Icy Tower
| Icy Tower | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | Free lunch design | ||
| Publisher | Free lunch design | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
2001 | ||
| platform | Windows , Mac OS , iOS | ||
| genre | Arcade | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | keyboard | ||
| medium | Download | ||
| language | English | ||
| Current version | 1.5.1 (as of December 2011) | ||
| Age rating |
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Icy Tower is a platformer - computer game from Free Lunch Design (FLD). It is available as freeware for Microsoft Windows and for a fee for Mac OS and iOS . The principle of the game is to let the main character Harold the Homeboy climb a tower by jumping at different heights.
Gameplay
The player's task is to steer the pawn up the tower. There are also different broad levels that must be jumped to or, if possible, skipped. It is possible to make jumps without interruption in a so-called combo , each of which skips several levels and thus collects extra points.
The difficulty is increased by the fact that the screen catches up with the character so that it is not possible to remain on a level indefinitely. The speed is increased in steps from 100 to the 1000th level.
As soon as the game character jumps next to the levels and falls down or the game screen catches up with Harold, the round is over.
Reception and dissemination
According to the manufacturer, the game was downloaded more than 20 million times, implemented for mobile phones, as well as for social networks such as Facebook and in the VZnet networks such as studiVZ and schülerVZ .
Modifications
So-called mods (modifications) can be used to change the graphical environment and sounds by the user community. For example, there are mods that adapt the colors of the stones, backgrounds or background music.
It is also possible to integrate your own characters into the game.
Development history
Icy Tower was developed by the Swedish Free Lunch Design Studio in C and the Allegro library . The inspiration was the open source game Xjump .
It was first published on December 22, 2001 as a freeware game for Windows , later porting to other systems followed.
With version 1.4 in 2009 the game expanded noticeably, while previous updates only offered small noticeable or internal changes. The user can choose between Classic Mode and Custom Mode . While the former starts a game with known settings as usual, in the new mode the player himself can change the speed, width of the levels and the gravity of the game. You can also create and save your own profiles.
In November 2012, an official advancement of Icy Tower called Icy Tower 2 was released. This is available for iOS and Android. There are also unofficial Icy Tower ports for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable portable game consoles by fans.
In the meantime, Free Lunch Design has published further offshoots that are based on the original (Temple Jump, Jungle Jump).
history
The table below shows the version history of the classic Icy Tower game.
| version | date | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 12/22/2001 | First publication |
| 1.1 | 01/11/2002 | Game data for a round is stored in Record Files (binary files). |
| 1.2 | 10/11/2003 | Introduction of replays, in which played rounds are saved as videos. This prevents the previous record files from being changed manually and thus being cheated. The game buttons can also be personalized. |
| 1.2.1 | 01/31/2004 | |
| 1.3 | 09/06/2005 | The levels from level 1000 are shortened to make the game more difficult. In addition, the so-called ghost floor bug is fixed, where the player can fall through levels. |
| 1.3.1 | October 29, 2005 | |
| ITM | 10/06/2008 | First mobile port |
| 1.4 | 06/03/2009 | Game profiles are introduced. It also fixes the slowdown bug, which makes the game run more slowly on weaker computers. Many players took advantage of this to better control the character and thus to be able to score more points. |
| ITFB | 09/24/2009 | First port for Facebook |
| ITiP | 11/12/2010 | First porting for iOS |
| 1.5 | 31/01/2011 | |
| 1.5.1 | December 07, 2011 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page from Icy Tower (English)
- ^ Icy Tower. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012 ; accessed on October 15, 2013 .
- ↑ Icy Tower on Facebook
- ^ Icy Tower in the VZ
- ↑ Czech Icy Tower website with downloadable mods
- ↑ Lukasz Serafin: Intervju med Johan Peitz ( Swedish ) cure.se. September 28, 2005. Archived from the original on February 11, 2007. Retrieved on December 30, 2009: “[...] I got the idea from Xjump , an old game installed on the school computers. I expanded and improved the gameplay, packaged it neatly, and there you are - the first version was ready. "
- ↑ FALLING TOWER Version 2.6 (1997)
- ↑ I'm porting IT to the DS . In: Free Lunch Design Forum . December 23, 2008. Retrieved September 9, 2009.
- ↑ LUA Icy Tower v0.6 ( German ) In: Downloads / LUA-Spiele . PSPSource.de. February 4, 2007. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 9, 2009.
