As usual, my hand-wavy ideas make no sense when I start coding. This happens a lot. The current crisis is the idea that you can either play against adaptive AI, or a ‘recording’ made by you, or someone else.<\/p>\n
So when you are placing turrets, either the AI is dynamically placing creeps to attack you, or it is just reading from a script like a normal TD game. The twist is that the script could be pre-recorded by me, or by another player (in the case of challenge maps) or even by you. Which means if you play an absolute blinder of a game in attack mode, you could then swivel round and play defense, against your own attack units and decisions, just like you can race against yourself in some racing games.<\/p>\n
Problem is… I hadn’t considered that this only works for attacking units, not as defense. You can’t assume a slot is freed up as defense deployer, so it doesn’t work out. It’s dodgy enough as an attacker, given possible traffic jams…<\/p>\n
Anyway, that isn’t a big deal. This is a cool ‘extra’ feature for A TD game. People will understand its only an option as defender. What’s a bit clunky is that it means coding some awkward sounding dialog at the start of a game to say<\/p>\n
“Hey, you want to play against adaptive AI, or you want to play against the included, pre-scripted units?”<\/p>\n
as well as<\/p>\n
“Would you like the adaptive AI to use the included units, or to be able to use all your units too?”<\/p>\n
I’m sure it will look ok. People like options right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As usual, my hand-wavy ideas make no sense when I start coding. This happens a lot. The current crisis is the idea that you can either play against adaptive AI, or a ‘recording’ made by you, or someone else. So when you are placing turrets, either the AI is dynamically placing creeps to attack you,<\/p>\n