Player Comments on Tower of Doom

While the concept of clearing obstacles and fighting your way through to reach the top of something is quite good, I think the game (I call it such as there was no real plot) was lacking in several elements. I think the randomisation isn’t used to anywhere near its potential – for example, on one of my playthroughs, I met the gambler on the first two floors, then earned money on the third, before being teleported to the treasure from the fourth. To be frank, the teleport feature is not very useful for such a story.

I also think the execution was very primitive, you don’t get to actually ‘fight’ the creatures you encounter but you just lose life based on your combat level. Also, I imagine if you have bad rolls on each floor, you could die wondering where you went wrong.

Perhaps the biggest issue with this game though (from the perspective of the contest) is that I can’t see where there is a riddle or puzzle. Unless getting to the top is meant to be the puzzle, but that doesn’t fit the definition set by the contest creator.

I think this story could have been quite good with more of a plot, actual riddles/puzzles and better scripting, but I can only rate what is in front of me, and I think a 3/8 is a fair rating for this game.

I... Um... I used that teleport thingy near the start of the game. It took me up to the alchemist's room right before the last floor and I went straight in and took the jewels... I never actually had to fight anything. :p

That aside, I think that for a short game it was really good and quite cleverly put together. I think I would've ditched the teleporter though, since it does enable to player to win the game without actually having to do any fighting.

Asides from that, a pretty major flaw with the game is that you entered it into a competition for riddle/puzzle games. This game, as far as I could see, didn't have any riddles or puzzles, so as far as the competition goes, that's a pretty big issue. Competition aside, it's cute and fun. ^_^

The variable work here is really good. I like the idea of a randomly generating dungeon, it's really creative. The only weak point is a lack of narrative. I don't really feel invested to climb this tower, or understand who the characters in it are, or what they're even doing there. With no real motivation, you have no real reason to even make the journey.

As for how it's related to the contest, I don't really see and puzzle or riddle elements. I'd say to keep working on it and establish a narrative; maybe make it a full story!

This is awesome

Currently working on the 3rd game

The moment I hit play again I died? Is that normal? I guess it was ok, but more levels would have been preferable

Great time playing, keep up the good work!

The story was short and simple. However it was free and fun. I really enjoyer what was there. I say the gambler was the most important find in the game. I was able to max my combat ability to 7/7 and keep myself healed. Someday I hope to find and beat the dragon.

Fun for a dungeon crawl-type game. There's very little in the way of characterization, plot, or description. Now and again, I ran into some peculiar use of syntax in some of the sentences. My character managed to fight and kill the dragon that destroyed his village, but the battle was over in the blink of an eye and I was like...Okay...then my character just DIED! Didn't quite get that. I would advise painting more of a picture in the description and giving the character a substantive back-story (something more detailed than the Conan the Barbarian bit about just avenging his village). The game is fun fun, though, in a Zork kind of way.

You have won!
Your Score is 83!
Combat: 7/7
Life: 7/7
Coins: 28/100
Meeting the gambler is the only way to beat the dragon and earn extra $ IN THIS GAME

You have won!
Your Score is 33!
Combat: 5/7
Life: 6/7
Coins: 1/100

Not a bad game... although it really is too short.

Won the game in first try!
Anyway, good story but too short...
I recommend you to continue this story to a long version one, I would really enjoy that!
5/8 stars.

I somehow managed to win and get to the treasure without fighting the legendary dragon, so I guess he'll be wanting his wallet back.

Lol I killed the Dragon but apparently was mortally wounded. This was fun to play, still pretty short though. I will be going through again and trying not to die :)

A decent enough game. I went up 4 floors without ever meeting a single enemy, just improving my sword and ascending every floor. Good fun, but the randomness is both a strength and a flaw.

Great game i really enjoyed it.

Ha! Choose your own adventure? More like choose your own BOREDOM! This was so boring. I did NOTHING. NOTHING. I pressed buttons. They only give you ONE option most of the times, so it was not a "choose your own adventure." It was a "we choose your adventure and then you choose three scenes that repeat themselves like five times each." Yeah. My life is #boring so I did this.

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It was fun. I got a score of 41 and never fought the dragon. I also found many swords and got my combat up to 6/7

Very Easy.

I got a score of 40 (although I didn't fight the dragon)

nice game

I don't understand the ending? I'm dead? What killed me? I beat the last foe on the 5th floor. No explanation. ???

The sequel has been released - Awakening of the Tower, in Fantasy Section!

it was okay, i guess...

It said in the description that no one has conquered it, and I did. So suck it!

Well that was easy and I didn't even use the teleport. I wish I would have gotten to face the dragon though. It feels like a hollow victory when all I fought was a snake and a goblin. I did face a trap too though so that was a bit different.

cool game

It was short and repetitive but not bad at all.

I saved this and keep playing it over and over, entertaining every time!

Nice variable skills, but it was too easy.

I played it before the update, but I think it is a lot better now.

Cool game mechanic, way too easy. I only fought twice.

Eh

Could use a quick proofread (on the first page for instance, 'Rumour has it that this tower contains on of the most grand treasure present in this world' is a sentence with a couple of issues) but nothing I spotted was enough to be a distraction, and this was a quick and fun little dungeon run. I managed to kill the dragon, but when I went to the next page I died too...not sure if those were supposed to be mutually exclusive or not.

I'll likely go through a couple of times later to see what the replayability's like. This was pretty short but a good proof of concept sort of thing, I hope you do more with the basic idea in another project sometime. :)

Fun, simple, and plays like a dungeon-roamer. I liked it!

Fun little diversion, very replayable, and well scripted with the use of random variables. More backstory would have been nice, but not necessary to enjoy the game.

Nice game, will comment more in depth at a later time...

I won, clicked 'play again', then I died. WTF?!

Huh. 50 points and I don't think I beat anything more than an orc.

Just finished playing it a third time,
and i have to say that i am enjoying myself.
I went in expecting some riddles and i got a dungeony type fight game with orcs and beasts and I was pleasantly surprised. the combat mechanics are simple and well implented in the game. Great game, well written (there is one mistake i spotted, when you reach the sixth floor it says flood) and very enjoyable. Keep up the good work :)

It's better now that there is more things to fight. Still not much of a puzzle or riddle though...

That freakin' dragon lol.

Updated Version! :) Killed by orc lmao!

great game

I guess it's all a puzzle in itself trying to find a way to get the highest score or find the dragon. I guess. Lol :-)

A bit too random imo. I played arbitrarily and ended up dead after a string of fights.

It was a tad bit of spamming the continue for me, and just pressing Heal when I was low on health. Kind of wish it wasn't so basic, but it's a good contest entry nonetheless. Maybe make it so you actually have to fight the dragon or something? The only thing I fought was a goblin. Nice entry nonetheless. It's between 3-4/8.

That was kind of fun.

Finally, killed the dragon! Lmao. :-D

I don't get it.

There wasn't enough exposition to really understand what was going on. Fights were just "A wild golbin appears", and then the next page it said cleared and that damn creepy Alchemist appears.

As for being a puzzle/riddle entry... I didn't see a puzzle or riddle, so I'm not really sure why it's entered.

The game seemed a little to straightforward to me in terms of the puzzle. It also lacked a characterized protagonist; however, the game was not that bad. It was fairly entertaining to me.

Cool. I like the use of variables here, though it felt just a little repetitive.

It was a good game that was great fun. I enjoyed killing shit.

YAY I GOT THE HIGHEST SCORE :3

There is now an actual reward for killing the dragon and a lame backstory.

I updated the game so that the floors are more random and wrote a lame excuse for the alchemist! :-D Thanks Will!

Nooooo! I AM DEAD!

I WON IT! Haha I liked this little adventure, I think the Variables were used quite creatively and the different floors were interesting though it seems a bit strange there's an alchemist on each set of stairs (does he teleport or just have a lot of brothers? Is it a family firm?)
I'm not sure how this would hold up on an extended scale, it seemed a bit short but to lengthen it would risk making it repetitive. A wider variety of puzzles, variables, characters and a roughly general plot (generally I stay out of dangerous looking buildings rather than try to climb them) would all help but grammatically and spelling wise (alphabetically? Wordiculy?) it was all good :)
I think this is a pretty strong entry for Seth's Riddles and Puzzles competition :D