Spiky Tower - Jayenkai

[Jayenkai]

About a week ago, a discussion on this very forum suggested that it might be fun to have some sort of "underachiever" achievements. My AGameAWeek mind went into overdrive, and I envisioned some sort of inverse Icy Tower type of game with various underachiever collectables.
So I built a random tower, slapped in some generic graphics (spike dislike sprites seemed to fit) and got the gameplay up and running.
Then I sat, thinking about the various badges I could make.

Obviously there was "started the game" and "bounced!", and then maybe one for having died before getting to floor 5!
Then I tried to come up with more.
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And that's when the plan fell apart.
Seems it's a lot harder to come up with underachievements than it is actual achievements.. Or maybe I was just having a bad week, and my mind wasn't feeling particularly creative!?

I dunno.. Either way, the result is a stonkingly fun tower-climbing game. Make your way up the tower, earning combos for constantly moving upwards.

You can grab Spiky Tower from the OUYA store doohickey.

Slight issue : OUYA review team suggests that there's a very small probability that during "random mode", every so often! the first step is too high!! I'll update a fixed edition some time during the week, but if it happens, just quit and restart. It' same rare oddity, and it's not yet once happened to me!!! Apologies..

[Eddie K]

This game is a lot of fun!

[mmartino]

I have to be honest on this one... I may like it better then Spike Dislike lol. Great game again James

[caffeinekid]

Played it. Enjoyed it. Thanks for another fun game, James

[knave]

I like this game too, Pretty fun, but I think spike dislike the skill curve is more smooth. meaning I get better at a more even rate.

found a bug:

I think I was in the third mode, I had just died and respawned, and couldn't reach the first level of blocks so I couldn't go up. There were two blocks on the floor but bouncing on them acted as if they weren't there...

...so I bounced around for a minute on the floor and had to exit the app.

[mmartino]

I like this game too, Pretty fun, but I think spike dislike the skill curve is more smooth. meaning I get better at a more even rate.

Absolutely correct! Definitely a more even rate but thats why I like this one more. No matter how many times I play, my next round could be anywhere from 2 seconds to 5 minutes