361 thoughts on “Learn C# by Building a Simple RPG – Index”

1. I’ll be sure to seek your advice if I run into anything else, thank you for your help Scott.

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2. Scott, with your help, I’ve created an RPG in Windows Forms and would love for you to tell me what you think!

   You can download the executable from the following link.

   https://zachdegeorge.com/2018/05/17/zrpg-2-0-update-6/

   Thank for for all your great tuturoials!

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   1. Cool! I’ll check it out this weekend.

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3. Unfortunately I got to this point and it all went wrong.

   Cutting and pasting the code from Git caused unrecoverable code errors in the generated form code. I had an error message saying that I had not created a method for rtbLocation_TextChanged.

   I could not find a way past this and it is either a choice of giving up or starting all over. Not a fan of starting all over. 🙁

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   1. What lesson did you get to? Can you upload your solution (including the directories under it, and all the files in those directories) to GitHub or Dropbox, so I can look at it?

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4. Hi Scott,

   I just wanted to say immensely grateful I am that you have created and shared this walkthrough/guide. I am not finished yet, but I am rolling along with it. I have wanted to learn computer programming for some time now. Your book has really inspired me to do it. Are there any other guides you’ve made like this one? Programming other various games to further learn C#?

   Thank you for reading,
   Dan

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   1. Thank you Dan,

      I don’t have PDF versions for anything else. But, I do have lessons on C# Design Patterns (general solutions to common programming issues), a WPF version of the SuperAdventure game (that uses better programming practices than the Windows Form lessons), and just started a new “refactoring” series where I will be improving the code quality of the Windows Form SuperAdventure game – and describing how/why the changes will improve SuperAdventure’s quality.

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5. Semi-Novice here but… I was able to add Armor items that add additional defense during battles (including a function to ensure that the defense amount is never less than zero resulting in negative damage being done):

   Armor.cs:
   using System;
   using System.Collections.Generic;
   using System.Linq;
   using System.Text;
   using System.Threading.Tasks;

   namespace Engine
   {
   public class Armor : Item
   {
   public int MaximumDefense { get; set; }

   public Armor(int id, string name, string namePlural, int maximumDefense) : base(id, name, namePlural)
   {
   MaximumDefense = maximumDefense;
   }
   }
   }

   —–

   Example items:
   Items.Add(new Armor(ITEM_ID_SHIELD, “Shield”, “Basic Shield”, 4));
   Items.Add(new Armor(ITEM_ID_LEATHER_CHEST, “Leather Chest”, “Basic Leather Chestpiece”, 8));

   —–

   damageToPlayer int calculation:
   int damageToPlayer = CheckIfLessThanZero((RandomNumberGenerator.NumberBetween(0, _currentMonster.MaximumDamage) – RandomNumberGenerator.NumberBetween(0, defParse)));

   —–

   Zero check:
   private int CheckIfLessThanZero (int input)
   {
   if (input < 0)
   {
   return 0;
   }
   else
   {
   return input;
   }
   }

   —–

   Happy to share the code with everyone or even work with anyone to make this a little better than a novice could add.

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   1. Thanks for sharing Chris!

      In the damageToPlayer calculation, is “defParse” from the MaximumDefense property of the player’s armor?

      There’s also a cool trick you can do with the CheckIfLessThanZero function. There is a Math.Max function that will accept a list of integers and return the largest value. So, the function below will return 0 when “input” is less than 0. Otherwise, it returns “input”.
      private int CheckIfLessThanZero(int input)
{
return Math.Max(0, input);
}

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      1. Yes it’s from the MaximumDefense property in the armor, parsing into an int for the function (I may have overthought that a little bit and there is likely an easier way to get the value.)

         Will update the Math.Max function. A lot easier to code that way.

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         1. Because the MaximumDefense property is an “int”, it should always have a value – it defaults to “0”. So, you should be able to use it without any parsing.

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