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a ballpoint-pen tower defence

The margins of your notebook are under attack. Your weapon? Your ballpoint pen.

Letters, typos, dictation paper planes and exclamation marks are marching on your Heart. Draw your towers, trace walls, and cross out anything that gets too close.

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  • Free
  • No ads
  • No purchases
  • Works offline

✎ Try it right here

Defend this page

  • A small circle next to the path makes a tower. It keeps the shape you drew and fires by itself.
  • A long stroke across the letters crosses them out.
  • Everything costs ink. It refills by itself, and every crossed-out letter brings some back.

A pocket version with a single tower. The real game has seven, plus walls, glue, 20 pages and four bosses.

✎ You draw everything

No build menu: your pen is enough

A small symbola circle, a triangle, a lightning bolt… and a tower appears
A slow strokea wall the horde must walk around, or chew through
A quick strokeit crosses out whatever it hits
A big loopglue that slows down everything inside it

✎ Seven towers

Each symbol has its tower, and each tower two specialisations

Three levels, then a choice at level 4: the Pen becomes a machine gun or a piercer, Lightning a storm or a surge… And the Pencil Case lets you redraw your towers by hand.

✎ What awaits you

Four notebooks to defend

  • 4 notebooks, 20 handmade pages: scratch, maths, music and dictation, each with its own paper.
  • 15 letter monsters: nervous zigzagging z’s, stealthy ones only the Correction can see…
  • Challenges for every page, an endless mode, the daily page (the same for everyone) and the pop quiz.
  • Talents to buy with your stars.
  • Two players: each on their own phone, one ink pot for two pens.
  • Bille, the mascot, explains everything in a gentle tutorial… and slips you tips (you can tell her to hush).
  • Game Center leaderboards and achievements. iCloud save.

And four bosses

  • the Snake Word
  • the Ampersand
  • the Armoured Œ
  • the Full Stop
The final wave, with the Armoured Œ

✎ Screenshots

Five pages from the game

The notebook menu, with Bille A wave of letters against drawn towers and ink walls The final wave, with the Armoured ΠThe four notebooks and their pages The tutorial with Bille

Grab a pen

Not a single image in the game: everything is drawn in ink, like in the margins of your school notebooks.

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Coming soon to the App Store, on iPhone and iPad. Until then, the whole game plays in your browser. The game is in English and French.