{"id":235,"date":"2008-10-03T08:08:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T08:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2008-10-03T08:08:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T08:08:27","slug":"friday-fun-desktop-tower-defence-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/friday-fun-desktop-tower-defence-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun – Desktop Tower Defence Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a break from the normal, today’s Friday Fun post is a free flash game.\u00a0 I took the night off life last night and was up till midnight trying to get to the end of the Medium difficulty level!\u00a0 It’s very simple, easy to learn, and a lot of fun.\u00a0 This is the link:<\/p>\n

Desktop Tower Defence Game<\/a><\/p>\n

In essense the game is simple: have have to build a maze for creatures (creeps) to navigate through.\u00a0 The goal of the creeps is to get to their exit, and your goal is to kill them before they do.\u00a0 So you create your maze not out of blocks, but out of towers that shoot<\/strong> at them.\u00a0 Obviously you either want to create the longest possible route for them to go, and\/or to funnel them past your powerful weapon towers.<\/p>\n

The key to the game is upgrades (click on a tower to get the upgrade option).\u00a0 A tower upgraded to level 6 (5 upgrades) is more effective than 5 level 1 towers for example.\u00a0 Bang for buck, it invariably costs less too.\u00a0 Here’s a picture of it in play:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

For reasons that escape me, these short cut keys aren’t in the instructions that the main game links to:<\/p>\n