Lesson 5.17: Upgrade Blazor Project and Dependencies to .NET 5

With the release of .NET 5, it is time for us to upgrade our simple-game solution to the latest version of .NET. Luckily .NET 5 is actually the next progression of .NET Core 3.1, so there aren't many major breaking changes to get this to work. We need to get onto the latest versions because … Continue reading Lesson 5.17: Upgrade Blazor Project and Dependencies to .NET 5 →

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 →

Lesson 3.2: Initial Player Inventory

Our first attempt at providing player inventory will be a simple one -- and we will expand upon it as we build out the game engine. For this initial system, we are going to use a simple list in the Player class that holds the player's items. using System.Collections.Generic; namespace SimpleRPG.Game.Engine.Models { public class Player … Continue reading Lesson 3.2: Initial Player Inventory →

Lesson 2.6: Refactoring to PlayerComponent

One of the Blazor's strengths is being able to componentize UIs into smaller pieces that can be composed into a page. We haven't taken advantage of that yet in our game screen. So let's start to do that by refactoring our MainScreen page to pull out the Player Data table into its own component. This … Continue reading Lesson 2.6: Refactoring to PlayerComponent →

Lesson 1.6: Basic Screen Layout

We've done a lot of setup to this point. Let's change gears for a lesson and focus on setting up the basic layout of the game screen. We want to segment the screen up into several areas, which we will do by using the grid concept in Bootstrap CSS. Updating MainLayout Our game looks more … Continue reading Lesson 1.6: Basic Screen Layout →