Lesson 4.6: Add Keyboard Shortcuts for Game Operations

Part of a good game is being able to take multiple forms of input. To this point, we have focused on touch and mouse input. In this lesson, we will add keyboard input to the game and handle keyboard keys and shortcuts to perform specific game actions, like moving or fighting or using a consumable … Continue reading Lesson 4.6: Add Keyboard Shortcuts for Game Operations →

Lesson 4.5: Craft Items with Recipes

With the popularity of games like Minecraft, building and crafting items from base components has become very common in games. It has found its way into many of the latest roleplaying games as well. So let's build the concept of recipes (ingredients for making items) and crafting into our game engine. Recipe Model Changes The … Continue reading Lesson 4.5: Craft Items with Recipes →

Lesson 4.4: Create the First Consumable Item

Most game players are familiar with consumable items - these are single use items that are used to provide the player an effect... like a potion of healing that lets us rejuvenate some of our hit points. This is a common concept in many roleplaying games. So we are going to introduce a Granola bar … Continue reading Lesson 4.4: Create the First Consumable Item →

Lesson 4.3 Monsters Attack with Weapons

Since we moved the player's weapon to use the Attack command/action, it makes sense to do the same with the monsters too. The monsters are technically fighting with their natural weapons, be it a bite or claw attack. But if we want our hero to eventually fight other humanoids, then those would also fight with … Continue reading Lesson 4.3 Monsters Attack with Weapons →

Lesson 4.2: Refactoring to Use Attack Command

With a working game engine, it's time for some changes to make it more flexible and able to support an ever-growing list of features and functions. One large refactoring that we will make is to replace the weapon and monster attack behavior with an Attack command instead. We will learn and use the Command design … Continue reading Lesson 4.2: Refactoring to Use Attack Command →

Lesson 4.1: Adding Hit Point, Gold, and Level Management

We left the Player and LivingEntity classes very open ended and allow our code to just set properties for things like hit points and experience. However, there is actually logic that needs to be run when some of these properties change. So we are going to add methods with additional logic to handle these behaviors. … Continue reading Lesson 4.1: Adding Hit Point, Gold, and Level Management →

Lesson 3.13: The Wrap

We've come to another big milestone in our game. We extended our game engine with a lot of new functionality -- all within the design patterns that we established early on. And we added more complex UI elements into our game screen -- learning about some new Blazor and Blazorize rendering features. We had a … Continue reading Lesson 3.13: The Wrap →

Lesson 3.12: Completing Quests

With our quests in place, the player will be able to navigate the world, find snakes, and attack them to get five fangs. These are the items required to complete our first quest. Once we do all of the work, we will need to return to the herbalist to collect our rewards. At this point, … Continue reading Lesson 3.12: Completing Quests →

Lesson 3.10: Building Trader Modal Screen

Now that we have the game engine updated and the new TraderViewModel defined, we can use that to build a new screen to allow the player to buy and sell items with a trader. If you are familiar with the WPF version of this sample, this additional UI is built in a modal dialog. We … Continue reading Lesson 3.10: Building Trader Modal Screen →

Lesson 3.11: Adding Quests to Locations

Quests are a core concept of any roleplaying game. Various people send our player off on quests to kill some monsters, return with items for potions, retrieve the secret stone, and so much more. These provide some of the motivations for our heroes to adventure. Then when the player completes the quests, they may get … Continue reading Lesson 3.11: Adding Quests to Locations →