🐉 East Volcano

Lessons

1. 1

   Award Points in the Fire Pit — score_manager_device

   Student can wire a score_manager_device and award/query per-player points from Verse (Activate, SetScoreAward, GetCurrentScore).
2. 2

   Track the Champion — player_reference_device

   Student can register a specific player in a player_reference_device and read/compare that agent from Verse to drive champion/target logic.
3. 3

   Squad Scores with Maps — team score tracking

   Student can maintain [team]int / [player]int score maps in Verse and keep them in sync with device-awarded points.
4. 4

   Live Scoreboard on the Cannon Wall

   Student can render a live-updating scoreboard (hud_message/billboard refresh loop fed by the score map) that redraws on every score event — UI layering over gameplay.
5. 5

   End-of-Round Leaderboard from a Map

   Student can sort a [player]int map and present a ranked top-N leaderboard at round end.
6. 6

   Forge a Custom Stat — Embers Currency

   Student can define a custom tracked stat (Embers) with stat_creator_device and read/modify it from Verse as an RPG-style currency/XP.
7. 7

   Stat Powerups — Heat Resistance Drops

   Student can place/grant stat_powerup_device pickups that modify custom stats on collection, spawned between waves from Verse.
8. 8

   The Vault Remembers — <persistable> and [player]int Saves

   Student can declare a persistable class + weak_map(player, save) [player]-keyed var so best-wave/ember-bank survive sessions AND carry across zone islands (the cross-zone save introduced here).
9. 9

   Versioning and Resetting Save Data

   Student can version-migrate and reset persistable data safely when the save schema changes between island updates.
10. 10

    The Ember Satchel — Build a Custom Inventory

    Student can build a Verse-managed custom inventory module (per-player item stacks in a [player] map, granter-device backed, UI readout) — buy/carry/spend loop.
11. 11

    Animation Arc I — TeleportTo and MoveTo Basics

    Student can reposition players and props from Verse with TeleportTo[] and MoveTo (positionals, rotation, failure contexts) — the start of the animation arc.
12. 12

    Animation Arc II — MoveTo Over Time

    Student can animate a creative_prop to a target transform over a duration and sequence multi-leg moves with async MoveTo calls.
13. 13

    Animation Arc III — Ease It with Lerp

    Student can hand-roll eased motion (Lerp over a ticked timer, ease-in/out curves) instead of linear MoveTo, for juicy prop animation.
14. 14

    Animation Arc IV — prop_mover_device

    Student can drive platforms/hazards with prop_mover_device (Begin/End/Advance, MovementCompleteEvent) and choose device-motion vs Verse-motion appropriately.
15. 15

    Wave Director — the Spawn-Wave Pattern

    Student can orchestrate timed escalating spawn waves in Verse (wave counter, per-wave size/delay tables, wave-cleared detection).
16. 16

    creature_spawner_device from Verse

    Student can control creature_spawner_device from Verse (Enable/Disable, EliminatedEvent per creature, counting kills into the score model).
17. 17

    Tuning the Horde — creature_manager_device

    Student can scale creature HP/damage/speed per wave via creature_manager_device (and place set-pieces with creature_placer) for difficulty ramps.
18. 18

    Storm-Paced Rounds — storm_controller_device

    Student can drive a shrinking safe-zone from Verse (GenerateStorm/DestroyStorm, PhaseEndedEvent) to pace rounds and force arena movement.
19. 19

    Lava-Vent Prefab — Custom Scene Graph Component with Mesh/VFX/SFX

    Student can author a custom Scene Graph component bundling mesh + VFX + SFX + Verse logic into a reusable lava-vent entity, save it as a PREFAB importable by later zones.
20. 20

    CAPSTONE — Volcano Survival: The Emberpeak Trials

    Student assembles every zone lesson into one shipped wave-survival game mode with a full Lobby→Wave→Shop→Storm→GameOver state machine, persistent progress, and a playable UEFN island.