Temperature in hell – 32 degrees, tap defense
So yesterday was Ali’s birthday. She didn’t have any extravagant birthday meal requests, just pizza from Hungry Howie’s and cupcakes from Publix, easy enough. I gave her her birthday gift last night as well, a watch. It’s an Accutron with a pink face with diamonds circling around it. The pink is close to her sorority pink so I figured she would like it. She did.
She had one more request, that I watch Mama Mia with her. Normally watching a musical like Mama Mia would be right up there with a prostate exam on my list of things I’d rather not do. However since it was Ali’s birthday I had little choice but to happily agree. Oh I wasn’t allowed to fall asleep during it either. I watched the entire 90 minutes or so filled with non-stop dancing and singing. I have to admit, it wasn’t bad. I found it entertaining enough and at no time did I feel like stabbing out my eyeballs with an ice pick like I did while watching Chicago. Ali was happy I watched it with her. I’d give it a B+.
There is ANOTHER fantastic game out for the Iphone/Touch, called TapDefense. It is tower defense for the Iphone. I was first introduced to tower defense games back when I was still playing Starcraft. They had a mod for SC that turned it into a tower defense game. The premise of tower defense seems very simplistic and even boring. The reality is it is highly addictive and requires much planning and strategy.
In simple terms, the object of the game is to construct towers along a road. On this road travel various bad guys that you need to kill. The bad guys do nothing but move along the road, they don’t attack you. They do however have different “strengths”. Some move really fast, some have very high armor that takes a lot of firepower to bring down. To counter the enemy abilities you have various sorts of towers that you can deploy. Some are meant to blast the hell out of people, some just slow them down, others have a very long range while others have high damage but can only fire a limited distance. On top of all of that there is a money managing element to the contest. You collect gold as you clear levels and you spend that gold to buy new towers and upgrade existing ones. It takes careful management to find the right balance where you have enough money in the bank as well as having enough firepower to kill all of the baddies without any escaping. Sound stupid? It’s not. Try it, you will see. I was up till after 11 laying in bed trying to find that sweet spot. It has eluded me thus far.