Blog posts tagged "games"

Onslaught

The attackers are coming! They're trying to fight their way into Area 51 and it's up to you to build the defences and stop them getting in! There's a cash bounty on the head of every attacker and each wave is tougher than the last. Use your earnings to upgrade your defences and keep the attackers at bay.

Posted on Tue 30th October, 2007 in , and with no comments

Vector Tower Defence

The aim of the game is to eliminate the Vectoid threat before they reach the end of the path. You do this by constructing towers along the path to attack oncoming Vectoids. Success is not based solely on the types of tower you select, but where you place them and what upgrade and bonus options you take.

Posted on Sun 26th August, 2007 in , and with no comments

Deskop Tower Defence

Desktop TD is a flash based TD game, that pays homage to a few Warcraft 3 tower defense maps. You have to stop your enemies, or 'creeps', from travelling all the way across the screen. Tower pieces can be purchased and placed on the map to kill the creeps before they make it across.

Posted on Sat 14th April, 2007 in , and with no comments

Computer Games are like Drugs

Did you know that computer games are like drugs? According to Boris Johnson MP they are. Last December he wrote a rather lengthy article comparing computer games to drugs and blaming computer games for the increasing illiteracy of our Nation.

Boris wrote:

It is a shock, arriving at university, and being asked to compose an essay of a couple of thousand words, and then discovering that you can't do it; and this demoralisation is a major cause of dropping-out. It's not that the students lack the brains; the raw circuitry is better than ever. It's the software that's the problem. They have not been properly programmed, because they have not read enough.

It sounds now as though young people are units on a production line through school being programmed to suit the needs of the nation. If the MPs have this view on schooling no wonder illiteracy is increasing. Could it just be that schools are not engaging children and young people, or perhaps that some parents believe that it is the school's job to educate their children and that they should have no need to help them (my parents are not like this).

Link: Boris Johnson MP: Computer Games

Posted on Wed 28th March, 2007 in , , and with 1 comment

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