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Desktop Tower Defense (2007)
Build a maze of towers on your desk and watch the creeps take the long way round.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
On reveal: -1 to +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 2007
Paul Preece's Flash tower defence game, played on a map that looks like an office desk, hosted on his own site, HandDrawnGames.com.
Unlike most tower games, your towers set the enemies' path, so the game is really about building mazes. It earned about $100,000 a year from ads, and Time put it on its All-Time 100 video games list in 2012.
In 2007: Released in March and, spread by StumbleUpon, Digg and bloggers, played more than 15 million times by July.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2007 page.
Put it on your site
Run Desktop Tower Defense, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2007, then plays a short scene. Want Desktop Tower Defense in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
