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Quote from: Kaptein on February 23, 2010, 01:53:19 amyou guys are making a tower defense game? if the answer happens to be yes, please work faster despite wc3 mods and what not, the only decent tower defense game ever made was Defence Grid, and i played it to deathI personally agree with this one, because i'm not a fan of the other game in line for development. Perhaps X should hold a poll after Tidalus is out!
you guys are making a tower defense game? if the answer happens to be yes, please work faster despite wc3 mods and what not, the only decent tower defense game ever made was Defence Grid, and i played it to death
The first tower defense game I played was Desktop Tower Defense and it got me really excited about the genre. Then I found out that it was atypical in that the creeps don't stick to one predefined path; I tried a few others, but without the maze-building aspect I found them dreadfully uninteresting. What a disappointment!'
Yep, we will be! A Valley Without Wind is currently slated to begin work in early 2011, after our next two games have come out in 2010, plus then also the next AI War game. The TD game we are planning is pretty ambitious on all fronts, so it got bumped from our second slot in 2010 to 2011 so that we would have time to do it justice.
I can picture it now: when you lose win in AVWW, a single mkI bomber arrives in orbit and reduces your valley (and several square miles of surrounding countryside) to a molten crater.
Quote from: Velox on February 23, 2010, 04:02:52 pmI can picture it now: when you lose win in AVWW, a single mkI bomber arrives in orbit and reduces your valley (and several square miles of surrounding countryside) to a molten crater.Fixed
Quote from: keith.lamothe on February 23, 2010, 04:58:03 pmQuote from: Velox on February 23, 2010, 04:02:52 pmI can picture it now: when you lose win in AVWW, a single mkI bomber arrives in orbit and reduces your valley (and several square miles of surrounding countryside) to a molten crater.Fixed And, I will note that AI is definitely on the plans for our implementation of tower defense in AVWW, though. Not quite AI like AI War... but I have some cool ideas for a vaguely-similar rules-bound partially-constrained AI that you both manage your interactions with by your planning as well as needing to react to them as well.
Quote from: RCIX on February 23, 2010, 01:56:33 amQuote from: Kaptein on February 23, 2010, 01:53:19 amyou guys are making a tower defense game? if the answer happens to be yes, please work faster despite wc3 mods and what not, the only decent tower defense game ever made was Defence Grid, and i played it to deathI personally agree with this one, because i'm not a fan of the other game in line for development. Perhaps X should hold a poll after Tidalus is out!Definitely not taking polls for something like that. I can't reasonably bump a game that is 70% done for one that is 0% done. Only reason I did that before was because of some development difficulties with the 70% one, but those are gone now. It seems like you object to that one because of the zombies -- bear in mind, this is a very E-rated sort of game. Even Plants Vs Zombies has more gore than this one will, and it didn't have any gore (just zombies falling to bits in a very cartoony way).
If we weren't going for your money, you wouldn't have gotten as much value for it!Oh, wait... *causation loop detonates*
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't custom Starcraft maps basically spawn the Tower Defense genre? I can't remember a TD game before that. If custom Starcraft maps didn't pioneer the genre, they at least made it mainstream. Those were really fun maps. The Warcraft 3 ones were pretty good too, if not better.
