Where the Light Holds
A maze tower-defense for desktop browsers that is easy to get started with. No install or account, and the next wave only starts when you send it.
I wanted a tower defense game for myself, something easy to get started with that I could play in a browser on the side while doing other work. So there is no clock. You decide when the next wave starts, and you can leave the game sitting between waves for as long as you like.
You build a maze out of firepots, which foes won’t cross, and place towers whose lamplight is their reach. Foes avoid light when they can, so where you put light shapes their path. There are 30 waves, nine towers and one map, The Moor.
The look is dusk fog with towers as lights in the dark. A light’s colour shows its damage type, and foes are dark silhouettes with pale eyes.
Under the hood
- TypeScript, Vite and Preact
- Canvas 2D rendering
- A deterministic simulation with unit tests
- Procedural sound with WebAudio
- Deployed as a static site on Cloudflare Workers