Scratch

The basics


Attack elements

There are two types of attack that spaceships use: Projectile attacks and laser attacks. Ships are resistant to their preferred style and weak to the other; for example, projectile ships are strong against projectile attacks and weak to laser attacks. (Ships equally proficient with both styles do not have a weakness, such as mechanics.)

Projectile hitsplats are red; laser hitsplats are yellow.


Stat overview

There are seven stats that each ship has:

• Max health - the most health a ship can have (all ships start out at max health)
• Projectile attack - the ship's skill with projectile attacks
• Laser attack - the ship's skill with laser attacks
• Projectile soak - a multiplier that increases or reduces projectile damage taken
• Laser soak - a multiplier that increases or reduces laser damage taken
• Accuracy - how accurate a ship is (attacks can miss)
• Evade - how well a ship can dodge attacks


Status effects

Status effects are buffs that harm or help you. There are three of these effects: Stun, Weaken, and Regen:

• Stun makes the ship lose their move. It lasts for two turns when applied to you, and one turn when applied to an enemy.

• Weaken reduces the ship's attack and soak. This applies to both projectile and laser stats.

• Regen gives a small heal to the ship before their turn. It is not used by any enemies.


Stun and Weaken can be cured with the Aid Ally move available to your whole fleet.

If a ship is stunned and you cure it, it will be able to move in the same turn.

There is a cooldown of one turn for your ability to stun or weaken; you cannot stun a ship every turn.

The moves

You can hold "I" and mouse over a move's button at any time when playing to see its stats and use.

Single-targeted moves do more damage to their target than multi-targeted moves.

Multi-target moves affect all members of the receiving fleet.

A projectile-based ship's laser moves are not as competent as its projectile moves, and vice versa.


Your moves

Shared moves (available to your whole fleet)

Defend: Halves damage taken for the next turn.
Swap turn: Swap turn order with a teammate that hasn't moved yet. You do not lose your move.
Aid ally: Cures the target of any negative buffs (Stun and Weaken), and revives fallen ships.

All offensive moves are either single-targeted or multi-targeted, either projectile-based or laser-based, and buffing or non-buffing.

Player 1 - Projectile fighter

Shoot: a single-targeted projectile attack. Power: 20.
Zap: a single-targeted laser attack. Power: 15
Barrage: a multi-targeted projectile attack. Power: 8
Stun: a single-targeted projectile attack which stuns the enemy for one turn. Power: 17

Player 2 - Mechanic

Repair: a single-targeted healing move. Heals roughly 800.
Fix fleet: a multi-targeted healing move. Heals roughly 350 to each ship that is alive.
Regen: places the Regen buff on all alive ships. Heals roughly 100 before each turn for four turns.

Random: a multi-targeted attack that uses a random element. Power: 8
Dart: a single-targeted projectile attack. Power: 20
Surge: a single-targeted laser attack. Power: 20

Player 3 - Laser fighter

Beam: a single-targeted laser attack. Power: 20
Slice: a multi-targeted laser attack. Power: 8
Cannon: a single-targeted projectile attack. Power: 20
Weaken: a single-targeted laser attack, which weakens the enemy for three turns. Power: 17

Formulas

Damage calculation: attack stat * move's power * (soak stat / 100) * random 0.9 to 1.1

((((attack stat) * (move's power)) * ((soak stat) / (100))) * (pick random (0.9) to (1.1)))

if <(((accuracy) / (evade)) * (1000)) < (pick random (1) to (1000))>

Creating your own waves

As Spaceship RPG is an engine, you can create your own waves as easily as typing in three digits!

To create and edit waves, download the project and open up the Waves list. The list should look like this:



Each item in the list is a wave. Item 1 is Wave 1 and so on.

Every wave consists of three numbers. The first digit is the topmost enemy (the one with the highest Y position), the second digit is the middle enemy, and the third digit is the bottom enemy.

Each number represents a different type of spaceship.

0. No spaceship (when the wave is loaded there will be no spaceship in this slot)
1. - Projectile pod
2. - Laser drone
3. - Projectiler
4. - Laserer
5. - Mechanic
6. - Berserker
7. - Mechanic+
8. - Boss

To edit a wave, change the digits in the correct item to the digits representing the spaceships you want. For example, 786 produces the boss wave.

You can add or remove waves too; just add or remove items as necessary and fill them however you please. You can even create a wave that consists of three bosses!


Editing your spaceships' stats

If you want to go further than this and edit each spaceship's stats, you can! Suppose you wanted to edit Player 1's stats. Here's how you would do so:

Download the project and open up the list Player 1 (if you want to edit Players 2 or 3, open up their respective lists). The list should look like this upon opening the project:



1. 1100  - (its current health)
2. 1100  - (its maximum health)
3. 20  - (its projectile attack)
4. 17  - (its laser attack)
5. 90  - (its projectile soak)
6. 110  - (its laser soak)
7. 110  - (its accuracy)
8. 90  - (its evade)

To customize your spaceship, edit items 2 to 8 as you wish. Item 1 just stores the spaceship's current health, so editing this won't actually customize the player.

By changing these values you can give yourself millions of health and the ability to deal thousands of damage!

There's no limit on how high you can raise these numbers, though the health displays can only fit seven digits and the hitsplats will only show four digits max (unless you add more sprites). The actual engine will work as normal though.


Editing the enemies' stats

You can change the stats of the enemies too, though in a slightly different way! Open up the Enemy Stats list.

The 64 items may look daunting at first, but remember that there are eight items per spaceship type and eight spaceships in total. Each eight items correspond with the eight items in the Player lists; the second item is the max health of the ship, and so on.

The first eight items are to do with the Projectile pod, the next eight are to do with the Laser drone, and so on. Look at the Waves section for the order of the spaceships.

Due to the way ships are loaded with each wave, item 1 of 8 gives their current health when they start. Item 2 gives their max health as is the standard.


Editing your moves' stats

If you want to go even further and customize each move's stats... you can too. Download the project and open up the Moves list. It should look like this:



When editing this, bear in mind that every three items corresponds to a separate move. Here's the list of moves:

1-3.     - Shoot
4-6.     - Barrage
7-9.     - Zap
10-12.  - Stun
13-15.  - Beam
16-18.  - Slice
19-21.  - Cannon
22-24.  - Weaken
25-27.  - Dart
28-30.  - Surge
31-33.  - Random
34-36.  - Repair
37-39.  - Fix fleet
40-42.  - Regen

Of the three items related to each move:

If the first item is 1, the move is single-target; if it's a 2, the move is multi-targeted. (This item cannot be changed.)
If the second item is 1, the move is projectile-based; if it's a 2, the move is laser-based.
The third item dictates the power of the move.

All moves read their strength from their third item, even healing moves.


Editing the enemies' moves' stats

You can change the enemies' moves in the same way, though with the list Enemy Moves.

1-3. Projectile pod
   • 1-3 single-target projectile attack
4-6. Laser drone
   • 4-6 single-target laser attack
7-15. Projectiler
   • 7-9 single-target projectile attack
   • 10-12 multi-target projectile attack
   • 13-15 Stun (single-target projectile attack)
16-24. Laserer
   • 16-18 single-target laser attack
   • 19-21 multi-target laser attack
   • 22-24 Weaken (single-target laser attack)
25-33. Mechanic
   • 25-27 single-target projectile attack
   • 28-30 single-target laser attack
   • 21-33 Repair (single-target move, no element)
34-42. Berserker
   • 34-36 single-target projectile attack
   • 37-39 multi-target projectile attack
   • 40-42 Stun (single-target projectile attack)
43-51. Mechanic+
   • 43-45 single-target projectile attack
   • 46-48 single-target laser attack
   • 49-51 Repair (single-target move, no element)
52-66. Boss
   • 52-54 single-target projectile attack
   • 55-57 single-target laser attack
   • 58-60 multi-target projectile attack
   • 61-63 multi-target laser attack
   • 64-66 single-target special attack, random element

Editing status effect duration

Ever wanted to have a chance at stunning a mechanic for 9 turns? Well, you can! Open up the list Status Effect Stats.



When buffs are applied by you:

Item 1 - Stun's duration
Item 2 - Weaken's duration
Item 3 - Regen's duration

When buffs are applied by the enemy:

Item 4 - Stun's duration
Item 5 - Weaken's duration
Item 6 - Regen's duration

(As enemies do not use Regen, Item 6 was left blank.)

There's no limit to how large you can make these values, though the buff stamper won't display numbers above nine. The engine will still work though.


Editing Weaken's strength

The status effect Weaken lowers both its target's attack and soak - and if you edit Weaken's stats, you can have ships deal 0's and get torn apart by thousands!

Open up the list Status Effect Stats.

Item 7 - Attack multiplier (when applied by you)
Item 8 - Soak multiplier (when applied by you)
Item 9 - Attack multiplier (when applied by an enemy)
Item 10 - Soak multiplier (when applied by an enemy)

I have made the Ultimate Challenge: All the wave's have the numbers 8, attacks are all 63, but you can pick what ever moves you want, your health has to be at the most 800, low avade, and high accuracy for the enemy. Just make it hard.


Happy Playing!