TowerJS - Tower defence

[Copy112]

TowerJS is a Tower Defence engine made using HTML5, no flash or silverlight, just regular html, css and JS.
This brings a few limitations, it will only run on modern browser that supports canvas and can run js fast.

This is still a very early version, so it misses a few features and might (will) contains bugs.

Features:
Towers (this isn't obvious, first version didn't contain towers, with the nick-name Towerless Defence)
Creeps (would be boring else )
Multiple Waves
Money (what would a TD be without a currency?)
Lives

And I'm sure I missed several major features, but you get the point.

Oh, and before someone complains about the art, I'm not an artist, so I have to use some temp arts during development (Until I find an artist).

http://towerjs.com

Screenshot for the unlucky old browser users (or ie?)

[133794m3r]

Once you formally release it completely, i suggest you use different sprites. Those sprites there are from Super Mario Bros 2 or a similarly styled nintendo game. And as such you could have your game taken down via a DMC taken down notice. I don't know if you have other models from similarly copyrighted nintendo games but if i was you, i'd get on attempting to replace them. Either via sprites from someone who said that you can use theirs without paying a royalty, or getting your own.

[Copy112]

I am fully aware that those arts are originally from SMB as I state in the thread,

Oh, and before someone complains about the art, I'm not an artist, so I have to use some temp arts during development (Until I find an artist).

I'm looking for alternatives but its hard finding any good.

[andrewjbaker]

I love TD games. I killed all the creeps; fantastic!

More, more, more, more...

[Copy112]

Good that you like it andrewjbaker.  

Update:
I rewrote most of the code, its cleaner and follows craftyJS coding style more.
New tower arts, I found some nice over at opengameart, and they look much better.
Waves can now contain more then 1 creep at once, and I started working on adding support for multiple towers.

The screenshot on first post is also updated.

Edit:
I forgot the most important features, the loading screen now has progress and there's a fancy bar to show how far it have come.
And if you manage to die, you now get a nice gameover scene with the option to restart.

[CygnusX]

Two of my favorite tower defense games are Desktop Defense and the tower defense mini-game from FF7.  A key feature to these is that there was no set path, rather the enemies had to make use of an A* heuristic to find their way... which could change based on unit placement.  Do you have any plans to incorporate this into your model?

[Copy112]

CygunsX, I plan on making several gamemodes where a few of them would use pathfinding instead of waypoints.
But its harder to make then waypoints, so i figured the easiest first. 

[Marek]

Awesome, it's very playable and very fun.

Keep going, and don't worry about the art. The placeholder are fine during development.