Text-Based-RPG [Object Oriented Programming]

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Text Based RPG

I created this repository to make practice of my OOP (Object-Oriented-Programming) skills. In this project, I'm going to make a simple Text Based RPG game that contains basic RPG game characteristics in C# on Windows Form Application.

What are the classes/objects in our game?

For our game, we want to do these things:

• The player goes to locations.
• The player gets stronger when level up.
• The player can trade with vendors/stores in a certain Location.
• The player may need to have certain items to enter a location.
• The location might have a quest available.
• To complete a quest, the player must collect certain items and turn them in.
• The player can collect items by going to a location and fighting monsters there.
• The player fights monsters with weapons.
• The player can use a healing potion while fighting.
• The player can change the active weapon.
• The player receives loot items after defeating a monster.
• After turning in the quest, the player receives reward items.
• The player can choose to revive by sacrificing max hit points after death.

So, the nouns (classes/objects) in our game will be Player, Location, Item, Quest, Monster, Weapon and Healing Potion. We'll need a few more, but we can start with these.

What's next?

This is a very simple RPG, and there is a lot you can do to expand it.

Here are a few ideas:

• Save the player's current game to disk, and re-load it later (Currently I did it with XML)
• Add a level requirement for some items
• Add a level requirement for some locations
• Add spells and scrolls
  • Level requirements for the spells
  • Cooldown (turn based) system for the spells
• Add different kinds of potions: increased damage, critical damage, etc.
• Add curse system : freeze, paralyze, poison, etc.
  • Add special weapons with curse ability
• Add randomization to battles
  • Determine if the player hits the monster
  • Determine if the monster hits the player
• Add player attributes: strength, dexterity, etc.
  • Use attributes in battle: evade chance, critical hit chance, critical damage, etc.
• Add armor and jewelry
  • Makes it more difficult for the monster to hit the player: defense point, armor etc.
  • Has special benefits: increased chance to hit, increased damage,critical hit chance, etc.
• Add crafting skills the player can acquire
• Add crafting recipes the player use
  • Require the appropriate skill
  • Requires components (inventory items)
• Make some quests repeatable
• Make quest chains (player must complete the Quest X before they can receive Quest Y)
• Add pets
  • Can help the player in battle by attacking opponents
  • Can help the player in battle by healing the player
  • Can help the player by cursing the opponents

There are also more programming techniques you can learn to make the program a little cleaner. In our code we already used some of these techniques.

• LINQ, when searching lists
• Events/delegates, to handle communication between the logic project and the UI project – which will let you move more logic code out of the UI project
• BindingList, so you don't have to repeatedly repopulate the DataGridViews and ComboBox in the UI

What will the game look like?