When browser-based gaming first appeared, it was tower defense games that helped it become popular. The simplicity of defeating wave after wave of enemies with defenses you create yourself had gamers hooked. Now tower defense is set for another evolution, this time introducing drawing to the equation.
Andy Wallace is a student at Parsons design school in New York where he?s studying to gain a degree in Design & Technology. As part of his studies he?s launched a Kickstarter project to make a new game called Doodle Defense a reality.
Doodle Defense is a tower defense game, but with a twist. It does not require you to sit at a computer and use your mouse to place towers. Instead, it combines a projector, Kinect motion sensor, whiteboard, and color markers to make for a much more interactive experience.
The aim is to prevent the enemy from making it across the play area by placing towers in their path. The enemy and play area is projected on to the whiteboard. The towers are placed by the player using marker pens on the whiteboard. Different colors represent types of tower that have different attacks (there are 3 types of tower so 3 colors). The Kinect is used to monitor the play area, feeding back changes to the system and updating what?s being projected appropriately e.g. an enemy dies or a new obstacle means the enemy has to take a different path. You can even draw complex mazes to slow the invaders down within the play area.
Andy has created the game in openFrameworks and made it open source so anyone can play around with the code. His Kickstarter asks for $1,500 so that he can turn it into an installation piece, as well as pay artists and sound designers to create better graphics and audio for the game.
If he gets the resources, Andy also hopes to create an iPad version which would allow many more people to play around with the drawing mechanics as well as earn him a bit of cash.
The rewards for donating range from a $5 thank you to a $300 home visit and demonstration of the game. At the moment the Kickstarter fund is sitting at $510 with 27 days to go. Hopefully Andy reaches his $1,500 target and we all get to play Doodle Defense on our iPads, but I?m hoping for an Android version too.
Check out the game in action below:
Read more at Kickstarter, via Indie Games
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