Overview

Sydewinder is a simple game made with C# that shows how to interact with the CRYENGINE from C#. This tutorial guides you through all the necessary steps in order to get started from scratch using C#.

The demo game resembles an endless side-scroller with a high score counter. A spaceship flies from left to right through a space station while being attacked by enemy ships. The game is created in a simple manner to focus on the actual mission and demonstrates the interaction with the sub-systems of CRYENGINE.

CRYENGINE has the potential to create completely new worlds through the use of the Sandbox Editor. However, the Sydewinder game intentionally focuses on programming-driven game development. The entire level construction, logic and entity spawn points are purely script driven in a player centric level-model. Therefore, the level which is provided with the sample game contains hard-coded links and cannot be changed.