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 3.1: Game Items and Factory

We are going to build the start of an inventory system. To encapsulate the concept of items in our game, we are going to define a GameItem model class. This class will have the base properties of all GameItems. Then, we will define a derived class for Weapon. Weapon is a specialized item that also … Continue reading Lesson 3.1: Game Items and Factory →

Lesson 2.11: The Wrap

We have created our initial game engine which supports a player, location, game world, and moving around within it. Then we created the UI elements/components to display those in our game screen. We now have a game that we can move around in and investigate the images and descriptions of each location in our limited … Continue reading Lesson 2.11: The Wrap →

Lesson 2.10: Moving in the Game World

Showing the player's location is the first step, but we also need to provide the ability to move around our game world. We're going to build some controls and event handlers that move the player between adjacent locations in the world. To begin we're going to create a new view model class to assist with … Continue reading Lesson 2.10: Moving in the Game World →

Lesson 2.9: Creating The Game World

The location was a single spot in a larger game world. We want to represent the game world as a grid of places that the player can move to. We will manage that by creating a new World model class that encapsulates the structure of the world and exposes some methods for retrieving location data. … Continue reading Lesson 2.9: Creating The Game World →

Lesson 1.4: Create Initial Blazor Project

Now that we have a source repository (from lesson 1.3) for our work, we're going to create the initial Blazor application project. Let's start by launching Visual Studio 2019. The first thing we will see is a dialog where we can clone code, open projects, create projects, etc. We are going to start by cloning … Continue reading Lesson 1.4: Create Initial Blazor Project →