Creep Smash

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Creep Smash
Genres	Tower Defense,Online Multiplayer
Code license	GPL
Media license	GPL
Latest release	0.6.0 beta
Release date	August 7th, 2009
P. language	Java

Creep Smash is a multiplayer tower defense game written in Java. It was developed by ten computer science students within a collegiate software project of the University of Applied Science in Stuttgart. The project requirement was to plan, design and implement a Java-based multiplayer version of Tower defense within 2.5 months. Each student had a specific role in the project such as project manager, developer, or tester. After that, Patrick Schlesinger has started to continue the game development and provide a game server with a growing team of developers. CreepSmash is licensed under the GPL.^[1] The latest version of the game is 0.6.0 beta released on August 7^th, 2009.

Contents 1 Gameplay 2 Game Modes 3 League 4 Video 5 System Requirements 6 Creeps 7 Towers 7.1 Tower strategy 8 Hot Keys 8.1 InGame 8.2 Tower 8.3 Creeps 9 Maps 9.1 Mapeditor 10 Version history 11 Team 12 Receptions 13 External links 14 References

[edit] Gameplay

CreepSmash is a game for 2-4 Players, who can play on one map. At the beginning of the game each player has 20 lives, 200 credits to start and 200 credits income per round (one round lasts 15 seconds). The income increases when the player sends creeps to the next player. If the creep walks through the whole map of the opponent, he/she loses a live. If there are more than two players, the creep walks to the next player’s map, otherwise the creep starts again at the opponent’s map.

It is likely a good idea to increase the income by sending creeps. To avoid the loss of the player's own lives it is also recommended to build towers on the own map. Of course the towers should be placed at a good point to reach as many creeps as possible.

There are six different kinds of towers and 16 kinds of creeps.

[edit] Game Modes

You can choose between three different game modes. The creeps move clockwise in every game mode.

• Normal - If you send a creep, your opponent after you get this creep.

• All vs. All - If you send a creep, every opponent get this creep.

• Random send - If you send a creep, a random opponent get this creep.

[edit] League

The Creep Smash League is an additional tournament script which manage the procedure of an 1vs1 tournament (ko-system) automatically. There is an registration necessary because of multiaccount protection. More requirements are:

• account >50 points
• time to play during the league

1st round played with 50 members.

[edit] Video

Some video tutorials to get a first impression.

[edit] System Requirements

Client:

• Linux or Windows based operating system
• Java 1.5 or better
• min. 1 GHz processor
• min 512 MB ram
• Network connection
• Open port 4747 (outgoing)

Server:

• Linux or Windows based operating system
• Java 1.6 or better
• Network connection

[edit] Creeps

The player can send a “creepwave” (Many creeps moving very fastly) by using the “shift” key and the creep shortcut together.

Creep name	price	income	health	speed	creep special	shortcut	creep
Mercury	50	5	300	medium	none	1
Demeter	1,000	90	7,000	very slow	none	Q
Vulture	15,000	1,200	140,000	medium	none	A
Zeus	100,000	7,000	1,500,000	slow	regenerates	Y
Mako	100	10	700	slow	none	2
Ray	2,000	180	14,000	slow	slow immunity	W
Shark	25,000	2,000	250,000	fast	slow immunity	S
Phoenix	200,000	14,000	2,500,000	fast	slow immunity	X
Fast Nova	250	25	1,400	fast	none	3
Speedy Raider	4,000	360	30,000	very fast	fast	E
Racing Mamba	40,000	3,200	500,000	very fast	fast	D
Express Raptor	400,000	28,000	6,000,000	ultra fast	fast	C
Large Manta	500	50	3,500	ultra slow	none	4
Big Toucan	8,000	720	80,000	very slow	none	R
Huge Titan	60,000	4,800	1,200,000	slow	none	F
Fat Colossus	1,000,000	56,000	15,000,000	medium	none	V

[edit] Towers

All Towers can be upgraded. Each tower level has a different tower color:

• Level 1(green)
• Level 2(blue)
• Level 3(red)
• Level 4(white)

Basictower:
level	cost	damage	rate	range
1	50	25	medium	35
2	100	50	medium	40
3	1,000	250	medium	45
4	3,000	1000	medium	50

Slowtower: slows target
level	cost	damage	rate	range
1	100	25	medium	35
2	200	50	slow	45
3	400	75	slow	50
4	3,000	100	slow	50

Splashtower: attacks multiple targets
level	cost	damage	rate	range
1	250	50	medium	40
2	750	200	medium	45
3	3,000	400	fast	55
4	7,500	1,100	fast	60

Speedtower: shoots fast
level	cost	damage	rate	range
1	1,000	225	fast	50
2	3,000	450	very fast	55
3	7,500	1,100	very fast	60
4	15,000	1,800	ultra fast	65

Rockettower: attacks multiple targets
level	cost	damage	rate	range
1	1,000	1,000	ultra slow	50
2	3,000	2,500	ultra slow	60
3	7,500	7,500	ultra slow	70
4	15,000	15,000	ultra slow	80

Ultimattower: fast uprgrade
level	cost	damage	rate	range
1	20,000	25,000	ultra slow	100
2	-	-	-	-
3	-	-	-	-
4	50,000	40,000	very slow	150

[edit] Tower strategy

• farthest attacks the creep that is closest to the path end.
• fastest: attacks the fastest creep in range.
• strongest: attacks the creep with most hit points in range.
• weakest: attacks the creep with less hit points in range.
• close: attacks the creep closest to the tower.

Additionally there is Lock. If this is activated, the tower will target the same creep while it is in range of the tower.

[edit] Hot Keys

Hot Keys should help to play as fast as possible.

[edit] InGame

• F1 - ingame Help
• F2 - Sound on/off sound (standard on)
• F3 - Antialiasing on/off (standard off)

[edit] Tower

• I - sell seleted Tower
• U - upgrade selected Tower

Built

• G - Basictower
• H - Slowtower
• J - Splashtower
• B - Rockettower
• N - Speedtower
• M - Ultimatetower

Tower Strategy

• 9 - lock
• 0 - farthest
• O - weak
• P - hard
• K - close
• L - fastest

Pressed left mouse button + "Tower Hot Key" to do this action by mouseover if it is possible.

[edit] Creeps

• 1 - Mercury
• 2 - Mako
• 3 - Fast Nova
• 4 - Large Manta
• Q - Demeter
• W - Ray
• E - Speedy Raider
• R - Big Toucan
• A - Vulture
• S - Shark
• D - Racing Mamba
• F - Huge Titan
• Y - Zeus
• X - Phoenix
• C - Express Raptor
• V - Fat Colossus
• shift + “creep” - send creepwave

[edit] Maps

There are more than 40 Maps for a varied CreepSmash game experience.

[edit] Mapeditor

Development team member Freakazoid wrote a Mapeditor wich helps to design Maps easily. You can get the Map editor file and some help in the Creep Smash Forum.

[edit] Version history

Version	Date
0.5.3 beta	2009-03-03
0.5.4 beta	2009-05-28
0.6.0 beta[2]	2009-08-07

[edit] Team

Developer

• Contex
• Azim
• Freakazoid
• mduka

Promoter

• sulfi

Translators

• Kad

Designer

• Truphu9r
• gleitiii

Moderatoren

• Simon
• Filia

[edit] Receptions

towerdefencehq.de gave the game 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 307 ratings as of January 18^th, 2009.^[3]

[edit] External links

• Creep Smash Blog
• Creep Smash Server
• University Project

[edit] References