*However* none have come out that are as good as the more developed originals made in the warcraft 3 engine as mods.

Why? Multiplayer. Team based TD was, and still is, way more engaging than these single player experiences.

Chris.

*However* none have come out that are as good as the more developed originals made in the warcraft 3 engine as mods.

Why? Multiplayer. Team based TD was, and still is, way more engaging than these single player experiences.

Chris.

For starters, it's nothing like Fieldrunners (which I think is great too), because each wave of attackers in Fieldrunners waits until you've finished off the previous wave. That's not what happens in Desktop TD. You have a certain amount of time before the next wave, and it comes in regardless of whether other "creeps" are still in the field. You can actually start waves early as well, and in fact this is a big part of how you increase your score (you get bonus points for starting waves early).

It's also completely different from preset path-based TD games like geoDefense and the (awesome) new StarDefense, since there is essentially no path design element in those games (the only strategy is how best to place your towers around the path).

WIth Desktop TD, I went through several different "maze" designs over a period of several weeks, and after I'd settled on one, it took several more weeks to tweak it and get the correct timing for triggering next waves. The element of "juggling" (blocking and unblocking alternative exits to your maze to change the direction of creeps) also comes into play, and is quite tricky as well, because every time you sell a tower, it takes a little bit longer to erase it (so you must be conservative about this, and also expect the increasing delay and take it into account). There's no editing the maze while the game is paused, so you have to pull this all off in real time.

If the iPhone version manages to be a faithful translation of the original, this will easily be one of the best TD games on the platform, regardless of how many other TD games already exist. Any true connoisseur of TD games knows this is one of the best ones ever made.

For starters, it's nothing like Fieldrunners (which I think is great too), because each wave of attackers in Fieldrunners waits until you've finished off the previous wave. That's not what happens in Desktop TD. You have a certain amount of time before the next wave, and it comes in regardless of whether other "creeps" are still in the field. You can actually start waves early as well, and in fact this is a big part of how you increase your score (you get bonus points for starting waves early).

It's also completely different from preset path-based TD games like geoDefense and the (awesome) new StarDefense, since there is essentially no path design element in those games (the only strategy is how best to place your towers around the path).

WIth Desktop TD, I went through several different "maze" designs over a period of several weeks, and after I'd settled on one, it took several more weeks to tweak it and get the correct timing for triggering next waves. The element of "juggling" (blocking and unblocking alternative exits to your maze to change the direction of creeps) also comes into play, and is quite tricky as well, because every time you sell a tower, it takes a little bit longer to erase it (so you must be conservative about this, and also expect the increasing delay and take it into account). There's no editing the maze while the game is paused, so you have to pull this all off in real time.

If the iPhone version manages to be a faithful translation of the original, this will easily be one of the best TD games on the platform, regardless of how many other TD games already exist. Any true connoisseur of TD games knows this is one of the best ones ever made.

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I could still kick myself for not being more ___ (insert fitting word here, my english is not that good and its late here in germany) ...