What is tabletoptavern?

Tabletop Tavern is a released solo indie game built in Unity. This repository contains the C# source code that powers it, shared by the developer as an honest look at what a finished indie project actually looks like on the inside. The intent is not to produce a clean tutorial or a polished showcase, but to show real shipped code with all its imperfections and evolution marks. Important to know upfront: the assets are not included. Art, audio, prefabs, and scenes are all missing because they include licensed third-party content that cannot be freely redistributed. You cannot run the game from this repository alone, but you can read, study, and borrow patterns from the code for your own projects. The game uses a hybrid approach in Unity: a system called DOTS/ECS (which handles unit simulation and is designed for high performance) alongside Unity's older MonoBehaviour system (which handles the user interface and campaign logic). The structure is built around two scenes, one for the campaign map and one for battles. Units, combat, and formations run through ECS, menus and game management use MonoBehaviour. The key systems include a battle simulation with formations and both melee and ranged combat, a campaign map with procedurally generated nodes, a spell system, gear and hero progression, localization through a custom manager, Steam integration, and a pooled audio system. The code is organized across four assemblies covering core game logic, audio, shared utilities, and the procedural map generation module. The developer's notes in the README are candid: some systems aged poorly (the save system is called out specifically), and some architectural choices would be made differently today. That honesty is part of what makes the repository useful as a study resource for other developers learning what a real shipped indie project looks like from the inside.