Shape Defense

Shape Defense is a top-down tower-defense-based game written solely with C++ and SDL2. It's partly an exercise in game engine architecture design; partly an exercise in optimization; and partly an exercise in game construction :)

Feel free to contribute; just send me a message (preferably), or a pull request directly.

Dependencies List:

• C++17
• SDL2
  • SDL_Image
  • SDL_TTF
• CMake

Tools Used:

• valgrind
• gdb
• CLion
• CMake
• gnuprof

Feature List:

done, [n] future work

• Game
  • Main Menu
  • Gameplay
  • Towers
    • Can build towers
    • [n] can repair towers
    • [n] can destroy towers
  • Resource system
    • Can have and spend resources
    • [n] can have buildings that modify resource usage / storage
  • [n] Upgrade system
  • Balancing
    • Has a few types of towers, one type of enemy
    • [n] More types of towers and enemies
• Engine (very roughly an Entity-Component-System design)
  • Physics
  • efficient quadtree-based collision system
  • Graphics
  • Can render entities efficiently
  • [n] Can render entity types
  • [n] Can move the camera around smoothly
  • [n] Audio
  • Basic AI
  • Enemies go towards closest player entity and will attack
  • [n] "heuristic grid" of best places to go towards, i.e. around walls
  • [n] Advanced AI
  • [n] Limited enemy view range
  • [n] "Alive" enemies
  • [n] I/O
  • [n] serialization / deserialization
  • UI
  • Have buttons, menus, etc.
  • Supports drawing from text files
  • [n] Easily supports drawing from images
• Misc
  • [n] Write Wiki / Documentation
  • [n] Plan out game design and engine design
  • [n] write unit testing system

Known bugs:

• [n] no unit testing system: whoops, this is pretty important actually
• [n] Quadtree: sometimes, the quadtree system seems to "lose" elements, where elements don't seem to be where we expect them to
• [n] entity lifetimes: needs checking