wil and kris (and gracie and ava)

It may have seemed as though i’ve been missing lately. Kris took over the last five posts or so… and i just haven’t popped in to say hello. Well, i’m not sick, i’m not dead, and i’m not missing. There has been one thing that has been occupying my free time more than anything else, and that’s Desktop Tower Defense. It has consumed me, taken over my mind and forced me to contemplate and strategize deep into the night. This is not a bad thing, by the way

Desktop Tower Defense is one of the most incredible flash games ever created. It has a simple yet inviting design that places it perfectly between an overly-alienated, sci-fi action game and a cute and happy game with playful creatures. The bad guys (creeps) try to get from one end of the map to the other, and it’s your job to place towers in strategic locations to keep that from happening. Creeps come from the top and left and are forced to leave through the bottom and right respectively

The idea is to create a maze to keep the creeps on the map for the longest amount of time, while spending money to upgrade your towers to kill the higher level creeps. Once you start the game, you can’t keep them from coming… so get building!

Here are some of my favorite map layouts (click the photo for actual size):

This is a simple maze and it is designed to keep the creeps on the map for a long time. they each enter and leave at the opposite point with many towers throughout for maximum kills.

This maze is called a spiral and it is designed so that all the creeps pass through a central point. You can place towers at that point that damage multiple creeps at a time for maximum efficiency… plus it looks freakin’ sweet!