One of the pleasures that comes from sampling a broad variety of games is to see a number of permutations of a common game mechanic. Case in point: tower defense. If first person shooters are the genre that is in the greatest need of a broader spectrum of gameplay elements, tower defense is quickly becoming a close second.The sheer number of tower defense games on the indie and mainstream markets suggests that it just might become the new dominant genre of the market before too long. Not that this would necessarily be bad for the genre, since at least a fair amount of variations are to be had in how to defend a base from attackers. You can mirror the game against friends in DotA and League of Legends, take the attacker’s role in Rock of Ages and Anomaly: Warzone Earth, defend in the first person with guns in Sanctum and Orcs Must Die, and now, defend yourself in SPACE!!A trio of alien races have sectioned Earth under the galactic equivalent of lebensraum for various reasons

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This Article was originally posted on our sister site, The Indie Game Magazine written by Doug Walter.