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So happy to hear this. I have just tested the demo, and am happy to see that it can display the Bin Laden (Banana Boat) song, aka "Nowhere to run - nowhere to

So happy to hear this. I have just tested the demo, and am happy to see that it can display the Bin Laden (Banana Boat) song, aka "Nowhere to run - nowhere to hide"[1]. It is a culturally important artifact - whose size is 432KB (compare with how much bandwith does a Youtube video of it at Full HD would take). I could also play the Xiao Xiao stick fight series[2]. Sadly, I still couldn't play a game I've put many hours in back in the day - Gem Tower Defense[3]. However, I could open and play it with KMPlayer[4]. Looks I will be able to continue wasting my time in Flash games going forward! [1]https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/2767 https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/2767 [2]https://dagobah.net/flash/xiao_xiao_5.swf https://dagobah.net/flash/xiao_xiao_5.swf [3]https://dagobah.net/flash/download/gemtd.swf https://dagobah.net/flash/download/gemtd.swf [4]http://en.kmplayer.com/ http://en.kmplayer.com/

izend 6y ago
Hey I'm the original author of the Flash version of Gem Tower Defense (still hosted at http://gemtowerdefense.com/ http://gemtowerdefense.com/). I'm actually working on a HTML5 version of it and nearly complete, I should have it released within 2 weeks.
- romwell 6y ago
  Wow, never would have thought this would happen by chance like that! Several things: -Thank you for the wonderful game! This is my favorite tower defense game hands down - I never played another one after Gem TD. -Hope you'll post about it here! More people deserve to know the awesomeness that is Gem TD! -Things like Gem TD proved a great distraction when I was going through things in life. And one round doesn't take long, it could be played in small increments. I feel like there is a lack of games that. Good luck in whatever you are working on - including the HTML5 Gem TD! :)
  - izend 6y ago
    Thanks for the vote for confidence, I created it out of pure admiration of the game mechanics of Gem TD. In regards to HN, I'll probably need to write a tech blog post describing my 13 year journey of Gem TD to have any chance of getting any HN viewership :)

izend 6y ago

Hey I'm the original author of the Flash version of Gem Tower Defense (still hosted at http://gemtowerdefense.com/ http://gemtowerdefense.com/). I'm actually working on a HTML5 version of it and nearly complete, I should have it released within 2 weeks.

romwell 6y ago
Wow, never would have thought this would happen by chance like that! Several things: -Thank you for the wonderful game! This is my favorite tower defense game hands down - I never played another one after Gem TD. -Hope you'll post about it here! More people deserve to know the awesomeness that is Gem TD! -Things like Gem TD proved a great distraction when I was going through things in life. And one round doesn't take long, it could be played in small increments. I feel like there is a lack of games that. Good luck in whatever you are working on - including the HTML5 Gem TD! :)
- izend 6y ago
  Thanks for the vote for confidence, I created it out of pure admiration of the game mechanics of Gem TD. In regards to HN, I'll probably need to write a tech blog post describing my 13 year journey of Gem TD to have any chance of getting any HN viewership :)