What would make a TD unique?

[hobo218]

with all the TD's out there, i want mine to be unique..so where people wont just think of it as a normal TD....

ideas?

 

[xPheRe]

If you classify your map as a TD, it will be nothing more than a TD.
Begin thinking some general ideas and don't focus only in TD subjects.
Try mixing different ideas to create a new one.

I'm also working on a multiplayer map and hoping to be able to release it soon.
Have a nice brainstorming

 

[ShaiTan-Enk]

Here are a bunch of ways to make it unique:

-Make your own terrain, and make it hilly. I've never seen a hilly TD. You can also add all sorts of tweaks to the terrain, such as in some regions the creeps are invisible, in others, they move at double the speed, etc.
-Think of a unique way to make the towers. Such as - the towers slowly grow larger as time passes, or something else. (I'm making a TD myself, so it's a little hard for me to come up with unique things that I haven't done yet )
-Give really wierd abilities to the towers.. think towers that randomly disappear and reappear somewhere else, or towers that slowly move across the map.
-All towers are built on a railroad car, and instead of the creeps moving towards you, you move towards the creeps. The car takes a weaving path through the creeps and then comes out the other side, and when it comes out, the creeps all run forward to the end. The railroad car would be really long so that the players could build in a string.
-The creeps are on a big conveyor belt that slides them from the start to the end. Since they're not running, they can take the initiative and group together in the places where they are least likely to be hit, making it slightly harder to hit them
-I'd suggest something about towers that increase the stats of other towers, but I'm already doing that so it's not unique
-The creeps spawn randomly throughout the map, and you have to kill them before they reach the center.
-Creeps self-destruct when they die, dealing damage to any towers near them.
-Creeps can go underground (when creeps run into a region they move instantly to a point off the map, some time goes by, and they move back onto the map somewhere else.
-Take some ideas from the TD Wars thread that aren't being used

That's as far as I can go for now, post later if you want some more

 

[hobo218]

that first idea shaiTan with the regions that make the creeps stronger sound awsome! im definatly gonna add that..

thanks a bunch!
-hobo218

 

[ShaiTan-Enk]

Np

 

[Ralle_Janis]

Maybe some towers that increses all allies towers stats, not only as an aura for nearby towers.

Give the builder the abillity to teleport all creeps in an area size 'your choice' to any destination on the map (if its a tower war, only on the teams side, or not near the enemies place where they're creeps has to enter) This abillity should be reseached.

make ur builder able to attack creeps, and make him upgradeable, so he can be made strong enough to actually kill creeps. And maybe add some spells wich can be both offensive, like damaging/slowing creeps or defensive, so it boostes towers.

Maybe add some "building" wich would be called for example Swamp, and then make it a big one, with no pathing, so creeps can walk rigth over it, and all creeps walking over it would be slowed down, cos of the mud. Then it would be placeable for example in the middle of your maze, and then all the creeps walking there would be slowed down.

Do so that some towers can upgrade others. For example: u have one basic tower, but when u place the 'upgrader' tower on it, it would be upgraded to a better tower. That would be really cool, but a lot of work, since u have to create a morphed form for all the tower that could be upgraded in this way, still it woul be unique and very cool i think.

 

[hobo218]

do you think addign a wave where only 5 creeps spawned..but they could attack the defenders towrers?

 

[w/e]

maybe imported music. like some funny music. imagine like a bunch of towers killing evil looking creeps while some messed up, happy, fast music is playing in the background.

 

[Ralle_Janis]

Well, it would be hard to make it work perfectly.

If the creeps are to strong, they destroy to many towers wich is no fun, but if u make em to weak u destroy them to easily and that isnt fun ether.

But if u balance it rigth, it could be very nice, since then the player need to build tower to defend where they come from and so. And maybe add some special tower that are made especially for that round, so that they have taunt or stuff like that.

 

[w/e]

maybe you can make the creeps not destroy the towers.

 

[Ralle_Janis]

what would the point then be?

Doh

 

[w/e]

well, maybe you maze the towers and try to prevent the creeps to reaching a certain point.

 

[hobo218]

ill experement w/ it

 

[ShaiTan-Enk]

A wave of attacking creeps has been used in a lot of TDs, but if you did something really wierd with them then it would be really unique

 

[Ralle_Janis]

Lol, when u dont suggest anything for the weird stuff, that comment is kinda unuseable ^^

The weird stuff could be them having an blink abillity, so they blink around and past some of ur towers

 

[ShaiTan-Enk]

Or something like whenever a tower is killed by one of the specific attacking creeps, it explodes, dealing damage to the other towers and the creeps.

The creeps could flicked between invlunerable and vulnerable, or they could alternate between running quickly and running slowly, or they could destroy one tower each and then run the maze like normal creeps, etc etc etc.

 

[Ralle_Janis]

lol shaitan what is it with u and exploding towers

A version of the exploting towers would be: When the attacker has killed a tower, the ATTACKER explodes, dealing damage to nearby towers and attackers, that would be better i think

 

[MasterOfABCs]

a unique TD, my god so many ideas!,heres one. Ok the terrian, if you now waht the terrain look like for a maul, you would take two and crucsh them together with a stripe of land in the middle. ok this is going to be a but complicatedto explain. ok ill TRY to diagram it.

Key- |-Walls
O-Hero spawn
+-creep spawn
X-(creep goal)


| + | + | + |O| + | + | + |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | |
| ||||| | | ||||| |
| ||||| |O | ||||| |
\ ___ ___ /__\___ ___/
X X
Now, the middle section is what amkes this unique, before every round heros fight in that sliver of land the winners get east creeps, the losers get regular creeps! hope this helps ya!

 

[MasterOfABCs]

IT F'ed my diagram,.....That took me 10 minutes to do! ARGH!! :banghead:

 

[hobo218]

that blink idea sounds awsome..ill experiment w/ that 2