256k a.k.a. The best name I can come up with!

An ego-shooter tower defenser










Features:
-4 different buildings: Wall, Tesla Tower, Forcefield and Power Plant
-Minimap
-3 camera positions for that epic view
-Content creation on the fly: sounds, bmaps, meshes, music (only at game over, though) - there´s only code, the rest is created at runtime. Everything.
-Sourcecode for free
-100% quick´n´dirty unpredictable bmap function behaviour - use them at your own risk


Things:
-It will crash when there´s no sound device. Seems to be related to SOUND* snd = "#1";
-Resolution is set to 1280x1024, 1280x800 or 1280x720
-default.c is included - feel free to fly around and check stats!
-switch to window-mode with alt+enter to see the created textures in the game folder
-Sourcecode: Set gvCleanUp to 0 when you want to keep the created textures in the folder

This chaos was written in two weeks at december 2010, right after the contest has started.
After then I got no time for it anymore. I want to include some other enemy types.

The code is quite ugly as I was in a rush and I have absolutely no clue about DirectX.
But maybe you can use some of the bmap functions.

Have fun!

Game Download:
http://www.vulkanware.de/stuff/256k.zip

Source Download:
http://www.vulkanware.de/stuff/256kS.zip



Edit: Funny sidenote: Acknex crashes at the end of the publish-process.
But the exe actually works.

I've played it till it crashes
i defend my city so long as i could
funny game keap it up!
xxxxxxx

Bro, I've never liked "tower defense" kind of games, but yours is just great!
I really love it! I wish you good luck in contest!

Very cool! Now, this is the freedom to build models and paint pics and make sounds in the engine!

Remembered me of a game I really liked to play, some years ago. When I looked now again for it on my hard drive I realised: it was a A6 game!
It's probably the best made casual 3dgs game I've ever played .. it makes really fun.

Because there seems to be no more mirrors up, I've uploaded for you the demo:
Epidemic Groove

This was a fun little game. it was hard in the begining because i had to protect all sides but then got easier. it would be nice to place multiple pices one after the other instead of clicking the button each time but other then that it was fun

This TD game is Great.
At the beginning it's the most interesting part - no money and many of attackers.
A nice bonus feature was that You can buy a tower in credit

dude, you have to make some kind of tutorial for how to make such wonderful models real-time

Really cool and fun! Great job.

Thank you all for your comments.
It´s a pitty that I won´t have the time to develop it further.

But maybe it is a help for some of you. I can´t make a tutorial, just because
I know exactly as much as you about DirectX.
Take a look at the file "meshes.c" to get an idea on how to do it.
I failed when it comes to create a good uv mapping.
So basically the faces are streched simply over their skins.
Also I´m afraid that the meshes are not closed and that they contain a lot of
unnecessary vertices.

So it´s really quick and dirty and more or less a bad example.
All information comes here from the forum, mainly from ventilator and firoball
in some bug-threads. I´ve adapted their short examples and then I´ve played around with them. It´s quite fun.

Do a forum search for "LPD3DXMESH" and you´ll find them. Also, the msdn-site is a good friend.

I´m glad that the game actually makes you some fun.
I´m no big tower defense fan, but I´ve loved C&C with its tesla towers.