Yet another Flash-based Tower Defense game, this time from Paul Preece of Hand Drawn Games. Perhaps a little confusing, “Desktop” refers to the background image in the game, not that you download it and play on your Windows (or Mac or Linux) Desktop.

Desktop Tower Defense is great take on the game. Instead of building towers on the walls of a maze, as in Critters’ Flash Element TD, in Desktop Tower Defense your towers create the maze.

There are four difficulty levels available: easy, normal, hard, and challenge. Scores in the Easy level are not saved. Challenge levels include a speed level and a few where various tower types are unavailable.

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At long last, David Scott, A.K.A. “Critters,” has released Flash Circle TD. It’s hosted at Wrigley’s Candystand.
Scott indicates that he’s still enhancing it, much as he did with Flash Element TD. It’s not bad, but it is tough.

Related PostsFlash Circle TDHere are a couple Youtube videos of Flash Circle TD, a work-in-progress from David …

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Finally. An IE6 and Firefox IronSudoku autofill script.
After wondering for some time why on earth the IronSudoku autofill scripts would not run under Internet Explorer 6, but were fine in Firefox and IE7, the cause and a solution present themselves at long last.
IE6 Limits
The problem is that IE6 limits the length of bookmarklets to 508 …

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Amid rumors of no Wii online games until late this year or early next year there comes this little glimmer of hope from Amazon. They have Blazing Angels listed as a Nintendo WiFi game with up to 16 players online. Granted, it looks as though most of the information was copied from the …

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NOTE: The IronSudoku Javascript works in the Firefox web browser and IE7.

IronSudoku is a great sudoku site based on Javascript and DHTML. It’s a lot of fun and allows you to “pencil in” little numbers that are possible for a box, usually green for possibles and red for impossibles. Left-click a box and a little grid pops up with “1″ through “9″ for you to choose your answer for that box or hold down shift and click the number to get a green penciled-in number, or alt click to get the red variant.

Enter User Javascript

Javascript is a scripting language that has been a part of web browsers for years and is only getting more popular. Most modern websites make use of at least some Javascript. An interesting side effect of deep browser support is that they will run a Javascript script from the address bar, given that it is preceded with the keyword “javascript:”. It will execute the script commands immediately. Given a script, you can simply copy it to the clipboard and then paste it into your browser’s address field.

It so happens that a Javascript has been floating around to auto-fill the greens in IronSudoku. A tuned version is below. You can simply copy the following script to the clipboard by selecting it with your mouse, pressing Control-C on Windows systems or Command-C on Macs. Then with IronSudoku open in another window or tab of your browser, clear the address bar (where it says http://www.ironsudoku.com) and press Control-V (or Command-V on Macs) to paste the script. Then hit Enter/Return.

Click “Continue Reading” to read more and get the scripts.

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Here are a couple Youtube videos of Flash Circle TD, a work-in-progress from David Scott, aka “Critters,” the creator of Flash Element TD. Flash Circle TD is coming in February, 2007 and looks great.
It looks like Novel Concepts has a Flash Circle TD area on their website that currently only hosts the latest video.
Some nice …

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Completing Flash Element TD, a game covered here a few days ago, is no great task; it might take several tries to get there, but blanketing the screen with combo rockets on level 39 does the trick and might leave you with a nice 13,000 points.

Strategy and Tips

But you will not get on the high score list, not even close. High scores depend on using compounding interest to build your fortunes. Once you have the gold, you can keep buying more lives, upgrading towers, whatever you need.

Walkthrough

Let’s walk through a basic route to 100K points or more. As you’ll see, the placement is not perfect and upgrades are not optimized. Had they been, the score would be better. Regardless, it will give you something on which to build your scores.

The screenshots were taken from a couple different runs through this walkthrough, so the exact placement of towers may shift from shot to shot, but the basic premise is the same. Tune to your liking.

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Flash Element TD (Tower Defense) is an free online Flash-based game where you, not surprisingly, are tasked with building towers to defend against a wide variety of invaders (called “creeps”). David Scott programmed this from scratch and used Adobe Photoshop and the Warcraft III level editor to create the graphics and sounds.

Let’s take a look at the game and some FETD strategies.

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An interesting twist on shoot-the-incoming-robots games, Word Shoot has you typing in the words under each robot that’s working its way towards you. If you let a robot get too close, it will start shooting at you. Other items appear on the screen occasionally, such as “detonate” and “fullhealth” which act as a smart bomb …

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Winterbells is a wonderfully-addicting Flash game from Ferry Halim at Orisinal.
The goal is simple: Jump a white rabbit from bell to bell for an ever-increasing number of points per bell. Hop onto the occasional bird to immediately double your points. After a while you find that you are leaping across the screen between tiny little …

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