RPG tower defense gameplay.

[baobao4435]

Sad recently. I would like to make a RPG-like tower defense game.in which towers can wear equipments.every tower has several slots that player can put equipment on.but all I can make up names for equipments are knifes,bow,swords… that sounds stupid because they are towers not human heroes. What do you think

[Everynone]

Make a sci-fi tower defense? Then you have the towers upgradable with nano quantum technobabble thingymajigs.

[baobao4435]

Haha.it’s medieval style.upgrade them would increase base strength.but more strength will come from the equipments.and you’ll have to have lucky to get good equipment. after killing enemy you have a chance to get one. high quality equipment is rare.

[Everynone]

Sounds like a cookie-cutter desing, tbh. But if you’re struggling with inventing upgrades, consider some or all:

• look into medieval engineering and siege weapons to get a sense of what was actually used vs what was created and failed - especially the failed constructs could be useful
• have a look at the custom stuff people build in Besiege. You may get handfuls of whacky DaVinci-like inspirations while laughing your socks off
• either incorporate or straight up neanderthalise modern military into the design. How would a 14th century C-RAM look and behave like. Homing rockets? Think materials they had commonly at their disposal.
• add magiks into the mix
• there’s also the question of the overall theme one may need to stick to for consistency. Nothing stops you from making a giraffe-tower that spits out acacia spikes. An elephant artillery that hurls boulders. Depending on how your creative juices are pumping, it might be easier to upgrade animals rather than lifeless and inanimate stone & iron buildings
• ask AI generator to keep dreaming up siege weapons, once something catches your attention, make it in Blender
• once you have sketches / renders / models (or even short descriptions of how stuff works in-game), start a brainstorm thread either here or on reddit, ask folks to give those upgrades fancy name, something that ties into their functionality.

[baobao4435]

thanks,they are useful suggestion .and im a big fan of besiege.but its ok,i deleted the equipment system.because i found it doesn’t suit the tower defence game(or i have no enough skill to do it ).
it looked like this,the tower can wear weapons,and increase some property like strength and attack speed.

now i deleted it,because it has hurted my head for days.