HM4 10 floor tower released

Hi Everyone,

This is it! The 10 stage tower is here for your gaming pleasure. There are now five different themes, each with their own variety of enemies to fight. And a few crucial bug have been fixed, including the minimap updating.

From here, my goal is to focus on improving the quality of the game. I plan to make several small improvements, and release an update within a few days time.

The quality of the game needs even more work than that. Almost every aspect of the game needs major work. All of this should take no more than a month. Unfortuantely, I lack the skill set required, and I am out of time.

My long term vision for the game is quite grand. I would like to have approximately 50 levels in the tower. Every two levels will have their own theme including enemies and game mechanics. The game will be an exploration of everything, including artistic styles, gameplay, and sound. Each theme should be of high visual quality, and a joy to play through. The closest I have come to achieving this is the blocks within the dream theme (floors 9 & 10). I lack the skills to achieve my artistic goals on my own within a reasonable timeframe, and will defiently need outside help to achieve this. I can however, contribute to meeting this goal. My focus will now shift to producing much higher quality content.

After the quality improvements, I would like to begin adding floors to the tower in blocks. The next block would add 10 additional floors. First, new mechanics would be added into the game. Next, the floors would be made, making use of these new mechanics. This would represent a second generation of content and floors. I would then continue to expand on the tower in blocks, until the higher floors had been reached.

However, this may very well be the end of the road for this project. I need some sort of traction, be it an investor, sales, or something else in order to proceed much further. I will still try to spit out one final build with a few more improvements.

Overall, I am quite happy with the result. It has taken a single developer less than two months to produce this, albeit with help from the ashes of my previous projects. The game itself has the potential to be a massive financial sucess in the indie world. The time and cost required to get it there is quite reasonable, and it should be very profitable. But again, I don't expect to get the help required to get there.

Thanks for Reading,

Matthew