Hi there,

I've decided that I should try (only try...) to participate with the game I'm writing right now, a Tower Defense one

People that know my GitHub may have noticed there some bits of it already, but if you look closely, it's only the Screen Manager library, not a single line for the game itself
(So it's good according to the rules )

The GamePlay should be "basic", like a simple TD you can find anywhere in Flash...
I hope I have some time to make it work well before the contest ends... but it should be good enough at least if I dont make everything I would have wanted, for some entry-level game.

Here are some alpha-version screenshots...



As you can see, I have also focused on "quality" dialogs (I mean, like native), thanks to ETK (EEPro ToolKit, a GUI lib by Jim Bauwens), maybe to try to popularize GUI libs among the un-standardized Nspire-Lua programs

But don't worry about the design of towers (circles) and enemies, that's just for debugging )

The game grid is "active", meaning, you can mouse over the cells to get info, as well as interact with the keyboard (arrows) to move the selected cell.
There are 4 types of towers and enemy types : water, earth, fire, and air. The towers will do more damage to the corresponding enemy, obviously.
I haven't programmed yet the attacking part () but I plan to make it so that you get points for each kill, which makes you also earn money to buy/upgrade towers.
I haven't really decided yet but the wave system will probably be something like ...  "more difficult each time because of the health increase of the enemies". Maybe more enemies too, each wave, idk
The AI part is probably the one handling enemies' moves : they auto adapt to the map, not with a hardcoded path While it's not much of an advanced AI (idk exactly ), I still find that part pretty cool

I make it with the 3.2 SDK but I think it should work with 3.x if I just "compile" it with Luna

More soon !

Also, if you have any ideas for a feature etc...

Byebye


EDIT : Update (30/06/12) :
Some update(s) :

- Path algorithm/AI fort he enemies optimized and complete ! (works with any map, and with some "flawed" ones  (thanks to AI ))
- Wave system completely done and quite optimized I think
- Attacking done but not animated (no shooting animations for example... will see later)
- Range of a tower displayed on mouseover
- I still need to do :
   -- money system
   -- better menu(s)
   -- score + stats management
   -- level selection (more maps)
   -- multilanguage


Anyway, I won't have much time (at all ?) until the end of the contest, sadly, because TI-India is giving me an enormous amount to do x)
I'll see what I can do.
But after the 15th anyway (it's a deadline), I can improve it, even if it's too late

Nice Adriweb ! Looks like it will be a fun game
(Also, cool that you are using ETK)

Nice job. At least you got the AI done. 

Looks pretty nice so far. Will you update the graphics to use actual sprites in the future or is it out of the question (or Lua capabilities for that kind of game)?

Also is this the only Omni Nspire contest project? If so, then you win by default.

EDIT Nvm there appears to be others, although one is in Ndless or BASIC.

Little Update before last day ! ()

So, the game is almost finished for its core, but I haven't found the time to make a more beautiful GUI than right now... I wonder if I'll just go with an image or something, for the menu

Anyway, the game should be crash-safe, and now has a save ability (but since you're supposed to finish/lose the game in one time (no multiple gaming sessions for a single map, I mean, as I've seen on flash TD), your game will resume (if wanted) with the same money you had and at the same level, but you'll have to re-place your towers muhahaha).

Anyway, I may have time to add another map (but then I'd have to code a lvl selection thing...) and to spice if the difficulty / decrease money earnings as it's a bit easy right now.

I also made the tower upgrades (improves its range) and improved the gamescreen's statusbar.

Screenshots in a few hours.

Cool!, this is looking awesome!


and btw the one on githhub it only says Hallo! and nothing else

Ah, thats right this is for the contest

It's a bit easy because you get much money and the difficulty doesn't increase very much.

Yes, I didnt have time to think about a nice difficulty-increase formula, but I will change that soon.

Also I think there's a bug, because sometimes there doesn't come a new wave if you click, just nothing happens, even if you save, quit and load again.

This happened to me a while ago but I thought I fixed it... I never got it since
Any condition on making it do that again ?

It's a bit strange that in the pop-up to buy a tower you can only navigate with the up/down arrow keys and in the tower upgrade pop-up only with left/right arrow keys.

Weird, will fix that, thanks.

You could probably make the towers a bit weaker and more levels of upgrade.

Yes. For now, the update improves the range. I will think about something else to improve.

Apart from that it's quite addictive

Thanks It will be even more with the more maps I'll include soon and the map editor too


BTW : I could only test recently on 3.2, so maybe I couldn't have some bugs only in 3.1....