Tower Defense Framework

http://pytower.simpsus.de/

by empone • 17 years ago

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erikb• 17 years ago

Thanks a lot for that link and the idea. It looks very easy to implement a tower defense game with this framework. That's a good idea for teaching, I think. The real problem with noob coders is that most easy problems are not very interesting to solve while learning, but the interesting ones are too complex for beginners.

listic• 17 years ago

Would someone with experience in Python please look at the code of this framework and say whether it is good to learn from?

andyn• 17 years ago

Had a quick look at a few source files in:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~pytower-heros/pytower/main/file...

The code looks readable, very well commented and it appears that game objects are split into appropriate classes and modules.

Go for it.

palish• 17 years ago

"With the success of this game genre on the flash platform, the next step is to bring this awesomeness to your home desktop."

Shouldn't that be the other way around?

lpgauth• 17 years ago

Actually, this started on the desktop. More specifically, inside Warcraft 3?

enomar• 17 years ago

According to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_defense

Tower defense finds its roots in the strategy classic Rampart, an arcade game from 1990. The game involved defending a castle by placing cannons, and making repairs between several rounds of attacks.[6][7] By the new millennium, tower defense games began to appear in user-created maps for StarCraft, Age of Empires II, and WarCraft III.

ido• 17 years ago

What usage does this have other than for learning purposes?

I don't think "Tower Defense" games are that complex that you can't roll your own using something like pygame, and it seems like whatever you could do with a "framework" like that you could just as easily do by modifying an existing open source TD game.

oditogre• 17 years ago

(Comment so I can easily find this again.)

empone• 17 years ago

if you vote on a post you should be able to find it here http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=oditogre

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