Want to make **Tower Defense** as my first Game. How do I do this?

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How do I learn to make Tower Defense Game?

Hello, I am new, as you can see. Anyways I wanted to simply make a quick Tower Defense game that includes the following items

  1. Gold mine (this must be protected from the invaders otherwise you lose)
  2. and a Enemy Walking path

How do I do this? Where do I learn? How can I learn both basic and advance scripting techniques?

→ Would you say this is too complicated for a newbie? How can I learn how to make all of this possible? I want to be able to make at least one fully operational demo and later on to a game. I think starting off with a Tower defense would suit me well.

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First I’d check out a few of the game tutorials, and then looking at the scripting tutorials. Unityscript or C#, take your pick.

You’ll need -

Waypoints
Manager script - handles placing towers, and keeping track of power ups, cash, etc.
Enemy script - has a variable health, and just follows the Waypoints till it reaches your mine.
Mine script - has a variable health, when an enemy gets to it’s reduced, when it gets to 0 it’s game over.
Tower script - would have variables like attackRadius, attackDamage, attackType(laser, missile, etc) and will attack anything inside it’s radius.

Then you need some graphics, 2d or 3d and sounds.

It should be a good learning experience and not too difficult.

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Thanks. I will look at all of that which you have suggested. Thanks for the help.

What I really want to do is make a game that is unique, however Tower Defense games are overly produced. I want to go to a genre that has been overdone and see if I can introduce new concepts.

Thanks for the help.

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I am working on a Tower Defense game as my first project, and I would definitely recommend that you take a look at iTween for animation. I bought all of their example codes and there is a ton of great code examples in there to get you started.

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I am attempting a Tower Defense Game for my first one as well.

It’ll be a bit more than just a Tower Defense Game, but still-- that’s the core of it!

Mine will also have though…

Characters. Ones that can move around. And multiplayer (4 players).

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I was unaware that Tower Defenses had become the “new Pong”. At he’s not attempting an MMO. :wink:

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can somebody help me with the manager script?