The aim of our project was to build a 2D-Towerdefense game. In case you don't know the genre yet, here is a nice video, that explains the most important aspects. Furthermore, the application has to consist of a front-end and back-end, which are usign the REST-protocol. In addtion to this, an external API has to be used, too. In the beginning, the game we had in mind had a multiplayer mode, where you could buy extra minions for your opponent and the goal was to survive longer than the other player, but this had to be abandoned. In the end, we setteled for a pretty simple tower defense game.
The language used for the backend is java. The database is managed with jpa. Other important libararies/API's were spring boot, the openweathermap APi, Mockito for the tests etc.
The main compontens are the controllers, which are responsible for interacting with the frontend, the services, which are responsible for executing what the client asked for, and the database.
For running the application on your machine, set the environment variable WeatherKey to your OpenWeather key.
Note: You'll need to build the project first with Gradle, just click on the build command in the Gradle Tasks extension. Then check the Spring Boot Dashboard extension if it already shows soprafs21 and hit the play button to start the server. If it doesn't show up, restart VS Code and check again.
You can use the local Gradle Wrapper to build the application.
Plattform-Prefix:
- MAC OS X:
./gradlew - Linux:
./gradlew - Windows:
./gradlew.bat
More Information about Gradle Wrapper and Gradle.
./gradlew build./gradlew bootRun./gradlew testYou can start the backend in development mode, this will automatically trigger a new build and reload the application once the content of a file has been changed and you save the file.
Start two terminal windows and run:
./gradlew build --continuous
and in the other one:
./gradlew bootRun
If you want to avoid running all tests with every change, use the following command instead:
./gradlew build --continuous -xtest
Here is a list with ideas to improve/extend the project further:
- Adding a Multiplayer (and/or design an AI such that you can play vs. the computer)
- Implement the originally idea, where 2 (or even more?) players are in a game. Besides that you can buy and place towers, each player also can spend money for buying minions. These minions will be sent to the opponents board. This would add a new layer of tactical decisions.
- making the weather have a bigger impact on the game, as planned
- Adding more maps (and/or write a mapgenerator)
- Adding more towers/minions (this would also need a lot of balancing)
This project was created during the "Softwarepraktikum" Sopra at the University of Zürich (UZH) in the Spring Semester 21. The core of the team was:
We would also like to mention that the project started initially among Louis Huber and Omar Abo Hamida. Due to their high workload, they decided to leave the group after the inital assessment. Nevertheless, thank you Louis and Omar for your initial support!
After this assessment, Matej Gurica and Mauro Dörig joined our team. Unfortunately, Matej and Mauro also decided to leave the project after a couple of weeks (between M3 and M4). Anyway, thank you 2 for your effort.
Special thanks go to Marion Dübendorfer and Roy Rutishauser who were responsible for our group and of course also Professor Thomas Fritz. Also a shoutout to everyone who contributed to the template.
This project is under the MIT License.