After five long code-heavy tutorials, we finally arrive at the most central of components to the Tower Defense (TD) genre: Towers! Towers are crucial in your TD game. Now, by “towers” I don’t necessarily mean some phallic, stone structure jutting into the sky that rains death upon enemies nearby. “Towers” Read more
It’s finally time to get into the good stuff! In this post we’ll be looking at enemies and how they get set up, run through, and knocked down. We’ll look at how I’ve created some JSON metadata in the map JSON file to set up the types of enemies the Read more
Map Tiling in AS3 was the first post of my short-lived AS3 Game Engine series before I found Starling. While the core tile drawing code remains mostly the same, there have been some changes. We saw from yesterday’s post that the Play State creates an instance of the Map class Read more
Last post we got into the various game States that I use in my AS3 Starling Tower Defense game demo. I left out Play because it’s pretty big and needed some cleaning up. Now I’ve got it all cleaned up and ready to go! Also, I had intended this post Read more
In my previous post on External Loading using LoaderMax in Starling, I began going through the first State of the game, the GameLoad State. This post will go through each game state in detail as to why it’s there and what it does. Also, I show off and talk about Read more
I’ve finally finished (well… 95%) with my AS3 Starling Game Engine Demo so I can finally start writing tutorials on how you can create a Tower Defense (TD) style game using Starling. Since I have so much info planned, and there’s so much code, and I’m a developer, and I Read more
Hey guys, As of a few posts ago, I scrapped my by-hand blitting engine and decided to check out Starling. I’m happy to say that my little 2-map, 2-enemytype, 2-towertype demo is almost done. Tonight I was trying to finish up the map select screen, then I need to add Read more