Creating Gametypes with the Variant Builder

Although optional, the Variant Builder is an useful tool to assist you in the creation of game variants in C# using the Nitrogen API.

1. Open the Nitrogen.VariantBuilder project in Visual Studio.
2. Create a new class for your gametype.
3. Add the following references:

using Nitrogen.Data;
using Nitrogen.GameVariants;
using Nitrogen.GameVariants.Base;
using Nitrogen.GameVariants.Megalo;
using Nitrogen.Metadata;
using Nitrogen.Shared;

4. Implement the IGameVariant interface.
5. Add the OutputPath attribute to the class. You can remove this if you don't want the gametype to be generated.

You should get something that looks like this:

using Nitrogen.Data;
using Nitrogen.GameVariants;
using Nitrogen.GameVariants.Base;
using Nitrogen.GameVariants.Megalo;
using Nitrogen.Metadata;
using Nitrogen.Shared;
using System;

namespace Nitrogen.VariantBuilder
{
	[OutputPath("C:/Users/Matt/Desktop/my_gametype.game")]
	public sealed class MyGameType : IGameVariant
	{
		void IGameVariant.Create (GameVariant gt)
		{
			// Do your thang here
		}
	}
}

By running the Variant Builder application, it will go through each gametype with the OutputPath attribute creating a BLF file at the specified path.