Please, for the love of god... Don't play this game...

[Adamant1988]

Whoever said that you needed fancy graphics, amazing sound effects, or even a decent story to build a fun and addictive game can go DIAF.

I present to you.. Desktop Tower Defense (http://www.kongregate.com/games/preecep/desktop-tower-defense?facebook_id=546395530). I discovered this through Facebook apps and I've been addicted to it ever since. I've managed to get to level 50 on easy mode (I didn't win, mind you, but I haven't been playing long).


If you value your free time, your family, your friends, or your life... don't play this game..

[azkehmm]

That's some good ****!!!

[justin whitaker]

Whoever said that you needed fancy graphics, amazing sound effects, or even a decent story to build a fun and addictive game can go DIAF.

I present to you.. Desktop Tower Defense (http://www.kongregate.com/games/preecep/desktop-tower-defense?facebook_id=546395530). I discovered this through Facebook apps and I've been addicted to it ever since. I've managed to get to level 50 on easy mode (I didn't win, mind you, but I haven't been playing long).


If you value your free time, your family, your friends, or your life... don't play this game..

Another one falls to DTD. The folks over at Gamers With Jobs have been talking about this for weeks...forgoing just about any other game! That's unheard of for a Flash game.

Quite addictive.

[ajeffreys]

You should never have linked to it :)

[Kingsley]

Is it an RPG or what?

[justin whitaker]

Is it an RPG or what?

Strategy, sort of.

[starcraft.man]

Lol, reminds me of lemmings... except destructive rather than constructive.

I'll stick to green lemmings on my PSP :).

[Adamant1988]

I finally beat level 50 on easy lol... took a bit of stratemagizing. Onto the next level up... Wheeew.

[Raccoonzers]

....One game, at the easiest difficulty, to boot, and I'm already addicted. Good thing I don't have class until the fall <_<

[natedawg]

Desktop TD is a fun game!

If you want an even more addicting tower game play Onslaught.

http://ec2-1.playr.co.uk/onslaught/

I have been playing it all week. The game even has its own forum :)
Best score I can get so far is around 320,000,000 on level 192.

[JC_510]

looooool!! Every now and then a great flash game comes along.

Reminds me of IT lessons at school where we used to play 'Heli Attack 3' - Now that was a game!!

[Anthem]

I've beaten it on medium without losing a single life. I've played "The 100" challenge and gotten almost all the way to the end... level 79.

[Adamant1988]

My first go at medium, had 13 lives left at the end of the game...

[Dragonbite]

You Are Evil!

[Anthem]

Try this.

[garba]

somebody please take that website down

[pacman2440]

GAH! I'm going to get in so much trouble at work for playing this, and being on this board to much!! Fun game though, very addicting.

[Engnome]

I haven't played this version but the original version in Warcraft 3 was great if you had a lot of time to spare.

Very interesting:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000872.html

[argie]

Wow, I love this game. So much fun.

[speedemonV12]

this game is amazing.. im addicted...

[init1]

Can't stop playing. Very adictive

[tcpip4lyfe]

I can't stop.......help me!

[Adamant1988]

I'm moving up to the next level now./.

I officially call this meeting of DTD-anonymous to order

[Billy_McBong]

i think im gonna become addicted to this game

[reacocard]

I'm moving up to the next level now./.

I officially call this meeting of DTD-anonymous to order

All present and accounted for. Would the first speaker please take the stand?


(This is incredibly addicting, I haven't beaten Easy mode yet, but I've gotten to the 40s EDIT: beat easy!)

[Nikron]

Have to say, after playing Warcraft's myriad Tower War map, easy was ridiculously easy, beat it on the first try. Fun though, reminded me of old times =P

[Billy_McBong]

beat easy moving on to medium

[Adamant1988]

I got through medium on my first try, now I'm just refining my technique. My second try at medium, thanks for the tips.

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/2562/dd3nr7.th.png (http://img66.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dd3nr7.png)

[TheRingmaster]

That game reminds me a lot of this game (http://mofunzone.com/online_games/flash_element_td.shtml). It is a very addictive game too. The sound effects are really good.

[WinterWeaver]

omg... my life is gone ... >.<

[BuffaloX]

Level 50 on easy,
Which is as it says -easy-, when you figure out just one little trick.

[awakatanka]

I hate you for posting this link, now bugs are walking over my screen and i must kill them. My wife wants me to leave my pc and do other things but i can't these bugs keep coming. She warns me see will leave me if i keep doing that. But i can't they keep coming. My son hates me i don't play with him anymore, my family hates me because i never visit them anymore. The all call me a game junk, but i'm not i just want those little bugs of my screen but the keep coming and i hate they beat me, i'm the boss not those bugs i will kill them all.

[GSF1200S]

I think the secret of this game is pockets that use ALL the weapons... If youve got a freeze cannon slowing them, while a bash cannon has more shots to stun them, with the fast cannons blasting them, they cant do crap... Of course, thats just on Easy right now...

You suck man- i HAD a life!

Heres my win on 50 showing the maze+pocket combo..

[Adamant1988]

I think the secret of this game is pockets that use ALL the weapons... If youve got a freeze cannon slowing them, while a bash cannon has more shots to stun them, with the fast cannons blasting them, they cant do crap... Of course, thats just on Easy right now...

You suck man- i HAD a life!

Heres my win on 50 showing the maze+pocket combo..

Nice, I'm impressed. :D

[Gargamella]

this game is EVIL!!!! ;D i love it

[happy-and-lost]

Thanks. I'm sitting my AS levels on Monday. CURSES!

[Adamant1988]

Thanks. I'm sitting my AS levels on Monday. CURSES!

Sorry :(. For what it's worth.. I did warn you (in a reverse psychology kind of way).

[BuffaloX]

I think the secret of this game is pockets that use ALL the weapons... If youve got a freeze cannon slowing them, while a bash cannon has more shots to stun them, with the fast cannons blasting them, they cant do crap... Of course, thats just on Easy right now...

You suck man- i HAD a life!

Heres my win on 50 showing the maze+pocket combo..

I can't believe it can be done that simple. :lol
I used a tactic of making two paths and closing one, when they got too close to exit, which made them backtrack through my entire labyrinth, going for the other exit. I can even kill the invulnerable ones, on highest levels of easy. I just send them back and forth enough times, and they will eventually die.

[Adamant1988]

I can't believe it can be done that simple. :lol
I used a tactic of making two paths and closing one, when they got too close to exit, which made them backtrack through my entire labyrinth, going for the other exit. I can even kill the invulnerable ones, on highest levels of easy. I just send them back and forth enough times, and they will eventually die.

Oh, yeah, I did that.

Anywho, I'm trying to do Hard level now but the flying ones get me every time.

[BuffaloX]

I think the secret of this game is pockets that use ALL the weapons... If youve got a freeze cannon slowing them, while a bash cannon has more shots to stun them, with the fast cannons blasting them, they cant do crap... Of course, thats just on Easy right now...

You suck man- i HAD a life!

Heres my win on 50 showing the maze+pocket combo..

Yup as I suspected, tried your setup, and got to lvl 31.
Ice canons seem to have little effect here, Bash tower doesn't seem very effective either.
I was actually surprised I got past lvl 30, but thats because of having 20 lives from the beginning.

There must be some sort of bug, making the game behave differently on different setups.
I thought it was a bit weird I had to use such a demanding tactic on easy level.

Btw. Your method very much resemble my own second attempt (which failed), Except I had to extend the labyrinth all the way through, just to get to level 40, getting beyond 42 or 44, seemed impossible, thus I changed my tactics so I could send the monsters back into the labyrinth by closing and opening two alternate exits.

[BuffaloX]

Oh, yeah, I did that.

Anywho, I'm trying to do Hard level now but the flying ones get me every time.

You also did the back and forth thing?
Or "GSF1200S" thing?

[Anthem]

Hey guys, it's not difficult. Really. At least not on Easy or Intermediate.

I've already posted an easy map that will allow you to beat Intermediate without losing any lives.

It's "Hard" and "The 100" that are hard to beat.

[BuffaloX]

Hey guys, it's not difficult. Really. At least not on Easy or Intermediate.

I've already posted an easy map that will allow you to beat Intermediate without losing any lives.

It's "Hard" and "The 100" that are hard to beat.

As I mentioned, there must be a bug in this game.
My very first map on medium, looked almost exactly the same, only I used different canons,

Just to make sure, I build an exact copy of your map, it was finished very early in the game, because it has almost only cheap canons. except the two air-defense very few quick shooters.
The first monster escapes at level 26, almost all planes escape a little later mostly unhamed, and at lvl 34 a group of blue monsters gets through, also mostly unharmed.

I promise you, on my system, any configuration of a single threaded labyrinth doesn't stand a chance of finishing the game, not even on easy.
I'm sure your solution works great on your system, but mine is different.

[sloggerkhan]

This is exactly a tower defence like custom War3 mapss...

[Adamant1988]

As I mentioned, there must be a bug in this game.
My very first map on medium, looked almost exactly the same, only I used different canons,

Just to make sure, I build an exact copy of your map, it was finished very early in the game, because it has almost only cheap canons. except the two air-defense very few quick shooters.
The first monster escapes at level 26, almost all planes escape a little later mostly unhamed, and at lvl 34 a group of blue monsters gets through, also mostly unharmed.

I promise you, on my system, any configuration of a single threaded labyrinth doesn't stand a chance of finishing the game, not even on easy.
I'm sure your solution works great on your system, but mine is different.

It's about upgrades, and Anthem is right, easy and medium are a joke. I've stepped into Hard and I can get into the 40s before I lose, it's those flying ones that get me every time, it seems like I can't build enough anti-air towers to combat them.

[Celegorm]

I just beat hard for the first time. Lovely game.

[init1]

Desktop TD is a fun game!

If you want an even more addicting tower game play Onslaught.

http://ec2-1.playr.co.uk/onslaught/

I have been playing it all week. The game even has its own forum :)
Best score I can get so far is around 320,000,000 on level 192.
Onslaught is fun, but too easy. It is playing in the background and does not need my input. I am on 60 so far.

[Polygon]

there is also a similiar game, called Element TD

http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/

but this is pretty fun as well

[BuffaloX]

Try this.

Image shows level 50, all lives remaining. Almost no upgrades, and just two airdefenses.
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=34060&d=1180729445


I got through medium on my first try, now I'm just refining my technique. My second try at medium, thanks for the tips.

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/2562/dd3nr7.th.png (http://img66.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dd3nr7.png)


This image shows level 50, 3 lives lost, only light upgrades, this makes it to level 38-42 on my system if I stop planes with air defense towers. (middle of map not visible.


I think the secret of this game is pockets that use ALL the weapons... If youve got a freeze cannon slowing them, while a bash cannon has more shots to stun them, with the fast cannons blasting them, they cant do crap... Of course, thats just on Easy right now...

Heres my win on 50 showing the maze+pocket combo..

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=34121&d=1180780754



Nice setup but not enough to reach higher levels on my system.


How far do you get using the Anthem map?
I only get to lvl 34 on easy.

I bet the results will be different on different systems, or maybe different flash versions.
Which makes the highs-core completely useless

[Adamant1988]

Image shows level 50, all lives remaining. Almost no upgrades, and just two airdefenses.
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=34060&d=1180729445



This image shows level 50, 3 lives lost, only light upgrades, this makes it to level 38-42 on my system if I stop planes with air defense towers. (middle of map not visible.



Nice setup but not enough to reach higher levels on my system.


How far do you get using the Anthem map?
I only get to lvl 34 on easy.

I bet the results will be different on different systems, or maybe different flash versions.
Which makes the highs-core completely useless

Pretty interesting I'll take that to heart.

[ghandi69_]

Love this game.

[Polygon]

at the end of the game if you get a decent score it asks you to submit your score, then after that it takes you to a image of your base setup. Just take a SS of that :D

[BuffaloX]

Uuuups
Seems I made a mistake about upgrades.
Sorry guys, please disregard my previous posts. :oops:

[Adamant1988]

Uuuups
Seems I made a mistake about upgrades.
Sorry guys, please disregard my previous posts. :oops:

Happens, lol.

[ghandi69_]

Yeah... I think if you focus on upgrades your better off... If you get more than 10 of those "sniper towers" your sitting pretty good.

[BuffaloX]

I think the secret of this game is pockets that use ALL the weapons... If youve got a freeze cannon slowing them, while a bash cannon has more shots to stun them, with the fast cannons blasting them, they cant do crap... Of course, thats just on Easy right now...

You suck man- i HAD a life!

Heres my win on 50 showing the maze+pocket combo..

I tried the pocket thing, hard to make that work IMO.

But I finally got normal mode without loosing a single life.
I measured that with diagonal lines I achieve exactly 24% longer path through the entire map.
compared to simple horizontal lines.

Yeah I wasted a bit of time on this. :rolleyes: