array
  // then pass array to other VSV mapTo functions
  return vsvObject;
}


Alternatively, could attempt to export from database to CSV. However, behoove to use unique options that would nearly eliminate the chances of collision. Nevertheless, this method is prone to end-user errors (e.g. user neglect to use safe options, or options are not even available to begin with), more tedious, more steps involved.

Another problem with this method is that there could be no standardized or perfect set of options. This is up to personal preference, out of the control of the VSV library.

Fortunately some languages do have built-in methods to convert CSV into arrays. Nevertheless, it still requires user knowledge, such as the delimiter. Yet the integrity of the data can't be guaranteed when parsing CSV, if such knowledge is missing.

On the contrary, with VSV, the library doesn't need extraneous information by the user. When properly written, the import and export of VSV would always produce unambiguous, safe text that preserves integrity of the data. All without mandating user interference or testing their fickle memory.

Numbers and Time in Heros Born

Heros Born takes place in the future, around the year 2222 AE. They use a base plen number system, that is our base twelve, or "ten plus two". Also note 10 = plen.

Basic numbers

Digital	Literal
0	zero
1	one
2	two
3	three
4	four
5	five
6	six
7	seven
8	eight
9	nine
T	ten
E	eless
10	plen
11	oneple
12	twople
13	threeple
14	fourple
15	fiveple
16	sixple
17	sevenple
18	eightple
19	nineple
1T	tenple
1E	elessple
20	twopy
21	twopy one
30	threepy
40	fourpy
...
ET	elesspy ten
EE	elesspy eless

Powers of plen:

Literal	Power	Digital
one	10^0	1
plen	10^1	10
gross	10^2	100
myrre	10^3	1,000
myrriad	10^4	10,000
plen myrriad	10^5	100,000
myrrion	10^6	1,000,000
plen myrrion	10^7	10,000,000
gross myrrion	10^8	100,000,000
byrrion	10^9	1,000,000,000
tryrrion	10^10	1,000,000,000,000
quadryrrion	10^13	1,000,000,000,000,000
...

Powers of plen, prefixes

Literal	Power
-	10^0
plena-	10^1
grossa-	10^2
kyla-	10^3
myga	10^6
gyga-	10^9
tyra-	10^10
...

Negative powers of plen, prefixes

Literal	Power
uncy-	10^-1
duncy-	10^-2
myrry-	10^-3
nany-	10^-6
...

Time

Part of day	Our equivalent
day	day
sheik	2 hours
karaf	10 minutes
fenet	50 seconds
tick	4.16~ seconds
count	0.346~ seconds

Can VSV be formatted as an efficient database?

Compare JSON (or XML, yuck) is sometimes used in proxy of a lightweight, dynamic database. In this regard, VON can also emulate JSON or XML. The disadvantages of these formats is, they don't look aesthetically like a database. Modifying and appending them manually would be tedious.

Suppose we want something more tabular, with grids, columns, and rows. VSV can already provide that functionality. In fact, tables were part of the original purpose behind how VSV was designed. VSV has header and data rows, just like tables do.

Ex. database of RPG mobs as a table
((Id)) ((Name)) ((Mind)) ((Body)) ((Soul))
;1;Warmech;10;12;9

Another way to view a database is as a list of definitions, or a dictionary. Each item consists of many data rows. Such that each data row has two or more fields. Where the first field of a row is the parameter, and all subsequent fields of that row are values associated with that parameter.

Ex. database of RPG mobs as a dictionary
[[1]]
,name,Warmech
,mind,10
,body,12
,soul,9

Here a header row signifies the beginning of an item. Its id is written inside the brackets.

In this case, you may be better off using VON for a simpler, direct conversion to an object or array in a given programming language.

Ex. in VON
[Monsters
{1
,name,Warmech
,mind,10
,body,12
,soul,9
}
]

Here we declare an array called Monsters. It consists of objects. These objects have rows that define keys and their corresponding values.

For third-party modding, VON is preferable to tables.

Exporting and Importing

So we have at least three different ways to use VSV / VON as a database file. We also need ways to signify which method is actually used in a given file. Solution is simply to lead the file with a signature.

Ex.
[[VSV]] [[table]]

[[VSV]] [[dict]]

[[VON]]

Note that when a VSV/VON file that leads with [[VSV]] or [[VON]], this row is not part of the header or data to the rest of the file. However they are read as a header row, due to opening with double square brackets. As such, algorithms can still process the values held between the brackets.

In this case, the second field in this signature row can further declare additional types or instructions to the algorithm importing this file.

Discuss how to convert to and from other database applications or paradigms. For example, use LibreOffice Calc or phpMyAdmin to design and populate a database. Then export the data to VSV/VON, which is then imported into other applications, such as a game.

For prototyping, can first output from the other databases into CSV, then convert into VSV with mere touch-up. The first row is assumed to be a header row; so wrap each field with double brackets. The remaining rows are data rows that need to be prepended with delimiter. The drawback with CSV is only one type of delimiter is allowed. Unfortunately, not checking for delimiter-value collision may lead to corrupted data. Ideally, a proper algorithm will have a set of delimiters, and chooses one that avoids collision.

Attached are two Python macro script files for LibreOffice. The "vsv.py" is a library that should go into the pythonpath subfolder. The "vsvTable.py" provides two functions for the user to run: importVsv and exportVsv.

ExportVsv converts a Calc spreadsheet into VSV table. Only the current sheet is exported. Into the same directory as the active document; or into the user's default working directory if the sheet is not yet saved.

ImportVsv opens a dialog to select one or more VSV files. For each file selected, it searches for a sheet with a name matching the filename. If not, it creates a new sheet with that name. Then populates the sheet with the data from the VSV file. Header rows will also apply the "Header 2" style.

It would behoove to set these two functions as keyboard shortcuts.

KARA 5 Tiles boards are defined in VON files. See attached for example.

Ex.
{
   {board
      =id=1
      =name=KARA
      =gridW=24
      =gridH=10
      =gridT=1
      =cellW=50
      =cellH=50
      =tileW=2
      =tileH=2
      =tpi=2

   }
   [tiles
      ((((((((((((((( tier 0
      (( K
      [,0,0,0]
      [,0,2,0]
      [,0,4,0]
      [,0,6,0]
      [,0,8,0]

      [,2,2,0]
      [,2,6,0]

      [,4,0,0]
      [,4,8,0]

      (( A
      [,6,2,0]
      [,6,4,0]
      [,6,6,0]
      [,6,8,0]

      [,8,0,0]
      [,8,4,0]

      [,10,2,0]
      [,10,4,0]
      [,10,6,0]
      [,10,8,0]

      (( R
      [,12,0,0]
      [,12,2,0]
      [,12,4,0]
      [,12,6,0]
      [,12,8,0]

      [,14,0,0]
      [,14,4,0]
      [,14,6,0]

      [,16,0,0]
      [,16,2,0]
      [,16,8,0]

      (( A
      [,18,2,0]
      [,18,4,0]
      [,18,6,0]
      [,18,8,0]

      [,20,0,0]
      [,20,4,0]

      [,22,2,0]
      [,22,4,0]
      [,22,6,0]
      [,22,8,0]

      ((((((((((((((( tier 1
      (( K
      [,0,0,1]
      [,0,2,1]
      [,0,4,1]
      [,0,6,1]
      [,0,8,1]

      [,2,2,1]
      [,2,6,1]

      [,4,0,1]
      [,4,8,1]

      (( A
      [,6,2,1]
      [,6,4,1]
      [,6,6,1]
      [,6,8,1]

      [,8,0,1]
      [,8,4,1]

      [,10,2,1]
      [,10,4,1]
      [,10,6,1]
      [,10,8,1]

      (( R
      [,12,0,1]
      [,12,2,1]
      [,12,4,1]
      [,12,6,1]
      [,12,8,1]

      [,14,0,1]
      [,14,4,1]
      [,14,6,1]

      [,16,0,1]
      [,16,2,1]
      [,16,8,1]

      (( A
      [,18,2,1]
      [,18,4,1]
      [,18,6,1]
      [,18,8,1]

      [,20,0,1]
      [,20,4,1]

      [,22,2,1]
      [,22,4,1]
      [,22,6,1]
      [,22,8,1]

   ]
}


Just trying some simple HTML Canvas stuff. You can admire KARA princesses at this URL:

https://ieants.cc/u/kanvas

Many of these games use my specially created deck of cards hugely inspired by KARA5. Has 5 suits and 12 ranks, using KARA5 idols as suits.

Activity	Description
KARA 5 Clock	A clock using base twelve numeral system.
KARA Slideshow	Background and icons rotate every few seconds.
KARA 5 Poker	5-card draw using KARA5 deck.
Concentrate on KARA	Match all the pairs of icons in the shortest time.
KARA 5 Krush	match 3.
KARA 5 Slots	Slots with 5 rows and 5 columns. Win all ways.
KARA 5 Tiles	remove matching tiles at edges.
KARA-TRIS	like Tetris.
kobARAK	like Snake.
KARA 5 Slider	Slide tiles to complete picture.
KARA 5 Green Queen	like Black Jack. Get close to 25, but not over. Uses KARA5 deck.
KARA 5 Lupin	like Euchre / Bridge. Uses KARA5 deck.
Kartel	Big 2 meets Elements. Uses KARA5 deck.
KARA 5 Elements	Solitaire using KARA5 deck.
Karot Reading	Fortune telling. Uses KARA5 and MBS decks combined.
Idol Battle	"Fight" between KARA and Family Outing cast.

(Project started circa April 2011.)