What is Tower defense?
[[File:GauntNet-small-screenshot.png|thumbnail|right|A [[graphic]]ally simple tower defense game.]] '''Tower Defense''' is a type of [[video game|game]] where players use [[strategy]] to build towers to help defeat an enemy. In many tower defence games the player's towers must stop an enemy from [[invasion|invading]] a base. If the towers cannot stop the enemy, the player loses the game.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/public/article/SB117987060189311315-X7F9b2kgxKbL1y0fZbnAHkOurR0_20080619.html|title=Strategy Game Pits Players Against Desktop Invasion|access-date=2016-01-16|archive-date=2015-11-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106195143/http://www.wsj.com/public/article/SB117987060189311315-X7F9b2kgxKbL1y0fZbnAHkOurR0_20080619.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==History== The first game that was thought to be a tower defense game was ''[[Rampart]]'' <small>([[Atari|Atari Games]], 1990)</small>. Other games started to be used for tower defense by using [[tool]]s in the games to change them. Those games were ones like ''[[Starcraft]]'' <small>([[Blizzard Entertainment]], 1998)</small>, ''[[Age of Empires II]]'' <small>([[Microsoft Games]], 1999)</small>, and ''[[Warcraft III]]'' <small>([[Blizzard Entertainment]], 2002)</small>. Tower defense games were made by [[independent]] [[developer_(game)|developer]]s also. The first game made in [[Adobe flash|Flash]] was ''[[Flash Element Tower Defense]]'' <small>(January 2007)</small>. The next game was made quickly after and was called ''[[Desktop Tower Defense]]'' <small>(Handdrawngames, March 2007)</small>. Desktop Tower Defense won an award from the [[Independent Games Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17541|title=2008 IGF Awards Topped By Crayon Physics Deluxe|publisher=Gamasutra|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520064240/http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17541|access-date=17 January 2016|archive-date=2013-05-20}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Vide