{"id":2519,"date":"2009-03-12T18:26:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T07:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2009-03-12T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T07:26:21","slug":"making-mazes-in-defense-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Making mazes in Defense Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2521 aligncenter\" title=\"defense_grid_leaderboard\" src=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/defense_grid_leaderboard.jpg\" alt=\"defense_grid_leaderboard\" width=\"504\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/defense_grid_leaderboard.jpg 504w, https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/defense_grid_leaderboard-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been slowly making my way through <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=1868\"><em>Defense Grid<\/em><\/a>, the tower defense game that I posted about a while back. I&#8217;m down to the last two maps, but I&#8217;m holding off finishing them until I go back through every single previous map and get at least a Silver Medal on all of them. My wife loves watching me play this game and both of us enjoy figuring out the best way to build a maze on each of the maps. Most of the time though we&#8217;d come up with a pretty good maze for a map, then go search on YouTube for a video on how the real experts do it, and then kick ourselves for missing something that seems so obvious in retrospect.<\/p>\n<p>Then when I go look at the leaderboards, I get absolutely blown away by the top scorers. Someone tell how is it possible to get more than 200,000 points and to place nearly 300 towers on a map? Cheats?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been slowly making my way through Defense Grid, the tower defense game that I posted about a while back. I&#8217;m down to the last two maps, but I&#8217;m holding off finishing them until I go back through every single previous map and get at least a Silver Medal on all of them. My wife &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=2519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making mazes in Defense Grid<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[242,92,220],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-high-scores","tag-strategy","tag-tower-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}