Best way to balance a tower defence game

(Adam Edney) #1

I basically complete my tower defence game and I was wondering what is the best way to balance it. I have three different groups of towers and three different groups of enemies which all have 4 types in each group. So my question is what’s the best / most logical method of creating a balance game so wave 6 isn’t too power compared to wave 10 and a upgrade for a towers isn’t too powerful.

Any suggestion would be great as I have a few ideas for creating a indexes e.g. (100 damage = 3.4 gold) then I can use this to set the upgrade costs.

(TaylorAnderson) #2

My only advice for this (having never made a proper tower defense game myself) is to look at other popular TD games (Bloons and Kingdom Rush come to mind) and examine how they do it.

(Bora Kasap) #3

I think that PDF document may be useful for you

Avery 2011 Computational

(christopf) #4

Why not let people testplay it annd adjust it with their critic?

(TaylorAnderson) #5

Yeah, playtesting it yourself and with others is the best surefire way to balance something. You’ll never know if something is balanced before you test it.