Build a C#/WPF RPG

200 thoughts on “Build a C#/WPF RPG”

1. Hi Scott, i liked your old version and I like this version of your tutorial. Something I picked up on when I downloaded the code. Your save game doesn’t work. instead of loading my data, it loads Scott, Fighter, and 1 million gold. Also puts items in inventory I didnt have when I saved it, Instead it puts the default in. Sorry to disturb you.

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   1. Hi Michael,

      Did you recently get the complete solution from GitHub? If so, there might be a problem. I’m currently changing the Player class, and the changes might break the load/save game functions (they’re definitely broken on the changes I’m about to post).

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      1. yes I did, also checked from lessons and same problem.

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         1. I should be putting out the next lesson tomorrow (Sunday). The changes add PlayerAttributes to the Player object, but breaks the save/load game – since the Player object is a new format. The next lesson will be a rewrite of the save/load game. I’ll make sure the new save/load game changes work with the new format.

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2. Hello Scott, great work, I really like the layout and capabilities of your game engine! So I took it upon myself to convert it into a console game! So far it has gone pretty smoothly and I am currently working on bringing in all the functionality and trying to keep control flow to matching the WPF as much as possible. Thank you for doing these tutorials and coding in such a clean manner that it can be reused without a GUI!

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   1. You’re welcome, Ryan! It’s great to hear you were able to convert the game to a console app. This type of architecture is something I try to do in corporate programs – which need to be supported and modified for many years.

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3. Hi Scott. Really loving these tutorials so far, so thank you!

   I’m not sure if this has been asked before but it would be really useful to see how you can add dialog options to NPCs and get quests from them by talking to them.

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   1. You’re welcome, Al!

      Yes, several people have asked for NPC conversations to get quests, so it’s on the list of future enhancements. That will probably be combined with progressive quests (you have to complete the NPC’s first quest before you can get their 2nd quest) and maybe your level of friendliness with the NPC’s faction.

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4. Bonjour Scott,
   I just finished your lessons and it took me a good twenty hours from first to number 18.5.
   This set of lessons is as addicting as a good novel whose original idea is excellent.
   Passionate about CSharp and Fighting Fantasy, I can confirm the learning goal has been reached and that it worked well.
   I will keep what I just learned in mind, and I will no doubt thank you for it later.
   I am particularly grateful to you and also to the support in help comments.

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   1. Thank you, Stéphane!

      I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the course and learned some programming. For people who enjoy learning, programming can be a great hobby or career.

      Good luck with your programming future!

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5. Hello, again Scott! I love your enthusiasm and passion!!

   Also on the comment about adding NPC dialog, although I have not used it directly another project uses Ink in C# to allow interactive dialog definition and compilation, making for a rich experience, I imagine it can be applied to various architectures (console WPF, Forms, Web).

   For me, I am using Goblin Factory Konsole to break up my console window into regions, and populating it directly and indirectly via changes to properties. The initial write is done directly by calling ExcuteLineUpdates() on the Window with the registered updates, I then registering a PropertyChangeEvent handler that matches property name to UI property name and updates the change when it occurs. I have not figured out how to update the line yet, so I just call the function stored at the key and output the key and the value that was returned to update the window when a change is relevant to that Konsole Window.

   I moved the code to a Gist, because this site would probably mess up the formatting
   https://gist.github.com/ScottLilly/010288af7696ec2103f6e977e2c58f80

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   1. Thanks, Ryan!

      I think this the Ink library you were talking about: https://github.com/inkle/ink. I added that to the project board for the conversations.

      Thanks for sharing your code. To keep it formatted better, I moved it to: https://gist.github.com/ScottLilly/010288af7696ec2103f6e977e2c58f80

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6. Thank you again!! I made it more generic and uploaded my whole project to Gist, So far I can move attack and consume, no trading yet, but I am working towards that, displaying and updating inventory, and a few other things. Here is the most recent.

   https://gist.github.com/BanalityOfSeeking/e66a1e5265b0107411413ed336a0c19d

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   1. You’re welcome. Thank you for sharing it!

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