Defense 2160 BC

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Defense 2150 BC is a tower-defense game with the added twist that, if an enemy destroys one of your towers, they steal the abilities from it.

Instructions

Controls:
Move Camera: WASD
Place / Destroy towers: Left click
Scroll through towers: Scroll wheel

Towers can only be placed next to already-existing towers. You are awarded money with which to purchase towers every time you kill and enemy and at the end of each wave. There are 34 waves to beat to win; I have no idea if this is doable.

There are 5 tower types:
- Shield: High health, does no damage.
- Bow: Shoots piercing, low-damage projectiles.
- Cannon: Shoots high-splash-damage projectiles.
- Smasher: Smashes enemies that walk inside it; some art smart enough to avoid it.
- Spear Trap: Damages enemies above it; as such, it only is useful against flying enemies.

These instructions are also present in an in-game help menu.

Credits

As this is a compo game, I am obviously responsible for all the game logic / art / music.

This game is built using two libraries, as a result of shoehorning one in during the competition. The two libraries in question are GLFW and SDL2.

The font used on the Help, Win, and Lose screens is Laconick-NormalA by Nick Curtis.

Versions

I'm pretty sure that the Windows version works. (I tested it by clearing out my PATH and copying DLLs until it ran successfully). If it doesn't work, please say so.

~~I should be uploading a Linux build soon.~~ (Probably not going to happen).

I probably won't upload a Mac build unless I can find a way to build for Mac on Linux / Windows.

Other

Note that this game is built using a few custom tools and libraries, including both jot, which unceremoniously shoves images into a C file, so that they are "packed" into an executable, and zgcl, which is a C library that halfheartedly implements a generic `std::vector`-like interface.