[Journal]Defend the Castle

Contests Tiny Game 2010
#1

Excelent idea of the tiny game contest, so here is my first entry still WIP

Defend The Castle, is an original game I played in half of a chess board; I called it “Save the King”, for the pieces used to play (king & pawns)

Play the Game here

In the list of TODO are:

  • better AI for the enemy
  • check for losing conditions
  • add score/stage data in the right side HUD
  • maybe add upgrades for the defenders, because the game is winnable only until 4/5 enemies

Edit: Updated TODO.

#2

I get horrible flickering; are you double-buffering your graphics?

Overall, seems nice, but while I know how to win each level, it doesn’t tell me how I lose. The attacking pieces seem to shy away from my castle at the last moment, so I’m not sure if they’re trying to move an attacker onto my castle, or what?

#3

Oops… Why in my PC this doesn’t happen!
Added buffering.

The current AI tries to get to the last row, it doesn’t look for the castle. ::slight_smile:
Also, I didn’t put the lose condition. to my TODO list

#4

Hello RDCarvallo,

Ran on all:
Acer Aspire 5740, Windows 7 , Internet Explorer, jdk1.6.0_20
Mac Mini, Snow Leopard OS X, Safari, jdk 1.6.0_20
Suse 10 (Virtual Machine), firefox 2.0.0.14, jdk 1.6.0_19
HP Compaq 6820, Fedora 8, Firefox 2.0.0.10, jdk 1.6.0_04

This is screaming : MULTIPLAYER

Feel free to just ignore this alltogether, but I just got all excited about it:
It would be really cool if you could play this against a live person
who has the same amount of defenders but we need to defend multiple
targets. Each time you occupy a space next to a tower you get points,
but your offender-piece must move each time. Maybe have multiple
offenders as well … Each turn you need to move one defender and
one offender.
Maybe you need to have a larger board you can scroll through to watch
all your ‘bases’.

Best regards from

M.E.