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tsoule88 / evolvedTD

Evolutionary tower defense game from the University of Idaho
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more game play changes #240

Closed tsoule88 closed 9 years ago

tsoule88 commented 9 years ago

Creatures are slightly less aggressive: slower initial speed, more variable angles. Creatures can eat towers again (the brain was never telling them to, possibly due to fewer brain outputs) Player starts with a bioreactor (it would be good to also start with a drill and maybe rail gun, but I couldn't get it to work). It's now hard to get past the first wave or two (hint: upgrading towers helps a lot), but gets much easier

I think we over balanced evolutionary trade-offs without taking into account the players improvements. E.g. increased armor is good, but causes lower speed. Given how rapidly the player can improve I think that unbounded improvements would be fine.
I.e. creatures evolve more health, better armor, ability to take bigger bites of the towers ("munchstrength") all without evolutionary balances.

On the player side the tower updates seem a bit too powerful, at least for the base costs.

doug-graham commented 9 years ago

I liked the spammability of wave fire, I think we should just make it cost what it would ordinarily cost to fire that many projectiles of each type.

tsoule88 commented 9 years ago

I started to do that, but calculating the energy cost for multiple projectiles from multiple weapons was looking tricky and I got lazy ☺

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I liked the spammability of wave fire, I think we should just make it cost what it would ordinarily cost to fire that many projectiles of each type.

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doug-graham commented 9 years ago

It didn't turn out to be so hard after all because each tower has its own wave_fire function, so you just have to calculate the cost as 20*ecost. I just did it.