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 [email protected] 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

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

Development Instructions

1. Download and install any version of Visual Studio 2017
2. Download and install Monogame 3.7.1 for Visual Studio.
3. Download and install the 2012 VC++ x64 Redistributable
4. Clone this repository
5. Open the solution, and set the solution configuration to debug, x64.
6. 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

MagicalLifeSettingsStandard

• Holds some settings for all of the assemblies in the project

Libraries Utilized

MonoGame

Released under the Microsoft Public License and the MIT License

Does the heavy lifting for graphics, asset loading, and more!

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FMOD

Released under the FMOD END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT

Audio

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MonoGame.Extended

Released under the MIT License

Used to capture keyboard and mouse input

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A* Algorithm by Roy-T

Released under the MIT License

Provides the pathfinding for Magical Life

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ProtoBuf-net

Released under the Apache License 2.0

Used for quickly serializing objects into a small payload to be sent over the network

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Simple TCP

Released under the Apache License 2.0

Utilized to send data over the network

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C# Spatial Index (RTree) Library

Released under the GNU Lesser General Public License

Used for quickly finding objects nearest to a location, or getting all objects within a certain area.

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