2D Tower Defense Course for Godot 4

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This is the accompanying code base for the 2D tower defense course for Godot 4.

Prerequisites

Godot 4.0 or later.

Features

• Tower placement
• Three different towers, including gatling, cannon, and missile towers
• Three enemy types, including infantry, tanks, and helicopters
• Various projectile types, including bullets, shells, and missiles
• Enemy pathfinding
• Basic enemy AI
• UI and HUD
• Player-controlled camera
• In-game economy

Topics covered

• Godot 4's new features:
  • The massively-upgraded TileMap system
  • The Navigation Server API
  • Physics bodies, including the new CharacterBody2D
• Signals
• Class inheritance
• Scene composition (or aggregation)
• Character navigation and movement
• Character animation
• Using AnimationPlayers for explosions
• Collision detection
• AI implementing the Finite State Machine (FSM) pattern and states
• Creating UI and HUD using themes with the built-in Theme Editor
• Scene switching/reloading

Installation Instructions

• This project uses Git Large File Storage (LFS) to store asset binaries. To initialize it make sure you have LFS installed, then simply run git lfs install
• Clone this repository from Github
• Open the project file with Godot 4 and run it to play the Outpost Assault demo!

Questions/Bugs/Suggestions

For bugs and feature requests, feel free to file an issue here or comment on the course page.

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