Tower Ascent is a turn-based strategy roguelike RPG developed by a team of college students from the University of Georgia’s Game Builders Club.

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"A path to the heavens, a Tower it built; that each soul may toil, each flower may wilt..."

Command your party of 3 heroes with strategic point-to-click positioning and ability skillshots. 

Unlock 6 new abilities through 30 interactive and branching dialogue scenes presented in a visual novel format.

Immerse yourself in 6 music tracks and 30+ sound effects.

Reap the rewards by looting 8 different items with passive effects. 

Ascend the Tower and battle 3 floors of enemies to save the world—or die trying!

• Mouse1 — Select Abilities, Progress Dialogue, Select Hero
• Mouse2 — Deselect Hero, Cancel Ability
• 1234 — Select Ability
• WASD — Move Camera
• Tab — Change Selected Hero
• Enter — Pass Turn   
• E — Open Chest, Trade between Heroes

• Eric Nguyen 

• Eric Nguyen — General 
• Ferrol Blackmon — Battle 
• Winston Pendegraft — Dialogue, General Design 
• Thai Nguyen — Trading, UI, Inventory 
• Tamara Skinner — Battle UI 
• Daniel Andrade — Battle

• Caleb Kimbrough — Exposition, Character Dialogue, Storyboarding, Inventory Pop-ups, Editing 
• Ellen Sippel — Characterization, Character Dialogue, Storyboarding, Item and Ability Descriptions, Editing 

Level Design 

• Eric Nguyen — Square Hole, Zigzag, One 
• Winston Pendegraft — Portal, Gravel, Study, Caught, Saga, Oubliette, Bridge, Balancing 
• Caleb Kimbrough — Monarch Arena and Bossfight

Balancing 

• Ferrol Blackmon — Balancing 
• Winston Pendegraft — Balancing
• Caleb Kimbrough — Balancing

Art 

• Eric Nguyen — Tilesets, Hazser, Shronk, Battle UI, Items, Ability Icons, Background Art 
• Caleb Kimbrough — Leo, Celine, Torin, Monarch, Logo, Key Art, Cutscene Art
• Makenzi B. — Slime Tendrils 
• Thai Nguyen — Intro Animatic, Inventory and Trading UI 

Music/SFX 

• Caleb Kimbrough — Music, Menu SFX 
• Grady Waple — General SFX 

Playtesting

• The whole team! 

Godot Dialogue Manager © 2022 Nathan Hoad 

Godot Phantom Camera © 2022 Marcus Skov

Made possible by the University of Georgia Game Builders Club. Go Dawgs!