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Go check this out – Desktop Tower Defense<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ll warn you though..it’ll take up so much of your time!!<\/p>\n

There is a bit of back story about the developer (and how it’s making him rich!) here<\/a> which is where i first picked it up from. Almost straight after reading that there was\u00a0a similar post on Coding Horror <\/a>where Jeff backs me up in how addictive the game is<\/p>\n

I finised the easy level after 3 goes. I managed to finish it straight after that and only lost one life! I’ll be making a start on the harder levels tonight<\/p>\n

There are some stategy videos on youtube as pointed out by this post on neatorama<\/a>\u00a0but i prefer to figure it out for myself<\/p>\n

\u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go check this out – Desktop Tower Defense I’ll warn you though..it’ll take up so much of your time!! There is a bit of back story about the developer (and how it’s making him rich!) here which is where i first picked it up from. Almost straight after reading that there was\u00a0a similar post on<\/p>\n

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