TIGSource: Tower of Heaven

Tower of Heaven

Brandon "BMcC" McCartin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:37:00 +0000

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.

"Tower of Heaven" by Scott

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:06:26 +0000

awesome game

"Tower of Heaven" by Malasdair

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:23:59 +0000

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

"Tower of Heaven" by Taedan

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:20:07 +0000

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

"Tower of Heaven" by Sparky

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:11:49 +0000

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

"Tower of Heaven" by AGuy

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:20:16 +0000

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

"Tower of Heaven" by Koholint

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:49:29 +0000

@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.

"Tower of Heaven" by Anthony Flack

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:58:09 +0000

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

"Tower of Heaven" by Toadsanime

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:15:03 +0000

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.

"Tower of Heaven" by cm

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:28:23 +0000

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).

"Tower of Heaven" by undertech

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:46:28 +0000

Person: you have to moonwalk.

"Tower of Heaven" by AGuy

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:27:16 +0000

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.

"Tower of Heaven" by Rampancy

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:13:46 +0000

Coolest game I’ve played this year.

"Tower of Heaven" by Me

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:27:52 +0000

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.

"Tower of Heaven" by Person

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:28:35 +0000

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

"Tower of Heaven" by Herasy

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:17:04 +0000

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.

"Tower of Heaven" by Phasma Felis

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:09:58 +0000

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

"Tower of Heaven" by Bleagle

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:59:53 +0000

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

"Tower of Heaven" by Koholint

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:09:58 +0000

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

"Tower of Heaven" by Symbiotic

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:59:35 +0000

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)

"Tower of Heaven" by godsavant

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:49:31 +0000

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.

"Tower of Heaven" by Koholint

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:21:01 +0000

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?

"Tower of Heaven" by Bowser

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:45:45 +0000

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).

"Tower of Heaven" by Nikica

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:20:01 +0000

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

"Tower of Heaven" by geist

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:46:13 +0000

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

"Tower of Heaven" by anonymous

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:10:14 +0000

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