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Re: Tower Defense Framework

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Post by erikb »

Thanks a lot for that link and the idea. It looks very easy to implement a tower defense game with this framework. That's a good idea for teaching, I think. The real problem with noob coders is that most easy problems are not very interesting to solve while learning, but the interesting ones are too complex for beginners.

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Post by palish »

"With the success of this game genre on the flash platform, the next step is to bring this awesomeness to your home desktop."

Shouldn't that be the other way around?

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Post by ido »

What usage does this have other than for learning purposes?

I don't think "Tower Defense" games are that complex that you can't roll your own using something like pygame, and it seems like whatever you could do with a "framework" like that you could just as easily do by modifying an existing open source TD game.

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Post by andyn »

listic wrote: post #4

Would someone with experience in Python please look at the code of this framework and say whether it is good to learn from?

Had a quick look at a few source files in:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~pytower-heros/pytower/main/file...

The code looks readable, very well commented and it appears that game objects are split into appropriate classes and modules.

Go for it.

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Post by lpgauth »

palish wrote: post #5

"With the success of this game genre on the flash platform, the next step is to bring this awesomeness to your home desktop." Shouldn't that be the other way around?

Actually, this started on the desktop. More specifically, inside Warcraft 3?

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Post by enomar »

lpgauth wrote: post #8
palish wrote: post #5

"With the success of this game genre on the flash platform, the next step is to bring this awesomeness to your home desktop." Shouldn't that be the other way around?

Actually, this started on the desktop. More specifically, inside Warcraft 3?

According to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_defense

Tower defense finds its roots in the strategy classic Rampart, an arcade game from 1990. The game involved defending a castle by placing cannons, and making repairs between several rounds of attacks.[6][7] By the new millennium, tower defense games began to appear in user-created maps for StarCraft, Age of Empires II, and WarCraft III.

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Post by SCVirus »

enomar wrote: post #9
lpgauth wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, this started on the desktop. More specifically, inside Warcraft 3?

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_defense Tower defense finds its roots in the strategy classic Rampart, an arcade game from 1990. The game involved defending a castle by placing cannons, and making repairs between several rounds of attacks.[6][7] By the new millennium, tower defense games began to appear in user-created maps for StarCraft, Age of Empires II, and WarCraft III.

Technically StarCraft had only turret, cannon (, lurker, marine, etc) and sunken colony defense maps...
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