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		aardshark on July 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux Tower Defense is already a genre, where you build towers to prevent enemies from reaching a goal, so unfortunately this name won't work.

keypusher on July 12, 2013 [–]

I would argue that Dota is just tower defense which predates the common form of tower defense made popular on mobile phones. There are towers, creeps follow established patterns, and the creeps attempt to destroy those towers. That's tower defense.

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