{"id":61,"date":"2007-04-17T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/desktop-tower-defense-review\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T18:16:00","slug":"desktop-tower-defense-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/desktop-tower-defense-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop Tower Defense Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally I&#8217;m not a big fan of Flash based web games. I prefer to play games with a controller sitting on my couch, but when I heard the guys from DL.tv mention how much fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handdrawngames.com\/DesktopTD\/\">Desktop Tower Defense<\/a> (DTD) was I thought I&#8217;d give it a try. Now that I&#8217;ve been playing it for a week I wish I had never heard of DTD because I can&#8217;t get anything done on the computer now. This game is so fun and addicting. This review took three days because I kept stopping to play DTD. It falls into one of may favorite categories&#8230;easy to play but hard to master.<\/p>\n<p>The site gives this description &#8221; Desktop TD is a flash based TD game, that pays homage to a few Warcraft 3 tower defense maps. You have to stop your enemies, or &#8216;creeps&#8217;, from traveling all the way across the screen. Tower pieces can be purchased and placed on the map to kill the creeps before they make it across.&#8221; Sounds simple enough, but it is quite challenging. After a few tries you&#8217;ll probably figure out a strategy that works for you. I prefer to setup my towers so they overlap and force a bottleneck in the middle of the map. This gives me more changes to attack the creeps.<\/p>\n<p>The replayability of this game is through the roof. In addition to being able to play the game on Easy, Normal, or Hard there are 9 challenge modes and 4 fun modes. Personally, I play on normal most of the time because I can&#8217;t make it anywhere on Hard.  My top score so far is 5640.  Post your top score in the comments if you can beat me.  If you&#8217;re a fan of tower defense or strategy games give Desktop Tower Defense a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally I&#8217;m not a big fan of Flash based web games. I prefer to play games with a controller sitting on my couch, but when I heard the guys from DL.tv mention how much fun Desktop Tower Defense (DTD) was I thought I&#8217;d give it a try. Now that I&#8217;ve been playing it for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[7,69,5],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-review","tag-tower-defense","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}