Desktop Tower of Defense - Play this game and you are guaranteed to shirk work

Tower of Defence games are by far the most enjoyable games I have played till now; barring perhaps the classic Pacman which is my all time favourite. Among the numerous Tower of Defence games, the Desktop Tower of Defence game outshines the rest of them.

This free flash based game can be played online and involves making sure the incoming horde of enemies do not pass through the space you control. And for defending your turf, you have access to numerous towers named pellet, dart, squirt, swarm, frost and bash tower. Each of these towers have different powers measured by its speed, damage caused, its cost as well as its range.

Fig: The game in progress...

When you succeed in killing each enemy (known as creep), you gain a set amount of gold. Accumulate enough gold to buy more towers or upgrade existing towers to enhance their damage skills and range. Even while the level is in progress, you can continuously keep on adding towers such that all the creeps are channelled through the path you create using the towers. These paths are popularly known as tower of defence maps.

The challenge you face in this game is to decide in which way the towers need to be arranged such that none of the creeps succeed in crossing your turf. For each creep which successfully cross your turf, you lose a life and in all you have only 20 lives. Once you lose all your lives or cover all the levels, the game ends.

Fig: My own unique tower of defense map.

The goal of the game is to achieve the highest score at the same time not lose any lives. It is a very enjoyable game - a game which will provide you hours of fun. What I found unique about this game is that even in its simplicity, it compels you to think out your strategy. There are decisions to be made, like for instance which tower to upgrade such that it provides you with the most value for your money spent or in which direction you want to grow your maze such that the creeps are confined within your turf for the longest time and so on.

I made a modest score of 5238 at the expense of losing two lives in the Normal mode which has two lines of creeps. I was able to cover all the 45 levels too. The experts among you might be interested in trying out the hard mode or one of the challenging modes which are way too challenging (pun intended).

At the end of the game, you have the chance of saving your score. You can either save it in an already created group or create a new group of your own. I have created a group called 'linuxhelp.blogspot.com' and have saved my score in it. Once you have saved your score, you are provided with an image of your maze which you used to play the game.

This game is highly addictive and playing it, you could end up shirking your responsibilities and could lead to loss of productivity. You have been warned!!