I was interested in finding more defend style games. I love the concept and thought about coming up with my own variation so I started looking around. The only one I had ever played was on byond.com. Which is Defend the Castle and there is another variation which is defend the space station. These were ok but I wanted better. I did a search for defend game and the first hit was a myspace game called "Desktop Tower Defense". Once you get past the really lame long ads... and then more ads.. you get to play a round before getting more ads. The gameplay is great and the options are pretty awesome to. I played for quite a few hours before giving up. My highest score was 10494 which is respectable but others had it beat. I spent a good couple of hours designing and redesiging mazes to try and improve my score by just hundreds of points. Oh... I was playing the game option: Fun - 10k which is how folks are getting the highscores.

I attached the design for my highscore.

I found another variation of the same game on a different site and it only has one ad before you play. You can find it here. The game is different though. The one on myspace seems a lot more polished but all the game types seem the same. Desktop Tower Defense

After playing this game... my interest in developing a better one has significantly lessoned but not all the way... a bunch of ideas come flooding in just because I typed that...

Anyway... this one is a good time waster for sure.

A grim reminder of the past can often times serve as a bright monument to the future.
tsfreaks

The XBOX 360 game "Battlefield - Bad Company" was great in the demo and is now just ok in the real game. The experience went from wonderfully balanced to chaotic frag fest.

I'm constantly dieing in a blink of an eye from guns that require half a clip to kill you. The new high tech sound system is low tech garbage if you ask me. My ears are constantly filled with sounds I don't care about. A car can crash right behind you through a wall and you can't hear it. That is stupid. This game suffers from the same laggy behavior that Shadowrun did. People can kill you even though you have ducked behind a wall. It's not that some pepper spray is making it through the wall, it's the lag in the game that allows all their bullets to hit a target which really isn't there.

The red dots over peoples heads are also extremely annoying and a horrible design choice. If a person spots you or hits you with a bullet, you light up on the enemy's screen like a christmas tree for 10-15 seconds even though nobody should know where you are. You could go run and hide in a new spot but nope... the MAGIC red dot follows you where ever you go. This needs to be removed or modified. We have the squad system and live voice so there is no need to apply this dumb visual effect. Perhaps a visual tracer of the last known location which follows the target provided you are looking at the person moving around. If they duck behind a corner, the indicator stays at the corner and begins to fade so you have an indication of timing.

If they fix the sound, get rid of the stupid red dots, and gave us better multi-player maps it would be a great game. As it stands now, I bought the game 2 days ago and I'm already frustrated. I played the demo for weeks and loved it. I only bought the game because the numbers in the demo were getting really low.
 I beat the single player campaign in about 6 hours. The game campaign was really dull and shallow while the dialog and characters were interesting. The main character "you" is actually really boring and does nothing for the story. The main bad guy never crosses your physical path. You shoot down a "boss" helicopter (which was really stupid) only to find out later he was in it.

Quick Lists
What they got right!
1. Camo
2. Leading bullets
3. Explosions & Smoke
4. Large Maps
5. Landscape (Awesome!)

Wrong!
1. Sound
2. Red dots
3. Rocket Launcher can hit the wall next to a guys head (within inches) and not kill him. LAME TWINK!
4. Too much artillery on too many maps
5. Game balance (your team can get slaughtered and then have to do it all over again)
6. Frag fest maps are not welcome (Defensive team should not spawn on top of or within 50 yards of crates). This will be tougher than it seems without increasing the length of the fuse which should be simple enough. In fact, I think it would have improved game play significantly if these two things were changed.
7. The shotgun. Some people can single shot kill you while moving from 30ft away. WTF? This NEVER happens for me. Head shot or no. OH! I've gotten started. The damn thing cannot shoot through bushes. I shot at a guy 3x at near point blank while he was crouched in a bush. He stood up, looked at me, and single shotted me with a pistol.
8. OH THE PISTOL! Another WTF. I can unload 20 bullets into a guy just to have him shoot 1 pistol bullet at me and kill me. This is really lame and another dumb twink.
9. That brings up another rant. If I'm spraying a bunch of bullets into a guys face, he should not be able to so easily and accurately fire his shotgun back at me to get an insta kill. This happens all too often. You get the jump on the guy just so he can turn and perfectly nail you with a single shot. Lame.

I'm sick of being told I have unlocks when I don't. Which brings me to my last rant. Why in the world do I have to leave the current game JUST to get the unlock (if its even available). LAME!

To Summarize.

Lots of lame in this game. The game is ok. It could have been a great game with just a few simple tweaks. Shame.

tsfreaks

This solution took me about three very painful hours to figure out. Thank me if you found it here in less. 

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        private void GetInputDialog_RichTextBox_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Control && e.KeyCode == Keys.V)
            {
                string sContent = Clipboard.GetText().Trim();
                this.GetInputDialog_RichTextBox.Text = sContent;
                e.Handled = true;
            }
        }
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