As of now you can register an account with the Casual Collective. Registering an account will do three things. Firstly you will be reserving the username, preventing others from using the same name. Secondly when the site is live we will send you an email (which will remind you of your username and give you a link to the finished site) so you are one of the first to play! And thirdly, those that register early will get some form of reward when the site is fully functional. Right now the site is not finished, so registering is all you can do, but we hope to resolve that soon ;o)
// Update 20th July
We had 1,376 registrations today. Also noteworthy is that this post is the 16th most popular today across the whole of WordPress. And as if that wasn’t enough, this was the best day in terms of hits for our blog with 4,877 views.
July 19, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Love Elemental TD!!! Play it so much and even introduced it to my friends at work, have about 10 people playing it right now !!! thanks for the game =]
July 19, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Sweet, registering is all I WANT to do.
Ok not really. Do you have any sort of time frame you want to share?
Thanks,
Stephan
July 19, 2007 at 5:00 pm
You might want to fix the registration form, it asks for my date of birth but the label says ‘Your age’.
Looking forward to the launch.
July 19, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Nice works guys!
July 19, 2007 at 6:29 pm
When you go to register an account, it asks for your name and age.
However the bars where you put in your age appears to ACTUALLY want your birthdate, because it asks you for the year and month. Please either say “Enter birthdate” or get rid of the month and year or that will drive me crazy.
July 19, 2007 at 6:39 pm
@Stephan
The site will be open in beta form from the beginning of next month
July 19, 2007 at 6:55 pm
I have left it as “age” and removed the day/month/year and replaced it with a box to type in your age.
And Daniel, drive you crazy? You only have to do it once :)
July 19, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Why do you want our real names?
July 19, 2007 at 9:27 pm
I think your emailer silently fails on email addresses with +’s in them – and they’re totally valid. Gmail lets you do youremailaddress+anythingyouwant@gmail.com which I use compulsively for signing up for services. My first attempt to sign up with a + in my email didn’t work (I never got the email) but my second, without the plus, worked fine.
July 19, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Oh man, I really can’t wait for this to come out! I’ve enjoyed Desktop TD, and now this?! I believe I have been living under a rock for the past few weeks.
July 19, 2007 at 11:58 pm
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July 20, 2007 at 12:33 am
just love your work ^^
but I give up the last 2 fly in hard mode
July 20, 2007 at 1:37 am
Save mine please
July 20, 2007 at 2:36 am
great idea, would love to reserve my username
July 20, 2007 at 2:59 am
Wow, that will be awewsome, I am kinda addicted to that game :)
July 20, 2007 at 3:33 am
Reserve
July 20, 2007 at 3:51 am
JWH 45
July 20, 2007 at 5:07 am
I have really enjoyed playing VectorTD and DesktopTD. Great work!
I had the same issue mentioned earlier, about the mailer not liking email addresses with a ‘+’ sign in them. The RFC for emails does agree with google’s usage, and the + sign is indeed valid. If you could fix this, that would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
-Eric
July 20, 2007 at 11:19 am
RE: + symbol in email address
I first thought the + was making the format checking (regex) fail, but it was cool with the “+” character, so I sent a test to “dav+id” and it arrived however it was to “dav id” the + character was gone and replaced with a space. This would have prevented Google from filing the email into the correct account. I have corrected the problem and you can now register with email addresses containing a “+”
Thanks to those who reported this problem.
July 20, 2007 at 12:08 pm
UPDATE
Age, Real name and Gender are now optional fields. You will also be able to edit them at any point.
July 20, 2007 at 12:35 pm
yo, love your work. simple and playable, which is missing from so many games these days. i’m in for multi.
July 20, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Kick ass! Reserved my name and read that not only will i keep that name now, but there’ll be some sort of reward?! :O:O:O:O:O:O I really hope it’s a gold star :P
Anyway keep up the good work chaps and i hope to see this casual collective thing take off very soon :D
~Dingolicious~
July 20, 2007 at 4:34 pm
hi i would register but by the time the site is ready i would of forgotten about it
ps:when you play flash element save your cash
July 20, 2007 at 5:08 pm
@ben
We will be sending you an email when the site goes live. This email will include your username. Also on the site there will be a way to find lost user names (by entering the email address you used to register)
July 20, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Dear Paul and Dave,
the tower defense game is awesome
if it was an arcade game in the 70s, I would have spent many many quarters on it
July 20, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Cool we can change our real name whenever we want, lol…
July 21, 2007 at 2:49 am
I got David =)
Looking forward to testing MPDTD =)
-david
July 21, 2007 at 3:48 am
Wow… this is interesting. I guess I am mad lazy but what is this Casual Collective? A game?
July 21, 2007 at 4:06 am
Can’t wait for a MP version of DTD, my wife and I haven’t stopped playing it since seeing a blog on it a month ago. Even my 6 yo likes it.
GREAT WORK and look forward to the next incarnation of it
July 21, 2007 at 10:15 pm
i cnt w8 till i play MPDTD all mah friends in my computer class plays TD XD so i’ll noe they gonna luv wat i show em next
// Edit by dave:
TRANSLATION: I can not wait till I can play MPDTD, all my friends in my computer class play TDs, so I know they are going to love what I show them next.
July 22, 2007 at 3:53 pm
I must say the multiplayer idea intrigues me, will you at any point be atempting a co op style of game? i just feel this would be a natural progression for TD’s after taking it to the point which you are now (versus). i’d also like to know which of the TD’s you feel you’ll be taking the most inspiration from, desktop where you build your on maze, or flash element where the map style is chosen for you. I appreciate that at this point you probably won’t be able to answer these questions and if so i’ll keep an eye on this blog and hope i see the details emerge at a later point :)
July 22, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Ramuthra i believe the inspiration for desktop TD came from a warcraft 3 map called Autumn Tower Defense. It had 4 players, 2 spawns each, each spawn crossing into 1 other player’s area then exiting. 1 leak meant death. The layout of each player’s area in autumn td is the same as the layout of the DTD playing area.
I might be wrong though, so don’t quote me on it!
July 23, 2007 at 2:31 am
Flash Element TD is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I made it to the part when the monster name is gg than died.
July 23, 2007 at 10:26 am
nice game, thx
July 23, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Jogo viciante e simples. Mto bom.
Alguem aí do Brasil?
A very nice game. Maybe in X-Box, PS3. I don´t know how. haha
Suggestions:
- Big Grid (more spaces or lowest spaces)
- A creature coming on all sides (Challenge)
- Destroyer (Can destroy some towers without upgrades)
- Half towers (it can be installed in half spaces)
- “Fast Upgrader” (a tower just like “medicine” to fastest upgrade on near towers)
- Timer Tower (simple tower when installed starts a sells timer)
Please make my DT Dream come true… hehe
(sorry for my wrong english)
Thks
July 23, 2007 at 7:09 pm
It looks cool! Please, reserve my name!
July 23, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Very nice game! thx
July 24, 2007 at 2:34 am
Please reserve my name. Thank you.
July 24, 2007 at 11:01 am
heya dave whens mpdtd come out? i need to know because im addicted to your games
also whats your email? i want to know a few things k?
July 24, 2007 at 11:16 am
@Top_Dogg
You need to go to the Casual Collective site and register. We can’t do that for you!
July 24, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Looking fwd to multiplayer,DTD is already a top time killer for me!!!
July 25, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Hey this game of TD 1.5 is awesome! One thing I dont like is the upgrade tower has very limited space around it. The money icon is yellow (which I dont get?) Can you make the money Icon green, it would help people distinguish money easier.
Thanks for a great game!
July 25, 2007 at 8:06 pm
looks like their site crashed.
July 25, 2007 at 9:56 pm
My bad, it’s up now.
July 26, 2007 at 7:08 am
good,thanks very much
July 27, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Waiting
July 29, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Hey guys, great game, my only real beef is that even on 10K mode, the 100 levels can’t be beat.
PS. Juggling is impure
July 29, 2007 at 7:40 pm
i like mpdtd because its extremely addictive game but attracts alot of people
July 29, 2007 at 9:35 pm
this game is wicked however you need to sort the hackers out spoiling the true scores otherwise top notch
July 30, 2007 at 6:23 am
WOOT! awsome TD game i cant w8 to play the finished multiplayer one.
July 30, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Give unto me
July 30, 2007 at 9:38 pm
what gives? i never got a confirmation email to activate my account?!
July 30, 2007 at 10:04 pm
woo im a HUGE fan of TD and canbt wait for this new game to be finished
July 31, 2007 at 1:05 pm
im a huge Fan of TD, too~
August 1, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Ola api
Sou brasileiro tb ( Porto Alegre )
Tem uma comunidade do DTD no Orkut, apareçe la
Translation
Hi api
I’m brazilian too ( my city )
an invitation to join the orkut community for DTD
August 2, 2007 at 8:37 am
Very nice game.
August 2, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I can’t wait!
August 3, 2007 at 3:40 pm
hey ppl i LOVE dis game i CANT W8 fur de online one, I wonder…..wat will it be like or wat eva but i live DeskTopTD it is ausome but de otha 1 aint that good its kinda hard but……
August 8, 2007 at 12:58 pm
OMG!!! I wanna be a betatester!!! i’ve just registered:)
August 9, 2007 at 2:09 am
cant wait!
August 9, 2007 at 9:51 am
im hooked to this game lol
August 9, 2007 at 11:04 am
cool game! I’ve seen alot of them, but this sure is the best!
(even better than the LOTR Battle for Middle Earth version, lol)
Can’t wait for the site to be completed! ^^
August 11, 2007 at 6:12 am
i like to play mpdtd please allow me to play please
August 11, 2007 at 8:58 am
What is the Game?
August 11, 2007 at 4:37 pm
wow
August 16, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Any update on timeline of the multi?
August 16, 2007 at 12:26 pm
We are waiting for the license file for the unlimited pro games server.
August 16, 2007 at 3:27 pm
O.o i cant wait and i wish it would be a little quicker >.> but gj and hope this is a huge succese
August 16, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Please reserve my name. Thank you.
August 16, 2007 at 11:43 pm
hurry up :(( i cant wait to play
August 17, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I was trying to register last night, but the form wouldnt take any of my email adresses (@yahoo, @hotmail, @googlemail).
Kept saying ‘Opps! there is a problem wit your email, please use another’
I ran out of active mail accounts!!
It was getting late so i figured id try and register today, and now the form is gone ;_;
halp!
August 17, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Daaaamn beta is closed and now its invite-only!
C’mon! :(
August 17, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Sadness. Evidently Casual Collective is no longer accepting registrations? It’s by invite only? Oh dear, and I so badly wanted to reserve my TD username!
August 19, 2007 at 4:51 am
nice TD game i love it and wanted to introduce it :) but cant register anymore
August 27, 2007 at 7:52 am
Hey they said it is invite only =[
so i was wondering if i could get an invite from an existing member if that would not be to hard to ask
my email is viciousliberator@yahoo.com
August 28, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Since u as webmaster got my mail now, could it be possible to invite me ;)
ty Mchael