However, this issue of Friday Fun (which I've been holding back from you for absolutely ages) contains a wealth of “time-wasting online games designed to keep you from getting anything useful done”. So, here in all it’s glory I present
Hazel’s comment:GemCraft is a Totally Addictive Tower Defense Game
This is similar to Desktop Tower Defense but also has some very slight role playing elements to it.Show Me the Game!
Once you start playing a game, you'll be presented a map with a path and a couple of towers. In each tower you can place a Gem, which will fire bolts of energy (or something) at the little creatures trying to get past. The goal, naturally, is to keep them from reaching the end.
Each one of the gems has a “grade” associated with it, and different gems have different powers, for instance the cyan gems will shock the enemies and make them pause in their tracks.
You can create new towers and new gems based on the Mana that you have available, but where this game gets really interesting is that you can combine the gems together to make new gems.
I've wasted at least 6 hours this week playing this game… and now I pass the productivity killer on to you.
Play GemCraft at Kongregate.com (Flash required)
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I haven't dared to start this as I have quite enough time-wasters in my repertoire as it is! However, Mr E tries all of these and … “When is the washing-up going to get done, dear?”
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