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About the Book
Learn how to create Tower Defense (TD) online games using the techniques covered in this "Building Tower Defense" workshop. This comprehensive workbook guides you through the development of five TD games, along with a dozen additional ideas. The workbook includes source code for both Construct v3 and v2. It caters to both budding developers and seasoned pros eager to craft custom TD games, stunning artwork, and innovative features.
Upon completing the sequential lessons in this workbook, you will have a complete production pipeline to create as many "Tower Defense" games as your imagination allows!
This workshop's goal is to guide you in developing various styles of Tower Defense (TD) and "Anti-TD" game mechanics. We will explore these game mechanics, innovations, display features, and development methods to develop your own unique game(s). By the end of this workbook, you will have several fully functional TD games — not just replicas of my games, but your very own original creations using your customized gaming assets.
Additionally, a supporting website is available where you can download all the example content, instructor guides, and PowerPoint slides included with your chosen workbook edition.
The bonus content, downloadable examples, and source code references included in this workbook show you how to implement everything, allowing you to copy and paste any example into your projects and modify the artwork resources to suit your needs. General game licenses are provided with this book, enabling you to publish my Tower Defense game versions if you wish.
This comprehensive guide will teach you how to:
- Use Construct, whether it's version 2 or version 3.
- Integrate Tower Defense (TD) game mechanics into other genres, including RPGs, first-person shooters, educational content, and simulation development.
- Utilize your game as a Progressive Web Application (PWA) or Single Page Application (SPA) for any device.
- Analyze the current market demand for this genre of game and determine where to deploy it.
- Automatically generate a variety of Tower Defense game maps featuring different terrain elements.
About the Author
Avatar is an adorable cartoon sketch of my wife. My 47th anniversary is this coming Sept 1, 2025!
Stephen Gose, Ph.D. Information Systems (honorary) (and second-generation German) is a retired Professor Emeritus with a 41-year career as a certified network engineer, and "Certified Cisco Academy Instructor" (CCAI) since 2002. He is listed in the Who's Who for Information Technology for his directly related work for the Internet backbones in the Caribbean, Netherlands, Israel, and Russia. He was awarded "Letters of Appreciation" from AT&T, and the German, Israeli, Dutch, and Russian Governments. Steve has nearly three decades of international "teaching and conference lecturing" in both Local-Area and Wide-Area Networks, network security, Internet backbones, software engineering, and program/project management. He is a retired US Army Signal Corps Officer. He earned, in 2014, the ITT Technical Institute's "Instructor of the Year" out of 8,000 instructors across 144 campuses throughout the USA.
He graduated from Grand Canyon University with his first B.A. in Religions and Music Education, then a B.S. in Business Admin. from the University of Maryland, and an M.B.A. in International Management from Liberty University.
He is currently pursuing his Th.D. He has been a licensed minister since 1972 and a missionary to Okinawa, Japan. He earned the US Army Chaplain Outstanding Service Award in 1983.
In his spare time(?), Steve enjoys creating online casual games, software engineering, and managing his online gaming businesses.
My driving theme: "Always stay humble and kind"
His website is: https://www.Stephen-Gose.com/
His game showcase is: http://www.renown-games.com
His theology website: http://kingdomofgodprinciples.com/
Game Support Site: http://makingbrowsergames.com/
Review my profile on LinkedIn.com: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-gose/