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Genre: Racing, Simulator, Sport, Indie

Tower Ascent

Update v0.3.1: Helper mode is live!
It's finally here! We've been working hard to get the Helper gamemode out for you guys. It is an asymmetrical co-op gameplay mode with its own levels. There are 5 new levels in total. The gameplay consists of the climbing you all know by now, but with the addition of a friendly Helper. The Helper controls a bow from the computer, and they can shoot arrows into the wall of the towers to help the climber reach the top of the tower. These arrows can be used to create handholds to help the climber reach new places or just to take shortcuts. They can even take care of a pesky guard or two.

In other news, some small bug fixes and tweaks are also in this update. The only major fix being the next level button in level 1 was taking players to level 10. Not exactly the difficulty curve we intended. We apologize for that.

We will also be making a new trailer to better reflect the current game, but due to circumstances that may take upwards of a week and a half.

Thank you for your patience, and as celebration for this update we are also putting the game on sale for a limited time starting 3/20/17 at 10AM so don't miss your chance!
-Tower Ascent Team

Patch Notes:

New Features
- Helper mode
- 5 new levels
- Guard voicelines
- Instructional sign added to Main Menu

Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug causing players to jump from level 1 to level 10
- Fixed a bug that caused some sounds to not play correctly
- Some colliders have been altered to improve gameplay

HotFix: Level 9's Starting location.
We corrected a bug that caused the player to start at the finish line of level 9 without the ability to finish the level. The level should now be fully functioning.

-Tower Ascent Team

HotFix: Game is playable.
We are very sorry for the trouble. We had some computer issues immediately after updating last week and were unable to fix the problem that was causing the game to not be able to luanch through steam until now.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
-Tower Ascent Team

Update v0.2.1 Now with leaderboards!
Thank you all for your patience. We had to temporarily cut a few features to make our planned release date, leaderboards among them. Now they're in! You'll be able to race for the top position on each level's leaderboard!

Additionally we finally put most of our sounds in. Some more to come soon, but for now this will do. We also tinkered with our lighting so let us know how you feel about that.

Some major bug fixes are also included this update! We fiddled with a bug that cuased players to teleport out into nothingness when their head remained inside a physical object for too long, so let us know if any of you find that happening to you still. We made some tweaks to our towers to make them look nicer, and also fixed a bug with the next level buttons. Another major bug was with our guard not doing his job. We put some work into him, so he should be working fine now.

We have an asymmetrical co-op mode in the works! Stay tuned for that update soonish. We're aiming for 1-3 weeks from now, depending on how much trouble we run into in the mean time.

We appreciate all of you who have given our game a chance and we will be trying to update fairly regularly until we feel the game is ready to get out of early access. We may even do a few level packs after that. Stay tuned for more news and updates and get climbing!


CHANGE LOG

Features added:
- Change log in the main menu
- New Skybox/Lighting
- Leaderboards
- Ambient/BG music

Bugs fixed:
- Tower seperation
- Guard mechanics
- Next level buttons
- Texture modifications on towers
- Head in wall glitch (hopefully)