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A jam submission

Tower of Power: Tower Climb AdventureView game page

Climb the Tower to Restore the Power!
Submitted by Bear Willow — 3 days, 15 hours before the deadline
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Tower of Power: Tower Climb Adventure's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Art#244.2504.250
Overall#453.8613.861
Music#473.5833.583
Originality#753.7503.750
Is the graphics 1 bit?#934.9174.917
Gameplay#1033.2503.250
Theme#1453.4173.417

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

The concept has legs, the music is nice, and the graphics have a nice and cohesive retro feel. Pretty good, overall! I do second what another commenter said about instructions. It took me a minute or two to figure out what I could control. 
I saw in a reply to another comment that you're new to game dev - great work for a beginner. Figuring out how to convey your controls in a FTUE isn't straightforward and lots of people at all skill levels can struggle with it.

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for the nice comments! Yep, the reason I started doing game jams is so I can get all of the constructive criticism I can from all the fantastic developers here on Itch.io. 

Submitted (1 edit)

I could have used some instructions here... Couldn't pass the first screen
Otherwise ambiance is really good!

Developer(+1)

Instructions were on the first sign post. Sorry for the confusion. 

Submitted (2 edits)

I did not know you can throw out a hammer using shift, I only knew after ending the game(?) snipping this using windows+shift+s. The way I dispatched enemies was by dropping a crate payload on top of them.

I thought this was a good platformer game combined with just a little bit of puzzle using the bat dropping the boxes mechanic. Also I found out a way to make floating platforms by dropping two boxes in quick succession, the boxes are suspended in mid air allowing me to breeze through some levels haha.

Ideally, you could just put the controls list at the itch.io game webpage instead, so that the players could have a heads up on what to do. I was surprised to be controlling a bat at the start of the game and not knowing what it could do. *I see that at the moment of writing this, other players have already addressed these. Ah, Might as well post it since I've written it already.

Lastly, nice guitar music :)


Developer(+2)

Thank you so much for playing! I am still relatively new to game making and definitely game design. It’s difficult to have any play testers and I’m not that great of a gamer.  I can’t express enough how much I value your critique and suggestions. I will definitely work on this in the future. And thank you for the compliment on the guitar work!

Submitted (1 edit)

Great game, I like the concept of playing as two characters, but I would prefer WASD for the wizard and arrow keys for the bat. You should also improve the tutorial, because for example there is a sign saying press E/B to read (and as I understand the game reading is automatically done when you stand next to the sign).

Developer

thank you for playing! There is more to read at those signs and npcs. I will definitely have to switch up controls for the keyboard. I programmed the game for a controller and the keyboard was a little bit of an afterthought as I’m not really a PC gamer. Lol

Submitted

Nice game btw The music is coooooooool

Developer

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.

Submitted (1 edit)

Congrats! You managed to put a lot of content in the short timespan of the jam and as a solo dev!

I also think the music is great given it was made by yourself in this short amount of time. It would be much easy to just use stock music and don't tell about it, as others do.

Some constructive criticism:

Mage's weapon: If you are not planning of adding more levels where combat is more actively used, I would scrap the weapon mechanic for the wizard for this prototype. It bloats the amount of already confusing controls and it really doesnt gets applied in the level design. The couple of killable enemies in the levels are easily avoided by jumping over them.
Control layout: As they are right now they are quite confusing. It's almost like a single-keyboard-2-player game (that would work great btw). I'll simplify them as making the wizard only using the arrows+space for activating the monitors. And WASD+Q,E for the bat. (and even the bat could be simplified by removing the vertical control and adjusting the levels accordingly).
Level design: In the short timespan of a jam  it gets really hard to design levels if you also do all the other work as a solo dev. That's why I think it wouldve better to scrap unused mechanics that werent quite applied into the levels. There were 2 levels that I managed to complete only using the wizard.


I really enjoyed the short experience.

Cheers!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the very constructive and meaningful response and criticism. I have to agree with you! I am not really a mouse and keyboard gamer and I have very little experience with keyboard layouts. I am also self-taught in video game programming and design and love all the feedback you have given me. Thank you so much! 

Submitted

Unlike the other comment, I actually really like the music! Very relaxing.

The mechanics are really creative and really made me think.

I would really have liked a list of controls somewhere, I had no idea I could double jump for example.

Also, not a big deal, but if you spam 'e' the crates get stuck on the bat and don't drop.

Suggestions aside, it was very original and well put together!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your comments! I tried to have the controls in the little signs, but I agree with you. I may update the page to list the controls. (The game also supports full gamepad). I noticed the bat glitch a little too late after I uploaded. Good catch tho! Thank you so much for playing!

Submitted (2 edits)

Had fun playing this! cool and unique mechanic :)

Developer

Thank you so much for playing!

Submitted

I loved the visual style and the cooperative mechanic. Fun puzzle game, good job!

Submitted

The artwork is amazing! I like the interesting mechanics! The only area of improvement; perchance the music doesn't fit the game, however it is still wonderful.

Developer

Wow! Thank you so much! I put a lot of love into this little game. I agree with the music choice but I didn’t have much time to record so I just did a quick acoustic guitar/bass thing..lol. Thank you so much for the feedback and for playing!