Defining the properties of the enemy

The typical enemy will have the following characteristics:

• It will have health, armor (to prevent physical damage), and magic resistance (to prevent magic damage)

• It will have a certain movement speed

• It will do certain amounts of damage if it reaches the base

• It will have certain rewards on being killed

Based on these characteristics, we will define the following properties for an enemy in our game:

• Health

• Armor

• Magic resistance

• Speed

• Damage

• Reward

Let's now take a look at an excerpt from the enemy_data.xml file to see how we define the XML structure for the enemy data:

<EnemyDataList>
  <EnemyData animation="enemy_1" health="20" armor="0" magic_resistance="0" speed="0.8" damage="1" reward="10" />
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</EnemyDataList>

The root element of the document titled EnemyDataList defines a list of EnemyData tags, one for each type of enemy. The only property that we didn't discuss earlier is the one titled animation. This is nothing but the name of...