licenta - VR Tower Defense (Bachelor's Thesis, part 1)

Unity/C# tower defense game built as the codebase for my bachelor's thesis. This repository is the base game; the VR interaction layer and additional content were continued in licenta2.

What it is

A grid-based tower defense game:

• Custom A* pathfinding (Assets/Scripts/Pathfinding/Pathfinding.cs) computes enemy routes across a tile map with entry/exit gates.
• Wave-based enemy spawning with increasing health/reward multipliers per wave (Assets/Scripts/Game.cs).
• Tower placement and targeting: laser tower (continuous beam, damage-over-time, turret rotation) and machine gun tower, each with independent range/attack behavior (Assets/Scripts/Units/Towers/).
• Enemy health bars, audio, and particle/lightning effects.
• Early VR scaffolding: the project already ships Unity's XR Interaction Toolkit and OpenXR packages and a teleport-plane transform in Game.cs, laying the groundwork completed in licenta2.

Stack

Unity 2022.3.4f1, C#, Unity XR Interaction Toolkit / OpenXR.

Running it

Requires Unity 2022.3.4f1 (or a compatible 2022.3 LTS patch). Open the project folder in Unity Hub, then open Assets/Scenes/TowerDefense.unity and press Play.

Status

Coursework project, developed 2023-07 to 2023-08 as part of a bachelor's thesis. Not maintained.