An As-Yet Untitled Roguelike

Making a video about making a roguelike! The master branch has the bleeding edge code. If you want to get the code for a specific video, clone a release branch. Each release branch contains the state of the code at the end of a video.

Video 1 - Player Movement

Implemented cell-by-cell movement. This took a little long (~1hr) because I wanted to implement a message queue system. This will help in the long run and was required for later on. Features implemented in this video:

• Player input using the cursor keys
• Animated movement of the player's sprite from one cell to another in the cardinal directions (North, South, East and West)
• Message queue to send messages, events and commands

Video 2

Features implemented in this video:

• Fix a problem with moving - you can move more than once which meant that the player could sometimes land between squares
• Fix sprites transparency
• Collision detection for impassable objects and treasure chests
• Step counter - Added a player manager to measure some metrics. Something to build upon. Like...
• Item chest - Kinda. The treasure chest manager is in, and as per the player manager is something to build on

Video 3

Features implemented in this video:

• Fix collision detection (thanks to Mustafa and Micaiah for pointing out the issue)
• Fix for treasure chest multi-hit (thanks to Mustafa for pointing out the issue)
• Abstract the hit system out of Locomotion
• Static NPC for attacks
  • Some kind of basic hit point system

Video 4

• Basic inventory system (melee and range weapons)
  • How many items can you carry? (SLOTS)
  • Player stats system
    • Melee attack strength
    • Range attack strength
    • Defensive strength (shields
    • Hit points (health) - 10
  • Weapons e.g. range, melee and shields i.e. Equipment uses items from your inventory
    • Equipped / unequipped
      • Equipped slots
      • Main hand, offhand, shield
  • Consumables e.g. food
    • When you use it applies a certain effect on your character
      • e.g. drink potion, gets +1 melee attack bonus for 1min
        • Buff and then a de-buff
      • e.g. Adds +1 to health
    • Is removed from inventory on use
• Buff / de-buff weapons & equipment (i.e. hit, shield etc.)
• Abstract input
• Status bar text e.g. You are overburdoned?
• Abstract movement - are we moving in 2d or 3d. Doesn't matter as far as the game is concerned

Video 5

• Designing map in Tiled and bringing that data into the game
• Added serialization classes to pull in the data from Tiled's JSON format object
• Creating a tilemap object in Unity and addition collision detection for the player
• Having to offset the map generation because tiles are from top-left and not centred

Video 6

• Mapping the layer data in Tiled to objects in Unity
• Moving the generate dungeon out of the tilemap render script

Things to Implement

• Debug info?
• --Input & movement--
• --Commands for movement, save, etc.--
• --Events for well, events--
• Player stats
• Debug overlay
• Map structure / format / display
• Level generation
• Collisions
• Objects; treasure chests, keys
• Random encounters
• Monsters
• Data files vs. hard-coded lookup tables
• Magic
• Tuning
• Shop keepers
• Citizens