For CS467 our group’s project is to make a Tower Defense game. The reason I am most excited about this project is that I have always enjoyed these types of games because they’re simple and easy to pick up while also gradually becoming complex and challenging as the game goes on. My favorite memory of this type of game was from a modded map played from the game Starcraft. In this game mode, there were 8 players placed on a circular circuit that were given units to defend against waves of enemies. These units served as “towers” in the game and could be moved however the player liked. The best strategy was to move these units into a maze-like structure so that the enemy waves can be funneled into a labyrinth maze that would extend the distance that the enemy units would have to travel, giving the player’s units long enough time to destroy them. As each wave is defeated, the difficulty increased which meant stronger waves of enemies that had higher health pools or even unique abilities such as flying. This forced players to adapt to the situation and change their defense formation for the next incoming wave which made the game simple, fun, and challenging which are all aspects that I’d like to incorporate into this project.
