Turn-based Strategy Template

Defeat all enemies before they take out your squad. Play tactically and take all the advantages you're given (including the wonky Enemy AI) to bring them down!

Controls:

• WASD - Move Camera
• Q/R - Rotate Camera
• Mouse Left Click - Select your current action, and press on a valid tile to perform the action.
• Escape key (Windows executable only) - Exit game

Action Costs:

Move	1 Action Point
Spin (...for style points)	1 Action Point
Shoot	1 Action Point
Grenade	2 Action Points
Sword	2 Action Points

This is a short turn-based strategy game that was created for the purpose of acting as a versatile template for all types of games that can take advantage of a robust grid system with the support of A* Pathfinding and a modular unit action system. I plan to come back to it shortly and add some more features for it to become an enjoyable standalone experience as a turn-based tactical shooter.

Future to-do list:

• Improve on the AI decision making. The foundation is solid, but currently they all crowd towards a certain position if they don't see the possibility of attacking the player. Make them think of sequential actions to attack the player (i.e. move + shoot)
• Click on an enemy to see their attack range (like Fire Emblem)
• Reusable interact action to open containers, doors, press buttons, or anything else.
• Pause Menu system, volume control, video settings.
• Controls and action points explained in game.
• Variants on the enemy with different actions, # of action points, HP, etc.
• Sound effects for all actions.
• When a complete version of this project is finished, I can use the foundation to inspire the structure of any future game.

GitHub link to source code: https://github.com/nogs573/turn-based-strategy

This game was written while following CodeMonkey's course on turn-based strategy games. I learned a ton on how to make my game code as decoupled as possible, used C# generics and delegates, and implemented some useful game programming patterns that we briefly touched on in university such as Singleton and Observer.