EPThttp://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/DesktopTD12c.swf
Yet another Desktop Tower Defense game
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useLess
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CTStalker
Canada9720 Posts
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Cpt Obvious
Germany3073 Posts
Ten time's a charm :/ | ||
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sith
United States2474 Posts
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~AreS]
Canada2170 Posts
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Excalibur_Z
United States12240 Posts
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nitram
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pirate cod
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~AreS]
Canada2170 Posts
On April 07 2007 15:03 Excalibur_Z wrote: Oh what the hell Ares, you're allowed to seal off one path? I didn't know that, I did it the hard way =[ By the way I mentioned this game in Cpt Obvious' flash game thread, guess that shows that nobody checks out that thread =p I didn't seal anything off, it just looks like it. | ||
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~AreS]
Canada2170 Posts
On April 07 2007 15:32 nitram wrote: what difficulty did you guys play on? Hard. | ||
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YunhOLee
Canada2470 Posts
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5HITCOMBO
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Terranlisk
Singapore1404 Posts
On April 08 2007 00:50 5HITCOMBO wrote: How do you upgrade? Click on the building u want to upgrade, if u have enough gold, a button on your bottom left will appear in green which says "UPGRADE" | ||
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~AreS]
Canada2170 Posts
On April 08 2007 00:50 5HITCOMBO wrote: How do you upgrade? Click on the tower and hit upgrade. The cost is listed, if you can't afford it the button won't appear. The squirt tower is a must-have. Don't get a couple, start with one well placed tower. The final upgrade gives +400% damage, so it's better than having a few upgraded (not fully) towers. | ||
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Terranlisk
Singapore1404 Posts
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Terranlisk
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PanoRaMa
United States5070 Posts
Anyone use bash towers? Seems like it was a bit too expensive for it's worth. I might try it out again tomorrow. | ||
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~AreS]
Canada2170 Posts
On April 08 2007 01:05 Nooblet wrote: any tips ares? A few small ones. 1. Make a maze The idea being the maze is to keep the units moving along as long as possible, making an indirect path to their goal. This gives your towers more chances to attack before being passed. The best way to do this would be to base your maze around one of your squirt towers, so that it can get multiple hits while the units are on multiple paths. This ensures maximum damage. Use dart towers (cheapest tower) to make the maze, as they're affordable and easy to "mass up on", and they're very useful in the first few levels, as well as the flying levels. 2. Don't overload One of the common problems I ran into was that I had two sets of enemies coming at once. The reason for this was that I had such a huge maze with all my damage being dealt in the middle. This meant that the units would survive until they got to the middle, and the next set would sometimes come out while the first is still alive. Usually this isn't a problem, but with the Flying level being right after the Spawn, it proved to be a problem. So...make sure you have at least one fully upgraded squirt tower near the main entrance of your maze. 3. Range Plan out where your squirt towers will go. You can do this after you initially set up your maze (easiest, since you can sell an old dart tower and replace it). Make sure it can hit as many unit paths as possible, and have one in an area that chokes the units (think starcraft). The final squirt tower upgrade (Typhoon Tower) has more range than the ones that proceed it, so factor that in. Don't place a squirt tower too close to the sides because you don't want to waste range. 4. Flying Levels One problem I had was that my maze started in the top left corner, which meant I had next to no towers in the middle/further in. This meant that flying units could easily pass by without taking much damage. Losing so many lives so early in will hurt you in the end, so, try to build closer to the center at the beginning. 5. Final Placement (addendum) Try to keep as many squirt towers near the middle of your maze as you can. This ensures an even distribution of damage and focused attacks on single units. This also means that when flying units pass, both sets will be hit by your strongest towers. 6. Frost Towers Don't waste too much on these. I would suggest two frost towers maximum. Place them in areas where the most units will pass, before they come into range of your squirt towers. The idea is to slow them before they start taking damage, assuring maximum contact. This integrates well if you have all your squirt towers in one area. 7. Spawn Units When you kill a spawn, it'll split into two. Other than the initial unit (the big one), no gold is awarded for kills. A problem with these monsters is that if the path in your maze is too skinny, when a unit splits it might pass THROUGH a wall. What I do is I make thin paths at the beginning, so that if they pass through a wall, it's generally one they already cleared, pushing them back to the beginning of the maze. After that, make wider paths so they don't skip most of your defense. More to come. | ||
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
THis is so much better than the previous DEF games that you can pick ur own path and everything. Keep at it TL.net! | ||
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PanoRaMa
United States5070 Posts
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~AreS]
Canada2170 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Maps/504330.gif) My Typhoon Towers get maximum number of hits, and they're all placed in the path of the flying towers. | ||
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
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Vin{MBL}
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Frozenmax
Netherlands23 Posts
Ares, great post with tips for newer players, it's really helpful. If you want to get higher scores however, you will have to send multiple waves in as fast as possible after each other, since each wave you send in with "send next level" awards you bonus points. So, if you get really good, you just send in all the ground levels, and only have to wait for the air levels. You're probably wondering though, how do you kill 5 waves at once? That's where a great trick comes in.... juggling. What's juggling, you ask? Juggling is making 2 paths, and sealing off one. When the group gets almost to the end of the first path, sell the tower blocking the 2nd path, and seal off the first path. Tadaa, group has to move all the way back through the maze to the exit on the other side now. As you can't do this with air levels, obviously, you can't send those in too fast after each other. Now that selling towers actually takes increasingly longer time though, I'm not sure if this still works, I haven't tested yet how long selling takes when you do it a lot, but it can't be too bad, since juggling is the only way you could get a highscore in the first version. | ||
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~AreS]
Canada2170 Posts
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/8921/towergame3jo8.jpg) Maybe this is a cool way to use bash... iono. It looks so cool when 4 bash tower hits and kill like 1232321 in 2 hits. Problem is that boss are so hard to kill with bash... I think if we can find a way to stack everything perfectly then forst, then bash. Maybe. Along w/ a missile tower. | ||
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~AreS]
Canada2170 Posts
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
On April 08 2007 16:31 ~AreS] wrote: You really only want towers that can hit everything. Bash towers can only hit ground, and their range can be annoying. I know but man the name... BASH tower! You gotta use it just because it has the name BASH in it! BASHING! | ||
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
On April 08 2007 14:50 ~AreS] wrote: One of my better defenses: My Typhoon Towers get maximum number of hits, and they're all placed in the path of the flying towers. OMG you stole my build! hax. My path was almost identical. but i had dart and swarm. I guess that's what made it worse. | ||
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useLess
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PanoRaMa
United States5070 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Maps/509327.gif) my placement is horrible though, ended up leaking 1-2 on earlier air levels bottom left and top right chokes allowed for "juggling" which was handy vs the imba end swarm boss though. | ||
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
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evanthebouncy!
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useLess
United States4781 Posts
On April 08 2007 18:15 evanthebouncy~ wrote: what does upgraded pillet tower do? are they any good? Sniper Tower. Long range, like 400 dmg, but very slow attack. edit: I doubt people get anti-air (Swarm Tower), so for the curious, the final upgrade for that is the Storm Tower, 480 dmg, 75 range, fast attack, fires 4 missiles with splash. | ||
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
On April 08 2007 18:41 useless wrote: Sniper Tower. Long range, like 400 dmg, but very slow attack. we need a chart for dmg/cost/time ratio agian... like a chart or something. I don't get it this game didn't pick up as well as the previous tower D games yet this one is best so far. Maybe they just got tired. | ||
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PanoRaMa
United States5070 Posts
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
so once they'd go down one path, i'd block it, they'd go back up, and go down the other path i'd sell the previos tower that blocked, and block this path. forgot about air though lol | ||
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useLess
United States4781 Posts
Squirt -> (450) Typhoon Tower, 320 dmg, 90 range, fast attack Dart -> (400) ICBM Tower, 256 dmg, 140 range, very slow attack Swarm -> (640) Storm Tower, 480 dmg, 75 range, fast attack, fires 4 missiles with splash. Frost -> (200) Blizzard Tower, 40 dmg, 75 range, slow attack, slow and splash Bash -> (745) Quake Tower, 320 dmg, 40 range, slow attack, 20% stun Bash and Dart are very fun to use, simply because of the splash damage. Frost is relatively cheap to upgrade. Squirt seems to be most effective overall. edit: prices are in ( ), and calculated from lvl 5 values + final upgrade cost. | ||
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evanthebouncy!
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useLess
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5HITCOMBO
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
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white_box921
United Kingdom967 Posts
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novaballistix
Australia113 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Maps/530035.gif) LOL...i just realized what i did wrong..i was playing at school so when i was playing, i couldnt see the text in the game...i built those swarm instead of ice | ||
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PanoRaMa
United States5070 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Maps/532911.gif) 6636 on Medium Bottom left most weird-blocking pellet used to juggle with the empty space on top right. Only leaked 2, 1 on the final air boss and 1 on a swarm minion of the final swarm boss (which I wouldn't have leaked if I were faster with the juggling :[ ) | ||
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
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EnergyBlast
United States61 Posts
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white_box921
United Kingdom967 Posts
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fbs
United Kingdom2476 Posts
On April 09 2007 08:21 white_box921 wrote: anyone manage to finish the 100 challenge? Don't think it's possible! The best towers game I've played though.. | ||
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Vin{MBL}
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scyfir
United States40 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Maps/511885.gif) I like sniper towers becuase when you click on a creep all of your snipers target it | ||
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