Using Brackeys – How to make a Tower Defense Game(Video above), a series of tutorials. I created a map, with a road the enemy follows, enemies, spawn point and end point, a tower that locks onto and follows the enemy, and a countdown timer. A screen recording of my game is below.
I have learned all of listed except the countdown timer. Brackeys does a really good job of explaining things, what exactly the code does, things he does, like personal preferences, for example, the layout of the road, completely based on the creator’s preferences. I have not finished the tutorials, but I may in the future. And learn how to make the towers shoot, how to spawn turrets, and the scripting required. I recommend Brackeys for everyone wanting to learn how to create games, and who are interested in tower defense games. I used the process of watching the videos, and creating everything he does as I progress through them, pushing pause as needed.
The above video is a screen video of a maze I created. The red box, was designed by a teammate. The walls, timer, moving ball, and floor were all designed by me. Most of it I was able to do based on previously learned knowledge. Though occasionally I needed to look up a forum for help on certain tasks in the coding. For example, how to make a value decrease by one each second, for the timer. This was the first design, prebuilt walls. I’m in the process of creating a second design, where a piece of code will automatically create a maze, allowing a randomized map each time the game is played. For this I am following the FlatTutorials videos on creating a maze on YouTube.