Gothic

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Gothic

1 Engine
2 Character
3 Environment
- 3.1 interaction
4 Inventory
- 4.1 weapons
5 Sound

Effects
Wikipedia:Gothic		}}
year	2001
genre(s)	action-adventure, role-playing game
theme(s)	fantasy
developer(s)	Piranha Bytes
engine	Proprietary
sound	stereo
Character
name	Rynn

Engine

lighting: dynamic, colored; fire, magic
particle effects: blood spray, bubbles, fire, impact dust, liquid spray, picked ore fragments, rain(?), skeleton fragments, smoke, sparks, sparkles, steam, tree seeds
shadows: horizontal angle adjustment, ovalular masks; characters, ladders
skeletal animation
transparency: arrow/bolt tracers, clouds, cobwebs, fire, glass, lightning shield, smoke, water, weapon swings
other: lens flare (screen brightens when looking at sun), shaking (some monster footsteps), underwater distortion, usable object highlight

atmospheric/environmental effects

smoke: fire, weed blunts
sparkles: ore mound, pentagram
sparks: anvil hammering, grinding stone, weapon-to-weapon clashes
steam: boiling water, cooling hot metal
water: current, ripples & splash (- walking)
weather: lightning, dynamic rain (+ splash): in-/decreases
- clouds: dynamic (change when raining, clear at night), moving
other: bubbles (boiling water, soap)
- day/night light cycle (sun/moon rise/set)
- [[[impact dust]]: jump land
- [[explosions[[, fire
- ]shooting stars]]
- see particle effects

physics

collision detection: death vertical angle adjustment
gravity: characters
friction, inertia, momentum
- dropped objects bounce slightly and slide down hills

texture

Character

player character

name/description: nameless male prisoner
can get knocked unconscious
different armor changes look
facial animaion
feet jump-land impact dust
footsteps: dirt, metal, sand, stone, water, wood
shrugs if can't do something
can turn into various animals, insects, and other creatures and play as them
moves: block, drop/pick up object, hit, jump (- attack, +: alternate dive-jump after acrobatics skill learned, grab ledge, pull up), run, shoot/swing weapon, sneak, strafe, swim (dive underwater, stroke, surface, tread: + back), vault, wade, walk
view: 1st-/3rd-person (smooth zoom)
- pan: keyboard/mouse

NPCs

birdlike creatures, demons, dogs, goblins, humans, insects, lizards, orcs, rats, skeletons, trolls, wolves, zombies

=AI

dodge, flank
can knock unconcious
drawn weapons and sneaking arouse reactions
idle chit chat
limited line-of-sight vision
look at player while in range (+ some turn)
steal ore after knocking player (or another character) out
stop following after certain distance and return to origin
over 500 NPCs with daily routines (sleep, eat, work, play music, chat, etc) and memory (other NPCs of same type will act the same if player does something to one)

Environment

# levels: 1 world (1km²) with 4 parts: graveyard, mines (2), temple
location: Myrtana (mythical land); mostly outdoors but many buildings and enclosed spaces (caves, mines, etc)
cutscenes
puzzles: find things/people, shoot/turn switches, tell people things
traps/hazards: breakaway stone floor, drowning, gravity (falling), lava, lowering ceiling, spikes (floor/wall)

interaction

drop: anything pickupable
open/close: chests, doors, gates
pickup: see inventory
push: buttons
ride: switch columns/stones
other: beat drum, blow horn, cook food over pan, eat (various; see inventory), light torches
- make swords: heat raw steel, hammer on anvil, cool in water bucket, sharpen on grindstone
- pick locks/pockets, play lute, pull switches, pump bellows, read books/letters/maps/scrolls, sit, sleep, smoke joints/waterpipes, stir water in kettle, turn winches to raise/lower gates, turn on gas light