tower-def

Introduction

This is my attempt at creating a tower defense game in Rust using the Amethyst game engine.

Implemented so far

• Runners choose a random path towards the castle
• Towers shoot on sight and deal damage (if a runner is hit twice, it dies)
• Simple tower selector when you click on "X" tiles.
• Debuffs (when frost tower hits enemy it is slowed down)
• Tower upgrades
• Basic level selector

To be implemented

• Menus
• More towers
• Smart runners (runners that do interesting stuff)

To improve

• Make missles move at a constant speed towards the target. (My calculations are wrong when I decide how much to append to the missle's transform)
• Tower selector (very basic atm, would like to add some sort-of border around items in the selector)
• Debuffs (maybe implementing a trait is better than having closures?)
• Level selector

Images

How to run

To run the game, run the following command, which defaults to the vulkan graphics backend:

cargo run

Windows and Linux users may explicitly choose "vulkan" with the following command:

cargo run --no-default-features --features "vulkan"

Mac OS X users may explicitly choose "metal" with the following command:

cargo run --no-default-features --features "metal"

Credits

• To Andre Mari Coppola for the awesome sprite pack! (check assets folder more information about the artist)

Resources

• Using tile maps in Amethyst: https://github.com/Temeez/Tiled-Amethyst-Example
• The Amethyst book and docs.