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12: Towerfall Ascension

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Towerfall Ascension

This week we discuss Matt Thorson(@MattThorson) of Matt Makes Games multiplayer masterpiece, Towerfall Ascension.

Towerfall is an arena multiplayer platform fighting game for two to four players. It draws on inspirations like SNES platformers, the Smash Bros series, and the fighting game genre to weave a simple, elegant, and ridiculously fun and hilarious party-fighting-game. You have absolutely got to play it.

  • Available on Steam for Mac, Windows, and Linux – $15
  • Available on the PS4, currently free as a part of the PlayStation Plus subscription (normally $15)

    • If you’d like to see what the game looks like in action (and you do) have a look at this great multiplayer gameplay footage from GameSpot.

    Links for this episode:

    • Papers, Please – A Dystopian Document Thriller
    • Sunset – a first-person video game thriller – Kickstarter
    • Galatea – Interactive fiction by Emily Short
    • Savoir-Faire – Interactive fiction by Emily Short
    • Frotz – Play interactive fiction on your iPhone or iPad
    • Blood & Laurels – new interactive fiction in the Versu engine by Emily Short
    • As you can probably tell, we huge admirers of Emily Short.
    • Civilization Revolution 2 – Out Now for iOS
    • As it turns out this game doesn’t have multiplayer yet. So much for our plans.
    • OUYA – $99 Android microconsole
    • Towerfall Polygon Game of the Year 2013
    • Teslagrad – a great game with slightly off jump physics
    • Braid – another great game with slightly less than Towerfall level physics
    • Castle Crashers
    • Puyo Puyo
    • Puyo Pop Fever
    • Doctor Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
    • Eurogamer on Towerfall
    • Competitive Towerfall at EVO 2014
    • Nidhogg – another fantastic indie fighting game
    • Starwhal – Just The Tip – a third indie multiplayer fighting game
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