Mystery Tower

Devlog

• v1.0-web - Mystery Tower is available directly in the browser!
  May 07, 2023 by GFM

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  This is a quick update after a long while... Now Mystery Tower can be played directly in the browser! I was talking to a friend and remembered that Unity has the option to export to HTML5/webasm, so I... Continue reading
• v1.0 - Mystery Tower is officially out!
  December 14, 2020 by GFM

  After many small revisions, Mystery Tower is finally out! I've been waiting for this game to be played on SRL Mystery Game Tournament (MT) so I could press the release button. As I'm pretty sure I me... Continue reading
• v1.0-rc9 - Invert d-pad up/down
  December 13, 2020 by GFM

  Some people reported that d-pad up and down were reversed for them when using a dual shock 4. However, since some of the menu inputs are hard-coded, to try to prevent people from locking themselves fr... Continue reading
• v1.0-rc8 - Fix MainMenu and pulling from ledge
  December 13, 2020 by GFM

  This is the final stretch! There were two minor issues that I noticed during recent testing. The first issue is that the game would get stuck after the GameOver screen. I didn't notice that I used the... Continue reading
• v1.0-rc7 - Remove some stages to make the game shorter
  December 12, 2020 by GFM

  Disclaimer ( copied from v1.0-rc4 ): If you are reading this, either you already know that I submitted Mystery Tower to the Mystery Tournament (hello tester(s) reading the devlog :D) or it's not an... Continue reading
• v1.0-rc6 - Adjust axis rest position on input rebind
  December 12, 2020 by GFM

  There are some things that shouldn't be an issue in this day and age anymore... Yet, here I am writing about how inputs still suck. A long time ago, I wrote about how Unity sucks at doing reconfigurab... Continue reading
• v1.0-rc5 - Fix issues with the new input
  July 19, 2020 by GFM

  As mentioned earlier, the previous release broke a few things: The rebind screen wouldn't display the "Back" button in some specific resolutions If there were a previously saved input, the "Drop from... Continue reading
• v1.0-rc4 - Add dedicated drop from ledge button
  July 19, 2020 by GFM

  Quick update, that broke a few things... Protip: don't be a bad developer like me and do test your builds thoroughly before releasing anything... Disclaimer: If you are reading this, either you alread... Continue reading
• v1.0-rc3 - Fix Windows' launcher
  June 30, 2020 by GFM

  OK, now this should be good to go... I've fixed the issue with the App manifest on Windows (a bug in the deploy script caused some files to not be copied). There's now also a batch script, so even tho... Continue reading
• v1.0-rc2 - Persistent configurations
  June 29, 2020 by GFM

  I had completely ignored saving and loading the configurations. This isn't a crucial feature, but it's pretty important from a quality-of-life perspective. After a **LOT** of digging, I found out abou... Continue reading
• v1.0-rc1 - Almost released!
  June 26, 2020 by GFM

  It's (almost) finally over... This should be the second to last build... I've added a cheesy ending, reminiscent of old flash games. I hope people still enjoy those. Now, to wait for some feedback, an... Continue reading
• v0.7.2/1 - Add manual
  June 24, 2020 by GFM

  The user manual is done! Kinda... As always, I could have spent more time polishing it, adding a frame to every page and stuff... But it is functional enough as is. Or, at least, I hope it is... I'm p... Continue reading
• v0.7 - Add alternative colors
  June 22, 2020 by GFM

  Another small, but quite important, update. I've added 8 different color schemes to choose from! At first, I wanted the schemes to have cheesy names, ripping off inspired by Under Night In-Birth, but... Continue reading

  
• v0.6.1 - Improve controls
  June 20, 2020 by GFM

  Small update! A friend pointed-out that d-pad wasn't working to control the player. Since then I was already fixing things in the input, I looked into why the default input (e.g., WASD) wasn't working... Continue reading
• v0.6 - Add audio
  June 19, 2020 by GFM

  After two weeks of bashing my head hands against the keyboard, I've finally finished adding a song and sound effects to the game! Although I'm using simple, pixelated textures, I decided to make the s... Continue reading
• v0.5.1 - Resolution-related fixes
  June 07, 2020 by GFM

  Turns out I'm somewhat of a irresponsible dev... I didn't test all scenarios involving changing the screen resolution, so I ended up letting a few bugs slip into the previous release. These would only... Continue reading
• v0.5 - Refactor menus
  June 07, 2020 by GFM

  This update took way longer than it should have... Doing menus is always boring (specially when you are pretty much fighting your tools to make things behave as desired). I modified every menu to use... Continue reading

  
• v0.4 - Backgrounds
  April 01, 2020 by GFM

  Until now, the game was looking quite bland and boring, with that default blue background. But not anymore! I've added a background and particles to the game! Now that it's looking less bad, I'll fina... Continue reading

  
• v0.3 - Reconfigurable controls
  March 26, 2020 by GFM

  Quick update/rant! It's 2020 and Unity still does not handle reconfigurable controls properly! Although Unity does have a generic Input interface (the Input Manager), it can only be accessed and tweak... Continue reading
• v0.2 - Level select
  March 25, 2020 by GFM

  The game is still quite unpolished, but it's starting to get there. The first few QoL changes were the addition of a Level Select screen and the Pause menu. Pause menu Curiously, the Pause menu doesn'... Continue reading
• v0.1 - The start of a Catherine clone
  March 25, 2020 by GFM

  Every project has a start. When I first started working on this game, I thought it was going to be a really short project, something that should take at most 3 months (2 months of development and 1 mo... Continue reading