New Magic the Gathering Tower Defense

[-JonNny]

This Thread has no relation to the existing MtG maps

My Basic Idea is to create a Tower defense based on Magic the Gathering.
But it will contain a couple of new things.

Concept:

I am going to create 5 Armour and Attack typed for the Towers and Waves (colors of the Cardgame) ->Mountain(Red) , Island(Blue) , Forest(Green) , Plains(White) and Swamps(Black)
Im not sure now how much damage each type will deal to the other color but i will decide it while balancing

The main new part of this Tower defense which makes it special are the resources. You will gain "Gold"(or something similar) for completing waves and for killing the mobs but its not directly usable for Towers. Im going to make it similar to the cardgame that towers cost e.g. 3 mountain ans 1 forest or something. each player has the 5 countries which create the resource for each player. At the beginning each player will gain +1 of each per round but these buildinge will be upgradeable that they will grant more each round ( 5 , 10 and so on each round) .. means that the player can decide which elements he want to gain and also has to plan ahead to get enought strenght of each color. Of course there will be an option to directly buy these resources it should be if you really need them now.

Thats the basic idea i am going to build in my Tower defense.
What do you think of the idea?

But my main probem is that i dont know which kind of Towr defense i am going to create... i wanted to create a maze but im not sure if it isnt to complex for it ... ( options are if i should create t a bit like Elemental TD or more like Artifact TD)

 

[The_Silent]

Magic the gathering fits everything, especially because there not many of them! More of them would be nice, whatever its a tower defends or not.

 

[-JonNny]

Thanks for your reply , but the question was not exactly if Magic The Gathering fits to a maze.
I am doubting if the Cencept of using the resources (look in my descrition) would be too complex for a maze

In a normal TD you can focus of the buildings and so on

but building my idea into a maze would mean to mind your maze , the Towers AND the new concept with the 5 lands... maybe its to confusing

 

[The_Silent]

I don't think so, mazes is in general to simple, the more complex the better i think, the ones out there are mostly really simple.

 

[-JonNny]

Ok , i already started and all things seem to work really fine.

The resource system works and my new way of building the Towers works too.
The Builder is not able to "build" any towers , he has 5 items in his inventory with the spellbook ability containing 5 abilities which build the Towers (the abilities of the 5 human items which allow to build sth).
that forces me to not use gold costs (mana costs would be possible) but i have to use a custom system anyway cuz of my 5 different resources .
The only disadvantage is that i cannot create more than 5 abilities for one spellboook but there are 5 items which will get 2 different levels which means i could make up to 2*5*5=50 base Towers

 

[The_Silent]

Sounds diffecult, i hope it'll turn out good

 

[-JonNny]

It is not really difficult but it needs getting used to
actually the only point is that you have to use your inventory to get to your buildings and that you have 5 different "building menues" without replacing the builder

 

[JanSze]

hey jonny. I'm also making a MTG td. But your ideas are really different to mine. So keeo up the good work

 

[-JonNny]

Y , i recognized that another thread about a Magic TD appeared
dunno , we are using the same damagetypes or?
anyway , good luck and have fun

 

[JanSze]

Hmm ok the concept DOES fit into a TD. Making it like elemental TD would be cool. But you may hear: "eeh, that's stolen!" Because elemental also uses the 5 (or 4? dunno) colors...

But the upgradable lands are a cool idea!

 

[-JonNny]

Nahh.. not really stolen , Elemental TD just uses the magic color too ^^

But i got some minor problems because i didnt know that the same abilities interupt eachother even they are in different spellbooks in different abilities