Desktop Tower Defense

I do like to play these. being an adult with plenty of work to do I very rarely get the chance to do so. My 13 year old step son not only plays them but he designs them also. I keep hoping he will find a way to make money with them like so many other people online have done, but it hasn't happened yet. I can't seem to get his interest when it comes to making a living with his games. I am sure that will change when he decides he wants a car though.

Gametap is a good place to go to play games at. You can get a membership there for small monthly fee or you can play some free games they have set up. I signed up for free and played Desktop Tower Defense (DTD).

The way the game works is you have these little guys called "creeps" that go across your screen and you have to place towers in places where they will be shot at. when the creeps get close enough to the towers the towers start firing on there own and kills the creeps after so many blows. The more point you rack up by killing the creeps the bigger and better the towers you get to buy. The creeps increase in strength as the game goes along though although with each level you are able to collect still more points and more towers. The path of the creeps can be altered by your placement on the towers. To keep them on the screen longer so you can fire at them longer its a good idea to put the towers in as a maze instead of just making a straight path. At least thats what I did.

Its a relatively simple game that you could play while working or doing something else. That's why I liked it as well as I did. It wouldn't require my full attention while I was playing it and its very rare anything I am doing when working gets my full attention anyway.

As you go up to higher levels of the game such as medium and hard you get less and less points to buy your towers with and more and more creeps coming at you from different directions. You also get different types of creeps coming onto the screen at the same time and not all of them will choose a path determined by placement of your towers. Some of them are able to crawl right over your towers as there being fired at. I found that to be a lot more challenging than the east level that I played to start with and requiring much more strategic placement of the towers.

This is one of those relatively simple games that would get addictive really really fast. You play this for hours and hours while you did work on your computer and other things (just don't let your boss catch you).