Starting The Basic RTS Game Project Structure

First, let's start by slowly building the project structure. I mentioned that I'll be using Monogame. I previously set up a Monogame template in VS 2022, so I can create a project directly. You can take look from this link(Setting up Visual Studio on Windows | MonoGame) I created LdgRpg project as monogame desktop cross-platform project.

I executed and I can see cornflowerblue color filled display. First, I want to add my character. Therefore, I will create an entities folder and add a class called Character. In this class, I will define general properties of this character, such as its position, speed, and size.

Of course, I'll have a general character pool. Therefore, I'll create a manager class to manage this character collection collectively. I also want to assign GUIDs to my characters; this might be useful later.

Normally, Monogame offers a class like Game1, but I want to build my own separate structure. Of course, I will use this structure within the Game1 class. I'm creating my own game manager. This manager will be the hub for managing all other managers.

protected override void LoadContent()
{
    _spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice);
    gameManager = new GameManager();
    // TODO: use this.Content to load your game content here
}

Now we need to add some ridiculous character texture. I'll create a texture manager structure for this. Because managing textures one by one is too much trouble. And let's draw it:

And there it is my little ugly man right there. That's enough for now.

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Let's develop an RPG game

After a long time, I'm decided to back this useless blog and revived again. Well, too much changes happened in the tech. You know AI-era(or hype?) thing, idk. Honestly, after these changes, I feel like content creation has not really mattered anymore. So, at least the kind of content I produce doesn't really matter anymore. People can now create games with simple concepts using just a single prompt. Or they can say "hey teach me that how can i make this game step by step?" to an AI. That's why that's blog going to be more personal about my amateur game development journey. My posts won't contain as much source code as before. This will be a blog where I mostly write about my own process and my observations during this process. Briefly, it won't be like a tutorial. 

 Let's get to the main point. I've decided to make a simple rgp game. Honestly, I don't have much of an idea how i am going to proceed right now, but it will be become clear as I progress, I guess. But I think I'm going to use Monogame framework. I don't want to mess around with a game engine. Of course, I'll use AI to help with this process, but I don't plan on doing anything too AI-generated in the game itself. I think I'll only be able to generate a few basic codes. On the game art side, I'm planning to do pixel art drawing. But that doesn't mean I'll only use pixel art assets. I'll also create and use designs in Blender. I'll use Aseprite for pixel art. I think it would be a good idea to use the power of a blender, as well. After developing the game, I want to release it on a platform, but I am not entirely sure whether it will be mobile or desktop. Right now, I'm leaning towards mobile. 

This post will also serve as the homepage for this development process, so I plan to list the other posts here. The posts are the following:

• Starting The Basic RPG Game Project Structure
• Map Design of the 2D RPG Game

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