# Lifecycle Management & Save System Revamp
## Overview
Complete overhaul of game lifecycle management, interactable system, and save/load architecture. Introduces centralized `ManagedBehaviour` base class for consistent initialization ordering and lifecycle hooks across all systems.
## Core Architecture
### New Lifecycle System
- **`LifecycleManager`**: Centralized coordinator for all managed objects
- **`ManagedBehaviour`**: Base class replacing ad-hoc initialization patterns
- `OnManagedAwake()`: Priority-based initialization (0-100, lower = earlier)
- `OnSceneReady()`: Scene-specific setup after managers ready
- Replaces `BootCompletionService` (deleted)
- **Priority groups**: Infrastructure (0-20) → Game Systems (30-50) → Data (60-80) → UI/Gameplay (90-100)
- **Editor support**: `EditorLifecycleBootstrap` ensures lifecycle works in editor mode
### Unified SaveID System
- Consistent format: `{ParentName}_{ComponentType}`
- Auto-registration via `AutoRegisterForSave = true`
- New `DebugSaveIds` editor tool for inspection
## Save/Load Improvements
### Enhanced State Management
- **Extended SaveLoadData**: Unlocked minigames, card collection states, combination items, slot occupancy
- **Async loading**: `ApplyCardCollectionState()` waits for card definitions before restoring
- **New `SaveablePlayableDirector`**: Timeline sequences save/restore playback state
- **Fixed race conditions**: Proper initialization ordering prevents data corruption
## Interactable & Pickup System
- Migrated to `OnManagedAwake()` for consistent initialization
- Template method pattern for state restoration (`RestoreInteractionState()`)
- Fixed combination item save/load bugs (items in slots vs. follower hand)
- Dynamic spawning support for combined items on load
- **Breaking**: `Interactable.Awake()` now sealed, use `OnManagedAwake()` instead
## UI System Changes
- **AlbumViewPage** and **BoosterNotificationDot**: Migrated to `ManagedBehaviour`
- **Fixed menu persistence bug**: Menus no longer reappear after scene transitions
- **Pause Menu**: Now reacts to all scene loads (not just first scene)
- **Orientation Enforcer**: Enforces per-scene via `SceneManagementService`
- **Loading Screen**: Integrated with new lifecycle
## ⚠️ Breaking Changes
1. **`BootCompletionService` removed** → Use `ManagedBehaviour.OnManagedAwake()` with priority
2. **`Interactable.Awake()` sealed** → Override `OnManagedAwake()` instead
3. **SaveID format changed** → Now `{ParentName}_{ComponentType}` consistently
4. **MonoBehaviours needing init ordering** → Must inherit from `ManagedBehaviour`
Co-authored-by: Michal Pikulski <michal.a.pikulski@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Michal Pikulski <michal@foolhardyhorizons.com>
Reviewed-on: #51
### Interactables Architecture Refactor
- Converted composition to inheritance, moved from component-based to class-based interactables. No more requirement for chain of "Interactable -> Item" etc.
- Created `InteractableBase` abstract base class with common functionality that replaces the old component
- Specialized child classes: `Pickup`, `ItemSlot`, `LevelSwitch`, `MinigameSwitch`, `CombinationItem`, `OneClickInteraction` are now children classes
- Light updates to the interactable inspector, moved some things arround, added collapsible inspector sections in the UI for better editor experience
### State Machine Integration
- Custom `AppleMachine` inheritong from Pixelplacement's StateMachine which implements our own interface for saving, easy place for future improvements
- Replaced all previous StateMachines by `AppleMachine`
- Custom `AppleState` extends from default `State`. Added serialization, split state logic into "EnterState", "RestoreState", "ExitState" allowing for separate logic when triggering in-game vs loading game
- Restores directly to target state without triggering transitional logic
- Migration tool converts existing instances
### Prefab Organization
- Saved changes from scenes into prefabs
- Cleaned up duplicated components, confusing prefabs hierarchies
- Created prefab variants where possible
- Consolidated Environment prefabs and moved them out of Placeholders subfolder into main Environment folder
- Organized item prefabs from PrefabsPLACEHOLDER into proper Items folder
- Updated prefab references - All scene references updated to new locations
- Removed placeholder files from Characters, Levels, UI, and Minigames folders
### Scene Updates
- Quarry scene with major updates
- Saved multiple working versions (Quarry, Quarry_Fixed, Quarry_OLD)
- Added proper lighting data
- Updated all interactable components to new architecture
### Minor editor tools
- New tool for testing cards from an editor window (no in-scene object required)
- Updated Interactable Inspector
- New debug option to opt in-and-out of the save/load system
- Tooling for easier migration
Co-authored-by: Michal Pikulski <michal.a.pikulski@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: #44
- Added InteractionTimelineAction component for timeline-driven interactions
- Implemented custom editor for timeline event mapping
- Updated interaction event flow to support timeline actions
- Enhanced character move target configuration
- Improved inspector UI for interactable components
- Added technical documentation for interaction system
- Refactored interaction action base classes for extensibility
- Fixed issues with character binding in timelines
Co-authored-by: Michal Pikulski <michal@foolhardyhorizons.com>
Co-authored-by: Michal Pikulski <michal.a.pikulski@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: #17
- Editor dialogue graph
- Asset importer for processing the graph into runtime data
- DialogueComponent that steers the dialogue interactions
- DialogueCanbas with a scalable speech bubble to display everything
- Brief README overview of the system
Co-authored-by: AlexanderT <alexander@foolhardyhorizons.com>
Co-authored-by: Michal Pikulski <michal.a.pikulski@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: #10
- A Settings Provider system to utilize addressables for loading settings at runtime
- An editor UI for easy modifications of the settings objects
- A split out developer settings functionality to keep gameplay and nitty-gritty details separately
- Most settings migrated out of game objects and into the new system
- An additional Editor utility for fetching the settings at editor runtime, for gizmos, visualization etc
Co-authored-by: Michal Pikulski <michal.a.pikulski@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: AlexanderT <alexander@foolhardyhorizons.com>
Reviewed-on: #7
