Gem Tower Defense
Play Here: Gem Tower Defense
Very solid game! It appears to be balanced properly, the AI works, you get a lot of upgrade combo options and Gem TD uses a waypoint system. I believe the game concept comes from the old Poker TD from WC3 but I’m not 100% sure about that.
Many flash TDs build outside the path TDs are great but few use a waypoint system that greatly increases your strategic options. Without waypoints you might be able to juggle (prevented in gem td btw) but essentially you have one maze which creeps travel from the beginning to the end. With waypoints it is possible to construct a system that requires wave to travel through your maze multiple times.
The maze in the graphic requires monsters to travel through it 6 times and it is still not optimal by any means. I could expand it out more, build better gem combos, upgrade differently…there are really a lot of options.
October 14th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
im really liking this one
January 15th, 2008 at 3:01 am
It is based off a wc3 game, but its not based off poker td, its based off gem td. its a pretty much exact replica of the wc3 game.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
The warcraft game is actually based off this one.
January 24th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Does anyone know of a place where i can Download this?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
So if the Warcraft 3 game is based off this one that would mean that this probably is based off poker td. We need the developer to comment to straighten things out.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
“gem td fan Says:
January 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
The warcraft game is actually based off this one.”
Ehm….Dude, you’ve got that all wrong.
If you visit www.gemtowerdefense.com you will see that they clearly state this is a Flash remake of the popular WC3 game GEM TD.
And also you can see that by checking the first version of the WC3 Gem td and this one.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Well that may be so but I know Poker TD came out at least 2 years before Gem TD so I think that makes Poker TD the inspiration.
July 7th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Yes you could also dispute about the first td ever as inspiration…^^
the wc3 gem td is much more balanced got more possibilities and is more fun to play!