Thanks for the logo Batarian711!

Magical Life

A fantasy world that imagines what a Rimworld style game could truly do if it had more elements in common with an RPG.

Master Branch:

Development Branch:

Project Needs

Textures
Sound Effects
Songs/Soundtrack
Quests/Written story/Lore
Programmers
Testers

If you can provide one of the above things, let me know!

You can email me at SneakyTactician@outlook.com or create an issue in this repository.

I would appreciate the help. Thanks!

Features

Multiplayer support
Hardware accelerated graphics via Monogame

Check out the demo to see the latest progress!

Roadmap (In no particular order)

AKA TODO:

~~Not buggy graphics~~

~~Items~~

~~Character Actions (such as mining or building)~~

~~Save/Load Game~~

~~Natural objects such as trees~~

Character Classes and ~~XP system~~

~~Inventory~~

Agriculture

Traders

Creatures (Enemies and Animals)

AI

Spells/Abilities

Fantasy Loot

Dungeons

Randomized Quests

Mod support: Always a priority

Installation Instructions

Download and install the .Net Framework 4.7.1 Runtime
Find and download a release from the releases tab of this project
Extract the release
Enjoy!

Development Instructions

Download and install any version of Visual Studio 2017
Download and install Monogame 3.7.1 for Visual Studio.
Download and install the 2012 VC++ x64 Redistributable
Clone this repository
Open the solution, and set the solution configuration to debug, x64.
That's all!

Hint: Due to something weird with Monogame in Visual Studio, I advise building the GUI or Dedicated server (Depending on what you want to debug) everytime you make a code change and want to run this game. Hitting start doesn't always seem to compile your changes/insert breakpoints when working with Monogame.

Vision

A polished game with aspects similar to RimWorld, but with magic and aspects of RPG.

Goals

High replayability value
Balanced gameplay
Fun multiplayer game experience

Dungeons

Should be kinda scary (Scary sound, Scary visuals, nasty monsters)
Dungeons are spawned in the world with random difficulties
- Go into one at your own risk
- Higher the difficulty, the higher the reward
- Some components for spellcasting or tech components might be found here
Unlike games like D&D there are no restrictions on how many characters go exploring a dungeon
- A large population might enable you to raid a more difficult dungeon, abeit with high casualties

Economy

Based on supply and demand
Everything the merchants sell has to come from somewhere
- If supplies dry up, merchants don't have much to sell, and prices spike
You can have your colonists do trade routes with other players, trading goods for other goods or money at a preagreed rate

Multiplayer

Should support at least 10 players running on a dedicated server
Diplomacy system enabling various treaties (As well as war)
- Peace treaty, trade treaty, defensive pact, Alliance
You can claim territory by building a special structure
- Other players cannot do anything besides pass through unless you give them the correct permissions

Enemies

Enemies will be based upon various mythology, such as Greek mythology, Norse mythology...

World

Procedurally generated world
Custom world sizes
Other "Dimensions", with different creatures, plant life, and materials

Food

Everything needs to eat
You start the game with two different bags of seeds
- Seed bags never run out
To get a new type of seed, you have to purchase it from a merchant, or craft a lot of the crop into a seed bag
Merchants only carry a few seeds of a type, so on a large multiplayer server you will have to trade for it

Tech and Magic

Both technology and magic are availible
- Technology is based more upon resource processing and research
- Magic is based upon character leveling up, learning new spells, and gathering components for permenent spells

Classes

Various character classes exist
- Wizard, Cleric, Thief, Paladin, Necromancer (Evil Cleric), Monk, Warrior, Knight *Each of these can have subclasses
Characters with classes like above are not really capable of participating in the tech progression
- They aren't allowed to research technology or construct tech items
When a character levels up, they can choose to gain various abilities
- At low levels, they are allowed to instantly choose which abilities they get when leveling up
- At high levels, they may level up, but to actually get a new ability and spend ability points they need to be trained by a trainer in that specific skill

Skills

Everything is a skill
Construction, Mining, Hauling, shooting, melee, research, trading
Even things from RPG classes are skills
- Just because the wizard gained the ability to cast a new spell, doesn't mean he is good at casting that spell
- Fighters have to get good at the various moves and abilities they learn

Technologies

The tech tree starts in basically the stone age
You know how to make fire, hunt, and make crude weapons and tools
Tech tree ends in the far off future, where everything is digital, artificial intelligence runs your base, and the dying can be healed of everything

Magic

There is a spell for doing almost everything
Spellcasters only know a few spells to begin with
- They have to find scrolls with the correct words to memorize
Some spells are permenent, others are one time effects *Permenent spells require components, and have a high mana cost
- Permenent spells can be destroyed/dispelled
Examples of permenent spells *Light, grow crops, intruder alarm...
Temporary spells
- Terraform land, fireball, energy bolt, magic barrier...
Spellcasters only have so much mana, so they can only cast so many spells until they run out *Mana is regenerated by sleepa
Casters of the same type can work together
- Ex: Two clerics could work together to cast a spell with mana requirements higher than they could meet alone

Credits

Contributors

Lynngr - Did all of the artwork

ockenyberg - Made all of the sound effects

Batarian711 - Created the logo for this project

Assembly Descriptions

MagicalLifeAPIStandard

The main game API, manages most things except for graphics and server commands

MagicalLifeAPIClientStandard

Manages how the client interprets messages from the server

MagicalLifeDedicatedServerCore

Controls the server
Run server commands

MLGUIWindows

Windows only graphical client

MagicalLifeMod

The core game content, added into the game in the form of a mod *This is done to ensure that mods have a good API to interact with, and not limit modding capabilities *If the main game can do it, so can any mod

MagicalLifeServerStandard

Handles server functionality such as:
- Sending information to clients
- Handling information from clients
- Generating the world
Handles both dedicated and local server logic