New Map Idea -- Defend your Castle

I've had too much time on my hands recently, so I've decided to make a map in my spare time. I was working on an idea for this map a while back with a friend, but the project was abandoned, but we're thinking about coming back to it.

Basically, in this map, you start out with a few Archers, and you're in a small castle area. From here, you can choose a "King" hero that must be kept alive through the whole game, who is extremely powerful but immobile. After this, you can choose another hero for fighting and guarding your castle further. After this, there are two ways you can fight. There are a few shrines to the bottom of the map that can summon creeps to attack the other players, or you can build units and attack your enemy castles with them. Basically, when you lose your King, you die. The last player standing wins.

Anyway, there's 4 basic units you can build. Soldiers, which guard the gate entrance, have very heavy defense and high attack power. Archers, which you can usually put up on the walls and are very annoying to get hit by and kill, then there are Catapults that can shoot from very long ranges, then finally, Wizards, who have tons of spells that either heal your troops or damage enemy troops. You can upgrade the attack power and defense of your units to 200 levels, and Wizards have 25 upgrades to make them stronger.

Also, at the beginning of the game, you get a Peasant. With this peasant, you build barrackses to build units to defend your castle, or you can build walls to defend from attackers, or towers to fend off attackers. You can also build a tower which produces units which give auras out for your defenders.

Every 500 kills, you get 100 bonus lumber, which can be used for buying items for heroes. Heroes have almost completely custom skills and can get to level 20, but they gain EXP VERY slowly. They have 5 skills, each which can be raised to level 20.

What do you think about it? Good idea or should I just ditch the whole thing in general?

erm.....sorry to dissapoint you but....Castle Defence has already been made. your version sounds alot better, mebby u should try, but i havent seen much castle defence maps hosted lately, even the Advanced castle defence version (that is alot better than the others.) go for it if you want....
*wonders how someone can have too much spare time*

sounds fun. but since he says castle defense is made already just give it a name change and make it. i rated 4/5 by the way

Well yeah, this is just the basic idea I've got in my head right now. If I decide to go through with this and make it to the end, I'll change the name around and that stuff, I'm just wondering if I should bother to go on.

it sounds fun, and i think you should go through with it, just try to distance your Castle D from the original. Yours already seems to have several differences at least, but if the gameplay is almost nearly the same, you may find less people playing it.

I think you should really go for this. Bnet gets boring after awhile when theres no new good maps. Get all the features you can into this, to make the map as good as possible! Keep it up! :D

Hmmm If you pull this off well, this could be good on b.net. First there was tower defense that branched off into tower wars. Now you're making "Castle wars" out of castle defense.
I saw a map somewhat like "Castle wars" but with quite a few differences. It's a 5v5, and you spawn troops to attack them (troop spawning is like golem wars style, but your units can't upgrade. You can choose between grunts, footies (with defend), casters, range...). You could use money to buy more heroes. You're supposed to break into the castle and kill the king, as well as protect your own king. There were two paths on the side, but they were guarded by creeps.
Hope your map has some element of strategy! Not like tower wars or castle defense (I didn't see much strategy in castle defense).
Post some versions of it and all. And yes. Continue this project.

i had played a map like this (but that map had no custom hereos and spells) but work on ;)

yeah i played a 'castle wars' it was called castle madness. really quite good. of course, back in the 'good old days' of battle.net there was a lot more variety. maps were lower quality but now all i see is wintermaul and aeons. the only map even slightly original recently was pyramid escape, and that died cuz the noobs couldnt do it. remember OLD tower defenses (arkguil, blixel etc.) nobody ever completed them. i remember the sense of achievement on completing arkguil for the first time. now anyone can complete wintermaul except if you get lots (3 or more) noobs or a server split. and that's why its so popular. even battle.net noobs can do it.

Hmm, I think I've played the Original Castle Defense. My map will be fairly different from that.

For one, you start with just a gate and are in a preplaced terrain area. From here on, you get a Peasant, and you have to build walls and towers (to defend from attackers) and you can upgrade them to provide defense against stronger attackers. If you don't build up, you pretty much can't win.

I'm thinking about making this an FFA, where all players are up against each other. They can build units and go attack any other castles at will, or they can summon units from the shrines (which summons 1 unit per player, excluding the player who summoned it and players who aren't in the game). Units can be upgraded to level 5, Shrines can be upgraded to level 12.

I guess I'll contine on this map then. :D Feedback is always welcomed.

Sounds cool, but it HAS already been made, but there probaly all forgotten now ://// So making this cool one of yours should make people play it.:ggani:

hmm, sounds alot like my new map,Twin Kingdoms , you can check it out Here

Maybe we can help eachother out?

P.S. You arnt the world's worst terrainer, I AM!