However, before jumping the gun, let's check out the Configuration Manager:įor playing the game the configuration should be 'Non-Steam Release'. The relevant functions are under the Build menu. In the end if everything went right, you should be looking at a screen like this: If you had to restart, just start Visual Studio and open the 'Star Ruler 2.sln' file again. Keep focused on the thought of turning some insufferable elf race's planets into glass. It might ask you to restart your system for god knows what reason. Some other popups might come along, there might be a survey! Just keep clicking 'Ok' and 'Continue' and other words like that. Yeah, it says 'Modify' instead of 'Install' this time. The Visual Studio installer screen you saw before will come back up. Now Visual Studio will inform you that it doesn't actually have half the stuff it needs to deal with Star Ruler 2. The file Visual Studio wants to see is called 'Star Ruler 2.sln'. Head straight to File -> Open -> Project / Solution. It'll also want you to create an account, but we can actually do without one! Click on 'Not now, maybe later'.Īfter the install is complete, you should see the Start Page of Visual Studio. You might be invited to take a survey or two during this process. If it asks about "workloads" or other things it wants to install, just say yes. You can just click on the install button for now to get going. Thankfully VS comes in parts, and is good about figuring out what parts it requires on the fly. You should see something like this:Īs you can see, there's a ton of options about exactly what to install. Just click on the download link on the web page, and then launch the installer you downloaded. We'll use it to compile the code you just downloaded into an actually functioning videogame. It's a set of tools that are used to create programs, such as video games. Visual Studio is an IDE, or an Integrated Development Environment. You can double click on it already, but it'll do nothing, since there are no binaries to actually launch. If you look in the folder, you'll see an inviting 'Star Ruler 2.exe' executable. For the purposes of the tutorial I just unzipped it at the root of my D: drive, but the location doesn't matter. Now unzip the package wherever you want the game to reside. Of course if you play the game and end up liking it, I encourage you to actually buy it. You can use this to check out how their engine works, do further hobbyist development, or you know, just play the game. I tried to make this very approachable, so anyone should be able to follow. I've created a short tutorial on how to set up a Star Ruler 2 development environment on Windows 10.
Unfortunately the game wasn't a commercial success, so they've decided to share what they have under the very permissive MIT license. They have released the entire game as open source. Star Ruler 2 is a space 4X strategy game developed by Blind Mind Studios.
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