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A jam submission

TowerAscenderView game page

Tower Ascender - ZenoJam 6, Dec 2022
Submitted by GoodLuck.exe — 21 hours, 13 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#563.0673.067
Fun#592.8672.867
Design#732.8002.800
Theme#972.4672.467

Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Yes. Please see the description for credits.

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GoodLuck#6384

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Comments

Submitted

Very easy to get going and having fun! great job

Submitted(+1)

Cool style choice! Functions well and is easy to understand. Enemies do take a some time to kill but after you start circle strafing them they're basically useless against you lol. I know the story of the game is about ascension but nothing really exhibits that mechanically or visually. Good job anyway though!

Developer

I agree that the "Going Up" theme is not really strong at all in the game except the fact that the player enters a tower and "climbs" stairs at the end of each intermediate level. The Enemy AI definitely is very simple, but I did purposely make them much weaker towards the end after some play testing feedback. Thanks for playing and commenting!

Submitted(+1)

Extraordinary art but to me seems like the music does not fit very well. Either way good job!

Developer

Thanks a lot! This was the first time I've ever "made/composed" music. I have zero music background and I was only trying to make something sound OK. I agree that the music definitely does not fit and definitely does not change/layer well with the atmosphere/game type.

Submitted(+1)

I liked the cute sprites used and the boss character at the end! Great Game :)

Developer

Thank you!!

Submitted(+1)

Very atmospheric game. I liked the soundtrack as well. However, the cursor is too small, at least on PC. It took me quite a while to find it. Also, enemies have smaller hitboxes than their sprites. Is this intentional?

Developer

Thanks for your comment! Making the cursor customizable was definitely something I thought of but ended putting it as a "nice to have" before all the other things in the game. The hitboxes aren't intentionally smaller, but it was a lack of polishing towards the end of the jam. I believe the hitboxes are based on their original prototype models of Unity's 3D spheres/cylinders but I didn't take the time to manually edit the colliders.