TF Kickstarter funded + Twisted Tower (PC) reveal

Twisted Fusion Kickstarter successfully funded!

The Kickstarter campaign for Twisted Fusion that I announced recently reached the minimum goal, and is thus succesfully funded. Thanks to everyone who pledged in. This game will feature sprite artwork by yours truly, so look forward to it on Wii U near the end of this year.

There's still time to pledge in, so here's the Kickstarter link, one more time:
Twisted Fusion (exclusive for Wii U) Kickstarter


And now...

TWISTED TOWER

I've been delaying this for half a year or so now, because I didn't know where the project was heading. I still don't, but it'd be a waste to let it dust in the quiet corners of the internet.

Twisted Tower - Chapter 1 is a PC game project I started in late 2010. I worked on it randomly until early 2013, but for some reason lost interest and momentum to work on it further. I still want to finish it some day though, so I'm just waiting for that spark that gets me rolling on again. I released a public alpha build of the game last year at the project page over at The Daily Click, but left promotion for a later time. A much later time. Today, I guess.

Twisted Tower is a platformer game, with elements from RPG's, dungeon crawlers, roguelikes and metroidvania. The game takes place in the same universe as the iPhone game Twisted Fates that I did graphics for a while back. You control Arina, a catgirl introduced in Twisted Fates, through randomly generated levels inside a structure called Twisted Tower. Fight your way through enemies using one of eight different weapon types, cast magic spells from two different schools, level up your stats, choose class and skill masteries, break and open countless containers, collect weapons, armor and consumables as loot, and try to reach the top of the tower to find out what has caused Twisted Tower to undergo changes.

The game was intended to consist of multiple chapters (3-4), but at this time it seems just finishing chapter 1 is the only realistic goal for the time being. Twisted Tower is fully playable already however. There is little to no story and only basic content for the areas outside the tower, but the tower itself, with its 30 randomly generated floors, spanning three different area themes is almost complete. There's one boss enemy, but the chapter boss is not yet implemented. You can thus explore the tower up to floor 30, right to the door that leads to the chapter boss (but actually leads back to floor 1, for now). That's 3-5 hours of gameplay, depending on your playstyle and experience.

Twisted Tower can be played with a keyboard, or a gamepad (buttons are configured for Xbox360 layout by default, but can be customized).

Twisted Tower's soundtrack was created by Adrien "LoKi" Couturier. Everything else is made by me. The game is made with Multimedia Fusion 2.

Teaser Trailer from 2012
(Note how it states an expected release for 2012 at the end. Didn't happen.)


More videos, (Let's Plays, etc):
Review by SiberianLemming (Russian)
Gameplay by Press Key 2 Play (Portuguese) (seems to have a lot of fun playing)
Gameplay by Balaboom, PrimeCraft, Prime World (Russian)


So, the game is unfinished, currently not in development, but you can play it if you want. I'd love to see more videos of people playing, and to hear what kind of character builds people have chosen from the 6 classes, 42 skills, and 8 weapon types. What's the best weapon you've looted?

DOWNLOAD LINKS AND INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND BELOW

Twisted Tower ch1 Early Alpha at The Daily Click

OFFICIAL PROJECT PAGE BELOW

Project - Twisted Tower Chapter 1 at The Daily Click

Enjoy Twisted Tower, and don't hesitate to spread the word about it, even though its future is uncertain at this point.