I felt as if purchasing new elevators drained all your money for the round, so your stuck helping that elevator which has little or no fire power.

Nice twist on the genre, simple, stylish graphics, but far too easy, I beat it on the first try.

jmtb02 has got to be my favorite flash game developer. Every game he makes is simply fun and unique more often than not, and this game is no exception.

This was a fine experience up until the game fed me so many creeps that it started to lag.

On one level in particular it become so bad that I was unable to switch a stronger elevator with a weaker one in time to save my entire shaft from destruction. Not fun.

I get the feeling he loops through every single creep every frame, and I wish this wasn't the case. I can't help but wonder if it would have been more efficient to attach the creeps to one of three parent movieclips (according to type) and move that. That way the only creeps you'd need to loop through would be those in the very front.

I don't know though, this is all purely hypothetical. It's just disappointing to see an otherwise good game ruined at its end because my computer just couldn't handle it.

jmtb02 has done it again...!...but I can't go past level 3...

I seem to have hit a bug. I lost all my elevators, but was able to protect the shaft and finish the day. Now I'm on the purchase screen but the option to buy an elevator fails and I can't start the next day.

Pretty fun up to that point, though.

Pretty easy, I thought. Only used machine gun, rocket launcher and laser. Nothing ever made it far enough to damage an elevator much less damage the shaft.

nice game...bug report...on most of the last levels i found my character not able to run toward the elevator...i was stuck on the right side of the screen.

Tried lots of different things, couldn't get beyond lv 3.

Timed cut scenes tried my patience, you should be able to dismiss them by clicking...

Interestingly, I only had problems with the first few levels - I failed 2, 3, and 4 all at at least once - tried going for machine guns too soon, when turrets would do the trick.

Generally speaking, the player character (as far as I can tell) levels up a bit during the game, becoming about as powerful as a level 5 turret or so later on. You can pretty much always buy whatever you want and use the remaining money to buy the new elevator, whatever you can afford, and then simply stuff yourself in it to avoid losing. Or, every 10 seconds, rotate the weak elevator with a stronger one.

In the intermediate levels, the pressure cannon (that knocks -all- the creeps back) is fairly effective when coupled with a decent level turret and a machine gun. Rockets are amusing but by the time you can buy them, the laser is much more efficient.

I had 2 level 2 lasers and a level 1 laser in every elevator in the end; one of the things that I would've like to see is a wider range of creeps. John did vary up the types of creep that appear on each floor, which was nice because some creeps had big toughies and others had small masses, but still - all the later creeps, although they have a lot of health, are extremely slow, and thus killable using pretty much any combination of towers.

Given the fact that there is such variation in towers themselves (lasers that do good damage to everyone, rockets that do good damage to the first few, machine guns that fire quickly but have low damage) it would've been nice to see more thought put into the creeps, to make a rock-paper-scissors sort of game where you had to react to bring the right elevator to combat the right type of creep.

Still, a new and interesting type of tower defense; and a good game overall.

so...frustrating

Got to level 15, but then lagged out when trying to switch elevators, couldn't grab it, and had my stuff ruined by a pile of the weakest monsters. Little man was glitched out on the right side of the screen and couldn't do a thing. Really disappointing, and if it had happened at level six instead of the last level I would have just turned the quality down, but instead I ragequit. Still pretty cool while it lasted.

For anyone having lots of trouble with the initial levels: You can have multiple turrets in one elevator. It's extremely helpful, but I didn't realize it was possible until I reread the comments here several times. Even if you just buy two level one turrets, in some ways that's much more effective than spending more on the machine gun (only for the early levels, of course).

Another bug:

When I paused, and clicked on an elevator, the elevator would no longer be able to shoot or move.

Ruined my game.

Good game :)

Nice, simple, like the walls slowly getting bloodier. Actually found strategy for shuffling elevators.

[I find myself wondering what just happened]

XD

Some tips for the game that I found very effective.

The game is good overall, but the controls are a little wonky. I'm not sure why you have to use the mouse to swap elevators, which is hard to do in the heat of play. I'd have preferred to use up/down to move elevators, even if that gave me less control over which went where.

I also ran into a bug where I had NaN.NaN cash, which let me max everything out immediately.

Here are the first 7 day "walkthroughs". I stopped on Day 8 because I ran into that "$NaN.Nan" infinite money glitch.

After tens of tries at tower defense mini-games in Free Realms, with only ONE WIN, this elevator game seemed more like watching a flash movie. It was nice to play something so easy for a change. Defeating my nemesis (the medium difficulty Free Realms TD mini-games) was enough tower defense challenge to last me a lifetime.

Hit the same unlimited money bug. Early on, too. At first, it was fun putting three 5X upgraded lasers on each elevator and watching the game play by itself. But that got old real quick. And I got the glitch every time I tried to play.

Too bad. Looked like fun.

beat it, it was fun and just the right difficulty. I liked the simplicity of the game, black and white (and gray scale) along with the bright red of the blood

"Only used machine gun, rocket launcher and laser."

Ok had another go at it to see if I just had faulty memory about how easy it was and this part is a lie. Around lvls 4 up to 6 or maybe 7 I was using the basic turret as well. Still easy though.
Tip:

It has a bug on level 3: elevator falls down, without losing all life before.

At first I thought the game was too difficult when I couldn't get past the first level with 2 floors... but once I got a "correct" strategy, the game practically played itself:

I'm finding it interesting that tons of different strategies work even though many are almost complete opposites of each other.

The game seems to be designed around having specialized elevators to be dragged to the floors where they are most effective. However, the game is equally won with a minimum of strategy:

I thought this was too easy, On the last level the badies barely got on the screen before they died. Also no need to use my guy so I just sat and watched for two minutes with no interaction. The first four levels gave me the most trouble. but after that it was a cruise.

Way too easy. And it's a shame, there's a lot of potential here...

Some changes would be good... dynamic weapon upgrades, purchases and deletions would make the game less of a movie and more of a... well, game. As it stands, the man is superfluous after the first couple of levels and so you just end up sitting there watching the level end. Sure, you could help, but you don't need to as the turrets are highly effective on their own.

Upgrades to the man's weapon, shot frequency and movements would solve this problem... why not also add a purchase option to turn those doorways into stairways which would allow the man to pass from floor to floor without having to use an elevator... and allow him to outfit himself with a bigger weapon and maybe even an additional weapon. Go all out and allow him to switch weapons with the number keys and toss grenades and mines.

The scoring could be made more dynamic by offering bonuses for quick kills and kills by the man (this would promote his involvement more) and scaling the scoring according to how close the monsters are to the elevator shaft..

Eliminating the days format and just sending wave after wave (along with the dynamic weapons editing above) would make the game more frenetic than it is, and

... wasted potential right there.

This reminds me of another game awhile back, where you had corridors and you could hang different weaponry from the ceiling. There were different techniques involved to defeating enemies, but it had a similar grity and dark style, can't remember what it's name was though.

Great idea, and an expansion of the tower defense genre. I'm going to have to spend some time playing this.

One glitch I just realized that I don't see mentioned above, is once my money got to a certain point (I think above $20,000) it just reset again and I ended up with only $6,000.

Played it twice before (hitting the other above mentioned glitches) and this was the first time I saw that one.

@ZephiriusJixx:
The game is Eternal Red

Dora,

I mean the interludes w/instructions between waves.

You have to wait for them to finish, I found when replaying it was frustrating waiting for them. I would have preferred to click on them to advance instead of being forced to wait.

Invigorating, adrenaline-pumping, fun for the non-fan of tower defense games.

Nice job, jmbtb02. You've created another game in another genre that is another great game.

I have 3 lasers on each elevator and I am beating the game with 0 effort. It's pretty fun though for some reason.

When I played the game, I thought it was pretty good, so I decided to make a walkthrough. Please note that I can't guarantee that you'll live, part of it depends on where you move your character.

Walkthrough:

on day 6 i dont have enough money to upgrade my turret cannon but ive shot every creep so far any help?

somehow i got to get 2 power blast and a high level lazer in each elevator by the end.. didn't have to shoot because lazer near the end does massive dps because it hits so many.
great walkthrough, at one point it says upgrade all rockets when i only have one, then i don't have enough money the next levels to buy anything but still win.

Very nice game n.n
only thing i dunno if you guys already know is

Loved the bgm aswell, who made it and where could i get it?

Way to difficult if you mess your tactic up and way too easy with the following tactic:

Amazing game, the only thing I would have done differently is to add a survival mode, to see how much cash and how weapon upgrades you can get!

How to beat the game