Introduction 

Earth Tower Defense is a tower defense game where you try to defend the Earth from waves of alien invaders.  Tower defense games are a shoot off of the real-time strategy genre where decision making, and strategy decide whether you win or lose.  Like most RTS games, the game will be viewed from a top-down perspective.  Enemies will follow a path from the top of the screen down to Earth.  Towers can be placed in sections by the path but not on to it.  For every enemy you kill, you will earn currency to build more towers to defend the Earth from increasingly difficult to kill waves of aliens.  This will culminate in one or several boss waves to determine if your strategy was efficient enough for your survival.  If an enemy reaches Earth, you will lose one life, and if a boss reaches Earth, you will lose the game.  We will try to have a few unique towers to choose from that function differently from each other, such as a sniper and an area of effect tower.  If time permits, we will incorporate some type of upgrade system where players will be able to increase the power of already constructed towers through either conjoined building or paying for upgrades.     

Genre, Theme & Player’s Role 

This tower defense game puts you at the head of the protectors of earth. Using your mouse, you must place towers in strategic places to protect your home planet… Earth. All the towers that you can place are space ready but placing certain towers in a position might be better than others so think smart during this alien invasion. These aliens want no more than to get onto earth and destroy it. Each alien has a certain amount of hit points and each of those hit points is a hit point on Earth if they reach it. The Earth has only a set amount of lives so be careful. Protect Earth at all costs while enduring wave after wave of alien onslaught. Beat your friends and family by getting the farthest and achieving the high score. 

   

Audience & Progress 

Our game is catered towards the casual single player audience. Specifically, people who enjoy simple and easy to learn gameplay with time to burn throughout the day. Therefore, our game is not meant to be played for hours at a time rather about ten minutes at a time. The hope is that people will try and fail within the first couple of rounds. This failure will encourage adaptation and learning while supporting a steep learning curve. The next time the player plays they will likely change their strategy in some way such as placing towers differently or spending currency on different defenses.  

This game does not discriminate towards age or gender roles. However, we suggest ages ten through ninety-nine rated Double Digits (DD). Our game does not have the player take on an avatar or an in-game character, so anyone can protect Earth.  

Thus far, we have been watching online Udemy tutorials on the basics of Python and pygame. We have also been collecting opensource images from opengameart.org

 

Game Development 

The game is made using Python 3 and the pygame library. As the developers, we would not normally bring up our skill but as we are to this day, we are not professional python coders. We have received comments and suggestions for the game and take all to heart. We appreciate you all and hope you love our game!  

Coming soon to your local Gaige building (hopefully) 

The Chosen / Matthew, Daniel & Tomasz