Setting the Standard of Tower Defense Design with Defense Grid -- Dissecting Design

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Defense Grid: The Awakening
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For this week's Dissecting Design, I looked at the tower defense genre through the game Defense Grid. While there were plenty of free mods for the genre, Defense Grid was one of the first serious attempts at elevating and setting the foundation of the design.

00:00: Intro

00:53 : Basic gameplay

18:33 : Advanced gameplay and mazing

34:35 : Limitations of Tower Defense Gameplay

41:39 : Final Thoughts
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