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Tower defense is seen as a subgenre of real-time strategy video games, due to its real-time origins, [2] [3] even though many modern tower defense games include aspects of turn-based strategy. Strategic choice and positioning of defensive elements is an essential strategy of the genre.
The game was picked in a survey involving over 400,000 voters over 5000 other web applications as one of the top 100 best web applications, one of ten in the entertainment category for 2007 by Webware. [2] [20] In 2008, the game won a "Gleemie Award" and the developers received $5000 in prize money at the 2008 Independent Games Festival. [21]
Bloons TD 6 received mostly positive reviews from critics.New Zealand Game Developers Association secretary Stephen Knightly praised the depth of the gameplay in Bloons TD 6, specifically the visual appeal to a general audience and the level of complexity for more experienced players: "It's fun and friendly, so it's accessible, but under the surface it's quite complicated". [43]
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Bloons Tower Defense (also known as Bloons TD or BTD) is a series of tower defense games under the Bloons series created and produced by Ninja Kiwi. The game was initially developed as a browser game, built upon the Adobe Flash platform and released in mid 2007.
Rampart, released in 1991, is the first prototypical survival game mode in tower defense games. [5] Survival mode is particularly common among tower defense games, such as Plants vs. Zombies. [6] where the player must improve the defenses of a specific location in order to repel enemy forces for as long as possible. [7]
The development team were aiming to create a standard tower defense game but in 3D, downloadable and with high production values. [12] The game was created by Mark Terrano, the lead designer of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, and uses the Gamebryo engine. Defense Grid also uses the Scaleform GFx user interface engine.
Defense Grid 2 is a 2014 tower defense video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and published by 505 Games. As a sequel to the 2008 Defense Grid: The Awakening , the game was crowd-funded on Kickstarter in 2012 [ 4 ] and released on Windows , Xbox One , and PlayStation 4 on September 23, 2014.