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Tower Up by BlackCat508

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made by BlackCat508 for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

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In Tower up, you must keep building upwards to avoid the rising water, while managing your resources and item positions. Starts off easy, but the water will start to rise faster the higher you get up.

Kind of stretched the whole "limited space" theme, but I believe this still fits that category, as your limited on how far out you can build.

Feedback would be much appreciated!!

-made with construct 3

-audio made with bfxr

Controls listed on the itch.io page/instructions ingame.

  • CHANGELOG - fixed the bug that caused the screen to freeze black when pressing "menu"
Link https://blackcat508.itch.io/tower-up
Link https://blackcat508.itch.io/tower-up
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/tower-up

Ratings

Overall 659th 3.472⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 674th 3.306⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 489th 3.444⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 373th 3.917⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 596th 3.583⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Audio 663th 2.639⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 665th 2.694⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 946th 2.917⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 8🗳️ 16🗨️

Feedback

Gabreu
02. Oct 2023 · 05:49 UTC
Hyyype, really enjoyed it, a bit harder for me tho hahaha, good game bro!
He Li
03. Oct 2023 · 03:31 UTC
really nice drawings! game is kinda hard for me. love to have a more easier mode
AncientEntity
03. Oct 2023 · 03:41 UTC
Enjoyed this one a lot! Unique take on the theme that isn't just "place this in here". Good job!
Salaro
03. Oct 2023 · 03:46 UTC
The game is difficult but really rewarding, amazing job!
StvUP
03. Oct 2023 · 03:47 UTC
Took me a bit to get the mechanic down but after that it was great, my biggest complain would picking and dropping tools until I got the right one. Aside from that solid game!
MetaGen
03. Oct 2023 · 03:49 UTC
Agh, felling into the water within a minute again...
If this was a bit easier then I could give 5/5 to this.
MetaGen
03. Oct 2023 · 03:49 UTC
BTW I played web version and there is a bug when title menu goes black clicking menu button in game over
Zazzar
03. Oct 2023 · 04:00 UTC
Very fun game mechanics once you get the hang of them. Lots of replayability and different strategies to try and beat your high score. Fits the theme well imo.
🎤 BlackCat508
03. Oct 2023 · 04:03 UTC
Thanks for all the feedback! To anyone whos finding the game pretty difficult, stick with it! Once you get into the flow it becomes easier.
🎤 BlackCat508
03. Oct 2023 · 04:17 UTC
Thanks for pointing out the bug @metagen
I just updated the game files to include the fix
Lexyvil
03. Oct 2023 · 04:50 UTC
I kept dying the first few runs at the very beginning, but once I knew how to play, I managed to get up to 22 feet. It really has you choose carefully what you build--From what I know, trees are you friend.
TheLastSlowpoke
03. Oct 2023 · 14:17 UTC
Super fun! Interesting idea! Stressful xD Managed to go to 32 feet on second and third run. I would love to use the scrap blueprints and see what they do. I will come back to this.
🎤 BlackCat508
03. Oct 2023 · 15:22 UTC
Thanks for playing @thelastslowpoke ! Scrap can only be obtained through breaking the barrels(one spawns on the starting platform) the higher up you go the more barrels you will find!
TheLastSlowpoke
03. Oct 2023 · 15:30 UTC
Yeah, @blackcat508, I am aware, I will try later ^^
Agraffs
04. Oct 2023 · 07:45 UTC
Interesting game, it took me a few minutes to get used to the controls but once they was done, the ascension was smooth. good idea to have the high score marked, I only wanted to go higher. Wasn't able to use all the items, but I'll continue trying. ^^
Toasteto
04. Oct 2023 · 22:02 UTC
I Absolutely love this game! I really like the idea of the game, the art, and the time management mixed in with the limital space. You did an amazing Job!
Blue Pin Studio
05. Oct 2023 · 06:46 UTC
This game is hard! I only managed to get up to the second tree after maybe 20 attempts. The water coming to get me in the beginning could've been a bit more gentle, or maybe an easy mode or something.

I got the premise eventually and managed to get up there. Good entry!
GreenPig
05. Oct 2023 · 23:54 UTC
Very simple and casual game, i love to see these in ludum dare. I got the controls in 2 minutes and got to 54 feet on my 2nd try. Really polished graphics and controls. Good work!
Lenny Rudeberg
07. Oct 2023 · 05:15 UTC
Great job! I really liked the concept but struggled to get a grip of the controls and mechanics before the water level started to rise and never made it too far.
Human Writes Code
07. Oct 2023 · 05:16 UTC
Cool idea and nice graphics. The early game is very hard when you first start playing because you don't really have the chance to learn the controls before you die, which is frustrating. After dying early on a few times you get the hang of the controls, though. It would be nice if you didn't have to manually drop an item before you pick up another item - pressing E when standing over an item should just drop your current item and pick up the other one (just my opinion).

Overall, though well made game and a strong concept!
crylica
10. Oct 2023 · 05:54 UTC
haha, it's hard but i like the concept, haven't seen anyone else run with the same idea. I had some troubles drag/dropping the building while holding the building tool, it wasn't detecting my clicks properly. I'm not sure if it's because the itch.io web resolution is very small on my 2k monitor?