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VideoGamester2 years ago(+1)

Conceptually awesome. Been a while since I've played a tower climb game. The use of theme is interesting. The use of dice as the tower looks awesome. Being able to use the walls as platforms by breaking them was something I've never seen before and had some interesting applications.


Best feedback I can give is it feels a bit punishing even for a tower climber. The standing jump is just short of being reliable to go up levels. And if you get a platform of ones with 4s or higher above the floor disappears so quickly that it feels impossible most of the time. The keys and locks seem to be an answer to that problem but they are often to hard to reliably collect and when paired with the short jump height and a narrow opening its hard to feel like a justifiable loss, which for this genre is a key component.

Always nice to see other Gamemaker projects in these. Overall, a lot of good work. You have a solid concept and generally executed it well. 

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SteveReen2 years ago

Thanks for the feedback!

I agree that the general balancing of the die rolls was one of the biggest challenges, though with some persistence I've found that it actually provides some interesting nuance that is usually manageable if you're careful. For example, if you see that the floor above you rolled a 1, you can skip the keys on the current floor which allows you to use the lock blocks as a safe platform. That combined with planning of your route to the key on the 1 floor can usually allow you to deal with the situation. I'm sure there are ways the system can be improved but I did want it to be pretty punishing considering it's a game you can just keep retrying in short bursts.

The jump height is pretty deliberate in combination with the possible floor heights. The most common floor height is short enough that you can jump from the ground level to the ground level of the floor above. The least likely floor height is one tile higher, which necessitates you to use a high wall jump (hold up while wall jumping) barring other means like springs, which was a deliberate decision.

Thanks again for the thoughtful feedback, will definitely consider all of these points if I continue to try to make this into a more fleshed out game post jam.

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