Shape Defense

Shape Defense is a top-down tower-defense-based game written solely with C++ and SDL2. It's partly an exercise in game engine architecture design; partly an exercise in optimization; and partly an exercise in game construction :)

Feel free to contribute; just send me a message (preferably), or a pull request directly.

Dependencies List:

• C++17
• SDL2
  • SDL_Image
  • SDL_TTF
• CMake

Tools Used:

• valgrind
• gdb
• CLion
• CMake
• gnuprof

Feature List:

done, [n] future work

• Game
  • Main Menu
  • Gameplay
    • Towers
      • Can build towers
      • [n] can repair towers
      • [n] can destroy towers
    • Resource system
      • Can have and spend resources
      • [n] can have buildings that modify resource usage / storage
    • [n] Upgrade system
    • Balancing
      • Has a few types of towers, one type of enemy
      • [n] More types of towers and enemies
• Engine (very roughly an Entity-Component-System design)
  • Physics
    • efficient quadtree-based collision system
  • Graphics
    • Can render entities efficiently
    • [n] Can render entity types
    • [n] Can move the camera around smoothly
  • [n] Audio
  • Basic AI
    • Enemies go towards closest player entity and will attack
    • [n] "heuristic grid" of best places to go towards, i.e. around walls
  • [n] Advanced AI
    • [n] Limited enemy view range
    • [n] "Alive" enemies
  • [n] I/O
    • [n] serialization / deserialization
  • UI
    • Have buttons, menus, etc.
    • Supports drawing from text files
    • [n] Easily supports drawing from images
• Misc
  • [n] Write Wiki / Documentation
  • [n] Plan out game design and engine design
  • [n] write unit testing system

Known bugs:

• [n] no unit testing system: whoops, this is pretty important actually
• [n] Quadtree: sometimes, the quadtree system seems to "lose" elements, where elements don't seem to be where we expect them to
• [n] entity lifetimes: needs checking