Elysian Shadows

For one of my uni workshops I had to make a tower defence game in a week. This particular assesment was all about AI, we needed to integrate the A* algorithm. I also added flocking behaviour. I skipped adding in influence map stuff but might do so tomorrow if I can be bothered.

Here is a link to the game, hopefully it works on everyone's machines with sound;
DOWNLOAD v1
DOWNLOAD v2 - with Influence Map

Here is a screeny;


**EDIT**
I should probably mention the controls;
Left Mouse Button creates A Tower (you need $10, your money is shown in the top left).
Right Mouse Button deletes a Tower (you do not get refunded anything).

that's pretty freakin sweet

Really cool man! A while back I was thinkin of trying something similar

systat wrote:Sweet, but why is it almost 30 mb?

Theres a music file called "rapid_arc.wav" which is about 31mb.

I've finally downloaded it, but sadly it doesn't seem to work on Windows 7 64bit, here is the error:



In next project please use .mp3 for music, or even better use mp3lame to compress sounds :=)
That 30 mb sound file could be compressed to 2-3 mb :p
Screenie looks nice.

I made it to 340.. it's fairly difficult. Fun as hell though.

Would be much easier if I could tell where my cursor was before I'm at $10. Also, sometimes the towers randomly stop shooting.

Looks bad ass for one weeks work dude nice job

That 30 mb sound file could be compressed to 2-3 mb :p

I'm using openAL for sound which doesn't support mp3 format. I could use something else as well as openAL for the background music, but as it was a school assignment and I have a lot of work as is, I figured I would go easy on myself.

Looks bad ass for one weeks work dude nice job

Thanks I spent more like 3 days on it (I really should have been doing other assignments) most of my time was used to polish it up.

I've finally downloaded it, but sadly it doesn't seem to work on Windows 7 64bit, here is the error:

Odd, I developed it on win7 64bit. Not sure what the error is about.

Would be much easier if I could tell where my cursor was before I'm at $10. Also, sometimes the towers randomly stop shooting.

In the latest version the $10 has been made more obvious when you have less then 10.
The towers stop working sometimes because of some optimization code I did that groups near enemies together. Not sure where I went wrong and can't be bothered to fix that issues, sorry :P. Fixed the towers occasionally not firing issue in the latest version.

Here is the latest version with influence map code, as per assignment requirements (not sure how well it works with the game).
DOWNLOAD
DOWNLOAD

I have to show this...

New version is MUCH MUCH easier. Made it to like wave 150.