I need some help, making a tower defense and unsure of what to do next

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Ok so, I am making a tower defense game (watched a tutorial on youtube to get to this point and now I’m completely stumped)

The towers, lives, minions are all working, but I don’t know how I can make the towers “attack” the minions and make the minions lose hp, does anyone know how to do this? here’s some of my code so far

this is for importing the images

                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                             
//Importing Images Class
package LeagueTD;

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class ac extends JPanel {

	public Image back;
	public Image[] ene = new Image[200];//monster
	public Image[] style = new Image[200];
	public Image[] tower = new Image[200];
	public Image defeat;

	public boolean imagesLoaded=false;

	public ac(){
		this.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
		getImages();
	}

	public void getImages(){
		back=new ImageIcon("back.png").getImage();

		ene[0]=new ImageIcon("pinkminion.png").getImage();

		style[0]=new ImageIcon("health.png").getImage();
		style[1]=new ImageIcon("gold.png").getImage();
		style[2]=new ImageIcon("fade.png").getImage();

		tower[0]=new ImageIcon("ashe.png").getImage();

		defeat=new ImageIcon("defeat.png").getImage();


		imagesLoaded=true;
	}

	public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
		if (imagesLoaded){
			g.drawImage(back, 0, 0, aa.width-6, aa.height-28, null);
		}
	}
}

and this is for the game itself

                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                             
package LeagueTD;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionAdapter;

import javax.swing.*;

public class ad extends JPanel {

	public int spawnRate=200;
	public int maximumAmountOfMobs=200;
	public int[] mobKind;
	public int mobMovementSpeed=10;
	public int mobPinkMinion=0;
	public int mobSize=40;
	public int health=30;
	public int money=500;
	public int shopSize=8;
	public int sizeBetween=10;
	public int fade=shopSize+1;
	public int heldTower=0;
	public int towerID[];
	public int air=99;

	public Rectangle[] mobs;
	public Rectangle[] tower;
	public Rectangle[] shop = new Rectangle[shopSize];
	public Rectangle end;
	//public Line2D shot;
	public Point mse;

	public Timer spawn;
	public Timer mobMovement;

	public boolean gameOver = false;
	public boolean inGame = true;
	public boolean holdingTower = false;

	ClassLoader ldr=this.getClass().getClassLoader();
	java.applet.AudioClip audio=JApplet.newAudioClip(ldr.getResource("Explosion.wav"));

	public void defineObjects(){
		mobKind=new int[maximumAmountOfMobs];
		mobs=new Rectangle[maximumAmountOfMobs];
		for (int i=0;i<mobs.length;i++){
			mobs[i]=new Rectangle(-5000, -5000, 0, 0);
			mobKind[i]=0;
		}

		for(int i=0;i<shop.length;i++){
			shop[i] = new Rectangle((130)+i*72+(sizeBetween*i),12,60,80);
		}

		end=new Rectangle(680, aa.height/2, 100,100);

		tower = new Rectangle[200];
		towerID = new int[200];
		for(int i=0;i<tower.length;i++){
			tower[i] = new Rectangle(-5000, -5000, 0, 0);
			towerID[i]=air;
		}
	}

	public ad(ab f,ac bp){
		defineObjects();

		f.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter(){
			public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){
				if(e.getButton()==MouseEvent.BUTTON1){
					if(!holdingTower){
						if(shop[0].contains(mse)){
							heldTower=mobPinkMinion;
							holdingTower=true;
						}
					}
					else{
						for(int i=0;i<tower.length;i++){
							if(towerID[i]==air){
								tower[i]=new Rectangle(mse.x,mse.y, 90,90);
								towerID[i]=heldTower;
								i+=tower.length+1;

							}
						}
					}
				}
			}
		});

		//Fade
		f.addMouseMotionListener(new MouseMotionAdapter(){

			public void mouseMoved (MouseEvent e){
				mse=new Point(e.getX(), e.getY()-23);
				boolean nope =true;

				for(int i=0;i<shop.length;i++){
					if (shop[i].contains(mse)){
						fade=i;
						nope=false;
					}
				}
				if (nope){
					fade=shopSize+1;
				}
				repaint();
			}
		});

		ActionListener spawnListener = new ActionListener(){
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
				if (inGame=true){
					for(int i=0;i<maximumAmountOfMobs;i++){
						if (mobs[i].x <=0){
							mobs[i]=new Rectangle(aa.width-750,aa.height/2-mobSize/2+55,mobSize,mobSize);
							i += maximumAmountOfMobs+1;
						}
					}
				}
				repaint();
			}
		};

		spawn=new Timer(spawnRate, spawnListener);
		spawn.start();

		ActionListener mobMovementListener = new ActionListener(){
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
				if(inGame){
					for(int i=0;i<maximumAmountOfMobs;i++){
						if (end.contains(mobs[i])){
							health-=1;
							mobs[i]=new Rectangle(-5000, -5000, 0 ,0);
							//audio.play();
							checkforGameOver();
							if(gameOver){
								//audio.stop();
							}

						}
						else{
							mobs[i].x += 1;

						}
					}
				}
				repaint();
			}
		};
		mobMovement=new Timer(mobMovementSpeed, mobMovementListener);
		mobMovement.start();
	}

	public void checkforGameOver(){
		if (health==0){
			gameOver=true;
			inGame=false;
		}
	}

	public void paintComponent (Graphics g){
		super.paintComponent(g);


		if (aa.f.bp.imagesLoaded){
			for (int i=0;i<mobs.length;i++){
				g.drawImage(aa.f.bp.ene[mobKind[i]], mobs[i].x,mobs[i].y,mobs[i].width,mobs[i].height,null);
			}
		}

		//Panel
		g.setColor(Color.DARK_GRAY);
		g.fill3DRect(0,0,aa.width,105,true);

		//Health
		g.setFont(new Font("Arial",Font.BOLD,20));
		g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
		g.drawImage(aa.f.bp.style[0],15,15,40,40,null);
		g.drawString(health + "",66,42);

		//Money
		g.drawImage(aa.f.bp.style[1],15+2,15+48,35,35,null);
		g.drawString(money + "",66,42+43);

		//Towers
		for(int i=0;i<tower.length;i++){
			if(towerID[i] != air){
				g.drawImage(aa.f.bp.tower[towerID[i]], tower[i].x-45, tower[i].y-40,tower[i].width, tower[i].height, null);
			}
		}

		//Hand Held
		if(holdingTower){
			g.drawImage(aa.f.bp.tower[heldTower],mse.x-45,mse.y-40,90,90,null);
		}

		//Panel Component
		for (int i =0; i< shop.length;i++){
			g.setColor(Color.GRAY);
			g.fillRect(shop[i].x,shop[i].y,shop[i].width,shop[i].height);
			g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
			g.drawRect(shop[i].x-2,shop[i].y-2,shop[i].width+2,shop[i].height+2);

			if(i==fade){
				g.drawImage(aa.f.bp.style[2],shop[i].x,shop[i].y,shop[i].width,shop[i].height,null);
			}
		}
		g.drawImage(aa.f.bp.tower[0],15+105,12,80,80,null);



		if (gameOver){
			//Defeat def = new Defeat();
			g.drawImage(aa.f.bp.defeat,0,0,800,600,null);
		}
	}
}
#2

First thing’s first - read up on object-oriented programming, because your code is missing it. To make your game OO, you would have a Tower object, an Enemy object, etc. They probably are both subclasses of an Entity object. The object itself contains the hit points, the damage, the range, etc. Then instead of storing a bunch of Image’s as you are instead the Entity has a reference to its own Image, and you store the Entity instead.

#3 
 public ad(ab f,ac bp){

aa.f.bp.ene

Are you serious? Why are you obfuscating your sourcecode??

If ever, you need to obfuscate your JAR, or more specifically, the bytecode it contains, using a tool like proguard, not manually.

#4

ROFLMAO

#5

Oh what a variable name ;D

IMO, each enemy should let the world (or particular tower) know their position so tower can decide to attack whom. There’re some way to do this. If you want harder way, ask princec ;D

#6

hey, sorry for not replying to your question earlier, but Eli has really sound advice. If it makes you feel any better, I was once at your end of the posts with people telling me to go back to the books, and yeah I know its a bit offensive, but trust me it works miracles!