Skip to Content

WoW Insider is getting ready for BlizzCon!
AOL Tech

Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Time-Wasters

Desktop Tower Defense: Time waster of the day

Time Waster Desktop Tower Defense

Time to protect your desktop, with Desktop Tower Defense! Set up your weapons in a gauntlet formation for your enemies, or creeps as the game calls them, to walk. Pictured above is easy mode, where the creeps walk from the left of the screen to the right. For every creep that makes it through the other side you will loose one life. As time progresses the creeps get more health, so you have to continually upgrade your weapons in order to increase their damage, range and speed (speed is usually decreased as the weapons level increases). If the game is going too slow for you, there is also a "Send next level" button that you can press to immediately send in the next group of creeps.

Once you have mastered easy mode, there are other challenging modes that you can attempt. In these modes, however, there are two streams of creeps coming in; one from the top of the screen, that will go to the bottom, and the same from the left of the screen. No matter where they come from they will always want to go to where they are supposed to go. And the one main rule is that you cannot block any paths. The more creeps you wipe out, the more gold you get, the more you can upgrade your weapons. How many bosses can you kill? I managed to take out the first 3 or 4 of them.

[via digg]

Featured Time Waster

Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

CiviballsI have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

View more Time Wasters

Featured Galleries

Defective by Design, London: Protest Pictures
Microsoft Security Essentials
Chromium Pre-Alpha on CrunchBang Linux
Safari 4 Beta
10 Firefox themes that don't suck
IE8 RC1
Download Squad at the Crunchies After-Party
Download Squad at the Crunchies
WordPress 2.7
Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals
Windows 7 Hands On
Comodo Internet Security
Android First-look: Amazon.com MP3 Store
Android First-look: Twitroid
Google Reader Android
Android Hands-On
Twine 1.0
Photoshop Express Beta
Mozilla Birthday Cake
Palm stuff
Adobe Lightroom 1.1

 


Follow us on Twitter!

Flickr Pool

www.flickr.com

Download Squad bloggers (30 days)

#BloggerPostsCmts
1Lee Mathews8284
2Jay Hathaway721
3Brad Linder726
4Jason Clarke312
5Grant Robertson912
6Nik Fletcher20
7Christina Warren29
8Dolores Parker11

More Tech Coverage

AOL Radio