Well, when you think of it, creating a web startup these days has two requirements: a good idea and some coding knowledge. It’s no wonder, then, that Paul Preece, the creator of vastly popular web Flash-based game Desktop Tower Defense decided to quit his job and commit full-time to online games development. He’s working together with David Scott; the designer of FlashElementTD, which is yet another DTD-style game.

For a short history of DTD and the success of Paul Preece’s version of the game, read the great article at GigaOM. Suffice to say that Preece is earning a monthly $5000 just from the ads around the game, which is not bad concerning that it’s, for the most part, a passive income.

Why is this game so successful? Well, suffice to say that I’m afraid to click the link, because the grip it had on me for a couple of days was somewhere between I’ll-lose-my-job-if-I-don’t-stop-playing and Do-I-even-have-a-job-anymore?-do-I-even-care?. On the good side, I did come to level 80 in the 100 level challenge, which is when things become nightmarishly hard.

For now, the two freshly-baked entrepreneurs have a new version of DTD in the works, and you can follow their work on their new blog.

[via Kottke]

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