Part 1: Setting Up LevelThe tower defense genre is one that has become extremely popular over the years. Although they can become quite complicated to develop, they are almost always very fun to play. I am here to walk you through the creation of one of these games. Let us begin, shall we?In this section of the tutorial, we’re going to set up the roads and stuff onto the stage. However, the first thing we need to do is create a blank flash document with a black background with the frames per second set at 24.Now, we have to create two classes. In order to do this, simply create two external ActionScript files by selecting File - New - ActionScript File, twice.
The first class we’ll create is one for an empty block that towers can be placed in. Add the following code to it.
Tower Defense Games No Flash
Contents.Development David Scott got the inspiration for Flash Element TD in 2006. He noticed that no one had created a Tower Defense game using and only started work on Flash Element TD as a technical exercise to see if it was possible. The map and name is based on the 'Element TD' map created for the game by Brian Powers and Evan Hatampour, David Scott created a much simpler version of the map that could be played using only a browser.
The game was launched in January 2007 and still has growth to this day.Originally, the game was promoted through the web service. It eventually found its way onto several sites, four years later can be found on 25,950 sites and has had over 183 million views. Updates The original release version of the game, version 1.0 was released on January 12, 2007.
New versions were uploaded daily, with the final version released on January 22. Flash Element TD has not been updated since and still increases in popularity some two years on. In December 2007, Scott and Paul Preece also created the, whose flagship game was a multiplayer version of. On January 12, 2008, one year after its release, version 2 was released.
Reception Flash Element TD was played by nearly 500,000 users within the first few hours after launch. It was eventually embedded on nearly 12,000 different websites, and downloaded more than 140 million times by the end of 2008. References.