Can You Beat Me At Desktop Tower Defense

Posted on: May 25th, 2007 by Jeremy Schoemaker

Think you can beat me at desktop tower defense? Choose hard and use your comment name as your name then when you save group make sure you use shoemoney. Whoever is #1 for hard on Tuesday May 29th 8am CST, if its not me I will buy you whatever you want on amazon for under 100$.

Good luck

For you voyeurs the scoreboard is here (remember its just for hard)

Post written by Jeremy Schoemaker

Hi I am Jeremy Schoemaker and ShoeMoney.com is my blog. 99% of the post here are done by me but you will see others occasionally make guest posts. This blog is fun to write but for my day job I run several online companies.

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96 Comments. What Say You?

  1. Tower Defence Games
    August 18, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    DTD PRO is just awesome because it is one of the only Multiplayer TD Game but if you think about single player theres a lot more out there some including : http://www.towerdefensegames247.com/all-games.html

  2. Tower Defence Games
    May 22, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    You can find more tower defense games on this site
    Tower Defence Games

  3. dll
    March 30, 2009 at 7:18 am

    I know the rules of the game. The scores you got are impossible, not because they are “so hard that I think it’s impossible”, but because they actually are impossible by the scoring rules of the game. There are various ways to hack the code to allow you “impossible” scores – you aren’t the first “creative” person to achieve those scores.

  4. Wietse
    February 10, 2008 at 11:22 am
  5. Mark
    December 3, 2007 at 4:25 pm

    You can find more Tower Defence Games here

    http://www.arcadevoyage.com/category/Tower%20Defence/1.html

  6. Placebo
    November 8, 2007 at 10:34 am

    The trick is to make the creeps go back and forth through the same path over and over again. Usually I do it by blocking one end of the path, waiting until all of the creeps get to the other end and then deleting the block and creating a new one. The ends are both near the exits. In the link you gave, one of the blocks blocking the path for the creeps is still there, so it’s confusing to look at it. The trick to getting the high scores seems to be to take out the 2 boss flying creeps – the ones that piss me off the most often – from there it’s easy to keep them moving back and forth… High score folks start selling off everything toward the end (and building some new towers) to keep their mazes a secret and keep everyone else from learning the optimal tower configurations. That being said, I’ve killed every single creep and had 20 lives on hard and never gotten a score over 8700… I’m not sure how folks are getting the additional 2000 points and getting these 10K+ scores – either they have a cheat or they’ve figured out a maze that allows them to release large numbers of creeps at once from the beginning…

  7. Mark from Bloglyne
    June 28, 2007 at 12:06 am

    Finally – it only took me a month and a new version of DesktopTD (1.5) to get the high score – and no, I did not cheat… heck I don’t even know how – 8412!!! Check it out at http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/GroupScoreboard.asp?ver=4

  8. Bulbboy
    May 31, 2007 at 9:35 pm

    Damn you Shoe! The competition is over and I’m still hooked!

    =P

  9. TylerC
    May 31, 2007 at 4:27 pm

    Never said I didn’t :P what I do know is you and Ice are not getting anything so please stop complaining.

  10. TylerC
    May 31, 2007 at 11:49 am

    You make me laugh :)

  11. Ice
    May 31, 2007 at 9:37 am

    After reading through the entire comment thread, it’s now kind of obvious that Tyler is like 13 years old. So I back off the harsh language (seriously).

    Tyler – I see your 9000 score has disappeared… Trying to make it realistic?

    Scoring works like this – all the creeps in the 50-level game add up to 4992 points. The max time bonus you can get (which you only get if you have at least one life left) is 2882. The lives-left bonus is equal to 25 * (remaining lives), so that maxes at 500. Thus, the highest score you can get is 8374, which is easily achieved on the fun “10K Gold” level.

    The highest score you can achieve with 0 lives left is 4992, by killing all the creeps except some of the junior spawns (which aren’t worth any killing points) at the end.

    And BTW – if you now modify your cheating scores to make them plausible, since you’ve already shown that you are a cheater, I would hope nobody gives you credit for them.

    Anyway, if there is actually a prize, someone can send me an email with “TD Defense” in the subject line. Otherwise, no sweat.

  12. Ice
    May 31, 2007 at 9:29 am

    Are you a liar as well as a cheater?

    I know the rules of the game. The scores you got are impossible, not because they are “so hard that I think it’s impossible”, but because they actually are impossible by the scoring rules of the game. There are various ways to hack the code to allow you “impossible” scores – you aren’t the first “creative” person to achieve those scores.

  13. TylerC
    May 30, 2007 at 9:30 pm

    Say what you want, all I know is what I did worked. You should not knock it until you are on the last level and try it.

  14. Moviejunkie
    May 30, 2007 at 2:53 pm

    Tsk Tsk ..

  15. Moviejunkie
    May 30, 2007 at 2:53 pm

    Just like THIS /:)

  16. Moviejunkie
    May 30, 2007 at 2:49 pm

    when do we start ?

  17. Papa Rage
    May 30, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    Kudos Ice, I claim (the unrewarded) second place.

    @TylerC you can’t score in the 7000’s with zero lives because you lose your bonus points. How could you not know that?

  18. TylerC
    May 30, 2007 at 9:11 am

    How did I cheat?

    Because I found a strategy that obviously works better than yours?

  19. Ice
    May 29, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    Do I need a real email or something?

  20. Ice
    May 29, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    How do I get my comment to post?

  21. Ice
    May 29, 2007 at 9:13 pm

    Rather obviously, TylerC cheated.

    I think I had the top legit score. How do I claim my prize?

  22. TylerC
    May 29, 2007 at 11:28 am

    Matter of fact Monty… Do you have an email I could contact you at/ a page. I have a good proposition for you.

  23. TylerC
    May 29, 2007 at 11:27 am

    We should get in touch :)

  24. Monty
    May 29, 2007 at 11:26 am

    I’m sending you a bill for all my lost hours of productivity Shoe…TylerC, if you’re one-tenth as good at online marketing as you are at DTD, I wanna hire you :)

  25. TylerC
    May 29, 2007 at 10:07 am

    Yes you can…. You can press the send next level button.

  26. Geiger
    May 29, 2007 at 9:26 am

    I detect a little hacking going on there. Note: You can’t get extra time points if you finish with zero lives. TylerC did exactly that.

  27. TylerC
    May 29, 2007 at 9:04 am

    For normal…. The Competition is for Hard ;)

  28. bootmoney
    May 29, 2007 at 4:12 am

    #1

  29. TylerC
    May 28, 2007 at 7:57 pm

    I did not use this method and I made it to the top…. I found its a lot better to focus stronger units in the center of the grid.

  30. TylerC
    May 28, 2007 at 5:28 pm

    BTW, Dont try to copy my mazes! I sell all my stuff at end so you cant see most of it, and I will hate u if you beat me lol.

  31. http://tylerc.myopenid.com/
    May 28, 2007 at 5:26 pm

    Three different Tabs :)

  32. Mick
    May 28, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    just had a look at the top man TylerC’s Mazes – boy can he play quick ;-)

    Maze 1 – Hard: 7499 points – 27/05/2007 21:15:54
    Maze 2 – Hard: 7108 points – 27/05/2007 21:12:14
    Maze 3 – Hard: 6731 points – 27/05/2007 21:08:06

    WTF are you doing? Playing on 3 machines? LOL

  33. fivecentnickel.com
    May 28, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    Ouch. You’re currently in 20th. Looks like you’ll be paying the piper unless you get busy.

  34. Mark from Bloglyne.com
    May 28, 2007 at 2:23 am

    Well, it only took me all weekend, but I just scored above you at the #3 spot on Medium… *sighs* I am terrified to go to hard…

  35. BirthdayCake
    May 27, 2007 at 11:51 pm

    I’ll give it a shot, why not :) . Nice challenge!

  36. BirthdayCake
    May 27, 2007 at 11:50 pm

    I’ll give it a shot, seems like fun :) .

  37. Paul
    May 27, 2007 at 9:26 pm

    Same here. I’ve been playing it way to much.

  38. Jimmy Daniels
    May 27, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    Damn you Shoemoney, damn you and this game! Already lost two evenings to it, I hope this post scrolls off soon…

  39. Elliott C. Back
    May 26, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    The best I can do is 4028 on hard. And it takes like 20m a round…

  40. JASON COX
    May 26, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    THE ICE understands this weird maze trick =( teach me bro??? haha jasonjcox@gmail.com =() would love to know the maze trick

  41. Daniel Scocco
    May 26, 2007 at 5:44 am

    God, wish you had not posted that…

  42. ToddW
    May 26, 2007 at 12:17 am

    It’s harder than I thought!! But once you get up to the higher levels the GOLD comes in QUICK and you die quick too :/

  43. Paul
    May 26, 2007 at 12:14 am

    I try to avoid games. Especially, video games. They are too addictive. I wouldn’t get anything else done.

  44. bill weaver
    May 25, 2007 at 8:57 pm

    Okay, let’s give it a shot.

  45. Dave F
    May 25, 2007 at 8:16 pm

    Congratulations Kevin

  46. Kevin
    May 25, 2007 at 8:10 pm

    I guess I picked the right week to make DTD my time-waster of choice.

  47. Wealth Base Camp
    May 25, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    Looks like that is on Normal NOT Hard.

  48. Wealth Base Camp
    May 25, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    Studying intently to beat the Shoe.

  49. Wealth Base Camp
    May 25, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    The real question is how much do YOU have?

  50. Wealth Base Camp
    May 25, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Yeah, definitely going to be harder than it seems. How long have you been playing Shoe?

  51. jake jones
    May 25, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    your going down shoemoney!!!!!!!

  52. Lee Bandoni
    May 25, 2007 at 5:25 pm

    Reminds me of the old megadrive (genisis) game herzog zwi

  53. Hannes Johnson
    May 25, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Cool contest. But dammit – the hard level is really hard, I keep dying :p

  54. ToddW
    May 25, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    There went 2hrs of my life i’ll nevr get back!! LOL

  55. JASON COX
    May 25, 2007 at 4:11 pm

    ya ya ya i know… i never played hard b4.

    Ok ill try it a few times =)

  56. ShoeMoney
    May 25, 2007 at 3:45 pm

    hey congrats you win on what everyone is not playing! play the hard (as the post says!

  57. ShoeMoney
    May 25, 2007 at 3:45 pm

    hahah ya how much do you have in credits lol!

  58. Malcolm
    May 25, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    SWEET, this is gonna be fun =^_^=

  59. Travel Notebook
    May 25, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    Lets make this a class action lawsuit since it involves all of us. Your screwed shoe! We are drafting document now!

  60. JASON COX
    May 25, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/ViewMap.asp?name=u2ube
    look at this guys map – i dont understand how it works =( but he can get 8200 score — nuts

  61. JASON COX
    May 25, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    http://www.PPCRICHES.com takes over #1 on medium by a huge margin

    HOHOHO PEEP IT OUT KIDS

    Sorry- had to delete my secret map… ok back to work.

    Also, I’ve BLOGED about SHOEMONEY at my blog post if anyone is interested. Maybe I’ll mess around with “Hard” level later but…. well…. my workers getting mad that the boss is playing tower defense.

    HAHAHA what a funny thing for you to do Jeremy, love it.

    JJ

  62. Harry Maugans
    May 25, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    Well, there’s half a day wasted. Thanks Jeremy. :P

  63. TheGrin
    May 25, 2007 at 1:47 pm

    damn… you ruined my day.. i cannot stop playing now…

  64. Dave F
    May 25, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Alright, I’m going to give this a shot.

  65. CPA Affiliates
    May 25, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    *LOL* love how the prize will come from amazon ;) as an Azoogle affiliate amazon becomes your new shopping spot for all things ;)

  66. Jeremy Luebke
    May 25, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    OK in one post Shoe says be productive to make money. Then he sets this challenge.

    I personally think he is trying to keep up all from competing with him by making us play a bot setup by dilsmack ;)

  67. Carlos
    May 25, 2007 at 12:56 pm

    That swoosh you hear is the sound of thousands of productive hours being sucked out the window.

  68. Mubin
    May 25, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    Interesting. Shoemoney issues challenge, and the instructions page goes down. Hmmmm. If I was a Rich Jerk I might be getting a lawsuit ready…

    Anyway, how the hell do we join your group?

  69. JASON COX
    May 25, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    GUYS — THIS IS HILARIOUS HAHA.

    I fucking hate this game I definately ate up 30 hours one week playing it on MEDIUM and could not break fricken 7200 or so…

    … but im 100% positive there is a secret “CHEAT” where you basically lay out paths… let half the little buggers go through your maze — then BLOCK the exit (but have a 2nd exit that makes them go all way back around your maze) and anyway…

    it’s TRICKY TRICKY if you study any of the top 10 ppl they are all pulling off this bullshit haha but i havn’t ifgured out how they do it yet =(

  70. Papa Rage
    May 25, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    Great, now you’re going to start feeding my game addiction.

  71. EricW
    May 25, 2007 at 12:31 pm
  72. Brent Wilson
    May 25, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    Awesome, I’m in.

  73. website copywriter
    May 25, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    I’m wo[man] enough to admit that I can’t beat you, Shoe. ;)

  74. Rico
    May 25, 2007 at 12:24 pm

    I shall win!

  75. Sean Carrell
    May 25, 2007 at 12:06 pm

    Oh I am so down for this :D

    Sean

  76. ShoeMoney
    May 25, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    WAIT!!!! there is instructions!????

  77. Ron Johnson
    May 25, 2007 at 11:54 am

    I’ve been playing that game a lot! We’ll see ;) .

  78. EricW
    May 25, 2007 at 11:49 am

    Some instructions on how to play and what keys to use would be helpful since their instructions link isn’t working.

  79. Link Snitch
    May 25, 2007 at 11:15 am

    The challenge has been set.

    Going to practice.

  80. Patrick
    May 25, 2007 at 11:10 am

    I used to play this game… got up to 84 a couple times…

  81. SEO Blog
    May 25, 2007 at 10:59 am

    Haha Hell yes! I knew the time I spent on DTD would be well worth it someday. Looks like it will be close though as my personal best is about 100 below yours.

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