Towers of Powers
Story
As a master Power Caster, the Powers are something that you now understand as means to protect. When at age 4 your daughter manifested power beyond that of any other Caster, even the King, you knew all of your powers would not be enough to protect her.
The King has sent his Silencers to put an end to the threat that your daughter poses to his rule and the kingdom. Knowing your child is doomed you place her the under power of the Jinn curse, force her into a bottle and flee with all the speed you can muster to the Towers of Powers.
Legend has it that if you can survive tests of the Powers, the Masters of the Powers themselves would grant you anything. The Masters of the Powers and their tests are your only hope to give your daughter the normal life you always dreamed for her.
The Masters of the Powers
The Masters of the Powers are almost godlike in power. With power beyond that of the King, and they rarely interact with humans any more. Mostly to aquire new servants and entertainment. They are more or less treated like natural events then anything a mortal understands.
Gameplay
Hey man, you are not alone in this quest! You are traveling with your eldest daughter Phee and your apprentice Andrew to ancient Towers of Powers.

You MAY not have asked them to come along but, LOOK. They showed up any way. GREAT. Some one else to protect.
The game is played with the mouse for the HTML 5 version and with touch for the mobile release.
Shop Phase - Status - Planned
There is a CRAZY old shop keeper that seems to think it's funny that everything he is selling to you will more than likely be picked from your corpse in a few hours. Hilarious. I don't know why the Masters don't just fry this old freak.
He also wants you bring him these odd artifacts. Not sure what that is about.
- You can purchase 1 boost item per playable character.
- You can purchase food which is used to upgrade player stats.
- You can purchase usable items.
- Stuff like health potions or exploding hand bags
- You can purchase scrolls that will equip a new ammo free defensive Powers.
Upgrade Phase - Status - Planned
- You can spend your Level Up Stat points on the player stats.
- Current Player Stats:
- Health
- Power Power ( adds to overall damage )
- Regen
- Power Armor
- Casting Speed
- You can spend your Level Up Stats points on unlocking and upgrading Powers.
- You can eat food upgrading your stats. MONJA MONJA.
- This was based on real life experience. I like to power nap after eating a lot, soooo more power. Yeah.
- Honestly I love eating and I think everyone should.
Setup Phase - Status - Planned
- You will select which two characters you want to take on the quest.
- The Masters only let the challenger and a "servant" take part in their challenges.
- You will select 1 ( maybe 2? ) powers to assign to the playable characters.
- You will select an 1 item that you will be able to use for the group.
Level Select - Status - Planned
There will be 5 towers and each will be slip into several challenges that are make of 5 individual playable screens.
You will first select the Tower and then the challenge within.
The master of the Power that the Tower will have a personality that is evident in the level and challenges.
In Game - Status - Working
The game is played with the mouse for the HTML 5 version and with touch for the mobile release.
Mouse Control:
- Select your player with the mouse
- Select where you want to move by clicking and selecting a location to move.
- Click the Power assigned to the player to trigger it.
- Right click also triggers the selected player's Power.
Touch Control:
- Select your player with touch
- Select where you want to move by touching and selecting a location to move.
- Touch the Power assigned to the player to trigger it.
Each Power has ammo and an Power rating of it's own.
You level by kicking enemy booty and collecting bonuses.
Overall GoalEach level has a door. How you open it and get through is all in the challenge.
Sometimes it's a bloody blood beast or a just a simple game of don't get your arse roasted while running from bloody blood beasts. Easy!
Release Platforms
HTML5
Mobile - Currently works under Android
The Powers
These are three different schools of magic:



I have 15 - 20 Powers planned, but I have only 8 done so far.
On top of those 15-20 there will be standard attacks ( the one with no ammo ) that you can upgrade
Here is a sample of what I've knocked out so far:
Flamies Flame Beam of Flame

Rolling Pain

Wave Wrecker

Frozen Spike

Peace Spreader

Kaeli's Frozen Glare

Fireball of Dooooooom

Proximity Slime Mine
BEASTIESGots to be beasties! Monsters are awesome.
I only really have 2 guys. One that walks about and jumps, and another who cheats and flies.
Items to Collect
Foods for eatins
Artifacts for the Shop Keeper
Simple power ups ( ammo drops, +1 health, shields stuff like that)
Coins
MAYBE toys for your daughter to chill with while she hangs out in the bottle. Make it nice for her...
Stuff Planned but not solid Combos - Might give more EXP for leveling or coins or give higher value drops like food.
Tools
Goal tracking is done in Trello
Design docs are written in Evernote
Game Maker is used for the game engine and lots of spriting
Aesprite for sprites that need magic ( I really should use this a ton more )
Sounds I use GoldWave, FindSounds, and Bfxr
Immediate Todo
- Sound engineering
- SOOO much to do here. Everything is currently place holder sounds
- Music
- I am using free music from
Tyler Nakamura. This guy is AMAZEBALLS.
- Tons of enemies
- Obstacles out the butt
- Reward and challenge system
- Finish up spells
- Simple text systems to QUICKLY move the simple story along.
- Write the game
Simple Demo
Currently borrowing free tunes from
Tyler Nakamura. This guy is AMAZEBALLS.
CLICK BELOW FOR Z DEMO:
Current demo state - The demo currently show the game play adding one player per screen.
- I think the control method is REALLY only fun for two player characters. 3 Just gets CRAY CRAY.
- Let me know if you disagree!