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Tower Defense

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Tower Defense	type	FeatureClass
Tower Defense	label	Tower Defense
Tower Defense	page	TowerDefense
Tower Defense	comment	Tower defense games are a sub-genre of strategy games where you defend a building from monsters and/or other enemies using other buildings, sometimes with a unit or two to back you up. Similar to Multi-Mook Melee, Tower Defense games have you facing wave upon wave of "creeps"note ("Creeps" being the term used for random monsters in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos; as a lot of Tower Defense maps were made for WC3, the name stuck.) until a given number reach their goal, or you survive the final wave. Creeps will move along the path that is either: Static: Creeps move along the same paths. Dynamic: The placement of towers will determine the paths which creeps move along. Dynamic paths usually create a strategy called "mazing", allowing the player to make long, winding paths that force the enemy to take the longest possible route to their destination, all the while being blasted by the towers herding them. A typical Tower Defense game will have: Creeps that behave differently. Some are Fragile Speedsters or Mighty Glaciers, some are Asteroids Monsters, others can fly over towers and bypass most of your defenses, etc. "Boss" creeps on certain waves. A strategy that requires a balance of producing more towers and upgrading existing ones. More important in dynamic path type ones. Balance between different towers. Ideally, none of the tower types should be completely useless. Commonly, a "survival" mode in which each level retains the towers you built in the previous level and/or the enemies get tougher as the game progresses instead of simply increasing in number. Hold the Line as its core element. As of lately, a trend in this genre has started to develop where the games will feature the ability for the player to be the attacking force pitted against the towers. This sub-genre within the Tower Defense genre has been called "Reverse Tower Defense", "Tower Attack", and "Tower Offense". Some games in the genre get to the point of devoting themselves entirely to this, eschewing the defense element altogether. It is also the basis of the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, with Defense of the Ancients being basically born as a 5 vs 5 reverse tower defense using Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos's hero mechanics. Another form of Tower Defense features a single tower or gate on one side of the screen, which is then beset by the Creeps marching forth to destroy it. The player is usually given one or more weapons directly controlled by them, while upgrades may add automatic defenses and defenders. The third form of defense game is the "Tug-of-War"/Beam-O-War style. In which there are two towers or bases at each end of one or more paths, and the player(s) and AI send different units down the path to attack the enemy base(s). Opposing units that meet will fight each other, and the object is to push the enemy force back to their own side and destroy their base(s).
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Real-Time Strategy	processingCategory2	Tower Defense
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Tower Defense	processingCategory2	Out-of-Genre Experience
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