Maarten Decat

Desktop Tower Defense (DTD) is a golden oldie that remains to be addictive. It’s a great form of a tower defense game, in which your desktop (not the virtual one…) is flooded by little creatures. And of course, you can’t allow them to reach whatevers on the other side of your desktop, so engage them by building towers!

There’s one difference between DTD and other tower defense games: you can build your towers everywhere you want. No predefined paths in this game, construct your own path and exploit the different types of towers so no one – and I mean no one – escapes. Building the best maze is the real challenge of this game, just take a look at all the mazes posted on Youtube.

Try it out at http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game3.asp! ”The 100″ in Challenge mode is pretty difficult, never made it further than level 68 using a maze of my own…

Impressive new project: a JavaScript emulator for the Commodore 64. It’s a port of an ActionScript (Flash) version that can be used as a plugin for the jQuery library. Check it out at http://www.kingsquare.nl/jsc64. You will need a decent computer and a browser that’s not Internet Explorer (because of the use of the canvas tag) to run this though.

Post at Ajaxian: http://ajaxian.com/archives/c64

Hello world! This is the first post for this new blog. What’s it about? No idea really, stuff I’m into probably. What am I into? Well, games, Web technology, some programming, music, Youtube, that kind of stuff. Why should you read it? No particular reason. But if you like it here, you’re free to come back!