I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed something of a trend on the Android Marketplace, and for that matter, on most arcade-game style marketplaces – the appearance of wave after wave of tower defense titles. Their popularity has soared to the point where it’s hard to envision the indie games market without these titles.

Of course, there are big-budget versions – DoubleFine’s “Trenched” is a good example of the fact that major studios and developers are paying close attention to. Whether you’re looking at gaming phones on o2.co.uk or browsing flash game sites, it’s hard to ignore the appeal of the strategic tower defense genre.

But what does that say about games and how we perceive them today? There has always been a definable gap between the casual and the hardcore, with those few perfectly-balanced in betweens finding fame and fortune. But tower defense titles are in an odd place – outside the Venn diagram that helps us define the current swathe of video game design ideas.

Specifically, it’s because they are games that are at first, enjoyable and casual, but soon become a hardcore experience in their strategy and depth. With no discernible means of altering difficulty levels, and certainly no way to tell if the cartoony, simplistic feel to earlier experiences before it becomes all about stopping the mobs from crossing beyond the point of your reign of destruction ever actually dissipates.

It could just be a phase – there’s nothing wrong with capitalizing on the gaming audience’s sudden urge to endlessly build militaristic architecture in order to fend off hordes of hostile entities. But once the gaming crowd moves on, will there be a niche? Presumably – all games survive to some degree, even just in memory. I hear Backgammon’s still going strong. But it’s key to note that while tower defense is the big thing, it’s best to jump on in. The design is straightforward, the appeal is huge. If you’re curious, start work. You could just fund an entirely different project.

If you have interesting and fun flash game, you can earn money. blitzgamer.com games portal is searching for fun, addictive games. They for offers from $100 to $2500 per game. They will just add their logo + more games link. You don’t have to send them your .fla

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New Tower Defense clone: Desktop Tower Game From Mike Downey on Pownce

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Here is nicer implementation of Tower game I’ve posted before

There is lot of possibilities for your strategies

Enjoy.

This is a small game based on Warcraft 3 “Element Tower Defence”.

What`s your task ?
You have to make great defence against monsters, which are comming every round (20 seconds). Their energy is multiplied by 1.25 / round.
You can build battle-towers with some atributes like distance and power. These atributes will change after upgrades.
To build towers and to upgrade them, you need money. You will earn them if you kill monster. That`s all.
Build great defense and beat author record (90. round). My was 74

Happy “battleling”

Update : 7.1.2006
File have been removed.. have to look in google and find another site with this game : Tower Defence game

if link won’t work, paste it : http://www.freewaregames.net/towerdefense1a.asp

Also .. there is a great forum dedicated to this game.. so check it really out if you want to know, how to beat author record
Tower Defence Forum

if link won’t work, paste it : http://www.theaveragegamer.com/2006/12/06/tower-defence/

How good are you at “brain games” ? This game will test it for you. Your task is very simple. There are 10 things like water, people, flowers, ball and so. They have to be places in a right order or you can’t do next step. If you can’t go futher, games end with informations about levels, which you made. Try it yourself, if you can find the right order. Very addictive.

Grow Cube Game

If you like football you like Footiefox as well. It’s Firefox extension, or IFRAME for your page with results from football matches. You can choose from many leages, or now World Cup in Germany. Of course all data are live, so you can watch match live. In Firefox, there is already alert when team scores. It is located in status bar of Firefox, and you can rotate matches just by clicking on Footiefox section. Very nice stuff for football fans.

Here are list of games based on Flickr photo service:

• List of games on Flickr.com
• Matchr game – pair pictures in puzzle with same Tags
• Fastr game – Guess picture tag
• Flickrball – remember going on scavenger hunts as a kid? Well, now you can do it as an adult through the magic of Flickrball.
• Flickr Fight – enter two search terms or choose from predetermined fights and see which terms has more images on Flickr.
• Flickr Memotest – a memory game which selects random images for each puzzle.
• Flickr Sudoku – who doesn’t love a game of Sudoku, particularly when it uses images of hamsters!
• Memry – unlike the Memotest, Memry lets you select what images to use and is a tad prettier.

You can Fastr game on your site, here is example:

Enjoy.

Cute flash viral game, nice time waster for you. Stop the marauding Vikings from invading London. Defend it as long you can