This game is the trainer for Multiplayer Desktop Tower Defense (or MPDTD). MPDTD pits yourself against up to 11 other players to see who can defeat wave after wave of creeps in the shortest time. The game is essentially a race to clear waves of creeps and complete all the levels. The player with the highest score at the end of game wins. Simple!

To practice we would suggest you start with the Normal Arcade mode. Once you can complete that mode you are ready to play the proper multiplayer version!

HOW TO PLAY
In Desktop Tower Defense you have to stop creeps from making their way across your desktop. Every time a creep successfully crosses your desktop you will lose one of your 20 lives. When all your lives are gone the game is over. To stop the creeps you must purchase attacking towers and place them on the desktop. These towers will then shoot at the creeps as the go past. They will also get in the creep's way and force them to take a longer route across your desktop.

When the game starts you are given 30 seconds to place your intial towers. To place a tower click on one of the icons in the top right:



Then drag it across to the desktop and place it somewhere near the middle. The highlight will be green if you can place the tower or red if you cannot. We suggest starting with some cheap Pellet Towers.



Each tower has different capabilities and stats. When you click on a tower you will see an information panel on the right hand side.



If you place several towers together they will form a wall through which the creeps cannot pass. If you connect the walls together have the beginning of a maze!



Towers can be upgrade by clicking on a tower and then clicking on the upgrade button in the button right of the information panel.



The information panel will also tell you the increase in stats that the upgrade will bring.



In this example the upgrade will add 10 damage and cost 5 gold. When you upgrade a tower the tower will be out of action until the upgrade completes.



After the 30 second start timer has expired the game will start. From now on a creep wave will arrive on your desktop every 25 seconds. Everytime your towers kills a creep you will receive a gold bounty, as denoted by the yellow numbers.



Each creep wave is harder than the one before and also worth more gold. You can use the gold to buy more towers or upgrade the ones you already have.

There are several different creep types and you can see the order in which they arrive by looking at the scrolling wave bar at the bottom of the screen.



There are 50 levels to complete (60 in Hard Mode) and if you can survive to the end without losing all your lives then you will have won the game.



Good luck!