Tower defense new game idea

[Laozey]

Tower defense of a core in a futuristic environment

Enemies

Robots which seeks a path to destroy the core (pathfinding shortest path in a grid) The difficulty increases the more viewers play

Towers

Towers requires gold to be built Possibility to upgrade towers with gold

Types of tower:

• Single target
• AOE
• Slow
• "Inferno tower (Clash Of Clan)"
• to be discussed...

Implementations:

!\ \ \ // or just first letter of the tower !up \ \ // upgrades the tower at x y

Ideas:

Hacking tower (turns enemies against each others)
wall !wall <x1> <y1> <x2> <y2>

Map

The map is rectangular The robots spawn to left and the core is to the right

Grid:

• towers are built on cells
• enemies follows cells to move towards the core

Resource

Gold per wave Each viewers has their own gold

[MrEliptik]

Cool idea, thanks for suggesting!

• How and when would the viewers be able to spend their gold?
• It's a collaborative game right? So would it make sense to have shared gold?

[Laozey]

• Thanks! So the viewers would spent their gold on towers and upgrades as explain in the Tower section. For now, I assume viewers can spent their gold whenever they want.

  • But they will not be able to place a tower on a cell where an enemy is (I also could defer the tower placement to when the cell is free of enemies). Enemies would recalculate their path when a new tower is placed as long as performance is not an issue.

• That's a good question: my opinion is that with shared golds, one viewer could spend more gold than others and it could be frustrating for them. By allowing each viewer to have their own golds, they will have the freedom to have their own strategies. It's up to the viewers to either collaborate with each other or not.

[MrEliptik]

Ok I see, I think it can work. The details can always be tweaked later. Navigation can be recalculated on the fly it shouldn't bet too hard. It should not be done every frame though.