I heavily recommend you to use [vcpkg](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) to install the dependencies. When you've done that, either use cmake or the included solution to build with visual studio.
* [ ] Implement Lua for item/effects/action scripting
* Might as well use it for basic data storage as well, since I can then skip creating my own parser or adding an additional library for json/yaml/toml/whatever.