Welcome to the Desktop Tower Defense Vortex
My man Jason over at Webomatica wrote about Desktop Tower Defense today, which reminded me that I continue to be obsessed with the Flash-based “casual” online game. Casual because it’s the kind of game you can understand pretty quickly (the idea is to set up little towers that shoot at and stop “creeps” who are trying to get from one side of your desktop to the other). So casual, yes. But obsessive. Oh yes.
I first learned about the DTD from TechCrunch, which to be fair warned me that once you start playing you can kiss a few good days goodbye. And the obsession is spreading with a relentlessness: a few months later TechCrunch reported that Desktop Tower Defense has been played 15 million times.
Now, that aside, let’s get down to the geekdom. This is how I attested to my current progress over on Webomatica:
I haven’t found dart towers to be all that useful. After a bunch of experimentation, I try to strategically deploy squirt towers around freeze towers and build them up to the highest level as quickly as possible. I didn’t bother with air defense towers for a while, but I think they were key in getting past the level 50 (on the 100 level challenge) and level 72 humps. I’m hitting a wall now around the level 80 mark.
Check out a speeded up takedown of all 100 levels here:
Update: I just watched the entire seven-minute clip – turns out that this player gets stomped right around the same point that I do, in the level 78-80 range!
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July 9th, 2007 at 9:08 am
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July 9th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
The failure in his system is that his system is getting overwhelmed by too many guys. His slowing down approach is a waste of resources. All it does is add more creatures to the queue instead of destroying them. Ice is fine for dealing with ‘Fast’ creatures, but it’s too much when you have that line of four or five other towers that’re slowing down and stopping the creatures…Ink towers I think right? Well anyways, what he needed was more money spent on destruction and less on other gimmicks.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I think he was using a bunch of Stomp Towers near the end, which I’ve never found to be useful. I do like using freeze towers a lot because they slow down fast creeps as you’ve noted and also are very helpful for air attacks.
September 1st, 2007 at 11:41 am
Seriously, I’ve played The 100 at least a hundred times and also hit a wall around the 80th wave. It The 100 even possible? Does anyone know? Does anyone have a video of it being done? Please! I’ts haunting me!
September 1st, 2007 at 10:18 pm
I’d love to see the 100 taken down as well Ralph! I’ve hit the wall a whole bunch of times at 80 or 82 as well.
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