{"id":2339,"edition":13,"categories":1,"features":1,"size":11135,"name":"Tower of Terror","authors":[{"name":"Johan Åhlgren","url":"www.johanahlgren.se","login":"skanejohan","gh":4025939}],"description":"

Escape the Tower of Terror!

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Run for your life (arrow or WASD keys) while dealing with the portals, the modifications to the maze and… most importantly… the black cats!

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Fun take on a action-puzzle game. I like the mechanics of the cats slowly driving you mad (vs an instant death). Was fun to play through to the end. Great job!

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Fun to play - I like your audio work.

\n","games":["Wake the Cat"]},{"at":410495836,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"

This was good fun. The death animation thing is really great.

\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"at":410512060,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"

There’s an ambiance for sure with that audio and these zooms, but it’s not super easy to understand all that happens on screen at once.

\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410605682,"author":"Andy Sommerville","login":"aksommerville","gh":1869768,"url":"http://aksommerville.com","text":"

I wasn’t really clear on all the rules. In particular, what do that cats do? I was avoiding them at first out of instinct, but after being catted a few times it didn’t seem like anything happened.

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The zoom-in effect before you have a heart attack, that was brilliant!

\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"at":410662575,"author":"Himanshu Bisht","login":"igamerx","gh":44287861,"text":"

I had fun with the game, nice job.

\n","games":["The Ninefold Gambit"]},{"at":410720995,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"

This is so high paced. It was a bit of a struggle to figure out. I liked how the screen zoomed in when being hit by cats. Builds tension.

\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":410921262,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"

God awful experience, no no No..

\n","games":["Mor Chess 2","Mor Chess"]},{"at":410952844,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

Visually good, and a fun little maze

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The rumbling baseline of the soundtrack added to the tense situation

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The concept of the tower, with an escape from a labyrinth worked well

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Why were the things you collect different graphically? Was there some different effect to collecting them? Should I only go for the 8s and then head for the horseshoe?

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Why did the level zoom in and out, that did make it quite difficult to play

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I’m not a fan of keyboard only games that then insist you click the mouse to start the game, if it’s going to be keyboard it should all be keyboard

\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"at":411099046,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"

Great variation on pacman! Theatmoshpere is unique with the repetitive beat and the zoom in when your are stressed is really good! Congratulations on managing to create such an atmosphere of terror!

\n","games":["Wash the cat"]},{"at":411204597,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"

A very cool maze exploration game with an interesting topology-changing concept! I love that the mice only startle you but give you a chance to recover. We managed to complete all the floors.

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A few thoughts for the future:

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The bass in the music might be a bit too loud - toning it down slightly would help the atmospheric synths shine through.

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The controls are good, but the tower seemed to position incorrectly (maybe just on my end?) and overlapped the level - thankfully it’s semi-transparent! Perhaps this was intentional.

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The camera does a great job conveying the sense of panic!

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Some potential enhancements:

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Add variety to the bats’ behavior: some slow, some fast, some patrolling, and others actively hunting.

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Probably worth adding a permanent HUD life counter, especially since the level sizes change.

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It was really interesting to play your game all the way to the end. Excellent work! 🎮👏

\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"at":411902447,"author":"Reverend Stickle","login":"ReverendStickle","gh":215874048,"text":"

Fun pac man game. nice job on the camera movement.

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Nice maze puzzle! It felt like there was a bit too many portals and a lot of jumping around in different mazes which becomes a bit disorienting. I didn’t quite get the mechanic of the enemies. I can move across the sometimes?

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Pac-Man with some twists?\nVery atmospheric (the music, the zooming, the face…), i can feel the terror.

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