etrotta/PTD3-SERVER

PTD3-SERVER

This project aims to make the flash game Pokémon Tower Defense 3 playable again, by recreating the server and responding to the client's requests the same way the original would have. It requires a slightly modified SWF client in order to use this server over the default (now dead/offline) one.

How to Play

I recommend installing a personal server on Deta Space. After installing it, open the server's app for more instructions. Alternatively,

• You can use someone else's server to test it out, but keep in mind that your account could easily be griefed when doing so, and it is not trivial to transfer your account to another server.
• If you are not afraid to touch the code on your own, you can clone this repository and run it locally by:
  • Cloning the repository via git clone https://github.com/etrotta/PTD3-SERVER
  • Installing the dependencies python-dotenv, deta, and flask via pip install python-dotenv, pip install deta, and pip install flask respectively
  • Copy the .env.example file to src/local.env and edit it if you wish
  • Run flask --app src.main run -p 1234
  • When logging in, point the URL to http://localhost:1234. What you use for the password does not matters.

Whichever method you use to get a server, you'll need of a PTD3 SWF modified so that it can point to the right server, as well as a functional flash player. If you want to modify the game client yourself, see the mod_instructions.txt for instructions

Links

• Server on Deta Space: https://deta.space/discovery/@etrotta/ptd3server
• Modified Game SWF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PlQRLNhsJxvJ_zu1CYGygHlw3vtzVRS2/view?usp=sharing
• Flash Player (Newgrounds): https://www.newgrounds.com/flash/player
• Flash Player (Adobe, debugger): https://web.archive.org/web/20220401020702/https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html

Contributing

Create a GitHub Issue or contact me on Discord first. To run the tests, you may need to install pip install pytest and pip -e . in the project root directory

Acknowledgements

This project wouldn't have been possible with the original game by Samuel Otero and the JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler.

Icon made with Stable Diffusion 2.1 on https://playgroundai.com/.

Shout-out to the PTD Archives discord server.