The basics.
Sideral Defense is a game made for the indie community in an open minded way. What we wanted with this game on PC is to provide easy access to the modding of its characteristics.
Basically you can mod the different galaxies with the properties of some basic elements:
- Texts.
- Units.
- Ships.
- Levels.
Basically you can create a completelly new experience within the proper game. The only limitation is the basic graphics that are compressed by XNA.
For this basic tutorial, we'll change the properties of an enemy. Depending of how the game works on PC , we may release some extra tools to do this in a easier way.
So let's begin, we'll modify the basic enemy.
First Steps
- Locate the install folder.
Warning: Make a security copy of the Content folder. and rename it with some other name.
- Go to the Content folder.
- Go to the Data folder.
- Go to the Units Folder.
There you'll find the EnemyDefinitions.xml file. So now you can open it with any text editor of your choice (notepad++ is mine). Then let's change some of the properties, once you've modified these properties, you can launch the game again and all enemies will behave as you said.
As you may see you can see all the game enemies definitions, by modifying them you can change the way the game behaves.
Warning: I recommend not changing the EnemyName parameter nor the ImagePath as these are important for the rest of the game to choose from.
Now You've got the basics for Editing enemies on the game. We can do similar with the other elements of the game. Please let us know any great modification you do and we can show them off.
