I Built a Tower Defense Game With Zero Dependencies — AI Art, Procedural Audio, and ~3,200 Lines of Vanilla JS

The author built 'Arcane Bastion,' a crystal tower defense game in ~3,200 lines of vanilla JavaScript with zero dependencies, using only canvas and script tags. The game features 5 elemental tower types, 10 enemy types, AI-generated sprites, and fully procedural audio synthesized via the Web Audio API. Key challenges included Chrome's autoplay policy for AudioContext, AI art integration requiring significant manual cleanup, and building a complete sound engine from oscillator waveforms.