DESKTOP TOWER DEFENCE

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

incredibly simple, fiendishly difficult, hella addictive:

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/

its like lemmings meets cannon fodder, in a bizarre way.

if my book misses its deadline, these are the dudes to blame.

anyone know of similar?

― stevie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

wow, thats some addictive stuff

― Ste, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's utterly brilliant! There's also:

Flash Circle TD (can't find a link that will work. Go to Candystand and follow the links) or Flash Element TD.

Be warned, they are as addictive and have no end!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

4856 with 18 lives in easy mode.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

that's pretty impressive...

i'm slowly crawling thru medium. i have changed my tactics, and am getting much further with the use of many pea shooters, than with just two massively upgraded squirt towers and a dart gun.

― stevie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

it was pretty great up until the update a few days ago. now it seems pretty impossible.

― jeff, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Which one? I know that the TD games are regularly changed? I liked the reintroduction of interest and things. Harder Crepes should get more money though!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 5 April 2007 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

managed just over 2000 in normal mode. i see the good way is trying to block the little beggers so they have to move through a maze of towers.

or is there a better way?

― Ste, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

the maze is the best method i have found so far.

― stevie, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

6 Lives Score 4752 on Medium. Now I need to actually work!

The maze is the only way to do. Try to make them pass each gun at least twice. That way the more you level up your weapons the more effective they are for a longer stretch.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

scraped just under 4000, need to upgrade quicker i think

― Ste, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus, I'm on the challenges. Nigh on impossible!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Stevie - if you have an old copy of "Warcraft 3" you can find hundreds of these types of games, they're still very popular on Blizzard's Battle.net servers. Epicwar hosts player-made WC3 maps, search for "tower defense" etc...

― DougD, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

This was just silliness really. (image removed by request)

― kv_nol, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Um. I didn't expect it to be so small! Sorry. First time using image shack. Also just noticed g-chat in the corner! Could a mod zap this image so I can obscure that and I'll put it up again?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

1373 on normal setting. IR n00b, obv.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

one more go....

― Pashmina, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, this ate up an entire Saturday for me and I swore off it for life. Too addictive.

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

2 thousand seven hundred and something.
Bastard thing.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

2020

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Maps/404976.gif

― stevie, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

2020 more like 8080

― Will M., Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

3060, medium

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Maps/408454.gif

and now to bed...

― stevie, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

managed to get half the office completely addicted, good thing we didn't have much work to finish.

― Ste, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

I thought I'd be able to finish easy with this one. No dice.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/210/447693172_f4c341a6a7.jpg

― Michael Servetus, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are using too much of the grid. You really just need to load most of your guns into the upper left corner and max them out. Then place a few more squirt towers to the bottom and right to help with the flying guys.

Has anyone tried the 100 level challenge yet? I've been doing well on the normal stage (usually 6000 with 5-10 lives left) but the 100 level challenge gives me more trouble even though it appears to be the same thing at the Normal 50, just with an extra 50 tacked on.

― jeff, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

not tried it yet. is it worth upgrading the pea shooters much?

― stevie, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

Not really. I mostly just use them as filler. I tend to use as many maxed out squirt towers as I can afford and then one or two maxed out dart towers.

― jeff, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.jefframirez.com/ilx/dtd1.jpg

― jeff, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

those fucking flying ones do my head in! nothing kills the tough ones. plus all my blokes are already busy targeting other creeps

― Ste, Friday, 6 April 2007 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

We should tag all our scores for an ILX group. Or ILG.

Has anyone maxed out bash or swarm towers? They seem pretty useless initially and so I've never tried to max them out.

― jeff, Friday, 6 April 2007 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Maps/427519.gif
4754
completed, medium, 6 lives.

now for 100 levels...

― stevie, Friday, 6 April 2007 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

100 levels and speed are a total nightmare! Pash, if you're looking at this thread again could you zap that image? I would be most grateful!

I'm also at work on Good Friday which means no GTA. This will have to do :(

― kv_nol, Friday, 6 April 2007 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

I HATE THIS STUPID GAME STUPID FLYING HORRIBLE THINGS TAKING ALL MY LIVES

― Ste, Friday, 6 April 2007 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Heh heh I know your pain. I actually hate the Spawn things more. Last game was 4906 with 12 Lives and 279 Gold remaining on the cross shaped 'fun' mode.

― kv_nol, Friday, 6 April 2007 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

4484 5 Lives remaining and 170 Gold on Chequerboard. I really should work!

― kv_nol, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

32,167 7 Lives remaining and 1140 Gold on Spawn 'fun' challenge. This has been a productive day, just not in work terms!

― kv_nol, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

That spawn only fun mode is actually fun. A total slaughter.

32,496 - 18 lives and 20,200 gold

― jeff, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

I deleted yer image, Kv.

Following Jeff's instructions, winning in normal mode is easy. The fun mode with the blocks on the screen is a larf as well.

― Pashmina, Saturday, 7 April 2007 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

come on ILX score group

― Alan, Saturday, 7 April 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

i am such a rubbish newbie - i've only just figured out the whole maze technique :-O

― Alan, Saturday, 7 April 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

finally beat easy.

― kingfish, Sunday, 8 April 2007 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

I can't stop.

― Alba, Sunday, 8 April 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I added my lastes score, Alan. (I am "pwnj" haha)

― Pashmina, Sunday, 8 April 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Look at this! Pure pwnage!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyGLYI14ZO4

― Pashmina, Sunday, 8 April 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

oh man you are all on the normal version. HARD is where it's at ;-)

― Alan, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I just got 2953 on the hard version (level 40, I think) but then I got spinning beachball when trying to enter my score and now I bet no one will believe me!

― Alba, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Pash. I will not be playing this again, I must work!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

How the hell do you do the Fun/Challenge level where you only get squirt and freeze towers ??! It seems impossible

― Ste, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Level 22 Score 911 Speed level. Now back to work.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so irked that I can't get far into MEDIUM if I build anything besides the most basic towers. Tho spiner towers are coooool.

― David R., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Or sniper.

― David R., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

i got to level 48 in normal. almost there...

― Alan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

something I've found is that unless your set up is hugely powerful and you have a bunch of lives left, you're better off just letting the level 48 spawn bosses go (i.e. sell off a couple pea shooters or whatever (but remember to replace them before level 50) to open a direct path for them to the exits). Otherwise, all you're going to do is just split them up and then not be able to kill all the smaller ones, and you end up losing a ton of lives. They also draw your firepower away from the two flying bosses, which guarantees they'll get by you, too. whereas if you just let the 2 big ones go to start with, you only lose two lives and you can focus everything on the flyers.

― Lingbert, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

That makes a whole lotta sense (thinking! whoda thunk it?), tho the thing that's really killed me is the FCKING PLANES.

― David R., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

What I've been doing (because you care, & I don't wanna work right now):

- set up funnels @ both entrances to push the guys toward the NW corner
- pop up a few pea shooters below the N entrance, centrally located for the FCKING PLANES
- upgrade the middle shooters like a mofo
- expand the maze path (N/S) for the Group mobs
- get 1 or 2 snipers up & running around lvl 20
- build the entire maze (tho I screw up the end parts)
- upgrade more middle shooters to sniper (FKC YOU PLAINS)
- get irked @ lvl 48 when the swarm hits

― David R., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

49!! last boss is GIANT PLANES.

i'm putting a swarm tower dead centre to get planes then building it up

― Alan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I tried buffing up the middle w/ plane towers, but they cost a lot of money to upgrade. Tho maybe one or two fully upgraded wd make a difference. Does the range expand on the last upgrade, like the sniper towers?

― David R., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've been doing ok with diagonal mazes that push em all up to nw then run them back and forth -- concentrating both where the same towers can hit them then taking them out with some heavily upgraded squirt towers. gave up on the snipers coz the squirts seem a better deal for the gold. then a couple of frosts at the entrances. what's nice about the youtube video is hitting them with the bigger stuff later in the maze lets you push out the waves faster = higher score.

― s.clover, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Planes on Hard are doing my head in.

― Alba, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

My problem is having central squirt towers/dart towers wasting their time shooting at ground creeps that don't immediately need to be dealt with. I guess I need to put more towers just bottom and right especially for planes, but that seems like a waste of resource for all the other types of attack.

― Alba, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Alternatively, I maybe just need more frost towers top and left.

― Alba, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

might be a stoopid question, but what are 'immune' things immune to? i've never noticed. also is the ground basher thing particularly good for something?

― Alan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

They're immune to being slowed down.

Bash towers seem a bit rub to me.

― Alba, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

ta. and thought so.

i appear to be getting worse :-(

― Alan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Me too. Hard Level 28 (fucking planes, man) has just finished me off each time the last three goes. I think I need a whole different strategy.

― Alba, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

i'm still trying to finish 'normal'. back to 49! can't be much longer...

god this game is the thief of time. i'd have to lie to myself if i added up the time i've spent on this short easter break just on this sodding thing.

― Alan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

I finished Normal on Sunday. I moved straight onto Hard and told myself I'd licked Normal, but I suppose it's possible it was just a fluke. I had a fair few lives left though.

― Alba, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

made it to level 49 on hard -- think if i try again i can win. spawn creeps sometimes "jump" thru diagonal holes -- also the diagonal maze seems too resource intensive for hard. thinking a maze that puts my typhoons right in the center will be what lets me nail those flying things better.

― s.clover, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

I've had no luck on hard with my maze style. My damn job keeps getting in the way of experimentation.

I did max out the air tower and it was really helpful in dealing with the planes and flying bosses. Downside - very expensive. Maxing out the bash towers is pretty useless.

― jeff, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

i found a new technique!

if you split the path so that there are two wildly diverging possible paths that later rejoin, the foolish drones follow the shortest path, but then just as they get to where they rejoin you can fill the hole with the basic tower and they TURN AROUND and go back the long way, which means you get another pass at them.

you may even be able to re-sell the blocking tower and get them to turn round, i'm not sure i've tried. but you could keep em trapped back and forth multiple times!

― Alan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

They just have to get one of them into that square to foul up that method though! I've actually only played this twice today. Hooked on the Speed Challenge. It's great for a short and quick fix!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

"spawn creeps sometimes "jump" thru diagonal holes"

but if you place the diagonals right this can be helpful because it isolates them. spreading them out when you have a fullish maze is useful - cos picking them off one at a time is easier than in a pack.

― Alan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Trying to do the 100 - major pain in the ass is that in normal mode the spawners only split into two once when they get shot, in 100 mode each of the 2 mini-spawners splits into a further 2 - total, total killer when they all get through.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Is it actually possible to get past ~level 35 on 100 challenge, I wonder? Argh.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

The killer is 1/spawners followed immediately by fliers 2/later in the game, boss/fast/spawn/flyers in quick succsession.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Loving Speed at the moment!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

― kv_nol, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot get past level 35 on the 100 challenge. It is SO INFURIATING.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

this thing has now been blocked on our internet.
thank heavens

― Ste, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

;_; There'll be a downloadable version soon enough you betcha...

― kv_nol, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

JUST WHAT IS NEEDED...

http://www.freewaregames.net/towerdefense.asp

MORE!

hope that being Dugg doesn't take out the servers :-(

― Alan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

obv you can take it offline if you download http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/DesktopTD12c.swf so long as you don't mind not pooling your scores :-)

― Alan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I got up[ to level 60 on 100 challenge! What a fantastic achievement, eh :/

― Pashmina, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

You should be proud! Tatoo or t shirt? How will you mark this moment?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know how to cope with the final massive swarm of immune tear-shaped guys :-( :-(

― Alan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

thank fuck for that. right. hard version...

― Alan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

I FINISHED MEDIUM YEAH (by pulling the "go this way" / "no, wait, go THIS way" trick about 2948 times). I am lame, but awesome.

― David R., Monday, 16 April 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

i just managed to do it by slightly extending my maze in the end. i also abandoned the "funnel them all in from the NW" some time back cos big crowds are hard to pick off and concentrates all the fire locally when all the rest of the screen is inactive. latest method is to lead W lot DOWN to SW corner and N lot EAST to NE corner and then build up a diagonal from SE corner up to NW corner. you can build up a long back and forth maze where they only pass at the half way stage. Also cover S exit so that it's entered from SW corner and E exit so that it's entered from NE corner. filling in the rest of the maze to make it absolutely as long as possible with some dart towers spread out in the middle to get the planes.

f knows how the ppl at the top of the score sheet are getting such high scores tho :-(

― Alan, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I beat hard! I built pretty exclusively the typoon tower ones, except for peashooters to maze.

How many points are the two planes worth at the end?

― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Lads, please meet your new addiction: [url=[Removed Illegal Link]. Various tracks for Crepes to follow, upgrades that sync together, fiendishly hard after a fairly simple beginning (around level 105).

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec2-1.playr.co.uk/onslaught/ If that doesn't work try googling Onlsaught Beta.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

1215 Attackers Killed
10384 Shots Fired
73430 Cash Spent
89217450 Final Score
Track was second from left on Second Row.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

christ, i've only just noticed the keyboard shortcuts. the shift key is my new friend.

― Alan, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Attackers Killed: 1237
Shots Fired: 10462
Cash Spent: $76100
Final Score: 94135700
Track was second from right on first row.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Attackers Killed: 1292
Shots Fired: 7167
Cash Spent: $83915
Final Score: 108418180
Track was second from right on second row.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

when does onslaught get exciting? i sat in front of it and watched it kill stuff with just two towers for 20 waves :-(

― Alan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Space bar.

― David R., Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Alan, if you read the how to it makes things a bit faster and more interesting. I was building up to a great score yesterday but hit spacebar twice and my carefully constructed killing machine died was overwhelmed!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

Attackers Killed: 1298
Shots Fired: 5393
Cash Spent: $80515
Final Score: 104508470
Track was second from right on First row.

It's a bit irritating, you reach this point where you can't seem to earn enough to upgrade new turrets. About Level 130 is my limit.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

nah. not feeling it.

― Alan, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

the graphics are good, but the learning curve sucks. dull for too long, then impossible.

― stevie, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

dull for too long, then impossible.

Sadly, this is true :( I have given up on it.

― kv_nol, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

goddammit jeff

― Lingbert, Saturday, 12 May 2007 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://zwok-game.com/en_GB/

i am stevietony

― stevie, Saturday, 12 May 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still playing this stupid game. Level 65/100 6915 points is the best I've done so far. Tricks that work seem to be:

build as many overlapping diagonal paths across the board as possible.

Build squirt towers in the middle and get 2 or 3 up to top upgrade ASAP

Likewise for swarm towers - I nearly got the 2 big boss flyers w/4 swarms @ quad upgrade.

AAAAAARGH someone stop me from playing it :( :( :( :( it is like crack.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

I still play this too :(

― Lingbert, Thursday, 17 May 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

I've come to the conclusion that the only way to get the global high scores and finish the 100 and what not is to use juggling. I don't want to bother getting good with that, though.

― Lingbert, Thursday, 17 May 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, juggling is the only way to do it.

Level 72 score 8693

Freezer towers are vital. I got all of the giant spawner creeps and one of the giant flying creeps!

― Pashmina, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

Is it actually possible to get beyond level 79? Like, at all? I had 20 lives @ level 78, about 12 squirt towers all maxed out, still nearly all the little fuckers got through. BASTARD.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

there is a youtube video of someone getting to level 100, but not finishing it. s/he has a huuge cluster of maxed out air-only towers (whatever they're called), and it still wasn't enough to stop all the flying enemies. after watching that, i'm not going to bother trying the 100 again. doesn't even look enjoyable.

― Lingbert, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:34 (eighteen years ago)

Up to about level 65-70, it's enjoyable. Once you get some clusters of maxed-out squirt and swarm towers, it's fun to watch them gang up on the little creeps. After that, it starts sending too many waves in at once, and the whole screen fills up, and it just bogs down into tedium.

I think I've had enough of it now.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://gigaom.com/2007/05/27/desktop-tower-defense/

― Alan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

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

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec2-1.playr.co.uk/onslaught/ If that doesn't work try googling Onlsaught Beta.

-- kv_nol, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:48 (Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:48)

Forks, tried and rejected by the ILG intelligentsia ;_;

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 07:55 (eighteen years ago)

really? On this thread?

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

Yup. See above for my scores and things...

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

i has a high scores

― jeff, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

you know jeff, i might have to concede victory to you for the normal high score. i don't know if i can squeeze 24 more points out of my maze.

also, which maze have you been using? you apparently aren't the only jeff on DTD, because whenever i click on your name, your score doesn't come up in the maze list. but then again, you probably can't look up your own past mazes/scores either.

have you been using the same maze for awhile now, or do you change it up? do you use juggling?

also, the hard high score is still up for grabs.

― Lingbert, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)

i think someone has been saving their scores to the ilx group under the same name

i use pretty much the same maze, occasionally placing pieces earlier or moving them closer to the entrances, which can change score dramatically

i also juggle. there is no other way

― jeff, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

i still haven't tried juggling yet, which may be why i'm not going to be improving my scores much anymore.

i'm afraid to try new mazes out now.

― Lingbert, Thursday, 31 May 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/im-in-ur-maze.jpg

― kingfish, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

O.M.G.!!!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously though, that is really cute!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

meet yr new god: http://www.secrettechnology.com/gamegame/agame.html
very different from yr old god

― stevie, Saturday, 9 June 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

the game game guy seems influenced by radiohead album art

― Lingbert, Saturday, 9 June 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

I can't work that game. It's like an irritating college art project.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dear, you can build mazes and things like before. It's a bit easier so far but still:

http://www.minijuegos.com/juegos/jugar.php?id=5607

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

A new one! Temple Garden.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://laser.narr.as/laser.swf

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

I see your fiendishly difficult lazer game and raise you an Onslaught 2. Same learning curve unfortunately :(

Current High Score:

Kills 1328
Shots Fired 18621
Spend 88010
Total 116 877 280.

Last level before the axe fell was 151 or so.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

ARGH NOT ANOTHER ZWINKY AVATAR ADVERT GHFNFGGH.,HJGH.GF.Vv/.CCKDFNMFMG/G,

― Pashmina, Saturday, 23 June 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

How on earth did you get as far as level 151? I'm sure it's impossible to get past 105!

That laser beam game is pretty tedious once you've played it a couple of times.

― Pashmina, Saturday, 23 June 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

Start with two cannons (C) and a missile (M) very close to each other with space for two more turrets right next to them.. Level up their fire rate at first, especially the missile launcher. Set up a tazer or three, increase their fire rate just outside range of missile launcher. If you have levelled up the three turrets (CCM) you should get a nuke that will fire just as the bunched up bad guys come in to range. Big points v quickly. Set up another missile turret and more tazers. Level up like demon ESPECIALLY fire rate and power, don't sweat the range, in fact limiting the range is the best bet really, it concentrates the firepower into a tighter circle. Add a lazer, level up everything (including range) especially power at first, hopefully you'll get a multi-lazer ball regularly which will help out no end. If you're lucky you'll have time (I never have btw) to build another cell later on the track of the same things. Power up towers are great but it's hard enough levelling up, saving up for them is near impossible.

Lesson ends.

― kv_nol, Monday, 25 June 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

yowza. i hit about 145 and then it was all over. the combos were taking care of the enemies before they even hit the map until about 130, especially that multi-lazer ball. then all of a sudden the enemies increased in power drastically and it seemed nothing at all could kill them and that was it.

― s.clover, Monday, 25 June 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

I started playing this off the drunk thread, and now I can't stop :(

DTD, you are doing the same Bad Things to my dreams as Tetris did 20 years ago. Plus making the cats crazy with those noises.

― Jaq, Monday, 25 June 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

DTD is now your master

― Lingbert, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

kills 1356
shots 13670
spent 92080
score 124860480
wave 142

― Pashmina, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Nice! What was your secret for good score?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

kills 1365
shots 12977
spent 92900
score 126808500
wave 145

I has 2 lasers!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm mortified by my pathetic low scores. Must play more! Yesterday, I saw those pesky flying guys hovering over the bathroom floor at work.

― Jaq, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

Did anyone mentino that DTD was in version 1.5 and they added a new tower? Because they did. I don't see any use for the new tower, but there it is.

― Will M., Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

they also updated the graphics some and added at least two new types of enemies, dark and morph. dark are these small, slow dudes, but they are very, very tough and there seem to be a bunch of them. morph will randomly turn into a new type every 5 or so seconds, between regular, dark, immune, and i think that's it. not flying or spawn, thank goodness.

― Will M., Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

Those dark dudes (look like cat faces to me, or maybe bats) take multiple upgraded missile towers to kill, esp the boss ones which keep pwning me.

― Jaq, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

the order of the creeps has also been changed a little.

some new sound effects. it sounds like all the ones that were taken from lemmings have been replaced. do you think there are copyright concerns over that now that the guy is making money off dtd?

― Lingbert, Friday, 29 June 2007 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

ink tower with freeze combo is pretty decent but really, still, if you wanna take out the air bosses seems that sticking with squirts is the way to go.

― s.clover, Friday, 29 June 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

I've been looking for a trade off between enough upgraded dart towers to nail the darks and upgraded squirts/swarm towers. My squirts get too busy killing spawns and darks and just let those flying dudes pass unscathed.

― Jaq, Friday, 29 June 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

Nice! What was your secret for good score?

-- kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:29 (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

I just followed your instructions, upthread! thanks!

― Pashmina, Saturday, 30 June 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

kills 1403
shots 15366
spent 98655
score 138412965
wave 148

I used the squared-off spiral path. 2 cannons/1 rocket launcher at the first corner, 2 lots of 3 tasers before that, 1 laser/2 cannons (a shit combination, TBH) somewhere else. After 140 it just gets stupidly difficult, with the invaders virtually invunerable.

― Pashmina, Saturday, 30 June 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

kills 1470
shots 19123
spent 108805
score 159943350
wave 176

Similar layout, but I made 2 sets of cannon/cannon/rocket launchers. I only got as far as level 176 b/c I knew I was about to get 0wn3d, so I started frantically clicking the "next wave" button. I think it would have been either 155 or 156?

― Pashmina, Monday, 2 July 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

I really have to stop sneak playing this at work, it's just not good in so many ways.

― Jaq, Monday, 2 July 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Right, I didn't hit spacebar towards the end so my score is completely pure. So pure in fact that I took screenshots (also I am rather proud WHICH I KNOW IS V SAD OK?):

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/4051/onslaughtbeforexn8.png

http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=onslaughtafterty8.png

kills 1549
shots 24765
spent 120430
score 186546070
wave 166

― kv_nol, Monday, 9 July 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

And the end:

http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=onslaughtafterty8.png

― kv_nol, Monday, 9 July 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6910/onslaughtafterty8.th.png

Okay, I don't know what happened there!

― kv_nol, Monday, 9 July 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

I bought a new laptop, which I rec'd in the mail late last week. Despite my dreams of "improving my efficiency" while watching TV or something, the one thing I've been doing on it is ONSLAUGHT. (Level 122ish on the Pentagram level.)

― David R., Monday, 9 July 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry about Steve-O, but this is my fave yet:

http://www.candystand.com/play.do?id=18047

― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

I think that was mentioned upthread but on a slow day like this a link like that is very much appreciated!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.casualcollective.com/ anyone?

― Alan, Saturday, 18 August 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

am crazy abt gimme friction

― stevie, Sunday, 19 August 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.casualcollective.com/ anyone?

are you a member? what games are there?

― ledge, Sunday, 19 August 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://casualgameplay.com/cgdc3/?gameID=2
is the ballz

― stevie, Monday, 20 August 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

Lemme know if you got them invite keys, Alan. My Gmail account is Magacid.

― Will M., Monday, 20 August 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

ok, gimme friction is teh awesome.

― Will M., Monday, 20 August 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

no - not a member of cc - i was asking if anyone was in :-(

― Alan, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha ha the alternative. Be the poor little enemies:

Anti TD

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Anyone still playing this? I can't stop.

― Greg Tamacki or Greg Tang (jeff), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

i think i stopped playing two years ago lol

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

ninjatown and locks quest are the ds equivalent, yes?

― ILM is a gross place full of coersion and sexual manipulation (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

ish.

locksquest is very different. more like pixeljunk monsters, plus your guy can actually fight the invaders.

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 18:06 (seventeen years ago)

I should really play that. Sounds fun.

― ILM is a gross place full of coersion and sexual manipulation (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 18:13 (seventeen years ago)

been trying to beat the dtd 10k gold mode w/o juggling for days. i cant!!

its possible though, if you use snap towers a lot:

― ☪, Sunday, 15 March 2009 18:21 (seventeen years ago)

whatis juggling

― s1ocki, Sunday, 15 March 2009 20:40 (seventeen years ago)

juggling = selling and rebuilding towers at choke points to make creeps move back and forth through kill zones = the only way to cheat in this game.

― ☪, Sunday, 15 March 2009 21:12 (seventeen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.