{"id":1015,"date":"2023-01-08T21:47:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2023-01-08T21:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T02:50:50","slug":"new-monogame-tutorial-summoners-tale-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-monogame-tutorial-summoners-tale-05\/","title":{"rendered":"New MonoGame Tutorial – Summoner’s Tale 05"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was hard at work today on tutorial five, 05, in my A Summoner’s Tale series to my Google Drive. Like the last tutorial, this tutorial works on graphic user interface elements. It adds a new control to the project, a list box. It also adds forms that we will be using to create the editor. I demonstrate how to use forms by making the main form we will use for building the editor and creating a simple message box that we will expand as we go. You can find the tutorial on my blog’s A Summoner’s Tale page. Also, you can access it from this direct link<\/a>. The forms are a bit Windows XP-like in their title bar colour. Otherwise, they will be macOS-like in that the controls for a window will be on the left rather than the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s Next?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Well, I don’t know if I will have time this week for tutorials. Also, I want to spend time on Shadow Monsters this week. But don’t get me wrong, making such excellent progress on tutorials has been amazing. I would still like to make an equal amount of progress on my personal projects. Anyway, I don’t want to go off on my projects in this section. So, back to A Summoner’s Tale. I will tackle tiles and sprites in the following tutorial. I want to include tiles that I feel comfortable with the solution. I also want to find a sprite to use for the player character. I think I will skip character generation and just go for one standard character. It will just make finding something more manageable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So, I started talking about my game in the previous section. I want to finish it and make it available for people to play. I think, in a way, I have been procrastinating. Level design isn’t as attractive as writing code and tutorials. I’m looking at a minimum of eight one-hundred by one-hundred tile maps. That is hand painting eighty-thousand tiles, each with at least one layer, with most having two or three layers. So, I’m going to average it down a bit and say one-hundred and forty-thousand tiles are being placed. It is not insurmountable; it just requires a lot of work. That does not count for painting the interior of any buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final Thoughts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Well, I had quite a run of tutorials over the past week. I’ve finished and posted five of them. It was a lot of work but well worth the effort. It has energized me, and I’m not dreading writing code all week for work. It helps, too, that the problematic project I have been working on is winding to a close. I am starting a fresh one tomorrow. I have been avoiding Shadow Monsters because I haven’t liked the idea of content creation. It is a necessary evil, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I will leave you with these thoughts. I wish you all the best with your own game programming adventures.
Cynthia<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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