Monday 31 January 2011

Tutorial 14 : Polishing the Game

In this, the last tutorial in the series, I will show you how to add a bit of polish to the game by adding a few key features to our game :

  1. Giving the player money when he kills an enemy.
  2. Removing a life when one of the enemies reaches the end of the path.

Both of these things will be implemented in the wave class, however before we make any changes to that we must first make some of the player’s properties settable!

Friday 21 January 2011

Tutorial 13 : Adding the Slow Tower

As a few of you have requested, I will write another tutorial on creating a custom tower type. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a tower the makes the enemies move slower when they are hit with a bullet, and hopefully by the end of this tutorial you will see how easy it is to extend the tower class to make all sorts of different towers!

For simplicities sake, I am only going to show you the changes needed to create the new tower class and not include any details about adding a new button or changing the player AddTower method (If you need help on this see Tutorial 12). However I will provide some placeholder textures that you can use for the slow tower :

slow towerslow buttonslow hoverslow pressed

Tuesday 18 January 2011

Tutorial 12 : Adding a New Tower Type

Sorry for the delay, I have had a very busy at the month! In this tutorial I will show you how to add in two type of cannon, the Spike tower. This tower will be able to shoot 8 bullets in eight different directions at a time.

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This should be pretty straight forward seeing as we have designed the Tower class to be as extensible as possible, although we will have to make several adjustments to some of the other classes.