Tower of Tilt

maggardjosh 2021-10-04 07:01

I might have been doing something wrong but depending on the random platform I built, sometimes I was unable to double jump up to it, so I wasn't able to get very far. But for only having one day for the jam this was really well done!

cagibi 2021-10-06 15:30

I like the idea! I was also stuck sometimes, and I didn't understand the stability metric at first because I wasn't paying attention to the tilting landscape, and the tower & physics remained vertical. But overall the art and gameplay is pretty good, especially for a one day game.

barrier 2021-10-06 15:31

Interesting idea but seems pretty hard. At some point I wasn't able to reach the tools anymore. Missing a restart key to quikcly restart the game.

fabdynamic 2021-10-11 23:31

This is cool I like how you can tell how much the tower is tilting based on the horizon. The platforming controls were excellent! I think if I spent some more time with it I would get better but as is I could only get 5 builds and 1 upgrade and then I got stuck several times. Its really cool and I'm impressed. Nice work!

james-7777 2021-10-14 20:14

@cagibi @barrier @maggardjosh @fabdynamic Thanks for playing! I really appreciate all your feedback. Seems like the game is definitely in need of a tutorial!

v0idpointer 2021-10-14 21:04

It took me a while to figure out what you're supposed to do, but after that it was fun. Nice game!

jpgfg 2021-10-14 21:05

It was pretty difficult, a reset button might be a good idea like @barrier said, I had to put one in my game because it was a buggy mess sometimes as well. lol!

malcolm 2021-10-14 21:16

Really different and interesting, well done. However, it seemed to be inevitable that you end up in a position that you can't get to the next build pickup at some point. Or perhaps that was just me lacking in skill?

bougiebirdie 2021-10-15 01:27

This was a fun little game, very impressive for such a tight deadline! I've always liked this idea of "build it yourself" platformers.

The way the horizon shows your tilt feels like a double-edged sword. On the wone hand, it was an interesting way to show the direction of tilt while still being able to preserve your platform's gravity and controls, and I think that's brilliant. On the other hand, I'm not used to thinking of tilt from that perspective, and I struggled to realize which direction I was tilting in - which was particularly punishing since you have such a tight window to correct it.

Reflexively, I kept wanting to press ESC to toggle out of build mode. That does some bad things to the browser player though lol

All in all, I liked the game though. The controls are quite tight, it feels good to move the player around. And it's just got this pleasant look to it too.

flying-dog-fish 2021-10-18 22:41

Cute game. Tilting mechanic was a bit confusing. A nice improvement would be if the game would auto-exit build mode after building something.

rengo 2021-10-21 19:25

clever idea. took me a while to figure it out but in the end i got some platforms down!