{"id":143,"date":"2007-04-07T23:42:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T04:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2007\/04\/07\/desktop-tower-defense\/"},"modified":"2007-04-07T23:42:56","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T04:42:56","slug":"desktop-tower-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2007\/04\/07\/desktop-tower-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop Tower Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/towers.jpg?resize=210%2C38&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" height=\"38\" width=\"210\" alt=\"Towers.jpg\" align=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Normally, I don&#8217;t like little flash games. Even normal games, for me, require a delicate balance playability and strategy before I grow tired and bored with them. But I stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handdrawngames.com\/DesktopTD\/\">DTD<\/a> a few days ago and gave it a shot. A few hours later, I realized that DTD is so addictive, so engrossing, that it is nearly indescribable.  There is a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handdrawngames.com\/DesktopTD\/Instructions.asp\">Tutorial<\/a> that is worth reading, but the game is one of those dead simple games that can played over and over again. I&#8217;ve spent whole afternoons trying to best my score of about 5500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I don&#8217;t like little flash games. Even normal games, for me, require a delicate balance playability and strategy before I grow tired and bored with them. But I stumbled across DTD a few days ago and gave it a shot. A few hours later, I realized that DTD is so addictive, so engrossing, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PE01-2j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":83,"url":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2005\/12\/20\/bookmark-management-on-the-nokia-770\/","url_meta":{"origin":143,"position":0},"title":"Bookmark Management on the Nokia 770","author":"admin","date":"December 20, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Ready to export your existing bookmarks onto the 770? 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