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+# Half-Earth Citybuilder Prototype
+
+## TODO
+
+* Zoning demand
+* Journey Pathfinding
+* Resident health
+* Education
+* Supply chains
+
+## Critical Path
+
+### Grid
+
+Add a 10x10 grid.
+Tiles are highlighted a different colour when the player hovers over them with the cursor.
+Tiles can be interacted with, which turns them another colour.
+
+### Diffusion
+
+Tiles in the grid contain floating point values.
+These values propogate to neighbouring cells a tick happens.
+Ticks can be applied manually or they can be applied over time.
+Add a tick counter as a UI element.
+
+* [ ] understand different options for representing the rate of diffusion
+
+Diffusing should use 'pull' operations; tiles should pull values from surrounding tiles.
+This is an attempt to think forwards to parallelising computation of diffusiong - ideally using the GPU.
+
+### Tile Types
+
+Tiles start as wild tiles.
+The player can use a UI element or a keyboard shortcut to enable build mode.
+In build mode, the player can click on a wile tile to turn it into a developed tile.
+
+* Wild tiles are green
+* Developed tiles are grey
+
+### Heat
+
+Developed tiles produce heat while wild tiles absorb it.
+Every tile has a floating-point heat value which diffuses to its neighbours.
+Add a heat map view which can be toggled or cycled to.
+It is possible to cycle the view using a UI element.
+
+### Tile Health
+
+Add another value to wild tiles: health.
+A wild tile can accept a certain amount of heat each tick from surrounding tiles.
+If it receives more heat than threshold it takes damage based on the surplus.
+
+A wild tile should be able to safely absorb heat from 3 surrounding developed cells, but take damage from 4.
+A wild tile's health impacts its ability to absorb heat.
+The amount of heat input required to damage a wild tile is known as its damage threshold.
+
+    damage taken = max((heat received - damage threshold), 0)
+
+Its effectiveness at absorbing heat scales with its remaining health.
+
+    heat absorbed = health * base absorbtion rate
+
+Diffusion still occurs to move heat away from depleted wild tiles.
+
+### Rewilding
+
+Add a rewilding mode option to the UI.
+In rewilding mode, the player can click on a developed tile to turn in into a wild tile.
+The wild tile starts with 0 health.
+
+### Wild Recovery
+
+Depleted wile tiles can recover health each tick.
+The recovery rate is based on the difference between the damage threshold and the actual amount they received.
+The recovery rate is increased if the tile has wild neighbours.
+
+    neighbour multiplier = lerp(1, max, number of neighbours / 4)
+    health restored = max((damage threshold - heat received), 0) * neighbour multiplier.
+
+### Developed tile types
+
+Split developed tiles into 3 types:
+
+* Residential
+* Commercial
+* Industrial
+
+When placing developed tiles, the player can select which type they want to place.
+These types generate different amounts of heat:
+
+    industrial > commercial > residential
+
+### Journeys
+
+Developed tiles have a chance to generate journeys between them.
+A journey instances a vehicle which traverses the map at a constant speed from its origin to its destination tile.
+A vehicle adds a constant amount of heat to every tile it traverses.
+
+### Moving In
+
+Residential tiles have two new integer resources, current residents and maximum residents.
+Every tick there is a chance for residents to move in to a residential tile if the current number is less than the maximum number of residents.
+The initial number of maximm residents per residential tile is 4.
+
+### Jobs
+
+Industrial and commercial tiles have two new integer resources, available jobs and occupied jobs.
+The chance for residents to move in depends on there being being fewer occupied than available jobs.
+Industrial and commercial tiles can only generate journeys if they have at least 1 occupied job.
+Their chance of generating a journey is proportional to
+
+    occupied jobs / available jobs .
+
+### Commutes
+
+A resident moves in to a residential tile and gets a job at an industrial or commercial 'job' tile.
+The residential tile regularly generates journeys to the job tile, and the job tile regularly generates journeys in the other direction.
+
+### Comfortable Living Temperatures
+
+If a residential tile is too hot, people will not want to live there.
+Residential tiles have a critical temperature at which the chance of someone moving into a tile becomes negative, becoming a chance that someone moves out.
+This should not be implemented as a multiplication of other factors, but should rather contribute to an additive modifier to the move-in chance.
+This is to avoid the situation where an extremely attractive locations becomes extremely unattractive due to a slight over-temperature multiplying a large number.
+
+When someone moves out, one of the jobs associated with that residential tile is removed.
+
+# Not critical
+
+### Wealth
+
+Journeys generate a new integer tile resource, wealth.
+When a journey is completed, the destination tile accrues 1 wealth.
+Wealth is lost if a tile is rewilded; only developed tiles have wealth.
+