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)
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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.
Even more td games here
http://www.towerdefence.net/?page=allgames
You can find more Tower Defence Games here
http://www.arcadevoyage.com/category/Tower%20Defence/1.html
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…
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
Damn you Shoe! The competition is over and I’m still hooked!
=P
Never said I didn’t
what I do know is you and Ice are not getting anything so please stop complaining.
You make me laugh
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.
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.
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.
Tsk Tsk ..
Just like THIS /:)
when do we start ?
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?
How did I cheat?
Because I found a strategy that obviously works better than yours?
Do I need a real email or something?
How do I get my comment to post?
Rather obviously, TylerC cheated.
I think I had the top legit score. How do I claim my prize?
Matter of fact Monty… Do you have an email I could contact you at/ a page. I have a good proposition for you.
We should get in touch
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
Yes you can…. You can press the send next level button.
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.
For normal…. The Competition is for Hard
#1
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.
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.
Three different Tabs
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
Ouch. You’re currently in 20th. Looks like you’ll be paying the piper unless you get busy.
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…
I’ll give it a shot, why not
. Nice challenge!
I’ll give it a shot, seems like fun
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Same here. I’ve been playing it way to much.
Damn you Shoemoney, damn you and this game! Already lost two evenings to it, I hope this post scrolls off soon…
The best I can do is 4028 on hard. And it takes like 20m a round…
THE ICE understands this weird maze trick =( teach me bro??? haha jasonjcox@gmail.com =() would love to know the maze trick
God, wish you had not posted that…
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 :/
I try to avoid games. Especially, video games. They are too addictive. I wouldn’t get anything else done.
Okay, let’s give it a shot.
Congratulations Kevin
I guess I picked the right week to make DTD my time-waster of choice.
Looks like that is on Normal NOT Hard.
Studying intently to beat the Shoe.
The real question is how much do YOU have?
Yeah, definitely going to be harder than it seems. How long have you been playing Shoe?
your going down shoemoney!!!!!!!
Reminds me of the old megadrive (genisis) game herzog zwi
Cool contest. But dammit – the hard level is really hard, I keep dying :p
There went 2hrs of my life i’ll nevr get back!! LOL
ya ya ya i know… i never played hard b4.
Ok ill try it a few times =)
hey congrats you win on what everyone is not playing! play the hard (as the post says!
hahah ya how much do you have in credits lol!
SWEET, this is gonna be fun =^_^=
Lets make this a class action lawsuit since it involves all of us. Your screwed shoe! We are drafting document now!
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
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
Well, there’s half a day wasted. Thanks Jeremy.
damn… you ruined my day.. i cannot stop playing now…
Alright, I’m going to give this a shot.
*LOL* love how the prize will come from amazon
as an Azoogle affiliate amazon becomes your new shopping spot for all things 
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
That swoosh you hear is the sound of thousands of productive hours being sucked out the window.
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?
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 =(
Great, now you’re going to start feeding my game addiction.
This is the link on the page: http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Default2.asp#instructions
Awesome, I’m in.
I’m wo[man] enough to admit that I can’t beat you, Shoe.
I shall win!
Oh I am so down for this
Sean
WAIT!!!! there is instructions!????
I’ve been playing that game a lot! We’ll see
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Some instructions on how to play and what keys to use would be helpful since their instructions link isn’t working.
The challenge has been set.
Going to practice.
I used to play this game… got up to 84 a couple times…
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.