🐒 Angry Monkey - 2D Tower Defense Game

Angry Monkey is a fast-paced 2D puzzle-arcade tower defense game built in Unity, where players strategically deploy monkeys to defend against waves of enemy balloons. With a blend of unique enemy types, advanced tower mechanics, and a modern Unity architecture, the game offers a tactical challenge and rewarding progression system.

🔹 Game Highlights

• Strategic Monkey Placement: Players position monkeys along predefined balloon paths to maximize efficiency and coverage.
• Unique Monkey Types: Includes Sniper Monkey, Ninja Monkey, and Sharp Monkey, each with custom behaviors and attack strategies.
• Diverse Balloon Enemies: Red, Blue, Metal, Camo, and Boss balloons each offer different health pools, resistances, and surprises.
• Balloon Splitting Mechanic: Popped balloons may spawn smaller ones, adding increasing pressure and complexity.
• Path-Following System: Balloons follow fixed spline paths, requiring foresight in defense strategy and monkey upgrades.
• Health & Coin Economy: Players lose health when balloons escape and earn coins by popping them—used for deploying and upgrading monkeys.
• Level Unlocking System: Completing a level unlocks the next. Progress is persistently saved using PlayerPrefs.
• Audio & Feedback: Popping sounds, damage cues, and music bring satisfying feedback and immersion to each round.

💡 Key Learnings & Architecture

• Scriptable Objects: Extensively used to define monkeys, balloons, and level data—enabling modularity and clean data separation.
• Service Locator Pattern: Replaced Singleton patterns with a service locator to decouple systems and improve maintainability/testability.
• Custom INIT() System: Unified initialization method for cross-service setup, enabling flexible startup sequences and dependency injection.
• Persistent Game Progress: Leveraged PlayerPrefs for storing unlock data and player advancement efficiently.
• Performance Optimization: Identified bottlenecks and began integrating object pooling and lightweight rendering techniques for smoother runtime performance.

🧠 Development Focus Areas

• Implementing modular and reusable Unity game architecture.
• Designing scalable enemy wave systems and path-following logic.
• Balancing gameplay strategy with escalating challenge and replayability.
• Profiling runtime performance and implementing optimizations.
• Creating engaging game feel with audio, visual effects, and responsive systems.

📬 Let’s Connect

Love game architecture, gameplay design, or talking design patterns in Unity or C++? I’d love to connect, collaborate, and hear your feedback or game dev stories!