a simple 2D tower defence game. place towers, fight waves of enemies. defend your base.
at start of game you get 10 seconds to build your first towers before enemy spawns.
click tower buttons to select tower. user arrow keys to move tower, press enter to place tower.
click placed towers to see information about tower. you can sell a tower as well.
Don't let enemies reach your base. too many of them get to your base and it is game over.
before starting the game for the first time, navigate to libs/ncurses/ and run make
for all subsequent simply run lua ascii-tower-defene
| icon | cost | description |
|---|---|---|
| @ | 100 | basic tower. moderate damage, range, and fire rate. |
| # | 10 | wall. no attack, but blocks enemy movement. |
| $ | 150 | money generator. no attack, but slowly generates money. |
| & | 125 | machine gun tower. short range, low damage, but fast fire rate. |
| H | 150 | shotgun tower. short range, slow fire rate, but high damage. |
| P | 175 | sniper tower. long range, high damage, slow rate of fire. |
basic gameplay. towers placed in a maze, enemies moving through maze towards base. gameplay info is on display in info window
basic gameplay but a tower has been clicked on. Tower info is displayed in info window.
- lua >= 5.4
- make
- C compiler(make file is configured to use GCC, but can substitute C compiler of your choice.)
- ncurses
all source code is licensed under The GNU Affero General Public License version 3 only. no versions later than 3 are valid licenses for this source code.