Welcome to the Gardens of the Galaxy wiki!

You can use the navigation bar on the right to find the page you're looking for.

A recommended starting place is Getting Started.

A complete walkthrough of the game is provided here.

Game Feature Links:

• Cutscenes

• Tile System

• Inventory

• Items

  • ItemPickupComponent

• Map System

  • GameMap class
    • GameMap Test Plan
    • How to create test instances of GameMap class for JUnit testing
  • TerrainTile class
    • Terrain Movement Modifiers
      • Terrain Movement Modifiers Test Plan
  • Loading the Map

• Sound System

• Menu Screens

• Pause System

• UI Skin

• Time System

• Time System (Sprint 2 Onwards)

• Placeables

• Player Highlight

• Tools

  • Tool Types
  • Tractor

• Alien Fauna

  • Behaviour Summary
  • Passive Fauna
  • Hostile Fauna
  • Combat
  • Programming Guide
  • Integration of features
  • Sound Effects
  • Validation - User Testing
  • Fireflies
  • Entity Indicator
  • Visual Effects for Animal Interactions

• Plants

  • Plant Component
  • Plant Properties and Types
  • Plant Configs
  • Creating Plants using PlantFactory.java
  • PlantAreaOfEffectComponent
  • Plant info display component
  • Plant mouse hover component
  • Plant sound proximity component

• Missions (Achievements and Quests) System

  • How-to Guide: Creating a Mission
  • How-to Guide: Creating a Reward

• Player Ship

  • Player Ship Implementation

• Weather and Climate System

• Oxygen System

• Lighting System

• Particle System

  • Particle Effects

• Save Load

• Discord Rich Presence

Game Engine Links:

• Entities and Components
  • Entity Component System (ECS)
  • Entities
  • Components
  • Configuring Entities
  • Events
  • Interaction with non-tile entities
• Service Locator
• Loading Resources: Batch loading game resources through the Resource Service.
• Logging:
• Unit Testing
• Debug Terminal
• Input Handling
  • Input Handling Overview
  • Using the Input System
• UI: Rendering UI elements on the game screen.
• Animations: Adding animations to entities.
• Audio: Playing audio.
• AI: Adding AI to entities.
• Physics: The physics Engine.
• Game Screens and Areas
  • Game Screens
  • Game Area
• Terrain
• Concurrency & Threading: General-purpose multi-threading through the Job System.
• Settings: The Settings Screen.