Looking through the Steam partner interface when setting Crystal Towers 2's sale price, I realized I had forgotten about the pockets of backstory that I had to make up on the fly to get my trading card rewards accepted! Here are the emoticons that you can gain as a result of card trading...


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I have finished Crystal Towers 2 (again!) and it is now available on Steam!


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Crystal Towers 2 has a Steam page and everything now! All the checks by Valve are out the way and I have the freedom to declare it ready whenever I like - it won't be long until it's set live and purchasable.

Here's the trailer on Youtube, at a better resolution than the Steam one.

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In the process of making the new edition, I've come across and ( Read more... )

With me now updating the game's user interface, here's a look back at the complete history of Crystal Towers 2's menu screen!


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I've finished my first pass through the updated game! The new version is completable from start to finish now and it's really been helped by the screen size change. So far I've talked about the graphical updates for Crystal Towers 2, but there were also some things about the gameplay that needed addressing. So let's talk about how the magic system ( Read more... )

Crystal Towers 2 is full of programmer art. I was really fortunate to get to work with graphics artist J Freude who drew Bernard and a lot of the game's enemies, and several other artists contributed to the game, but for the most part I was on my own - and that led to a lot of corners being cut in the graphics department. In fact, the Magma Lizard ( Read more... )

There was another big issue that a lot of Crystal Towers 2 players raised - either directly asking me about it or just when talking about the game on forums and so on - and that was the absolutely godawful camera. As difficult as it might be to believe for those who were made nauseous by its intense swinging around, I spent a lot of time adjusting ( Read more... )

I'm going to start making progress updates on Steam!A few days ago I received a couple of messages asking where the Steam version of Crystal Towers 2 has got to - which is flattering, because I didn't think that there were many people who cared! Over the last few months I've delved back into the game's code, as it needed some updates to work with ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen what happened yesterday already...


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