To download the game head to my itch.io page.
For support, bug reports and talking head to my discord server.
This is the source code of my game Mage Quest. This was my first real project and started only 1 1/2 months after I started learning Java so a lot of the times it might not be very efficient. Effectively it took about 3 months in total and is about 21k lines.
Make sure to also look at the credits, there's a ton of helpful resources out there.
- special thanks to FastNoiseLite for the Java noise class
The game was initially made using Java Swing but transitioned to JavaFX for a 15x decrease of render time. JavaFX is only used for handling sound and drawing pictures. For UI elements like windows and sliders, I made them completely natively to have 100% control over the style and feel. Most of the drawing is done through getting map data from maps, indexing into a list and drawing the respective picture. In total there are 5200 unique tile images and about 1200 other game assets. There's also a small lighting system that uses custom light textures which are drawn statically on top of fitting tiles.
- Major character textures from craftpix.net
- most tilesets and effect texture from itch.io
ChatGPT 3.5 - 4 was used throughout the development for brainstorming, optimizing code and generating code. Dall E the image model was used to generate 95% of all 82 item icons.
With the introduction of items I created the first sqlite database. In the current version Iam using 2 sqlite files:
- first for all the user data, inventories, map cover progress and player stats. It will not have to be replaced ever, which allows for easy updates.
- second one for per update files like item database.
After inital manual attempts i quickly started using Tiled. Tiled offers for different export formats. I used the .csv for reading map data and the json-like .tmj for reading spawn data. As I didn't want any major dependencies I am using regex to extract the rectangle information placed inside the map editor as spawn points. This also supports setting up area spawns, type and level.
Iam using jlink to create a custom Java Runtime Environment that includes the necessary JavaFX modules. To then pack it into a .exe i used launch4J. It allows for nice customization and options no how to build the .exe.