📖 Gaming term
Tower Defense
A strategy sub-genre where players place towers along a path to stop waves of enemies.
Definition
Tower Defense (TD) is a strategy sub-genre where enemies march along a fixed path and the player places defensive towers to stop them. Each wave gets harder; money earned buys more or stronger towers.
Core loop
- Enemies spawn at path start
- Player places towers along the path
- Towers shoot automatically
- Kills grant gold
- Gold buys more towers / upgrades
- Wave ends → stronger wave begins
Iconic titles
- Bloons TD — monkey-themed chaos
- Kingdom Rush — gold standard polish
- Plants vs Zombies — TD hybrid
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