As the eighties drew to a close, a new strategy genre emerged. The tower defence game involved building walls or barriers around your castle to prevent an enemy destroying it. One notable early entry in the genre was Rampart, released by Atari. The game took in two phases. In the building phase, the player filled holes in the walls around their fort and placed cannons. In the second phase, the player’s fort would be attacked from the sea by an armada of ships, and the player could fire back with their cannon. This cycle would continue until the player could no longer fill the gaps in the walls or they’d destroyed all the attacking ships.
For our Pygame Zero example, we’ll look at two tower defence mechanics: the wall building…
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