Tower of Heaven

Posted by Brandon "BMcC" McCartin Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:37:00 GMT

I am about to die here.Tower of Heaven is Askiisoft’s debut game, a four—no, three color platformer with particularly devious challenges. I love the variety of death animations. Which is good, ‘cause that’s what I spent most of my time seeing.

To celebrate the release, a speedrun contest is being held on the forums. The current best time is 2:29. I took longer than that trying to beat the third screen.

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  1. BMcC said 32 minutes later:

    The formatting on this post is bananas.

    Anyway, check it out! ‘Tis a fun little game.

  2. Dusan Vlahovic said about 2 hours later:

    I’m using Windows 7 and the graphics are a mess, i can’t see the character.

  3. BMcC said about 2 hours later:

    Hrm, weird, it runs fine for me in Vista. :(

  4. anonymous said about 2 hours later:

    I’m using Windows Vista and the game runs fine. I love it to death :) Even though my speedrun time is 5 minutes…

  5. Alex said about 2 hours later:

    After the Book of Laws shatters, you still can’t touch yellow blocks. Hrmm. Great game though.

  6. raiten said about 2 hours later:

    Windows Vista, graphics are a mess, 2nd stage I can’t even see the character

  7. anonymous said about 3 hours later:

    @raiten : I think it has something to do with the screen scaling method that game maker uses. Can’t say for sure though.

  8. geist said about 3 hours later:

    It works for me on Vista. That’s odd. What version of Vista do you have?

  9. Nikica said about 4 hours later:

    I’ll check it out later, the prizes in the contest are awesome.

  10. Bowser said about 4 hours later:

    Great game! The ending was great!

    The graphics problem some of you encounter is probably due to Game Maker’s crappy surfaces (I’m pretty sure they’re used for the scalling).

  11. Koholint said about 6 hours later:

    I’m having trouble with the graphics as well. Most of the screen is black. I have a similar problem with Spelunky, the opening animation is broken and the floors in certain rooms (the score rooms, the hallways that your character walks through between levels) are black where there should be graphics. For reference, I’m using a Nvidia graphics card with up to date drivers. Anyone know what the problem is?

  12. godsavant said about 7 hours later:

    Bowser is correct, Game Maker’s surfaces is puking all over your graphics drivers. There’s not much that can be done except to wait for GM8.

  13. Symbiotic said about 7 hours later:

    I’ve heard that going to the rotation nvidia logo in Nvidia’s control panel and leaving it at that screen, will fix your problems while playing the game (and the problems in spelunky)

  14. Koholint said about 8 hours later:

    That doesn’t seem to help. Is there any setting that I could change that might fix the problem?

  15. Bleagle said about 9 hours later:

    Great Game. But on the last level you should be able to touch the yellow blocks - the book did shatter (like Alex said before)…

  16. Phasma Felis said about 10 hours later:

    Man, that bird on the ending screen is chill. Nothing fazes him!

  17. Herasy said about 12 hours later:

    Anyone found a way past the graphical issues? Mine plays all right but black squares are around almost every sprite and makes the game look pretty ugly.

  18. Person said about 12 hours later:

    How do you beat the level where god first says you cant walk left? I can’t beat it T_T

  19. Me said about 13 hours later:

    Person - You can’t “walk” left, but you still need to go left. How else do you move left if you don’t walk? That’s your hint.

  20. Rampancy said about 14 hours later:

    Coolest game I’ve played this year.

  21. AGuy said about 16 hours later:

    For the graphics problems with nvidia cards, you can download Fraps, run Fraps, switch to the game, and then close Fraps (don’t bother recording or anything). No idea why it works, but it does. At least, for me it does.

  22. undertech said about 16 hours later:

    Person: you have to moonwalk.

  23. cm said about 17 hours later:

    This is probably the funniest game I’ve ever played - funny as in the game mechanics made me laugh out loud and wonder why the hell I was doing this, rather than witty dialogue or something (which is also awesome, but not why this particular game is awesome).

  24. Toadsanime said 1 day later:

    Wow. Glad to see this getting attention, I first downloaded this a while back once I befriended its creator on deviantART and discovered they had created an indie game.

  25. Anthony Flack said 1 day later:

    Their first game? Wow, you’d never guess, it’s really confident and focused - a perfectly-paced short format game. I really like it.

  26. Koholint said 2 days later:

    @AGuy That sort of work for me. That is, the graphics fix themselves but I get an error message on every frame and I can’t control the game because of the messages.

  27. AGuy said 2 days later:

    The only other thing that seems to work is restarting; it mostly seems to mess up if you were running another game at fullscreen beforehand. GM just doesn’t like Nvidia. :I

  28. Sparky said 3 days later:

    Congratulations for finishing! This is a pretty polished, fun, well designed game and I’d definitely recommend it.

  29. Taedan said 4 days later:

    Great game, especially the music. Too bad I can’t seem to find the second secret:(

  30. Malasdair said 4 days later:

    Graphics failure on Vista. Tried restarting, tried FRAPS, tried the Nvidia control panel, nothing. Seems like a fun game, unfortunately.

  31. Scott said 4 days later:

    awesome game

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