OH BABY!!  After a long period of training online, I’ve finally conquered my sister, the GEEK.  It’s all good because a little bit of healthy competition now and then doesn’t hurt anyone.  You can see my gradual increase in score over time and finally, today (just 2 minutes passed), I surpassed the mighty online nerd.   Her post Desktop Tower Defense was useful enough to get me the basics, but something was missing.  I will elaborate more here.  For starters, yes, it’s about the path you build, but that’s not enough.  You need to hit the “SEND NEXT” button to send more bugs (or monsters) to get bonus points and on top of that, your maze needs to have an exit on both ends.  Which means, for some streams, you simply can’t kill in one shot.  That means, you have to loop them back and forth through your power zones, but done strategically enough that nothing escapes.  I will have to better myself, I let one through accidentally.  There’s always next time.