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The Best Tower Defense Game Just Got Better: Desktop Tower Defense v1.5



Desktop Tower Defense is a classic tower defense game originally released in 2007 as a Flash game. It is made by Paul Preece and has been played 100s of millions of times. It's available here in HTML5 so that you can easily play it in your modern web browser.DeveloperDesktop Tower Defense was made by Paul Preece.




Desktop Tower Defense v1.5 Released




One of our favorite desktop tower defense games, Desktop TD by HandDrawnGames, has just received a substantial upgrade. Along with kicking the visuals and audio up a notch with new sounds and a better interface, Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 includes several new (and expanded) challenge modes to twist your brain in a knot and/or induce frustration. New towers, such as the Boost unit that increases damage nearby towers dish out, helping you combat new enemies such as the morph and dark creeps. The game is also available in five languages, including English, Spanish, German, French and Italian.


SteamWorld Tower Defense is a real-time strategy tower defense video game by Swedish video game developer Image & Form. It was released digitally on Nintendo DSi in North America, Europe and Australia on July 5, 2010.[1] It is the first game released in the SteamWorld series.[2]


In SteamWorld Tower Defense the player controls an army of steam-powered robots in a tower defense-style gameplay. The aim of the game is to take down wandering troops of human invaders in their attempt to steal gold from the robots' mining facilities. To clear a mission, the player must take down waves of human soldiers by building and strategically placing out attack robots with a range of abilities and weapons. It's possible to play the game on several difficulty levels.[3]


What is Creep Juggling / Juggling Technique in Tower Defense?1. Juggling is available only in tower defense that allows player to construct their own maze using towers.2. This is done by creating 2 routes, 1 is currently blocked and the other is accessible by creep.3. When the creep is nearing the exit of the 1st route, quickly unblock the 2nd route, and block the 1st route.4. Unblocking 2nd route through selling the tower, while blocking 1st route through building a tower.5. The action 3 and 4 can keep looping till all the creeps dies.6. Juggling is fun when there is no penalty for selling tower and has least delay for buying/upgrading tower.


Desktop Tower Defense is a Flash-based tower defense browser game created by Paul Preece in March 2007. The game had been played over 15.7 million times as of July 2007,[1] and was one of Webware 100's top ten entertainment web applications of 2007.[2] Desktop Tower Defense is available in an English, Spanish, German, French, or Italian interface. In May 2009, a commercial Nintendo DS version became available.


Desktop Tower Defense is played on a map resembling an office desktop. The player must stop a set number of enemies, known in the genre as "creeps", from reaching a set point on the playing field. This is accomplished by building and upgrading towers that shoot at, damage and kill the enemy creeps before they are able to reach their objective. Unlike many other tower defense games, the path of the creeps themselves is not set; instead, the towers built determine the path of the creeps, who take the shortest path they can find to the exit. The game does not allow the player to make an exit completely inaccessible, but key strategies revolve around guiding creeps into lengthy, meandering corridors. The creeps come in waves at set intervals. Each wave of creeps has different characteristics, such as immunity to certain towers, extra resistance to certain towers, and the abilities to spawn new creeps, move faster than normal, or fly over the towers instead of following the maze. For each wave, the game rotates among the types of creeps. Several times during gameplay, boss waves will appear. These waves consists of just one or two large creeps each, that take many hits to defeat. The player begins with a set number of lives, and loses one for each creep that survives to reach its goal (the edge of the grid opposite its entry-point, on most courses). The game will end early in defeat if the player's lives reach zero, and it provides no way to regenerate lost lives. The game can be played in three difficulty levels: easy, medium, and hard. In addition, there are several challenge modes available for those seeking more from the game. Challenges range from "The 100", where the player must defeat 100 levels of successively difficult creeps, to "3K Fixed", where the player has to build a fixed set of towers (including the upgrades) with just 3000 gold. There are also various fun modes different in gameplay than the other, harder ones.


Paul Preece got the inspiration for Desktop Tower Defense in 2006. He noticed a lack of tower defense games that allowed proper "mazing" (controlling movement of enemy forces by placing towers in their path). Preece did not immediately start work on Desktop Tower Defense because he considered Flash to be too difficult to learn. It was only after an acquaintance created Flash Element Tower Defense that Paul started work on the game. Starting from the "Autumn Tower Defense" map created for the real-time strategy game Warcraft III, Paul Preece created a simple tower defense game that could be played using only a browser. Because of his lack of skill with computer graphics, he named the game's site HandDrawnGames.com[3]


Tower defense games often provide the perfect balance for all kinds of players. One minute, they could be chilling with their backs to their chair and casually pressing buttons, and then the next, their whole base is burning down and enemies are pouring out of several breaches. Those two situational extremes are the Yin and Yang of tower defense games.


Updated February 8, 2022 by Sid Natividad: With all the big upcoming games right now from well-known franchises, it can be rather dizzying remembering all the new mechanics and gameplay modes. Some players will want to take a step back and relax by letting towers do the killing for them. Thankfully, there's no shortage of the best tower defense games.


More importantly, the best tower defense games on Steam are also some of the finest offerings in the genre. That's great since these kinds of games are best played on a mouse and keyboard. Thus, we've decided to add even more of the best tower defense games on Steam as a good way to make the genre more accommodating.


Among these are some ingenious tower defense titles, though frankly, there are too many to mention. In any case, players will find something for everyone in this large and generous collection. Some of them even hold up well for today's standard, which is a tall order for a cheap game from a bygone era.


If there was anything indie game companies have taught the industry recently, it's that going hybrid on the genre produces good results. Zombie Defense is among those results as it's part RTS and part tower defense, though the two genres don't exactly stray off far from each other.


Speaking of hybrids, Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves deserves a look, especially for fans of games like Left 4 Dead or the Warhammer Vermintide series. It's a combination of action and tower defense where players are tasked with defending a farmstead from an onslaught of rabid wolves and werewolves.


Anyone seeing this game here ought to just stop for a moment and open up Steam on a new tab to download the game right away. The Riftbreaker: Prologue is the best tower defense the industry has had in years. That's because it doesn't confine itself to one genre.


It's a mix of ARPG, strategy, and tower defense as players fight off hordes of aliens while mining some valuable resources. Coupled with the intense action allowed by the impressively jaw-dropping graphics, The Riftbreaker: Prologue is a complete package with the hardest price tag to beat.


Like The Riftbreaker, Prime World also incorporates a hybrid tower defense gameplay. It's also a CCG game where players have to grind for the cards they want in order to be more efficient at defending their base. It does come with its own caveat, being a free-to-play game as the monetization scheme can be quite aggressive.


Who doesn't love an Adventure Time tower defense? Well, scratch that. Any Adventure Time game is bound to be good thanks to its colorful style and locale that's low-hanging fruit for a game world. In any case, a tower defense franchise called Bloons made a game out of it in their own tradition.


The tower defense is such a deceptively simple yet engaging genre that even something with basic vector graphics is a highly-rated game. That would be the aptly-named Vectorio which is still in early access right now but is free for everyone to try.


Guns UP! is a literal wargame that's a combination of both tower defense and strategy. Players control their own military bases where the end goal is to destroy the enemy base (usually another player's). They do this by building up their economy and defenses as well as training their own troops.


Troop AI is thus more automated here and charges at the enemy base with little to no effort. The main activity is still strategic allocation of resources for an efficient base. Should players get the shorter end of the stick and end up as a defender, then they'll understand why Guns UP! is a tower-defense game.


Dungeon Defenders 2's premise is pretty self-explanatory though a little too ironic as players usually raid dungeons in video games. In any case, it's also a hero-based tower defense game where players pick their team of defenders against waves of enemies.


There's also a multiplayer component here, meaning players get to show off their lineup as they stop the land of Etheria from an invasion. The visuals are also cute enough to draw in the most casual crowds, which works in tandem with the tower defense gameplay. 2ff7e9595c


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