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Mar 22, 2008 9:11 PM #98094

Okay, I was inspired by handdrawngames.com to make my own tower defense game. I already loved TDs because of Warcraft, but I wanted to make a flash version due to its accessibility. The end result was a design based on Stickpage Portal. Now the goal of the game is to have 100 levels of varying creeps and towers that will progressively get harder. Unlike Desktop TD by handdrawngames.com, I want to make a harder TD that makes the player build more intricate mazes and hopefully more addictive. I'm posting this here as a way to show you my progress in the design of Stickpage TD and I hope that you as readers will help me come up with more ideas.

The only thing I need right now are creep (monster) and tower designs for the game. I've already made a simple turret type cannon that would be a basic lvl one tower. I would like for some other people to get involved and submit their own designs. Please be aware that all creeps and tower designs need to be drawn in a perfect square so that I can resize them accordingly. Thank you for your time and I hope that the game will be fun and enjoyable.

Ok, I have decided that the towers will be stickfigures and the creeps are up to design by the forum members. I will probably make some of my own, but you are more than welcome to submit your own designs. I'll update this post to show my progress on the towers.

Towers:
swfup sucks and deleted my files so I need to rehost them.

[swf="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b262/Yourapaperclip/StickpageTD-1.swf"]width=600 height=350][/swf]

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Mar 22, 2008 9:15 PM #98100

Looks good so far; keep up the good work!

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Mar 22, 2008 9:51 PM #98121

Sounds awesome PC :) i love TD games so im sure it'll be awesome. you said if we want to make designs, they need to be in a perfect square...but cant anything be resized into a perfect square?

anyway GL with the game hope to see good progress made soon :)

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Mar 22, 2008 9:52 PM #98122

Well, you can't really tell how it is right now. But seems pretty planned. Good luck on this project.

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Mar 22, 2008 9:56 PM #98126

Cool.

Do you mind uploading some examples of the towers and turrets? I just want to see what your art style is so I don't through off the style. I'm kind of interested in making something for fun.

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Mar 22, 2008 9:57 PM #98128

Good luck with this, I tried one of these last years, got one tower coded, the first map and the bullets, then lost interest. Nice layout but have you got a plan for placing the towers, this was the problem I came across and what I used were places that you clicked on which brought up a list of the towers that could be placed there. I'll happily help with tower designs, PM me with anything you want kept in like colour and any parts you want seperate like rotating barrels or bullets for the tower. You should also decide what towers you going to use aswell, along with the posibility of mines or walls.

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Mar 23, 2008 4:05 AM #98407

Need examples for same reasons as Doodman.

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Mar 23, 2008 4:23 AM #98432

Interesting idea. Hope it goes well. Will the creeps be stick figures?

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Mar 23, 2008 5:03 AM #98473

I think I'm going to go on warcraft and play some tds right now, in fact.

I made an earth tower, or an idea for one at least.
the projectile could be something like this
http://www.swfup.com/file/164085

and the tower would look like this maybe
http://www.swfup.com/file/164089

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Mar 23, 2008 6:49 AM #98562

Cool designs already! I've enjoyed TD games and I'd like to see what you'll make.

But uh...I guess its just a coincidence that can be abbreviated, "STD"?

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Mar 23, 2008 8:40 AM #98599

How about your tower IS StickpagePortal?

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Mar 23, 2008 1:02 PM #98719

I know this would be stealing from many other TD games, but bash towers are great. (Bash towers hit the immediate area around them and deal a huge amount of damage, with a chance of stun on the enemy, but go really slowly)
I think there should also be a crap tower, where it is really cheap, and does a lot of damage, but sucks at upgrading and isn't good after the first couple levels. Another tower would be one that sucks the first bunch of upgrades, but then has one upgrade where it gets like, 6 times better or something.

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Mar 23, 2008 6:41 PM #98984

Quote from LN3uq
I think I'm going to go on warcraft and play some tds right now, in fact.

I made an earth tower, or an idea for one at least.
the projectile could be something like this
http://www.swfup.com/file/164085

and the tower would look like this maybe
http://www.swfup.com/file/164089

Very nice! I take it you have played Element TD 4.0. I like the style. I'm not sure if I could imitate it, but I do like it.

Quote from SSOutPhase
Cool designs already! I've enjoyed TD games and I'd like to see what you'll make.

But uh...I guess its just a coincidence that can be abbreviated, "STD"?

No, I did that on purpose. Glad you caught it.

Quote from Noob_of_doom
I know this would be stealing from many other TD games, but bash towers are great. (Bash towers hit the immediate area around them and deal a huge amount of damage, with a chance of stun on the enemy, but go really slowly)
I think there should also be a crap tower, where it is really cheap, and does a lot of damage, but sucks at upgrading and isn't good after the first couple levels. Another tower would be one that sucks the first bunch of upgrades, but then has one upgrade where it gets like, 6 times better or something.

I have already decided to include bash towers. They are nothing new and therefore it wouldn't be stealing.

Quote from Dudeman.
Cool.

Do you mind uploading some examples of the towers and turrets? I just want to see what your art style is so I don't through off the style. I'm kind of interested in making something for fun.

Lol, well my basic turret was a place marker in the layout image up top. The way I wanted it to work was that all the towers you can build are selectable from that bottom h.u.d. As I haven't decided if I want to go elemental or not, I just drew a little cannon in a square. It will be changed.

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Mar 23, 2008 7:49 PM #99039

Yeah, it's one of my favorite games on warcraft, I'd say.

I can always make some changes to it if it doesn't fit the style

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Mar 23, 2008 9:02 PM #99151

For the creeps you could use active members of the forum or mods/admins/NTF and let them draw thier own creep to represent them if they wish and are capable of making it look decent.