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The world of gaming has improved a whole lot over the years. No longer would gamers have to settle on playing with their gaming consoles, they can now experience gaming online with more amazing 3D designs, realistic visual and audio effects and a great storyline that would definitely entice you to log online and play a game or two.

If there is one thing that can get gamers at the edge of their seats- it’s the action! Online games are phenomenally entertaining because of the challenges and strategy the games can give you. One of the more popular game genres that you can find online are tower defense games. 

Tower defense games have a basic concept to it. The primary objective of the game is to prevent your enemies from going near your camp and destroying your towers. The enemies, or protagonists of the game, are also referred to as creeps. The basic good and evil, villain and hero plot is the basic storyline of tower defense games.

Most tower defense games are played on a certain map where the player has a designated place where he can build towers or create his own community. The other parts of the map are designated with creeps that can take over the player’s ‘towers’ and destroy the elements of the ‘kingdom’ or ‘community’ the player built.

Both the player and his enemies have a number of abilities and resources to help them build their towers. They also have equipments that they can use to destroy their opponent’s towers. All of these have their corresponding costs. When a player defeated creeps, he would earn points that can be used to upgrade and buy more towers.

The main goal of a tower defense game is to protect your towers against the enemies and bring the creeps down by destroying their towers. In the end, the party with protected towers and destroyed the towers of the enemy is hailed as winner of the game.

Tower defense games are very fun to play because it does not only require clicking of the mouse like other casual gaming requires. It takes critical thinking, comprehension, strategic analysis and not to mention, speed of hands, to be able to protect your towers from the enemy.

The challenge here is to position your towers and protect it at all costs while destroying the towers of your enemies. Popular tower defense games are StarCraft and Age of Empires, among other online games.

Tower defense games created a revolution in online gaming. You might get used to the graphics and game play of Tetris, which is one of the oldest online games, but with tower defense games, you would be surprised on how real-to-life the graphics are and the visual and audio effects are just phenomenal. This is one of the reasons why most people got themselves addicted to this game.

Flash environment is a great platform for tower defense games. Aside from flash, other game developers also integrated high-end graphic elements such as 3D animation that can add to the market value of these games.