These are some things I want in the game eventually if I can make them work. Crossed-off items are complete and in the demo, or will be in next demo. Core features are in Design Notes.

Day/Night Cycle

• Sun and Moon objects
• Directional and ambient lighting
• Night Sky
  • Starfield texture
  • Sunrise/Sunset effect
  • Planets and primary stars in realistic orbits
  • LEO satellites
  • Comet?
• NPC schedules
• Effects on supernatural beings and abilities
• Improved time-skip UI

Weather

• Raindrops, wet ground, splashing footsteps
• Wind

Maps

• Auto-map of current level
• HUD mini-map
• Fog of War (hide unvisited areas)
• Fast travel regional map & overmap UI with AStar road pathfinding
• Auto-generated schematic “subway map” of intercity transport grid destinations

Vampire Vision Shaders

• aura shader
  • fog? constrained to a skinned lowpoly body outline shape?
  • basic glow effect?
  • create_outline?
  • shader ‘flare’?
• vampire vision sensitivity shader
  • desaturation effect
  • looking toward the rising/setting sun should cause white-out (that’s just realistic)
  • huge glow/aura radius?
  • exaggerate this effect so it even occurs with headlights, taillights, streetlights…
• lens flare shader (found one, needs modding)
  • move to sky shader
  • auto sun position

Wing Mode

• Basic artwork - bat/dragon/demon wings
• Basic flight controls
• Limitations
  • Hefty blood consumption required to (re)generate wings
  • Metamorphosis period - it may take several days for your wings to reach full size
  • Massive stamina consumption during powered flight
  • Conspicuous - basically you can only go out as a demon of the night
  • Cannot wear normal upper-body clothing
  • Air defenses may shoot at you (if you’re wearing/carrying enough manmade items to be mistaken for a drone)
• Skill progression
  • Controlled long-jumps
  • Gliding
  • Full powered flight
  • Improved speed, maneuverability, efficiency
  • Further enhancements by sorcery
• Better controls / physics (not too realistic!)
  • Smooth vertical rotation (same as horizontal rotation)
  • Acceleration and deceleration
  • Wall collisions - bounce, speed loss, tumble/fall
  • Aerial combat - melee, strafing, throwing, limited sorcery
• Artwork
  • Black Angel outfits - leather straps, spikes, etc
  • White Angel variant - raptor wings, revealing gossamer robes, etc
  • Landing animation
  • Combat pose - wings folded out of the way
  • Combat animations (if wings can be used offensively or defensively)
• Sound Effects

Intro sequence to set the stage

• GOAL: unobtrusive (easily avoidable) intro sequence/questline
• Startup video shows the basic premise
• Start in the Spaceport upon your arrival
• First-person start (i.e. you can’t see yourself until you do character creation)
• Customs kiosk (optional)
  • Character creation interview
    • Chatbot asks you questions
    • Random body, gender, etc?
    • Then open character creation UI to review/tweak
  • Interacting with it again merely opens character creation UI
• Ticket kiosk (optional)
  • Choose your destination (any ‘city hub’ level)
  • Option to leave immediately (so you don’t have to walk to the train)
• Boarding kiosk (at the train)
  • Force character creation if not already done at customs kiosk
  • Choose your destination if not already done at ticket kiosk
  • Short text/slideshow/video plays during the ride

More Variety

• Updates & Mods
• Basic procgen filler NPCs
• Social responses to player exploits - little cults, vampire hunters, broader trends, movements, clothing fashions
• More parameters for randomization

Random

• Cover art
  • Mirror shards effect?
  • Fancy background: graveyard, fog, clouds, moonlight
• Full gamepad+keyboard controls in all popup UIs
• Time scaling (like VTM’s Celerity) - use Engine.time_scale
• Asylum revival - places where people voluntarily commit themselves to get away from modern civilization (but not vampires)
• Self-driving cars coordinate with each other to optimize traffic flow (but automatically yield to real drivers)
• VR headset support (requested by ChainsawCowboy)