Desktop Tower Defense Review
March 7, 2007
What simple but amazing game. It follows the golden game design rules of easy to learn but hard to master.
The point of the game is too stop creeps that enter from the left/top of the play area from exiting out the opposite side. You do this by placing towers that block the creeps’ path (except flying ones) and also shoot at them. The big catch is that the creeps will always follow the shortest path to the exit. This means they will not simply run directly into your guns unless you are smart with your placement.
An example of the type of maze you can setup is shown below.
Likely simple to code and simple graphics, it is by a company called Hand Drawn Games. Most of the time was likely spent trying to figure out the stats for the enemies the guns. Lots of trial and error.
If you get stuck (the end creeps have a lot of health) you can view mazes other users have created or watch a video of a maze being built. Yes, I did steal his idea for my own maze when I did the screen shot above.
Fantastically addictive game I would recommend it to anyone.
May 28, 2007 at 8:31 am
This was on Digg this morning.
http://gigaom.com/2007/05/27/desktop-tower-defense/
May 29, 2007 at 11:22 pm
It was a very good game, glad to see the developer benefiting from his work.
P.S. – It feels weird talking to you via the comments of a blog.