For my research i am going to look into a range of tower defence games, Tower defence games i will be looking into, include, curse treasure get your hands off my gems!, Age Of War, Plants Versus Zombies, and Bloons. in these games i plan on looking into the mechanics for them,especially the ones that, that make the game exactly how they are, that being all the key things that make the game fit its genre but also unique. Our game is set about Evolution and Growth, this means that we dont only have to look into tower defence games, but games that also incorporate evolution and growth, one game that i have been playing for my research is the game Evolve.
Evolve
Evolve is a game that has the fundamental mechanics which involve evolution as well as growth, at first when playing the game you start off as a small monster that is weaker then other life forms, including humans, then later on you grow to become stronger and bigger, and from being the one at the bottom of the food chain, you then become the one at the top, The aim of the game is fundamentally, what is planned for our game, start weak and then become stronger and grow, and evolve into the greatest species to survive, one mechanic i would like to add to the game is a mechanic where things start to fear the player when the player gets stronger, as this is something that helps show how powerful you have become, and i would like to show that you can easily kill what could before kill you. While I played the game evolve, I saw first hand how much evolving effects the game, and how it changes the whole dynamic for the game, and this is something that i would love to implement into our game, we could make it so the objective is to evolve from something small and insignificant to something large and the top of the chain, and then once you have passed through all these stages you have completed the game.
X-Men
The film series x-men is a great film to research into as it is a series that has massive links to evolution, as almost all the characters are people that have evolved to become more powerful and to better survive rather then the normal human,also as well as showing how we could evolve it shows how we would most likely react if others around us evolve to become stronger beings, and how we would shun them or we would fear them, also from this we can see that one species can evolve in different ways, rather then all the same, and this could be a way we take our game, so we can evolve to become different beings so maybe we choose different power ups so our play through is different to someone else?
Charles Darwin: On The Origin Of Species
The book that Charles Darwin wrote about evolution is a great book for us to research into as it can tell us a lot of needed information, he tells us that, species evolution happens from a struggle for species survival, so they evolve to better live, and the ones that don’t evolve and adapt are less likely to survive and to reproduce.
Tower Defense games
Plants Vs Zombies
While playing the tower defense game Plants Versus Zombies i noticed that this game is unique as while you are defending a tower you are defending multiple ones rather then one lane, this is something i would like to do, like maybe defend a base from different areas, this game has great interfaces and it looks like a professional game rather then most other tower defense games that are indie like, and mostly under developed.
Age of war.
While playing the game tower defence game Age of war, i noticed that the game is quite suited to us, as its about the evolution of war through the ages, and that is directly linked the the idea we are going with which is evolution. this game has a button that costs alot of energy that makes the player change time era, this is what we want, a button that is pressed and makes the player evolve into another species.
Bloons
While playing the game Bloons tower defense, game i noticed that there are a large variety of enemies and this makes the game alot more interesting as it means that while playing there is always something new that will keep the player busy and never getting bored of the game being the same over and over, and this is something that i would love to implement into the game we are making.
Evolution of Defence 