A minimalistic beat 'em up game! Fight your way through towers of baddies and get the revenge you've been waiting for. We hope you enjoy the few minutes of madness!
Controls: A/D/Left/Right: Walk N: Punch M: Kick
There's a total of 12 different combos. Bonus points for anyone that finds our little Easter Egg!
This game uses Java. On Win/Mac you can simply double click the jar to execute. On linux you might have to execute via command line: "java -jar TowersOfRage.jar"
Credits * Concept, Art + Level Design: Simon Bachmann Code, Music & Sfx: Stefan Bachmann
Made with libgdx, GraphicsGale, Pyxel & lots of coffee.
Absolutely loved it. Only thing I feel like I can comment on is that footstep sounds was way too loud and the character seemed a little slow (that's probably because I just wanted to complete this awesome thing faster!)
*Shoutout from a fellow libGDX user* (although my entry is uses an unreleased HTML5 engine)
Love the tiny animations!
The gameplay was too repetitive/easy to be fun for very long -- if things moved faster and you incorporated some kind of combo system, or even just offered a "difficult" setting, I could see myself playing this for extended periods.
Nonetheless, great entry -- Bonus points for a decent soundtrack!
Amazing Game. The graphics were simple yet clear and the whole aesthetic of the game was really cool and looked great. I also really enjoyed the audio and the music. The game, itself, was really fun and I like how you took a fighting game and made it "minimal".
Loved the hyper realistic blood and violence. This reminded me of them 3 pixel drawings of The Simpsons characters. It's quite amazing what you can portray with such little information.
Great graphics and pretty good sounds too :) The gameplay itself was fun for a while but then just got repetitive, especially since you only had to smash the kick/punch button. But still, it was a great game and the mood was awesome :) Good job!
The graphics is gorgeous! The gameplay could be a bit faster and more intense - with more variation like jumping and weapons (but maybe I don't understand the combo system).
I really like it!! Great minimalistic graphics and great gameplay. The only thing I would have added is "jumping", it will give the game a more depth combat. Only my opinion :P
Loved the graphics and sound! Really cool little game. I didn't like that when I punch or kick, I have to press the movement keys again to start moving, and it would be fun to be able to jump, but it's still amazing.
As a huge fan of Streets of Rage, I really appreciate this take on it. The punch and kick animations, despite being only a couple of pixels, are effective.
Cutest blood effects I've ever seen! :D Very nice art style and execution, I really like the fighting mechanic. My only complaints are that the main character moved a little too slow imo, and the boss guy was too easy to kill. Other than that, awesome game, really fun!
Great game! I love how you guys were able to convey so much gruesome violence with by just moving one or two pixels on three pixel characters. Also, the diversity of enemy visuals on just changing the colors of three pixels? Brilliant!
Great looking and playing. I enjoyed using the bullet powerup on a floor-full of enemies. I would have liked to get it or possibly other powerups more often, to change up the gameplay floor to floor. Still, it totally captures the minimal core of beat-em-up games!
Very nice beat them all, It was really neat to make the boss visible on each tower but only meet him in the end --> retro style :)
I had a small bug after killing the boss; He died in one hit ( maybe normal ) and after that the ending tune was keep repeating on a very short loop. I had to focus out so the music could continue.
It was also nice the way room and monsters was telling a story without having you to need to type it.
Thanks everyone for the wonderful comments :) We are considering doing a post-combo version, which will be more challenging and will have a real boss fight and not only a one hit kill. ;)
Easy but epic :] I really love the way you managed to make a combo system with 2 keys and... 3 pixels :D The footstep sound is annoying though, I had to mute because of it.
Took me a couple minutes scanning the screen wondering where the gunfire was coming from to realize it was the footstep sound effect. ;)
Other than that, an excellent entry, lots of fun, and an awesome art style.
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Monxcleyr Productions2 May 2013, 03:33
Great, if simple, little beat 'em up. The art was fantastic - varied color palette and I was impressed at what you were able to achieve with just three pixel characters.
Everything is awesome! Love the gameplay and the graphics (great colors choice). Music was also great. And it even has some self-contained little story.
Hahaha, a minimalist beat em up. Original! The game is pretty funny, but a bit repetitive for me. Maybe a little bit of explanation about the combos could help? I only found fist-fist-feet that trow a low kick. Also, I didn't see the difference between the 3 playables characteres. Nice work anyway!
You managed to make expressive characters with 1x3 pixels o_O Everything works nicely! The punches/kicks lack strong feedbacks to emphasize the power of the hero. An extra gameplay element, like throwing furnitures would have been a great addition!
Thanks everyone for the love :) Your feedback is really appreciated! We've made a post-compo edition which improves on most points you guys have mentioned. Hope you enjoy it!
@sharbelfs: Unfortunately I can't reproduce your problem here. Everything seems to work fine :/ What browser, OS?
Wow, loved the whole design! Was really satisfying to play, though I didn't get the hang of the combo system, I won the whole thing just by mashing N/M. I kinda wish the guns had been more strategically placed (they felt quite useless in rooms where there were only 3 or 4 people). I played the post-compo version too and I like the improvements you made. :D
Very good how you are able to combine the minimal pixelgraphics while still making it look so good! Nice music as well and background and all those different buildings. Pretty impressive. The gameplay was not really for me. Not my kind of game. But that doesn't mean that the game doesn't kick ass, just that I dont :)
Wow! Great game. Fits the theme perfectly. Had a lot of fun with this one. There was one sound when walking that got a bit annoying, but otherwise, no complaints. Nicely done!
This was fun! Absolutely love the art, super low-res stuff like Small Worlds always gets me and the blood here works really well with it, uncomfortably satisfying. Good job in getting a beat-em up and combos into a three pixel high character.
I look forward to the updated version, I think the game still needs something else to make it v. special (not being able to jump and flying kick makes me sad). Oh, and the kick button being a high kick, I assume, and thus looking identical to a punch is a bit confusing. One of my favourites of the jam.
Footsteps were really loud and broke the really nice atmosphere. A bit repetetive, would have been nice to see how much progres you have made. Still an excellent entry and really like the minimal sprites.
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I love style, with more time and good moves could be a minimalistic double dragon "sort-of" game :D
Love the tiny animations!
The gameplay was too repetitive/easy to be fun for very long -- if things moved faster and you incorporated some kind of combo system, or even just offered a "difficult" setting, I could see myself playing this for extended periods.
Nonetheless, great entry -- Bonus points for a decent soundtrack!
Beautiful pixel art
The only bad thing is, i think, the slowness.
Super nice job overall
Very awesome pixelart!
Love graphics but got repetitive too fast.
Still, it totally captures the minimal core of beat-em-up games!
I had a small bug after killing the boss; He died in one hit ( maybe normal ) and after that the ending tune was keep repeating on a very short loop. I had to focus out so the music could continue.
It was also nice the way room and monsters was telling a story without having you to need to type it.
The footstep sound is annoying though, I had to mute because of it.
Other than that, an excellent entry, lots of fun, and an awesome art style.
The game is pretty funny, but a bit repetitive for me. Maybe a little bit of explanation about the combos could help? I only found fist-fist-feet that trow a low kick. Also, I didn't see the difference between the 3 playables characteres.
Nice work anyway!
Everything works nicely! The punches/kicks lack strong feedbacks to emphasize the power of the hero. An extra gameplay element, like throwing furnitures would have been a great addition!
Good job :)
The Awesome Version fix the controllers, but when I'm reached the 2º floor, gives me a error and the game stopped.
GwtApplication: exception: (TypeError) : Cannot read property 'u' of undefined
GwtApplication: exception: you have to call SpriteBatch.end() first
@sharbelfs: Unfortunately I can't reproduce your problem here. Everything seems to work fine :/ What browser, OS?
I played the post-compo version too and I like the improvements you made. :D
great graphics and audio! I dig this game! 5/5 overall
Pretty impressive.
The gameplay was not really for me. Not my kind of game.
But that doesn't mean that the game doesn't kick ass, just that I dont :)
I look forward to the updated version, I think the game still needs something else to make it v. special (not being able to jump and flying kick makes me sad). Oh, and the kick button being a high kick, I assume, and thus looking identical to a punch is a bit confusing. One of my favourites of the jam.