Tower Defense Tutorial and notes

Games
#1

I posted a tutorial and notes on created a tower defense game to my blog: http://www.webdevils.com/?p=873

There are 7 short tutorials covering the basic programming mechanics of a plants vs zombies type game. I’m planning to add more in the future.

The art has been restricted to simple shapes. This helps focus on the game mechanics and makes the tutorials easier to mock up. I’m panning on adding art in the future when the game mechanics are finalized.

I cover the following areas:

  1. Tiled game board

  2. Creating enemies that advance across the screen

  3. destroying enemies

  4. creating defenses

  5. Creating bullets

  6. Damaging and destroying defenses

  7. Firing on enemies in a column

  8. Firing on enemies based on distance
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#2

Oooh, very cool! [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 26825 reply_id: 108907[/import]