RPG Combat & Party Manager
This project was an assessment for the complex systems subject in the Advanced Diploma course at AIE. The assessment was supposed to create a party based combat system used in a C++ text based RPG. The system tracks all of the players parties, as well as an enemy party (during combat).
Above is a screenshot of the first turn of combat using an example team. As seen, the system tracks incorporates all of the stats each unit has (being health, mana, speed, defense, XP required to level up, current level and of course a character name).
The library itself is a DLL, this was chosen as in the past I had created a static library for a different subject and wanted to explore the further. The class structure diagram makes it look a lot more complex than It is, as it mostly contains the variables exactly where you think it would. Below are some parts of the class diagram that I can breakdown parts of the system itself.
This portion is the combat side of the class diagram, and as stated above, it contains the main combat function CombatStart(), which unbelievably starts the combat of both parties. Once in combat, it is essentially a loop that will play through until it returns with either a player win, an enemy win or the player runs away. The enemy party also has some pretty primitive AI to select which attack it will use and on which target.
This is the party manager side of the system, which holds all of the variables associated with the party members. As you can see it holds each of the party members attacks individually (as well as their magic attacks) with all of the associated stats (attack name, damage). There are functions for creating the attacks a really simple for easy implementation by anyone trying to use the system.
Lastly, below is a download link to the project brief to give a little more in-depth run through of how it functions behind the scenes and a post-mortem recap of the project.