Desktop Tower Defense illustrates that you don’t need fancy graphics or big budgets to build highly addictive online games. In Desktop Tower Defence, all of the main graphics are hand drawn.
I first discovered this on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog, where he warned “The lack of posting here in the second half of this week (especially to my linkblog) has been a direct result of attempting to beat this highly addictive game. Whatever you do, please DO NOT click the link and start playing that game. You may find yourself in the very same time warp that I did…”
So of course I clicked on the link and have been “testing” the game ever since. It’s free and Flash based, and very simple. Bad guys come at you in a highly predictable way. You build defenses that take them out. If any get through, you lose a life. I’ve gotten to level 72. Can’t get past it.
Until this, Kdice was my addictive online game of choice. Now, I have them both open in separate browser tabs.
If you do get hooked, and want some advice on how to get up into the higher levels, watch this YouTube video.
Techcrunch should be banned. j/k
Thanks for nothing man. I just wasted 1 hour at work!!
It’s just like Warcraft 3 tower defense. But, this is simple and nice. And, I am lazy to install Warcraft 3 in my Mac. So, it’s really a cool alternative for me.
This evil, keep out of this game…. arggg can’t stop
I reached 2000 on the hard mode. momogroup
mike, will you start a GameCrunch blog for game reviews
Crap. I’ve wasted so much time on this game now.
Addicted. If I lose my job, at least there is CrunchBoard Jobs. (insert wink here).
OMG!
I should never have clicked that link.
I’ll add this to my blog!
I put together a spreadsheet about the creeps and the towers to make victory somewhat easier…
http://random-t...stat-sheet.html
Thank you Micheal, it has sucked me in and look it has only taken 3 hours before I realized how long I was playing….
The game is a blast. I wish I had the skills to do programming because I have had a few ideas for somewhat similar games which I think could be just as addictive, but I don’t know how to get pen & ink into pixel.
Dan.
OK, I’m addicted too. I even started a blog about it: http://desktopt...e.blogspot.com/
well i can’t say u didn’t warn me….
your a hobo