Comments on: Desktop Tower Defense Creates Startup

By: masonga95

masonga95 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:30:01 +0000

Gina Fan: There was been multi-player desktop tower defence for a whole year!
And this KDICE seems to be a risk game? Totally different genre!

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[...] learned this lesson early on when Michael’s incredibly popular weblog, TechCrunch errantly credited me as the designer of FlashElementTD, an addictive web game I used to pass the slow days at work. When [...]

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By: De juego online a StartUp: Desktop Tower Defense

De juego online a StartUp: Desktop Tower Defense — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:55:51 +0000

[...] La verdad es que a mi que me encantaba jugar al Dune II (y luego al Command & Conquer, aunque ya fue menos) este jueguecito reconozco que me atrajo bastante. Ahora, en TechCrunch comentan que van a convertir este juego en una startup. [...]

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[...] warned: Like Kdice, Desktop Tower Defense and other games we’ve covered, be prepared to lose a few days to testing this [...]

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Ready To Kill Some Time (And Some Enemies)? Try Duels.com — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:08:36 +0000

[...] warned: Like Kdice, Desktop Tower Defense and other games we’ve covered, be prepared to lose a few days to testing this [...]

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By: jackdillon

jackdillon — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:55:05 +0000

A multyplayer version is coming out soon, in the version after this. My highscore is 8120!!

By: Shanti Braford

Shanti Braford — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:51:45 +0000

VB Coder. That explains it.

My buddy and I were wondering how this talented of a dude could put up with the Flash programming environment to create such a kickass game.

It’s tough to go back (or over to the darkside) of Flash when you’re used to working in such elegant frameworks as RoR, OOP php, etc.

By: David Litsky

David Litsky — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:46:55 +0000

Thank you for the credit, but I am not the designer of FlashElementTD.

David

By: rh

rh — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:20:44 +0000

i’m hooked. viva great game design!

By: Petersen Inc.

Petersen Inc. — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:10:36 +0000

Desktop Tower Defense Creates Gaming Site…

Did you read my post on Connected Internet about the Top 6 addictive and free online games?
If not you should head over there and try a few of them out. Number one on the list, Desktop Tower Defense’s designer has teamed up with the designer of F…

By: TechCrunch Japanese

TechCrunch Japanese — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:05:53 +0000

Desktop Tower Defenseがスタートアップを作る…

中毒性の高いゲームDesktop Tower DefenseのデザイナーPaul Preeceは今の仕事を辞め、FlashElementTD のデザイナー、David Litskyと組んでフルタイムでオンランゲームサイトの開発に乗り出す。Desktop Tower…

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:48:05 +0000

All we need is DTD on the Nintendo DS, with WiFi and Co-op modes and then the whole family can have no life as well…

We have an OK Cool score group for embarrassing each other in public – http://www.ok-c...e-ok-cool-group – It would be good if other blogs did the same so that we can have blog vs blog – lol…

By: Ralston Ventures

Ralston Ventures — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:00:08 +0000

You’ve Made It Big Time…

Techcrunch reports that the addictive game makers have been collecting online advertising revenues and plan to quit their day jobs and create a startup.
Since I tested this game, purely in a viral marketing context, and could never score well eval…

By: listikal

listikal — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:38:05 +0000

That’s a great story. Just another good one for this great thing called the world wide web.

By: Gina Fan

Gina Fan — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:49:44 +0000

I think KDICE is a much superior game. The multiplayer part makes it far superior.

I have had memorable games in Kdice and have never seen anything equal.

DTD looks more sophisticated but at the end it is just a single player and gets boring pretty fast

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:54:06 +0000

these games remind me of the greatness of NES, the games were so simple yet challenging that you would sit there trying and trying to get one bit further than you were an hour ago… i love it

By: 60 in 3

60 in 3 — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:50:08 +0000

Please god, someone stop this man. My productivity can’t take much more of his games!

Gal

By: Kyle Else

Kyle Else — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:53:49 +0000

#12: I hope that Adobe finds a way to support Flash in mobile phone browsers~!

#14: Yeah, this game keeps playing all night – possible other strategies, how will the creeps behave if I stick a tower here 1st then there 2nd.

By: Greg Jordan

Greg Jordan — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:49:41 +0000

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

By: Lex

Lex — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:36:35 +0000

@Sam

Everyone always says that this is a direct rip of Warcraft TD. I used to play Warcraft3 a bunch back in the day, and played a few TDs with friends. They bored the hell out of me. And even today, the other online Flash-TD games are pretty boring, in my opinion. Some might have better graphics, but they have no flow.

Preece’s game, on the other hand, got me immediately hooked, and clearly many others as well. Whether through skill or luck, he achieved what every game designer strives for: Great Gameplay. This is actually extremely elusive.

So others have built games using the same concept, but Preece nailed it just right. This is the same pattern you find in all successful products or companies.

BTW, for all the other DesktopTD players out there: doesn’t this game remind you of Tetris? It kinds hypnotizes you while playing, and if you go too long or play right before going to sleep, your brain will keep on playing all night.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:33:22 +0000

He got lucky by reusing a very old concept (Warcraft anyone?), seems like a risky move to make.

By: Dan Blank

Dan Blank — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:15:51 +0000

So when the iPhone comes out, does this mean I can play DTD anywhere?! Or are there already a host of other smartphones that allow this?