Wurm

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1 Engine
- 1.1 Atmospheric/environmental effects
2 Character
- 2.1 Player character
- 2.2 NPCs
3 Environment
4 Weapons
5 Inventory
6 Other


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year	2006
genre(s)	fantasy-role-playing-simulation
developer(s)	OneTooFree
publisher(s)	OneTooFree

Engine

Java OpenGL
collision detection: 2D (and missing with many objects)
lighting: dynamic, colored, vertex; bloom, day-night cycle, flickering; fire, lanterns, torches
particle effects: fire, leaves (falling), smoke
physics
- gravity: characters
- friction, inertia, momentum
reflection: water--almost everything!
shadows: characters (-1st-person view), fences, walls, buildings, trees, clouds--almost everything!
skeletal animation: no
texture: 16-/32-bit depth?
- filtering: bilinear
- mapping: mip, bump
transparency: fire, smoke, water
other: occlusion culling, LOD, usable object/tile highlight

Atmospheric/environmental effects

smoke: fire
water: reflection
weather: fog, lightning, rain, wind (smoke, vegetation)
other: butterflies, fire (campfires, forges, ovens, torches?), bushes/trees grow, objects decay; see particle effects

Character

Player character

name/description: custom-named human male or female
actions/moves: activate, attack, botanize, breed, build, burn, bury, carve, chip, chop up, climb, close, combine, crush, cultivate, cut, cut down, destroy, dig, disarm, drag, drink, drop, eat, embark, emote, farm, feed, filet, fill, flatten, forage, groom, hammer, harvest, hitch, improve, lead, light, lock, lore, manage, meditate, milk, mine, mold, open, pack, pick flowers, pick seeds, pick sprout, pick up (take), plant, pour, prospect, prune, pull, punch, puppeteer, push, reinforce, repair, ride, sew, sleep, snuff, sow, spin, steal, string, run, strafe, target, taste, taunt, temper, throw, track, treat, tunnel, turn, wash, water
body rendered in 1st-person view
dying (and approaching it) causes screen to fade red in/out in a tunnel-like effect
footprints: none
footsteps: dirt, grass, stone
needs to eat/drink or will lose water/food %
nutrition
stamina
skill points
view: 1st-person
- pan: mouse

NPCs

bears, boars, bulls/cows, cave bugs, chickens (chicks, hens, roosters), crocodiles, deer, dogs, dragons, ghosts (spirit guards), goblins, gorillas (mountain), horses, humans, pheasants, rats (large), spiders (various), trolls, unicorns, wolves, undead/zombies
non-threatening: depends on kingdom
AI
- react to theft (guards only?)
- NPCs turn towards player when attacking (animals when being fed/groomed/tamed)
- some animals can drag large carts and can be ridden
- tamable animals can be lead/ordered

Environment

# levels: 3 kingdoms (server-dependent), various homesteads/settlements/villages
location: medieval time; caves/mines, forests, hills, lakes, mountains, coasts
cutscenes: no
level editor: integrated
interaction
- break (destroy): gates, fences, walls
- combine objects
- create/make: altars, ammo, anvils, armor/shields, blades, buildings (stone, wood), boats (rowboat, sailboat, corbita, etc), carts, catapults, charcoal, cheese drills, chisels (stone), clay shapers, cloth (armor, bandages, clothing, satchels, sheets, string), compasses, containers: (backpacks, barrels--small/large, bowls, buckets, flasks, jars, satchels, water skins), dye, fences (stone, wood), fishing rods (fishing pole + rope), floor boards (planks + nails), food (bread + dough, casseroles, cheese, dishwater. gulasch, juice, lemonade, meals, porridge, stews, wine), fruit presses, furniture (armchairs, chairs, stools, tables), handles, healing cover, hooks (fishing; iron/wood), iron files, jewelry (necklaces, rings, statuettes), juice (apple, blueberry, cherry, grape, strawberry), key forms/molds, keys, knives (butchering, carving, leather), kindling, lamps, lanterns, leather (armor, backpacks, quivers, toolbelts), lockpicks, locks, looms, mallets, maple syrup, metal alloys (brass, bronze, steel), mortar (clay + sand), nails, needles, olive oil, pans (frying, sauce), pelts, planks, pottery (see containers), practice/training dolls, presses (cheese, fruit), quivers, rags, rafts, rakes, rivets, rope, rugs (meditation), pickaxes, saws, scissors, scythes, shafts, sheets (cloth/steel), shovels, sickles, signs, spatulas, spindles, spirit cottages (mailboxes), statues, stone (bricks, grindstones, slabs, statues), string (bow, cloth, wemp), support beams, tools, torches, weapons (+ enchanted), wheels, wheel axels, whetstones, wires, yoyos; see inventory
- drop/pick up (take): chairs, chest (1, small), corpses, forks, iron files, jars, "kitchen utensils" (bowls, containers, holder, pots), shields, stone blocks, stools, sword blades, tokens, troll art; see inventory
- cook food: berries, bread dough, chicken, fish, herbs, meat, nuts, vegetables
- dig: clay, dirt, peat, marsh, moss, sand, etc; lower/raise ground
- drink from, and fill (or pour out) containers with water (and other liquid) from, other containers, fountains, lakes (water tiles), etc
- eat: see #Inventory
- farm/harvest/sow fields
- fish
- harvest bushes/trees
- improve/repair objects: carve, file, hammer, hand (clay), log (wood), ore (metal), polish (pelt), temper (water), etc
- light (via steel and flint + kindling) and snuff: fires (campfires, forges, lanterns, lamps, stoves, torches)
- lock/unlock doors/gates
- look through spyglasses
- mine: ore (coal, gold, iron, lead, silver, tin, zinc), rock (gems/gemstones randomly found)--pickaxe + rock tile
- open/close: barrels, bowls, campfires, carts, chests, flasks, forges, fountains, jugs, NPCs (+ corpses), ovens
- pick locks: chests, doors, gates
- plant: flowers, signs, sprouts
- pull/push (small increments): barrels, forges, looms, ovens, signs, spirit cottages, etc
- ride: some animals
- turn (small increments): practice/training dolls; see push/pull
- other: cut down trees and chop up wood, drag carts, lead/groom/tame animals, spin yoyos
puzzles: none
hazards: animals/enemies, gravity (falling), other players, thorn bushes, traps