Tell the XNA GS and Community team what you think of the new RPG starter kit. We'd love to hear your thoughts and how you are extending it!

You can find the starter kit here.

6/25:  The starter kit has been updated.  Find more information later in this thread, in this post.

I can't wait to make my own modifications!

Noooooo! I had another project I wanted to do first! But now... thanks to you guys.. I have to go play around and make a rpg.. ugh... The nerve! Distracting me from wasting my time on other projects! sheesh!

Oh, and umm, RPG Starter kit looks absolutely wonderful so far. I just read through the tutorial on adding a quest, but I haven't delved into the source yet! I kow this is one of the starter kits I wanted though, so kudos to those who designed this for us!

Sakamura:

Could someone change the web page to display the size of the development kits??

It's about 90,4 MB

Btw, any mapeditor? :o

Rotab:

Btw, any mapeditor? :o

Interesting:

Just found out it dumped it into the visual studio 2008 templates folder, instead of the 2005 folder. After manually copying the files to the 2005 folder it shows up.. installer bug? or does 2008 overwrite some registry values the installer looks up to find the install directory?

Cdxrd:

Anyone else have troubles installing? I have 2.0 and 3.0 installed, downloaded and ran the installer.. twice.. The RPG game does not show up under create in either version. Ive clicked both vis c# and xna game studio to make sure it wasnt just hidden somewhere, but its just not showing.. \

Interesting:

 

Just found out it dumped it into the visual studio 2008 templates folder, instead of the 2005 folder. After manually copying the files to the 2005 folder it shows up.. installer bug? or does 2008 overwrite some registry values the installer looks up to find the install directory?

 

That is a known issue with all of our VSIs (starter kit installers) and Visual Studio 2008.  We are working on a proper description of the problem for the site.

I cannot install the starter kit. It comes up with an error saying "String cannot have zero length", and it doesn't do anything.

I have Visual Studio 2005 Professional, Visual C# 2008 Express, GSE 1.0 Refresh, GSE 2.0, GSE 3.0.

A quick search for the error message you received shows the following results. Perhaps one of those will help you.

This is a great starter kit.  It's great to see one way of organizing an RPG.

I have one question though.

I was reviewing the code, and I came across a statement in the InputManger::ResetActionMaps() method (line 726) that doesn't quite make sense to me:

actionMaps = new ActionMap[(int)(int)Action.TotalActionCount];

What's the purpose for doing the double int cast?  I can understand the reason for doing a single cast but not two.  Is this a typo?

Thanks in advance for the clarification!