Dirty SplitShag Meets Sam Spade | Submitted by costik on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 00:04. |
I love the visual look of Dirty Split, which looks as if designed by Shag (and as if the title screens were by Saul Bass). The game itself is a conventional point-and-click graphic adventure (built using the Wintermute engine); the protagonist is a Joe Friday sound-alike private eye, hired by an heiress whose son has been accused of murder.
The "tower defense" genre arguably began with some scenarios in Warcraft, but has since become the first truly new genre we can point to as emerging from the indie games scene. Pioneered in Master of Defense, and widely available in free flash form in games like Desktop Tower Defense, a number of good commercial versions have appeared as well.
Games of this style seem to fall into two categories; ones, like Master of Defense, in which levels have different geographies and the main strategy is figuring out optimal placement for your towers; and ones like Desktop Tower Defense where the geography is open, and the main strategy is in building towers to channel the attackers (called "creeps") along a circuitous path, giving you plenty of opportunity to shoot at and kill them. Attack of the Creeps falls into the second category.
