Tower of Guns

Australia is still burning, but over the last couple of days they've actually had some rain! While this is a big help to certain areas, there are still 83 fires blazing around the country, and there's a lot of people and wildlife still in trouble. It's good job then that there are even more game devs, companies, and communities banding together to help out our…

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The creator of frenetic FPS Tower of Guns has announced a new procedurally-generated shoot-o-rama, Mothergunship [official site]. It'll bring more bullet hell action against hordes of enemies and honking great bosses, and this time you'll get to build your own guns too. Players will be able to craft megaweapons, snapping together bits from a huge selection which, I'm told, even includes a fish tank. Here,…

Tagged with Grip Games, Terrible Posture Games, Mothergunship, Tower of Guns.

'Bullet hell' is one of the best genres, not because I like playing it - liking things is passé - but because it's an exciting example of the way in which a genre and its audience can warp, and focus, and drill down, and close themselves off to outside influence. I find just the existence of Touhou exciting. If bullet hell was to be picked…

Tagged with any excuse to mention Touhou, Terrible Posture Games, Touhou, Tower of Guns.

Tower of Guns is a splendid first-person robot-shooter with randomised elements and power ups that stack, creating weaponry and skill sets that are ludicrously powerful and ludicrously ludicrous. A work in progress build is available to those willing to pay $7.50 for a preorder and I've spent forty five minutes ascending the tower this morning, pinging circular saws off angled walls, trashing hordes of robots…

Tagged with quakelike, Terrible Posture Games, Tower of Guns.

I've had a soft spot for towers ever since John's dad built one for our house cat, Dexter. Dexter would stand atop this tower of terror, swiping at passing people and planes, imagining himself as a terrifying, scarifying monster. So Tower of Guns has a small advantage, in that it just reminded me of my cat. But the rest, a randomly-generated FPS aiming to be…

Tagged with indie, Terrible Posture Games, Tower of Guns.