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Tower Defense Racer

Isometric top-down 2D racing game tower defense fusion
Made with Godot 3

Design notes and future ideas

CONTENTS
Overview
Gameplay
Godot project structure
Multiplayer methods Future ideas
Influences
Targets
Towers
Vehicles
Stages

Overview

  • RikedyRacer is a 2D racing game / tower defense mashup.
  • Made with Godot 3
  • Multiplayer focus
  • 2D isometric top-down view a la Gaelco World Rally Championship

Gameplay

User Stories
  • Open Splash screen
    Main menu:
    Multi player
    Single player
    Multiplayer + single player with more content
    • Tower upgrades (at least 3 types with multi-tier upgrades)
    • Vehicle upgrades
      • 1 per tower type (counter)
      • Boost
      • Armour
    • NPC / AI opponent (at least 1) that builds towers as well (random strategy)

Godot project structure

  • project.godot Godot project file
  • Assets Images and Godot .tscn files for all game elements
    • Vehicles
    • Towers
    • Stages
  • gd All .gd scripts

Multiplayer methods

By design, Godot 3 let's you start multiplayer games in single player with ease. This means it is easier to focus on multiplayer functionality and modify stages in the future for single player modes. TODO: Tutorial for this stuff RikedyRacer uses a gamestate singleton node as a kind of global variables holder for game state information This node contains some network connection related functions to bring players into the game and also spawn the players. Generally this means that all game levels (stages) require the same or similar structure. <- These details may be laid out at a later date. Gamestate contains a variable my_player which is the reference to the current device's player. It also contains a dictionary players which will be filled with the key game variables for all relevant players on the network and can be updated at particular times in the game (or regularly throughout the game). Use gamestate methods to save game information. TODO: Persistent game file for unlockables or whatever.

Future ideas

  • Top down + MK/F-Zero style graphics in race mode
  • Pit stops can restore HP over time?
  • 3D engine
  • More types of terrain
    • Hills?
    • Boost pads
  • In-built level editor Different cars have features / abilities, resistance / weaknesses
  • Preset / unlockable cars
  • Customisable cars
  • Trade fixed no. of points for speed, resilience, handling etc.
  • Kubrickian (impossible) layouts e.g. Shining mansion
  • Rocket League mini-game / game mode
  • Drone battle / attack vehicles with drones / drone weapon
    • Drone tower that launches drones which you can control for short amount of time
  • Double dash team mode 1 drives 1 tower defends / 1 drones

Influences

  • Infinitode
  • Pixeljunk Monsters 2
  • Other TD Games
  • Gaelco World Rally Championship
  • F-Zero
  • R.C. Pro-Am
  • Mario Kart Advance
  • Micro Machines
  • Other Racing Games

Targets

  • Balancing mechanics a la mario kart
  • Skilled players can evade hindrance but novice players can still enjoy a game

Towers

  • Tower colours match car colours for each player
  • Towers are bigger
  • Animated shooting, aiming, idling
  • Slow enemy tower
  • Crossbow / pistol short spurts low damage
  • Trebuchet / charge laser low speed high damage
  • Oil / toxic gas fountains
  • Have the free assets for:
    • Cannon
    • Flamthrower
    • Laser
    • Matter
    • MG
    • Pistol
    • Rocket
    • Shotgun
    • Spazer

Vehicles

Do not make these with haste, many game balancing / enhancing variants can be added in as the game develops
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  • Colour Cars come in (probably nice to choose colour then car) Blue | Green | Grey | Orange | Pink | Purple | Red | White | Yellow
    • Basic sedan car BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Sport coupe BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Compact city car BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Hothatch car BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Small delivery car BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Mini MPV BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Station wagon BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • MPV BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Minibus BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Delivery van BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Pickup truck BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Small pickup car BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • German sportscar BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Italian horse sportscar BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Italian bull sportscar BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Formula car BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Group C BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Group C Badass BG1G2OP1P2RWY
    • Kart BG1G2OP1P2RWY
  • Ground + air vehicles (sea / air mode?) only affected by certain weapons

Stages