{"id":167,"date":"2009-10-31T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2009\/10\/31\/homemade-creeps\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T16:39:00","slug":"homemade-creeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2009\/10\/31\/homemade-creeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade creeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often I play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/preecep\/desktop-tower-defense-1-5\/?referrer=22twain\">Desktop Tower Defense<\/a> over at Kongregate.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a fun strategy game where you create a maze or 2D structures out of &#8220;towers&#8221; that little creatures go past.&nbsp; You try and stop the creatures with the different effects of the towers..&nbsp; My daughter would watch me play, and one time she drew the creatures, called &#8220;creeps&#8221; from the game.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_zWKDLejV_sY\/SuxjmFo342I\/AAAAAAAAAIw\/hMvIWW58GQ4\/s1600-h\/desktopTowerDefense.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_zWKDLejV_sY\/SuxjmFo342I\/AAAAAAAAAIw\/hMvIWW58GQ4\/s400\/desktopTowerDefense.jpg?w=750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/Ninjakiwi\/bloons-tower-defense-3\/?referrer=22twain\">Bloons Tower Defense<\/a>, which is fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often I play Desktop Tower Defense over at Kongregate.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a fun strategy game where you create a maze or 2D structures out of &#8220;towers&#8221; that little creatures go past.&nbsp; You try and stop the creatures with the different effects of the towers..&nbsp; My daughter would watch me play, and one time she&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2009\/10\/31\/homemade-creeps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homemade creeps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75BYE-2H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2005\/10\/04\/floppyfairwell\/","url_meta":{"origin":167,"position":0},"title":"FloppyFairwell","date":"October 4, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"FloppyFairwell Originally uploaded by kinetisonic. 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