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| − | '''Tower Defense Games''' or '''TD Games''' are essentially a sub-genre of strategy games. The TD Game genre is generally comprised of a human player who allocates resources to build 'Towers' in order to prevent enemies (commonly referred to as 'creeps') from passing through the human players map. TD Games can be simple or complex, turn-based or real-time and they all involve some sort of strategic approach. The TD Game genre finds its beginnings in 1990, with an arcade game titled ''Rampant''.<ref> pamensa, http://www.urigellertricksentlarvt.de/allgemein/history-of-tower-defense-games/</ref> | + | '''Tower Defense Games''' or '''TD Games''' are essentially a sub-genre of strategy games. The TD Game genre is generally comprised of a human player who allocates resources to build 'Towers' in order to prevent enemies (commonly referred to as 'creeps') from passing through the human players map. TD Games can be simple or complex, turn-based or real-time and they all involve some sort of strategic approach.<ref>Avery, Phillipa, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA, http://julian.togelius.com/Avery2011Computational.pdf</ref> The TD Game genre finds its beginnings in 1990, with an arcade game titled ''Rampant''.<ref> pamensa, http://www.urigellertricksentlarvt.de/allgemein/history-of-tower-defense-games/</ref> |
== '''<big>History</big><br/>'''== | == '''<big>History</big><br/>'''== | ||
Revision as of 11:51, 6 April 2014
Tower Defense Games or TD Games are essentially a sub-genre of strategy games. The TD Game genre is generally comprised of a human player who allocates resources to build 'Towers' in order to prevent enemies (commonly referred to as 'creeps') from passing through the human players map. TD Games can be simple or complex, turn-based or real-time and they all involve some sort of strategic approach.[1] The TD Game genre finds its beginnings in 1990, with an arcade game titled Rampant.[2]
History
Examples
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References
- ↑ Avery, Phillipa, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA, http://julian.togelius.com/Avery2011Computational.pdf
- ↑ pamensa, http://www.urigellertricksentlarvt.de/allgemein/history-of-tower-defense-games/
