Published on November 7, 2008
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Image of Desktop Tower Defense via Wikipedia
I mentioned a week or two ago how I had finally gotten the last and hardest badge for Desktop Tower Defense over on Kongregate.com and how I needed to find a new pastime for my lunch hour. I’ve found it. It’s called Warzone, and it’s cast from the same mold that DTD is. You purchase various kinds of towers and place them on the board, building a maze to channel the enemy forces through, slowing their march towards your home and exposing them as effectively as you can to the firepower of your towers. Warzone doesn’t add much in the way of innovation to this formula, but it’s well executed, comes with a number of maps and game modes, and so far, 5-10 games under my belt, it seems pretty well balanced. I wish it had some kind of slowing/freezing tower, and I wish it was over on Kongregate with badges etc would be the only things I would say in terms of enhancements. This is flash based so it should play on any machine. Check it out for a little friday fun, and good luck trying to beat my current high score, ~85k on the original map using cash mode.
Published on August 9, 2008
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Here’s a great little friday fun link - a flash based puzzle game. Every level presents you with a golden totem sitting at the top of a stack of blocks. You can click to destroy 1 of these blocks every couple of seconds, which will cause the block to disappear. Your goal is to get the totem safely down without causing it to fall too far, and destroying the blocks can destabilize the tower the totem sits on, jenga-like, so you have to think carefully about where you remove blocks. Add in a few different block types and scoring based on how quickly you can retrieve the totem on each level and you have a simple little lunchtime diversion for your friday afternoon. Check it out!
Published on July 11, 2008
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Today’s friday fun link is something of a cop out. A poster to one of my favorite gaming forums mentioned this list of the top 100 indie games. There are samples of virtually every gaming genre, from action to rpg, including free, shareware and commercial offerings, and there are tons of excellent games in the list. I’m familiar with at least half of them but was psyched to find a number of unexpected gems in the list. Heavily biased towards Windows but many of the games, especially the roguelikes and rpgs, have linux/osx versions available. Enjoy!
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